Teresa Pelanda

Project Manager, Inclusive Insurance Innovation Lab

Teresa Pelanda joined the Access to Insurance Initiative (A2ii) in 2014. She is the lead contact for Central & Eastern Europe and the Caribbean region, responsible for A2ii’s implementation activities and cooperation with supervisors and regional associations. Since 2020 she has been responsible for the project management of A2ii’s Inclusive Insurance Innovation Labs (iii-labs), a format that provides space for intensive collaboration between key stakeholders of the inclusive insurance space in a year-long process and in four different countries. Prior to A2ii Teresa worked as a consultant on inclusive insurance topics in Germany and Peru. She holds a Master of Science in Regional Studies of Latin America from the University of Cologne, Germany and Guadalajara, Mexico with a focus on economics and cooperative studies.