Louise Isted
Louise joined Insurance Day in 2023 from Bermuda:Re+ILS, where she was the editor.
Before entering the re/insurance space, Louise covered the energy sector in senior roles at the World Nuclear Association, Platts (S&P Global) and ICIS. She also worked as an energy markets reporter at Reuters and Argus Media.
She has a Postgraduate Diploma in periodicals journalism from the University of Cardiff and a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degree in Russian from Durham University.
At Insurance Day, Louise is responsible for long-form content, including analyses, interviews, op-eds and special reports.
Latest From Louise Isted
Insurance needed to boost climate resilience: IMF
International Monetary Fund says investments are especially needed for regions most vulnerable to climate shocks
Insurability becoming uncertain beyond 2°C: WTW’s Conway
Broker’s ecosystem resilience practice lead urges insurers to co-ordinate climate risk transfer with risk reduction
Insurers wanted for Ukraine defence investment
Ukraine seeks a war risk insurance mechanism for its defence technological and industrial base, member of parliament, Halyna Yanchenko, tells Insurance Day
IDF enlists BlackRock to boost climate change resilience
Global asset manager will help Insurance Development Forum put ‘blueprint’ for resilient infrastructure for developing nations into action
Iceye signs deal with CDC to explore flood impacts
Iceye will provide CDC’s researchers with near real-time geospatial data for all significant US flood events
The right and wrong ways of seeing generative AI
Gen Re’s chief technology officer outlines why augmentation is key to generative artificial intelligence as the latest type of general-purpose technology