Independent Director and Consultant and former Chief Executive of the Insurance Council of New Zealand. Tim Grafton led the Insurance Council of New Zealand through over a decade of unprecedented events, challenges and change in the New Zealand insurance market. During this time Tim also participated as a member of the Executive Committee of the Global Federation of Insurance Associations, chaired the Fair Insurance Code Compliance Committee and was an active member of the ANZIIF Advisory Board.Tim is uniquely positioned to comment on the impacts of changing, and softening markets on our industry and to provide useful insights into how our current environment might impact us all.

Tim Grafton served as the Chief Executive of Te Kāhui Inihua o Aotearoa The Insurance Council of New Zealand (ICNZ) from 2012 till April 2024. During that time Tim led the ICNZ response to the Canterbury earthquake series, the 2016 Kaikoūra earthquake, the Auckland Anniversary Weekend Floods and Cyclone Gabrielle in 2023. He played a key role in insurers becoming the agents of the Natural Hazards Commission, formerly the EQC, he led two reviews of the Fair Insurance Code, and led the sector’s response to the most extensive regulatory changes insurance has ever experienced.He was awarded The Insurance Leader of the Year in 2015 at the ANZIIF Industry Awards and was the Vice-President of the Global Federation of Insurance Associations until last year.Prior to joining ICNZ in 2012, Tim was an Executive Director of a leading market research company and as a consultant has provided strategic advice to leading public entities and private corporations across a broad range of sectors and has advised two former Prime Ministers. He is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Directors and is now working as a private consultant
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