The certainty, consistency and cost savings offered by centrally managed global insurance programmes remain highly attractive to risk and insurance managers at multinational companies worldwide.

But regulatory, political and economic volatility and uncertainty mean that risk managers need to work more closely than ever with their partners to make sure they derive maximum benefit and ultimately achieve compliance.

This is the second year that Commercial Risk will be gathering an expert panel of industry specialists to look at the leading global programmes issues from the perspective of the European risk manager.