Yvonne Palm is the Group Chief Risk Officer at African Reinsurance Corporation, where she leads risk management and compliance strategy across Africa and the Middle East. Based in Lagos, Nigeria, she plays a critical role in shaping resilient, forward-looking risk frameworks across diverse markets.

A dual Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society and the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, Yvonne previously served on the CAS Board, where she contributed to strategic governance within the global actuarial profession. She is a passionate advocate for building actuarial capacity across Africa and co-founded the African Actuarial Development Academy (AADA) to mentor, educate, and elevate emerging talent on the continent.

Before joining Africa Re, Yvonne was Lead Corporate Actuary at Travelers in London and held senior actuarial roles at EY, Markel International, and ACE European Group. She brings more than twenty years of experience in the US, UK, and African markets and is recognised for her distinguished contributions as a speaker, respected leader, and committed mentor.

Mukami Njeru FIA CERA is a strategic business executive with over 17 years’ experience in various fields in the financial services industry including twelve years post qualification. She has held both consulting roles and in-house roles within financial services firms in Asia-Pacific, Europe and Africa. Her recent roles include heading the Actuarial function in PwC West Africa and looking after the Life and Health portfolio of Swiss Re’s East and West African insurance clients and for PTA Reinsurance Company. She was also Group Actuary of CIC Group.

In addition, she has contributed extensively to the actuarial profession in Africa and internationally – she was elected as the first member from East and Central Africa to the council of the UK Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) to contribute to the strategy of the global actuarial profession. She has also served in key office bearer positions of Secretary and Vice-Chairperson of the Actuarial Society of Kenya (TASK). She was instrumental in establishing the Actuarial Academy of East Africa which has acted as a proof of concept for AADA. She also serves as a board member of the International Association of Consulting Actuaries and drove the awarding of the ICA2029 bid in Nairobi.

Mukami has received various industry awards including Kenya’s Business Daily's list of top 40 under 40 women and was the first female to qualify as an actuary in Kenya.

Yeside Kazeem is a qualified actuary and Fellow of both the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) and the Nigeria Actuarial Society (NAS). She has over 20 years of experience across Europe and Africa, with a track record of driving growth, strengthening risk management frameworks, and supporting innovation in complex and evolving insurance markets.

She has held a range of senior executive and board-level roles, including positions as Managing Director, Chief Actuary, and Group Risk and Compliance Officer. Her experience spans life and non-life insurance, covering underwriting, pricing, capital management, and enterprise risk, as well as transactions, valuation, and financial reporting for insurers and pension funds.

She currently serves as an Independent Director on several boards, where she sits on Risk, Audit, and Remuneration Committees, contributing to governance, oversight, and long-term sustainability.

Yeside is also actively involved in advancing the actuarial profession. She is a Past President of the Nigeria Actuarial Society and serves within the International Actuarial Association as Vice Chair of the Africa Committee, while contributing to its Climate & Sustainability and Strategic Planning Committees. She is co-founder of the African Actuarial Development Academy (AADA), focused on building actuarial capacity across the continent.