Victoria (Vicky) Saporta

Chair, IAIS Executive Committee
Executive Director, Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Bank of England

Vicky Saporta is Executive Director of Prudential Policy at the Bank of England and the Prudential Regulation Authority. Vicky has held a number of positions in regulatory policy, financial stability and monetary analysis in a career spanning over 20 years at the Bank of England.

Vicky was at the heart of the macro prudential and micro prudential policy reforms undertaken by the Bank after the global financial crisis. Vicky has represented the Bank on numerous international committees dealing with central banking and regulatory issues.

Vicky is currently Chair of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors and represents the Bank of England on the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.

Vicky holds a PhD in Economics, MPhil in Finance from the University of Cambridge and a BSc in Mathematical Economics and Econometrics from the London School of Economics.

She has published a number of articles in books, professional journals and Bank of England publications.

David Altmaier

Vice Chair, IAIS Executive Committee
Commissioner, Florida Office of Insurance Regulation

David Altmaier was appointed as the Florida Insurance Commissioner in April 2016 by the Financial Services Commission.

He leads the Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) and has oversight of one of the largest insurance markets in the world. Under David’s leadership, OIR has worked to cultivate a market in Florida in which insurance products are reliable, available, and affordable.

David began his public service at OIR in 2008, serving in a number of roles including Chief Analyst of the Property and Casualty Financial Oversight unit and Deputy Commissioner of Property and Casualty Insurance.

David was voted President of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) for 2021, after serving as President-Elect in 2020 and Vice President in 2019. In his role as NAIC President, he serves as Chair of the Executive Committee, Internal Administration Subcommittee, Government Relations Leadership Council, and Co-Chair of the Special Committee on Race and Insurance.

David also serves as a Vice Chair of the Executive Committee for the IAIS, representing insurance regulators and supervisors of more than 200 jurisdictions worldwide.

David was appointed by Governor DeSantis to serve as a member Florida’s Blockchain Task Force and, during the COVID-19 pandemic, was selected as a member of the Governor’s Re-Open Florida Task Force Industry Working Group on Agriculture, Finance, Government, Healthcare, Management and Professional Services.

Prior to joining OIR, David worked as a Florida licensed 2-20 and 2-14 insurance agent and as a high school math teacher. He graduated from Western Kentucky University in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics. 

Gary Anderson

Chair, IAIS Policy Development Committee
Commissioner, Massachusetts Division of Insurance

Gary D. Anderson was appointed Commissioner of the Massachusetts Division of Insurance by the Governor of Massachusetts on October 31, 2017.

Gary joined the Massachusetts Division of Insurance as its First Deputy Commissioner in February of 2014. His responsibilities included strategic planning and policy development for every aspect of the agency, while assisting in decision-making and policy development in matters involving all lines of insurance and developing and advocating legislative and policy priorities for the Administration.

His insurance experience began in 1999 with a regional carrier in the northwestern United States.

Just prior to his role as the First Deputy, Gary served as a Policy Advisor and Senior Counsel in the Massachusetts State Senate President’s Office, where he was involved in a number of policy areas, from the state’s broad efforts to control health care costs to all matters affecting the financial services sector.

Prior to his work in the Senate President’s Office, Gary worked as the General Counsel for the Financial Services Committee, where he handled legislation related to insurance and banking. His private sector work also includes experience at a pharmaceutical company, where he was responsible for negotiating the tiered status of pharmaceuticals in the hospital setting.

Gary is a graduate of Idaho State University and Albany Law School at Union University. 

Peter Braumüller

Chair, IAIS Implementation and Assessment Committee
Managing Director, Insurance and Pension Supervision, Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA)

Before joining the newly established FMA in 2002, Peter Braumüller worked for the Austrian Ministry of Finance since 1983.

In 1999, Peter was appointed Head of Insurance Supervision after having served as Head of unit for financial analysis, on-site inspections and accounting for more than five years.

Peter has had a distinguished career in the international arena.

At the IAIS, he served as Chair of the Financial Stability Committee from 2009 to early 2013 and as Chair of the Executive Committee from 2008 until 2014.
Currently, he is Chair of the IAIS Implementation and Assessment Committee.

