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James has been involved in financial services, initially in banking, since 1986 and joining insurance in 1990.

A chartered insurance risk manager, James is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute and a Fellow of the UK Institute of Risk Management and also holds an MSc in Risk Management from Glasgow Caledonian University.

He started his insurance career with Middlesea Insurance plc (now part of the Grupo Mapfre conglomerate) in Malta later worked in London, Central Europe , the Middle East (Bahrain, UAE and Qatar) and East Africa with a career spanning commercial and industrial insurance underwriting, distribution, outward reinsurance, broking, risk management, captive management, consulting and training.

He is now an non-executive director on a portfolio of insurance companies in Malta operating across Europe by virtue of the EU Freedom of Services Directive, is also active in one company in an executive capacity and lectures insurance part-time at the University of Malta.