Rama Chandran was appointed Managing Director & Head of Marine of Rokstone Marine Asia Pacific in October 2025. He has over 40 years of industry and marine underwriting experience.

Prior to Rokstone, Rama was the Head of Marine Asia for QBE since 2015. Before QBE, Rama worked as a Class Underwriter, Marine and Energy for Argo Global Underwriting Asia Pacific. Before that, he was the Head of Marine, SVP for Asia Capital Reinsurance Group Singapore, managing a team of Underwriters for both Facultative and Treaty business covering Asia, GCC,

Central Asia, Turkey and Australia/New Zealand. Rama is a marine engineer by trade and worked for Neptune Orient Lines Singapore prior to joining the insurance industry. He came ashore to join Ritchie & Bisset (Far East) as a surveyor and, in 13 years with that firm, rose to the position of Managing Director.

Rama holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Leicester and is a member of the Society of Naval Architect & Marine Engineering, as well as the Singapore Maritime Officers’ Union. He is a qualified Marine Engineer Officer (Class 1 Motorship) under the Merchant Shipping Act.

Rama was the Chairman of the Ocean Hull Committee of the International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) from 2018 until 2022 and remained as a member of the committee until 2025. Rama was until 2022 also a member of the Marine Committee at the General Insurance Association of Singapore and the Legal and Insurance Committee at SSA and Local Chapter at Singapore Arbitration Centre.

In 2020, Rama was named the sixth most influential person globally in Marine Insurance by Lloyd’s

List. In 2024, Rama was conferred the Fellow for Insurance by the Institute of Banking and Finance of Singapore.