Ian Alvan Tofield

Ian Alvan Tofield is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute and has over 60 years’ practical experience in all aspects of insurance and reinsurance business, administrative, technical, and marketing predominantly in and for the African continent. He began his insurance career in 1955 with Legal & General Assurance Society. In 1961, he was seconded to the Gresham Life and Gresham Fire & Accident Assurance Societies in Accra, Ghana and in 1970 to Guinea Insurance Company, Nigeria serving first in Kaduna as Northern Area Manager and then as deputy CEO in Lagos. He joined Munich Reinsurance Company (Munich Re) in 1977 and had the initial task of creating the West African bureau in Abidjan, Cote D’ivoire which he managed for six years developing and managing accounts in 24 Countries in the region. Ian Alvan Tofield was recalled to the head office in Munich in 1983 and continued to administer the West African region and progressively widened his field of responsibility to include the Maghreb, East, Central and Southern Africa. In 1995, he transferred the entire management of sub-Saharan African portfolio to Munich Re’s office in Johannesburg from where he retired in 2002.