In the EU, he held the position of Vice Chair of CEIOPS from 2007 to 2009.
From January 2011 until December 2014, he was a member of the EIOPA Management Board and since January 2015, he is the Vice Chair of EIOPA.

He is a member of the IAIS and IOPS Executive Committees and also chairs the Executive Committee and Governing Council of the Access-to-Insurance Initiative (A2ii).

Peter has degrees in law from the University of Vienna and actuarial science from the University of Technology in Vienna. 

Jonathan Dixon

Secretary General
IAIS

Jonathan Dixon is Secretary General of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS), with effect from 3 November 2017.

Prior to becoming Secretary General, he had a long association with the IAIS, having been a member of the IAIS Executive Committee since 2009 and Chair of its Implementation Committee since 2012.

He also chaired the Governing Council of the Access to Insurance Initiative (A2ii), a joint initiative of the IAIS and development partners aimed at strengthening responsible and inclusive insurance.

Prior to joining the IAIS, Jonathan was Deputy Executive Officer at the Financial Services Board of South Africa, with responsibility for insurance regulation and supervision.

He was appointed to this position by the Minister of Finance in 2008.

Before that, he worked for 10 years for the National Treasury of South Africa on economic and financial sector policy issues.

Jonathan has a Master of Science in Economics from the London School of Economics. 

Dieter Hendrickx

Chair, IAIS Macroprudential Committee
Head, Prudential Policy Insurance, National Bank of Belgium (NBB)

Dieter Hendrickx holds an MSc degree in Business Engineering and an MSc degree in Financial and Actuarial Engineering from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.

After having worked for close to four years in the Value and Risk Management Department of a large bancinsurance group in Belgium, he joined the Operational Supervision Department of the former CBFA (later: NBB) in April 2010.
In January 2012, he moved to the Policy and Financial Stability Department of the NBB, where he was an adviser on Solvency II related policy issues and responsible for conducting stress tests and financial stability analyses for the Belgian insurance sector.

From May 2017 to October 2018, he was seconded as a Financial Stability Expert to the secretariat of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB), where he led the work on all insurance-related macroprudential matters.

During these years, he was involved in several international working and project groups at the level of EIOPA, ESRB and IAIS.
In November 2018, Dieter was appointed as Head of Prudential Policy Insurance at the NBB.

He is currently a member of EIOPA’s Supervisory Steering Committee and an alternate voting member to the EIOPA Board of Supervisors.

After having chaired the IAIS Macroprudential Monitoring Working Group (MMWG) since November 2019, he was appointed as the Chair of the IAIS Macroprudential Committee in June 2020.

At the same time, he also became a member of the IAIS Executive Committee. 

Norio Hida

Vice Chair, IAIS Executive Committee
Deputy Commissioner, International Affairs, Japan Financial Services Agency

Norio Hida joined the Financial Services Agency of Japan in September 2019 and currently serves as Deputy Commissioner for International Affairs. His main responsibilities include international insurance regulatory issues. Since November 2019, he has been serving as Japan’s representative on the IAIS’ Policy Development Committee, Macroprudential Committee, and is co-Vice Chair of the IAIS’ Executive Committee.

Norio started his career at the Bank of Japan (BOJ) in 1993, where he gained extensive experience in the areas of supervision of financial institutions and other policy areas. He also served as Policy Board Member executive staff at BOJ and as International Monetary Fund economist. Norio has held various management positions at BOJ such as Deputy General Manager, Chief Representative Office for the Americas, and Associate Director-General, Payment and Settlement System Department. 

Norio has a bachelor’s degree in law from Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo and an MBA from McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.  

Klaas Knot

President, De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB)
Vice Chair, Financial Stability Board (FSB)

Klaas Knot has been the President of the DNB since 1 July 2011. He is also Vice Chair of the FSB and Chair of the FSB's Standing Committee on the Assessment of Vulnerabilities. He is also a member of the Governing Council and the General Council of the European Central Bank, member of the European Systemic Risk Board, member of the International Monetary Fund's Board of Governors and a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements.

Klaas holds several secondary positions. He is, among others, Chair of the Supervisory Board of the CliniClowns Foundation. Since 2005, he has been a Professor in Economics of Central Banking at the University of Groningen, and since 2015 he has also been a Professor of Monetary Stability at the Economics and Business Department of the University of Amsterdam. Klaas Knot has published a variety of articles in prominent Dutch and international journals in the fields of monetary and financial economics.

