Ep255 Charlie Langdale Humanity Insured: Insurance Magic

At a fundamental level we all know that Insurance is a force for
good in the world. You pay a relatively small premium and if your
house burns down, an Insurer will help you rebuild it. But I’m
sure most of us will at some time in their careers have felt that
what we do day-to-day in our insurance jobs has become
increasingly removed and disconnected from those basic
principles. Well today I’m talking to someone who is trading a
highly successful career in our insurance world for a new career
concentrating 100% on the good that the deployment of the knowhow
and structures that the insurance industry has developed can have
on the poorest across the globe. Charlie Langdale is CEO of
Humanity Insured, a charity that deploys its funds to subsidise
insurance premiums for communities in low-income countries.


The Aid and Development community is very reactive and only tends
to arrive and try and pick up the pieces after a major loss event
has happened. This podcast goes right to the heart of the
economics of aid and development. In it Charlie shows how
Insurance can be a force for good and help lift people out of
poverty and eventually convert them into growing insurance
customers of the future – all because of a little pump-priming
from organisations like Humanity Insured. In a world filled with
gloomy headlines it’s easy to despair and feel that some of the
problems facing humanity are simply insurmountable. I guarantee
that half an hour with Charlie will inspire you and put a spring
in your step. For not only does he believe that the problems can
be solved with the economic resources we already have at our
disposal, but that it’s our industry that has already developed a
lot of the solutions the world is going to need. Whether its
responding to extreme weather or even saving endangered species,
Charlie has a story to tell about how insurance is already
helping hundreds of thousands of people. NOTES &
ABBREVIATIONS: The FCDO is the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth &
Development Office LINKS: https://humanityinsured.org/ Do get
involved. New ideas can be as important as funds. We thank our
naming sponsor AdvantageGo: https://www.advantagego.com