Dr Adrian Leonard
Principal, Strategic Insurance Communications
A communications specialist, writer, and historian with more than 30 years' experience supporting clients in the commercial insurance sector.
His career combines journalism, academia, and commercial writing, most of it focused on insurance. He has advised companies from Amlin to Zurich Re. He was News Editor of Insurance Day, Press Officer at the London International Insurance & Reinsurance Market Association (LIRMA, later the International Underwriting Association, or IUA), and Editor of Reuters' daily 'Insurance Glimpse'.
Meanwhile, he is probably the world's leading historian of marine insurance. He is editor of the only international, academic history of marine insurance (cleverly entitled Marine Insurance; Palgrave Macmillan 2016), and his book London Marine Insurance 1438-1824: Risk, Trade and the Early Modern State reveals the fascinating early histories of British insurance and Lloyd's of London. According to the Journal of British Studies, the book "will represent the standard work on the development of marine insurance for some time to come."
