Lisa Kelaart-Courtney - Technical Advisor
From April 2004 to September 2007, Lisaheld the post of Associate Director in Supervision with the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA), the independent regulator of financial services for the Dubai International Financial Centre.
Lisa’s primary role was to provide effective supervision to the regulated community of the DIFC and had the specific responsibility for the supervision of banking entities and insurance firms, intermediaries and managers and participated in the creation, drafting and revision of a number of rules and regulations. Further, she was the sole DFSA representative to the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS), holding membership positions on the Technical Committee, Insurance Fraud, Financial Conglomerates and Reinsurance Subcommittees and was a contributing author drafting IAIS guidance papers on money laundering, abuse of insurers, regulation of captive insurance and the like.
Lisa participates as an Advisor with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on a variety of financial services missions and is a Financial Services Voluntary Corps (FSVC) expert volunteer panel member.
Prior to joining the DFSA in early 2004, Lisa held the position of Director of Financial Services Ratings with Standard & Poor’s, based in Singapore and previous to this has held senior technical positions with insurance companies both in Singapore and Australia.