Alexandru D. CIUNCAN

Member of EIOPA’s IRSG & OPSG |Secretary

General, APPA-The Association for Insurance

Promotion | Managing Partner, XPRIMM

After being active for more than 15 years in the

CEE insurance and private pensions industries, with

expertise covering insurance regulation, financial

journalism, communication, public relations,

marketing and business development - I strongly

support that consumers should be at the heart of

every insurance undertaking.

As Member of EIOPA’s IRSG - Insurance and

Reinsurance Stakeholder Group since 2013 and

also of the OPSG - Occupational Pensions

Stakeholder Group (www.eiopa.europa.eu/abouteiopa/

organisation/stakeholder-groups) - representing consumers, I have had the opportunity

to work closely with stakeholders and key decision makers in the European Union on some of

the most important legislative initiatives that govern the insurance and private pensions

markets - towards developing better market conduct practices and bridging the protection

gap.

At the same time, my activity as Secretary General of APPA-The Association for Insurance

Promotion – the NGO that developed Romania’s first multi-channel national campaigns

dedicated to educating consumers (www.appa-asigurari.ro) and as Managing Partner of

XPRIMM (www.xprimm.com), a media and publishing company specialised in the CEE, SEE and

CIS insurance and reinsurance markets, has been mostly dedicated to making sure

stakeholders are properly informed, based on the fact that dialogue is always the way

forward.

I truly believe that a sound regulatory environment is paramount for a transparent financial

services industry everywhere. In this respect, EIOPA and national regulators play major roles

in creating and developing an unitary regulatory framework all over the EU and in establishing

standards that can ensure a correct and fair activity of the financial markets.