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President's Message

Presidents Message 2025

I am delighted and honoured to have been nominated and elected as President of the Insurance Institute of Northern Ireland.  

The Insurance Institute of Northern Ireland has an excellent reputation within the CII, one of the best in UK, and this is down to the professionalism and dedication of our 22 council members who voluntarily give their time to serve the members of our Institute.

So, thank you to all our elected members on Council – it is great to have your support in the year ahead.

While considering my theme for the year, I was thinking about how so many of us simply "fell" into Insurance. 

Wouldn’t it be great if it could be seen as an attractive profession by students, careers teachers and parents?  The insurance industry doesn’t have the best reputation with consumers – many see it as a necessary evil.  We need to better promote the good of insurance and the career path that it can provide, to protect the future of our profession in NI. This isn’t something we will achieve overnight but we must start somewhere. 

So, my theme for the year will be to “Attract the next generation of Insurance Professionals”

I have already engaged with 2 local schools and the plan is:

  • To visit the schools and talk to the students about the basics of risk & insurance

  • Help them understand the wide variety of roles that exist across General Insurance & PFS in NI

  • Offer some students up to one weeks work experience in local insurance business’s to give them real insight of the industry

Both schools have been delighted to take us up on this offer.

I have already engaged with some local insurance employers who have agreed to support work experience opportunities, so thank you for your assistance.   If there are other employers, who could support work experience in their business (even for 2/3 days) please let me know asap.

In addition to this, I will support our Current members by continuing to:

  1. Have our successful CPD events

  2. Promote insurance qualifications

  3. Raise awareness of the Insurance charity and

  4. Organise social and networking events

 

My ask of you, is to encourage younger employees in your business to participate in these activities and to use the local institute to help progress their future careers.

 

I look forward to leading IINI in the year ahead and working closely with you all.

 

Kind regards

Fiona Cambridge ACII, Chartered Insurer

President, Insurance Institute of Northern Ireland