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About the authors 603
in 1997, John worked for 12 years in Group Actuarial and Corporate Actuarial Departments in Co-operators Life Insurance
Company, Ltd. in Canada. Internationally, he has worked on assignments in numerous countries, including
Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Fiji, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nepal, Timor-Leste and Viet Nam. As a consultant
in microinsurance development he has worked on feasibility studies/business planning, market demand surveys,
product design, pricing, financial and actuarial analysis, developing administration systems, developing reinsurance
and actuarial software, developing microinsurance training materials, project management and in other areas. John is a
member of the Microinsurance Network performance indicator working group and is co-author of several published
articles and booklets on microinsurance topics.
Mary Yang practised as an actuary and a global retirement benefits consultant at Towers Perrin and Hewitt Associates
for 12 years prior to joining the ILO’s Microinsurance Innovation Facility. She is experienced in addressing
international human resources issues and has carried out multi-country projects on a range of human resources topics
including benefits policy, design, valuation and risk management. She is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries in the
United States and holds an MBA from INSEAD (France) as well as a BS in Actuarial Science from the University of
Illinois.
Emily Zimmerman is a research associate at EA Consultants and the MicroInsurance Centre. She contributes to the
Microinsurance Learning and Knowledge (MILK) project, an initiative to understand the value to clients of microinsurance
products and the business case for microinsurance. She also performs research on various topics surrounding
the development and sale of microinsurance and other financial products. Previously, she was a corporate lawyer for
two large multinational firms, where her practice focused on equity and debt financing, mergers and acquisitions, and
investment management.