Louise Isted
Louise joined Insurance Day in 2023 from Bermuda:Re+ILS, where she was the editor.
Before entering the re/insurance space, Louise covered the energy sector in senior roles at the World Nuclear Association, Platts (S&P Global) and ICIS. She also worked as an energy markets reporter at Reuters and Argus Media.
She has a Postgraduate Diploma in periodicals journalism from the University of Cardiff and a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degree in Russian from Durham University.
At Insurance Day, Louise is responsible for long-form content, including analyses, interviews, op-eds and special reports.
Louise was named the Insurance and Risk Profile Interviewer of the Year at the WTW 2024 Media Awards.
Latest From Louise Isted
When fact is stranger than fiction
Insurers work with facts, unlike the current leader of the free world. Future readers of the life and times of Donald J Trump will surely regard his aversion to clean energy as the most shocking of all his flaws
US politics poses latest threat to wind energy: McGill’s Sexton
‘The development of new offshore wind projects in the US is pretty much dead for the next four years,’ McGill and Partners’ head of renewables, power and energy, Tom Sexton, says
Real fitness starts with core strength: Nexus’s Rouse
In his first interview since becoming Nexus Underwriting’s chief executive, Stuart Rouse describes the vital features of a healthy managing general agent
Deciphering the energy risk code: WTW’s Mackenzie
‘There can't be any certainty when we're governed by politicians who are thinking within election cycles, and we're trying to design the energy system for the next the next 50 years,’ argues global head of Willis Natural Resources
Breaking down the clean energy numbers: Chaucer’s Schnorr
Specialty group’s head of marine and energy, Simon Schnorr, outlines how the role of re/insurers must expand to support the energy transition
Fac market compelled to follow declining energy rates: Acrisure Re’s Cooper
Acrisure Re’s head of power international facultative explains why there is enhanced scrutiny of facultative reinsurance purchases