Ababacar Diaw, currently Deputy CEO of Allianz Africa Services and Regional Head of Protection and Resilience at Allianz Africa has been nominated CEO of Allianz Insurance Company Ghana Limited Non-Life, effective January 17^th, subject to necessary approvals.

He succeeds Darlington Munhuwani who will pursue other opportunities outside the Allianz Group.

Ababacar joined Allianz in 2011 as the Head of Controlling for Allianz Senegal Assurances. He was previously member of the Executive Committee of NSIA Senegal (Insurance & Bank) where he held the position of Head of Controlling and Internal Control.

He was appointed Chief Executive Officer and Board Member of Allianz Benin in 2017. Prior to his nomination, he covered several areas such as Controlling, Internal Control, Compliance and Legal, and held the position of Chief Financial Officer (member of the Executive Committee) of Allianz Senegal Assurances.

Ababacar has worked since 2003 in global financial services across several emerging markets and began his career as a Statutory / Financial Auditor within the BDO international Group.

“Ababacar enjoys a strong financial background and a solid experience in the insurance sector in the continent. Being part of Allianz Africa for 11years, he is the right person to take over the leadership of our entity in Ghana”, said Delphine Traoré.

Ababacar is currently based in Abidjan, and will relocate to Accra in due course.

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The Allianz Group is one of the world's leading insurers and asset managers with 120 million[1] private and corporate customers in more than 70 countries. Allianz customers benefit from a broad range of personal and corporate insurance services, ranging from property, life and health insurance to assistance services to credit insurance and global business insurance. Allianz is one of the world’s largest investors, managing around 802 billion euros on behalf of its insurance customers. Furthermore, our asset managers PIMCO and Allianz Global Investors manage more than 1.9 trillion euros of third-party assets. Thanks to our systematic integration of ecological and social criteria in our business processes and investment decisions, we are amongst the leaders in the insurance industry in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, launched on 12.11.2021. In 2020, over 150,000 employees achieved total revenues of 140 billion euros and an operating profit of 10.8 billion euros for the group.

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Allianz has over a century of history in Africa, where it has built and is continually expanding its footprint. The Group continues to gain leadership in key markets across the continent.

Allianz is currently present in 12 countries and accompanies clients in 49 markets across the continent.

At the regional level, the Group generated a Gross Written Premium of 700 million euros in 2020 (excluding AGCS).

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