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Obituary

Kishore Kumar L Naik
1939 -2021

With profound grief we would like to inform that Mr Kishore Kumar L Naik, Board Member of Risk Management
Association of India and advisor and family member of The Insurance Times Group left for his heavenly abode on
12th November 2021. It is a great and irreparable loss to the RMAI and the Insurance Times family and the whole
Reinsurance Industry.
He was a veteran in the Reinsurance field and was regarded as authority on Reinsurance. He had experience of more
than 57 years in the industry and was quite popular in the industry. He started his career in the year 1964 having held
various positions in India Re, National Insurance, J B Boda, Xperitus Insurance Brokers. In July 2018 he launched his
own company Naik Consultancy and Advisory.
He was core academician and loved to share his knowledge as lecturer at various platforms as Guest faculty around
the world.
Learning from living luminaries, studying classical literature on reinsurance reading articles of experts and becoming
self-corrective in concepts, he passionately contributed to the (Re)Insurance Industry in India and abroad by sharing
his experience and authored around 6 books on Reinsurance published by The Insurance Times/Sashi Publications
Group which were quite popular around the globe. Recently he also developed an Online Course on Reinsurance.
He had innumerable qualities, was always smiling, being witty, prolific speaker, Good human being. The list is
unending.
Besides expertise on reinsurance he was spiritual person too. He was fond of discussion in religious literatures
particularly Gita. Recently he authored a commentary on Gita in Gujarati language.
He has the unique ability of simplifying the most complicated issues. With his lucid expressions full of practical
examples and his KNOW-WHO and KNOW-HOW, he illustrated ability to provide solutions to problematic situations
with precision of a scientist, intuition of an artist and sight of a businessman. Yet he is equally known for being a
"down to earth individual.
Mr Naik was a dynamic personality and even at this age he was quite active and happily hopping around the globe
enjoying and strengthening his reinsurance skills.
The void created by his sudden demise will be very difficult to be filled up. We pray the almighty to give courage to
the family to bear this loss.
The Insurance Times family had a very special bonding with him. His presence will be missed but his memories will be
cherished and treasured forever.

R. G. Agarwala
Editor
The Insurance Times

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