Ellen Yong

Chief Financial Officer, SEADRIF Insurance Company

Ellen Yong is the Chief Financial Officer of SEADRIF Insurance Company, Southeast Asia’s regional disaster risk financing facility, with a mandate to deliver insurance and risk financing solutions for the public sector across the region.

She leads SEADRIF’s finance and risk functions, including capital and financial management, reinsurance, governance, and the development of the internal infrastructure and systems needed to support the company’s growth and strategic objectives. With close to 20 years of experience in insurance and reinsurance, Ellen brings deep technical expertise in pricing, portfolio management, reserving, and strategic execution.

Before joining SEADRIF, Ellen was Head of Reinsurance Pricing and subsequently Head of Portfolio Management at Fidelis Insurance in Bermuda, where she focused on natural catastrophe risks and the impacts of climate change. Earlier, she was an actuarial manager at AXA Singapore and began her career in 2007 as a reinsurance broking analyst with Benfield.

Ellen is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. She is committed to catastrophe risk financing and is a strong advocate for parametric insurance and risk pooling as tools to strengthen climate and disaster resilience.