Before joining the Governing Board, Klaas was Deputy Treasurer-General and Director of Financial Markets at the Dutch Ministry of Finance (2009–2011). Earlier, from 1995, he worked for DNB for almost twelve years, in positions including Economic Policy Officer and Director of the Supervisory Policy Division. At different intervals during this period, he was employed by the International Monetary Fund (1998-1999) and the former Pensions and Insurance Supervisory Authority of the Netherlands (2003-2004).

In 1991, he graduated with honours in general economics at the University of Groningen. In 1995, he obtained his PhD in economics.

Suzette Vogelsang

Vice Chair, IAIS Executive Committee
Head, Department (Banking, Insurance and FMI Supervision Department), Prudential Authority, South Africa 

Suzette Vogelsang is currently the Head of the Banking, Insurance and FMI Supervisory Department in the Prudential Authority of the South African Reserve Bank.

Suzette’s current supervisory responsibilities include the prudential supervision, on both a solo and group basis (where relevant), of the small to medium sized life and non-life insurance companies, small to medium sized banks (including foreign branches), and the solo prudential supervision of Financial Markets Infrastructures (securities and derivatives only).

Suzette was also responsible for managing the team that finalised the technical requirements of the new risk based solvency regime, introduced into legislation in South Africa in 2018.

Suzette represents the Prudential Authority in various industry forums in South Africa. She is currently the third Vice Chair of the IAIS’ Executive Committee, representing the emerging markets and developing economies. She is also the IAIS’ Regional Coordinator for the Sub-Saharan Africa region.

Daniel Wang (moderator)

Chair, IAIS Climate Risk Steering Group
Executive Director, Insurance Department, Monetary Authority of Singapore

The Insurance Department supervises and regulates insurance companies in Singapore and oversees policy formulation for the insurance sector. 

Daniel is Chair of the newly established Climate Risk Steering Group at the IAIS and is MAS’ representative at the IAIS Parent Committees and at the Sustainable Insurance Forum (SIF). He is also the incoming Chair of the ASEAN Insurance Regulators Meeting and is the Vice Chair of the ASEAN Taxonomy Board, which is developing a sustainable finance taxonomy for adoption across all ASEAN member states. He also serves as the Chairperson of the Singapore College of Insurance.

Yue (Nina) Chen

Vice Chair, IAIS Climate Steering Group
Executive Deputy Superintendent, Climate Division, New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS)

Yue (Nina) Chen is the first-ever Executive Deputy Superintendent of the Climate Division at the DFS. As part of the executive team, Nina is charged with developing the Department’s portfolio of policy initiatives involving sustainability, green financing, and climate mitigation. Under her leadership, DFS became the first U.S. financial regulator to establish a holistic set of expectations for banks and insurers to integrate the financial risks from climate change into corporate governance, business strategies, risk management, and disclosure. Nina also serves as the Vice Chair of the Climate Risk Steering Group at the IAIS.

Before joining DFS, Nina was the Nature Conservancy’s Director of Conservation Investments in New Jersey then New York. In this role she developed innovative conservation finance programmes, advised cities on attracting private capital to accelerate and scale up conservation impacts, and led urban water resilience initiatives.

Nina started her career in finance which spanned a wide range of areas, including sovereign bonds, interest rates derivatives, mortgages, and structured credit products, at Goldman Sachs and Royal Bank of Canada, among others.

Nina received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Certificate in Conservation and Environmental Sustainability from Columbia University.

Renaud Guidée

Group Chief Risk Officer, AXA

Renaud Guidée was appointed Group Chief Risk Officer at AXA in July 2019, taking office in September 2019. In addition to his role, Renaud is serving as Chairman of the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance.

Prior to joining AXA, Renaud was a Managing Director with Goldman Sachs, a role to which he was promoted in 2015 after having served as Executive Director from 2011, based in London then in Paris. Within Goldman Sachs’ Investment Banking Division, he advised large corporate clients across industries, with a total cross-border transaction experience (M&A and capital markets) exceeding $150bn. He was also in charge of managing the career development of Goldman Sachs’ investment banking team in France.

