Nisha Braganza

Founder and Director, Insurance Monitor

Nisha is an experienced strategy professional with over 18 years of experience assisting various financial services clients in the MENA region on a range of consulting and implementation support projects. Nisha founded Insurance Monitor in 2013 as the first platform to assemble siloed data into meaningful publications for the insurance industry that have been well received by insurance executives, associations, and regulators alike. She has also authored several whitepapers that discussed strategic and operational issues facing the insurance industry in the UAE that prompted regulatory change.

Over the years, she has partnered with 100+ clients in the insurance industry in the MENA region including insurance companies, brokers (direct and reinsurance) and third party administrators on various consulting projects including long-term strategy implementation, reinsurance capacity arrangements, medical reinsurance treaty management and reporting, credit rating upgrades, financial restructuring, regulatory submissions, market intelligence, customer satisfaction surveys, new market entry strategy, due diligence reviews, valuations and fund raising.

Her previous employments that shaped her growth story have been with Protiviti Middle East and subsidiaries of Gulf Investment Corporation and KIPCO Group in Kuwait. Nisha is a member of The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and holds a post graduate degree in Financial Services from University of East London and a Certificate in Insurance from The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII).

Best known for its premium content and insightful publications in insurance, Insurance Monitor has successfully serviced the GCC insurance market over the last decade and is set out to explore new geographies ahead.