Kathmandu, July 4:

Dinesh P S Poudyalaya, a Nepali insurance professional has recently been awarded with Associateship ‘ACII’ and registered insurer, after completion of Advance Diploma of the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII), the highest professional qualification in insurance and reinsurance.

CII, a premier professional organisation based in London for those working in insurance and financial services industry. Queen Elizabeth-II of the United Kingdom is the patron of the Institute.

Poudyalaya is the first Nepali to have an advance diploma from CII and third to have it on non-life insurance business, states a press release issued here today.