Previously, Renaud served as sherpa to former IMF Managing Director Michel Camdessus in 2010, after having joined the Inspection Générale des Finances (the office within France’s Finance Ministry in charge of carrying out strategic reviews and assessing the cost efficiency of public policies) in 2007. His earlier policy-making training included a secondment in the Cabinet of the European Commissioner for External Relations in 2005.

Renaud graduated from HEC (2003) and from ENA (2007). He also holds an advanced degree in international taxation (2003) and passed the admittance exam to the Paris bar school in 2003.

Renaud’s commitment to diversity and equal opportunities translates into community involvement as member of the Board of Article 1, a Paris-based non-profit organisation mentoring high-potential students from low-income suburbs (since 2010) and formerly as member of the jury of the affirmative action admission process to Sciences-Po, where he also lectured in economics.

Renaud is a fellow (2013) and former jury member (2018, 2019) of the Young Leaders programme of the French American Foundation, on the Board of Directors of which he now serves as representative for AXA.

Jakob Thomae

Co-founder, 2° Investing Initiative

Jakob Thomae is one of the leading global experts on sustainable finance and long-term risks. He co-founded the 2° Investing Initiative network in New York and Berlin and serves as Executive Director of 2° Investing Initiative Deutschland.

Jakob led the development of the first methodology in the world to measure the alignment of financial portfolios with climate goals (PACTA). PACTA remains the most widely used alignment methodology in the world, endorsed by a number of governments and financial supervisors to track financial sector alignment. Over 1,000 organisations have used PACTA to conduct portfolio tests to date.

In 2020, Jakob launched the 1in1000 research programme designed to integrate complex and long-term risks into financial supervision and decision-making. As part of the programme, Jakob authored the first COVID-19 stress-test scenarios, informing the regulatory response of supervisors in Europe and the United States to the crisis. His work has also informed the climate stress-test scenario design of major central banks and financial supervisors.

Jakob is Special Research Fellow to the Japanese Financial Services Agency, and previously served as Academic Advisor to the Bank of England and EIOPA. He holds a PhD in Finance from the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers. Jakob is also Senior Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he teaches a Green Finance course.

Anna Sweeney

Executive Director, Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Chair, Sustainable Insurance Forum

Anna Sweeney is an Executive Director at the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA). She has responsibility for the Risk & Operations function of the PRA, which includes the Chief Operating Office, ownership of the PRA’s supervisory approach and risk model and support for the PRA’s senior committees. Anna also co-leads Insurance Supervision with Charlotte Gerken, where she is responsible for the supervision of the UK’s general insurance sector, including the Society of Lloyd’s.

The PRA’s approach to insurance supervision seeks to deliver the PRA’s statutory objectives to:

• Promote the safety and soundness of the firms we regulate; and
• Contribute to the securing of an appropriate degree of protection for those who are or may become policyholders.

Anna was previously Director of Insurance Supervision between 2017 and 2019. Anna is an experienced insurance and banking regulator, having previously led the supervision of a number of the largest banks and insurers.

Dieter Hendrickx

Chair, IAIS Macroprudential Committee
Head, Prudential Policy Insurance, National Bank of Belgium (NBB)

Dieter Hendrickx holds an MSc degree in Business Engineering and an MSc degree in Financial and Actuarial Engineering from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.

After having worked for close to four years in the Value and Risk Management Department of a large bancinsurance group in Belgium, he joined the Operational Supervision Department of the former CBFA (later: NBB) in April 2010.
In January 2012, he moved to the Policy and Financial Stability Department of the NBB, where he was an adviser on Solvency II related policy issues and responsible for conducting stress tests and financial stability analyses for the Belgian insurance sector.

From May 2017 to October 2018, he was seconded as a Financial Stability Expert to the secretariat of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB), where he led the work on all insurance-related macroprudential matters.

During these years, he was involved in several international working and project groups at the level of EIOPA, ESRB and IAIS.
In November 2018, Dieter was appointed as Head of Prudential Policy Insurance at the NBB.

He is currently a member of EIOPA’s Supervisory Steering Committee and an alternate voting member to the EIOPA Board of Supervisors.

