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Bradley L. Kading is President and Executive Director of the Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers (ABIR). ABIR is an association of 22 of Bermuda’s market leading Class 4 insurers and reinsurers. In 2009 the international insurance groups in ABIR’s membership collectively wrote $61 billion in premium on a capital base of $84 billion. He directs ABIR’s public policy activities around the world. This includes work with members of the US Congress, the European Parliament, the Bermuda House of Assembly, the European Commission and the Executive branches of government in Bermuda and the US. He has made numerous presentations in various jurisdictions to educate regulators, policymakers and stakeholders about the regulation applied to Bermuda’s major international insurers and reinsurers; and the important role they play in the global economy. He engages in regular dialogue with insurance regulators and policy makers in Bermuda, Europe and the United States and is frequently quoted in insurance industry trade magazines. He’s the author of articles published in the Journal of Insurance Regulation and in the Geneva Association Papers on Risk and Insurance.

Kading has spoken regularly as part of programs to numerous policymaker and industry groups including: the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS), the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), the Geneva Association, the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS), the National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL), the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, the Reinsurance Association of America (RAA), the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC), the CPCU Society, the European Insurance Forum in Dublin, the World Insurance Forum, and other conferences on insurance securitizations, regulation, hazard mitigation and catastrophe insurance. In the US he has served on state hurricane commissions in Alabama and Louisiana and has been the chair of the NCOIL Insurance Education Council and the Coordinator of the NAIC’s Industry Liaison Group.

Prior to joining ABIR in December 2005, he served for 14 years as Senior Vice President and Director of State Relations for the RAA. Mr. Kading's responsibilities included the management of all RAA programs directed at state legislation and regulation affecting reinsurers. He also helped develop the RAA’s work with the IAIS. In addition, he served as Chief Operating Officer of the RAA’s ReSources division which was devoted to creating non-dues revenues for the association.

Prior to coming to the RAA in October of 1991, Mr. Kading was Vice President and Director of Government Affairs for the Alliance of American Insurers in Chicago. He was at the Alliance for ten years, advancing through a variety of government affairs positions.

In addition to his 30 years of insurance regulatory experience, Mr. Kading previously worked as administrative assistant to the Speaker of the Iowa House of Representatives and as a newspaper reporter for the Waterloo Daily Courier in Waterloo, Iowa.

Mr. Kading earned a Masters in Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Graduate Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, in 1988; and a B.A. in Journalism from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1977. Mr. Kading received his CPCU designation in 1993 and his ARe designation in 1994.

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