Gabriele Ramm, Consultant to GTZ, GermanyGabriele Ramm coordinates the Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) project of Munich Re and GTZ (German Technical Cooperation) on catastrophic risks in Indonesia and manages the PPP microinsurance project of Allianz Group and GTZ in India and Indonesia. As a consultant to GTZ she focused on social protection in the informal economy and microinsurance collaborating with ILO and other organizations. Prior to 2001 she was GTZ Program Director in India heading poverty alleviation projects of microfinance/microinsurance, livelihood programs, health, women empowerment and good governance. During her tenure with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation she worked as the FNF Representative in Nepal and Pakistan heading projects on industrial relations, social security, decentralization policy and training of environmental journalists. Before joining projects of poverty alleviation she worked at German TV, Cologne (WDR), for the Foundation for International Development (now InWEnt) and the International Department of the German Adult Education Association in the areas of development support communication, visual literacy, adult education and intercultural communication/management. G. Ramm has published several studies and articles on microinsurance/social protection and was a team member of the Microinsurance Landscape Study commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She holds two MA degrees in Political Science/Mass Communication and Engineering. |