About Zhanar
Kazakh
Native or bilingual
Turkish
Basic
English
Fluent
Russian
Native or bilingual
Arabic
Basic
Experience
- DAMAN NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY,AVP, Product Compliance P&COctober 2025 - Today (8 months)• • Regulatory registration and product approval activities for Commercial P&C insurance products with the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE), ensuring alignment with applicable regulatory andprudential requirements.• • Designed and established the Commercial P&C Risk Appetite Framework, including risk limits, capital thresholds, and governance triggers to support disciplined growth and risk-taking.• • Developed and implemented stress testing and scenario analysis frameworks for the Commercial P&C portfolio to assess resilience under adverse underwriting, market, operational, and catastrophe conditions.• • Oversaw cross-border regulatory registration initiatives to enable the company to conduct inward reinsurance business in selected jurisdictions, coordinating with internal stakeholders and external advisors.• • Built the governance architecture for a newly established P&C division, including policies, manuals, guidelines, and procedures across risk management, compliance/AML, andunderwriting governance, risk appetite framework, pricing governance, and related control standards• • Partnered with business, compliance, actuarial, finance, and operations teams to embedgovernance, regulatory compliance, and risk oversight into new product and businessdevelopment initiatives.
- (Freelancer).Risk Management ConsultantNovember 2023 - October 2025 (1 year and 11 months)• • Coaching: Provide personalized coaching to professionals and leaders, leveraging 19+ years ofexpertise to enhance their skills in risk management, decision-making, and leadership.• • Risk Management Consulting: Offer tailored consulting services on Enterprise RiskManagement (ERM), digital risk, and emerging risk trends, with a focus on building robust frameworks and fostering risk-aware cultures.• • Training Programs: Design and deliver interactive training on key risk management topics, including digital risk, scenario analysis, stress testing, foresight, and horizon scanning.• • Business Continuity Planning (BCP): Develop and implement comprehensive BCPframeworks, conduct impact analyses, and facilitate testing and training to enhanceorganizational resilience.• • Advisory Services: Advise organizations on regulatory compliance, ESG integration, andaligning risk strategies with business goals.• • Industry Thought Leadership: Share insights and best practices on digital and emerging risks as a member of professional associations.• • Scenario Analysis and Stress Testing: Assist businesses in designing and executing scenarioplanning and stress tests to quantify risks and enhance decision-making.• • Cyber Risk and Digital Transformation: Provide expertise on managing cybersecurity risks and integrating risk management into digital transformation initiatives.• • Governance and Strategy Support: Guide organizations in defining risk appetites, capital thresholds, and governance structures to ensure sustainable growth. Studying professional coaching and providing coaching practice.
- SUKOON INSURANCE COMPANY (OIC)Head of RiskBANKING AND INSURANCEMarch 2019 - May 2023 (4 years and 2 months)Dubai City, United Arab Emirates• • Supported the syndicate-in-a-box (SIAB) initiative, which operates on the Lloyd's platform under the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC): defining risk appetite, development of ESG policies, ORSA, stress scenarios, and stress tests.• • Established ERM framework, risk appetite and elevated the risk management maturity and culture.• • Embedded the risk management framework across departments and ensuring collaborative work with the Business on efficient management of risks• • Established credit risk, operational risk and insurance risk and other ERM processes and procedures within the departments and other business divisions (conduct risk and product development review)• • Managing reinsurance credit risk, reinsurance security list, development and establishment of reinsurance credit risk limits, due diligence and monitoring of reinsurers.• • Development and monitoring of exceptional approval process and limits for facultative reinsurance• • Due diligence and risk review of large and unusual transactions, business strategy and major accounts. Risk review of business counterparties before initiation of projects or business partnerships.• • Development and implementing different stress scenarios and stress tests• • Defining and establishment of thresholds for Capital levels/Solvency• • Managing emerging risks, development and implementation of RCSA (Risk and control selfassessment) process• • Support annual review for rating agencies' review• • Chair of the Executive Risk Committee• • Member of management committee for syndicate-in-a-box (SIAB)• • Leading the Board Risk Committee: successful establishment and management of governance• • Conducting internal ERM trainings for employees• • Deep dives and risk reviews for different functions, processes and insurance lines of business• • of the Cyber Risk Special Interest Group Institute of Risk management
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Education
- Certificate 'Foundations of Foresight and Emerging technologies'Dubai Future Foundation2024Certificate 'Foundations of Foresight and Emerging technologies'
- Certificate in Geopolitical AnalysisFlorida Atlantic University and RANE North Point Academy2012Certificate in Geopolitical Analysis