AIRROC and AIRROC’s NextGen Council honored the 2024 Trish Getty Scholarship recipient, Ardit Kerimi, during the awards ceremony at the October Legacy Transactions & Networking Forum in Jersey City, NJ. Since 2012, the $5,000 Trish Getty Scholarship has been awarded to an exceptional undergraduate student studying insurance, risk management, or actuarial science. The scholarship honors Trish Getty, the first Executive Director of AIRROC. Students across the country apply for the scholarship by submitting their resume and an essay and a subcommittee of NextGen members and AIRROC board members review the applications.
As in years past, the NextGen Council worked this year to expand the geographic outreach of the scholarship applicants and to widen the applicant pool. This year, we received the highest number of applications since the scholarship was founded.
Ardit not only has an impressive personal background, but also has already proven his interest in the reinsurance space through his work experience in the industry. Ardit is a senior at Saint Joseph’s University majoring in Risk Management and Insurance. Ardit was born in the Republic of North Macedonia and immigrated to the United States at a young age. This forced Ardit to learn a new language and culture while attending an under-resourced public school in Philadelphia. While attending college once seemed like a distant dream to him, he is now the first member of his family to attend college.
At St. Joesph’s, Ardit is a member of the Gamma Iota Sigma, the business fraternity for insurance, risk management, and actuarial students, and serves as a Grand Chapter Student Representative. This past summer, Ardit worked as a Summer Leadership Development Intern at Munich Re Specialty Insurance. The prior summer, Ardit worked at Munich Re as an Underwriting Intake Intern. After college, Ardit’s goal is to pursue a career as a reinsurance underwriter.
In accepting the award, Ardit thanked his parents for making sacrifices that led him to have the opportunity to pursue a college education and a career in the insurance industry. Ardit expressed his gratitude to AIRROC and explained how the scholarship will assist him in pursuing his education and career goals.
AIRROC and the NextGen Council look forward to seeing what the future holds for Ardit and to working with him in the future.
