Dr. Edlyn Hoeller

Deputy Director-General, German Social Accident Insurance

Dr. Edlyn Höller is the Deputy Director General of the German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV). In this function, she is in particular responsible for the areas of insurance law and rehabilitation. Before taking office, the lawyer had already been working for the DGUV (and its predecessor HVBG) in various positions since 2004 - most recently as the Director of Insurance Law. In this function, she was responsible, among other things, for strategically important projects within the framework of the reorganisation of the statutory accident insurance and the development of recommendations for the further development of the law on occupational diseases. Prior to her work for the statutory accident insurance, Höller was a research assistant at the Chair of Civil Law, German and European Labour and Social Law of Prof. Dr. Maximilian Fuchs at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. She received her doctorate in law in 2004 with a dissertation on European social law.

Sessions


8:00 - 10:00 am EDT / 12:00 – 14:00 pm UTC / 14:00 – 16:00 pm CEST
ISSA Special Session: Global Forum for Work Injury Insurance

The Global Forum gathers leading experts and researchers from social security institutions to discuss prevention related questions for workers compensation boards and occupational accident insurance schemes. The Forum focusses on various topics dedicated to prevention, communication, innovation, sustainability and resilience. This year, the Forum will address responses to pandemics outbreaks and extreme events such as the COVID-19. It will be hosted by the Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation with honourable support of the XXII World Congress on Safety and Health Organizers, the International Social Security Association and its ISSA Technical Commission on Insurance against Employment Accidents and Occupational Diseases. We are also pleased to welcome the regional organizations, bringing together social security institutions that are providing insurance against accidents at work and occupational diseases.

Speakers:
Mr. Marcelo Abi-Ramia Caetano, Secretary General, International Social Security Association
Mr. Andrey Pudov, State Secretary – Deputy Minister, Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation
Mr. Phillip Germain, Chief Executive Officer, Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board, Canada
Mr. Alexey Polikashin, Deputy Chairman, Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation
Mr. Vic van Vuuren, Director of Enterprises, International Labour Organization
Dr. Edlyn Hoeller, Deputy Director-General, German Social Accident Insurance
Dr. Irene C. Isaka, Secretary General, East and Central Africa Social Security Association
Mr. Dong-Heon Kim, Director of IT, Korea Workers' Compensation & Welfare Service
Dr. Stefan Hussy, Director-General, German Social Accident Insurance, Chair of the International Social Security Association Technical Commission on Insurance against Employment Accidents and Occupational Diseases
Ms. Evelyn McGill, President, International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions

Languages:
English and Russian

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