Francesco Nagari

Francesco Nagari is a partner with Deloitte China. He is the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Global Lead for IFRS Insurance Contracts and is currently based in the Hong Kong office. Francesco is the Asia-Pacific Financial Services Industry leader for Audit and Assurance. He led the global IFRS 17 campaign and successfully signed it off in 2023 when IFRS 17 became effective in several jurisdictions worldwide. He now leads the Asia-Pacific campaign to serve the insurance companies based in those Asian markets where IFRS 17 will be adopted after 2023 and to support all insurance companies in the region that decide to launch a finance and actuarial transformation programme. He is an expert on insurance reporting issues across IFRS, U.S. GAAP, and several other Asian and European accounting frameworks, including the reporting requirements of Solvency II and of the Hong Kong Risk-Based Capital regulations. He gained this experience over thirty-three years of work as an auditor, interim executive, and business advisor to insurance organizations. Francesco is the author of several articles and publications on these subjects and has advised regulators in Europe and in Asia. He has been invited to be a member of several advisory committees set up by financial reporting regulators and insurance supervisors at a global level, in the European Union, in Italy and in Hong Kong.