After having chaired the IAIS Macroprudential Monitoring Working Group (MMWG) since November 2019, he was appointed as the Chair of the IAIS Macroprudential Committee in June 2020.

At the same time, he also became a member of the IAIS Executive Committee. 

Birny Birnbaum

Economic Adviser to and Executive Director, Center for Economic Justice

Birny Birnbaum serves as an economic adviser to and Executive Director for the Center for Economic Justice, a Texas non-profit organisation, whose mission is to advocate on behalf of low-income consumers on issues of availability, affordability, accessibility of basic goods and services, such as utilities, credit and insurance. 

Birny has analysed insurance markets, products and regulatory policy for over thirty years as insurance supervisor, consumer advocate and consultant to public agencies.  His reports and testimony have covered nearly every aspect of the insurance life cycle, regulatory processes and consumer protection. 

Birny has served for many years as a designated Consumer Representative at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, is a member of the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Federal Advisory Committee on Insurance, where he co-chairs the subcommittee on availability and affordability, and is also a member the Board of the Federal Reserve’s Insurance Policy Advisory Committee. 

Birny served for three years as Associate Commissioner for Policy and Research and the Chief Economist at the Texas Department of Insurance.  At the Department, Birny provided technical and policy advice to the Commissioner of Insurance and performed policy research and analysis for the Department. Birny was also responsible for the development of data collection programmes for market surveillance and the analysis of insurance market for competition as well as review and approval of policy forms and rates.

Frank Grund

Chief Executive Director, Insurance and Pension Funds Supervision, BaFin

Frank Grund is Chief Executive Director of Insurance and Pension Funds Supervision at BaFin the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority.

Before joining BaFin in 2015 he was a member of the supervisory board at IDEAL Versicherungsgruppe, a member of the SCOR advisory board and a member of Assekurata’s rating committee. 

From 2008-2012 he was CEO of Deutscher Ring Sach and Deutscher Ring Leben. He has a doctorate in law and political science from the University of Bonn. Frank is a member of the EIOPA Board of Supervisors. 
 

Stefan Holzberger

Chief Rating Officer, AM Best

Stefan Holzberger joined AM Best in 2001 in the United States as a financial analyst in the property/casualty rating division. In 2004, he assumed the position of assistant vice president and was responsible for the ratings of roughly 100 excess and surplus lines and specialty insurance organizations. In 2008, Stefan’s responsibilities shifted to the development and dissemination of rating criteria and methodology, as well as regulatory policy development. Currently, Stefan is the chief rating officer of AM Best, where he is responsible for the agency’s global ratings coverage.

Stefan’s insurance career started at the Jefferson Insurance Group, a specialty lines writer and subsidiary of Allianz SE. He began as an internal auditor and later became the audit manager responsible for internal audits, as well as monitoring the financial strength and internal controls of the group’s managing general agents and third-party claims administrators.

Stefan received his undergraduate degree from Bucknell University and an MBA in Finance from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Stefan holds the Chartered Financial Consultant designation and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant.

Michael T. McRaith 

Vice Chair, Brookfield Insurance Solutions

In October Michael McRaith joined Brookfield after more than three years with Blackstone, where he was most recently a Managing Director. Michael served for nearly six years as the first Director of the Federal Insurance Office in the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he had several national and global leadership roles. Before joining Treasury, he served for more than six years as the Director of the Illinois Department of Insurance, including as an officer of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Before his government service, Michael was a lawyer in private practice in Chicago, Illinois.

Among other honours for community and public service, Michael received the Distinguished LGBTQ Alumnus Award from Indiana University, the Exceptional Service Award from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and has been recognised as a Distinguished Fellow by the International Association of Insurance Supervisors.

Suzette Vogelsang

Vice Chair, IAIS Executive Committee
Head, Department (Banking, Insurance and FMI Supervision Department), Prudential Authority, South Africa 

Suzette Vogelsang is currently the Head of the Banking, Insurance and FMI Supervisory Department in the Prudential Authority of the South African Reserve Bank.

Suzette’s current supervisory responsibilities include the prudential supervision, on both a solo and group basis (where relevant), of the small to medium sized life and non-life insurance companies, small to medium sized banks (including foreign branches), and the solo prudential supervision of Financial Markets Infrastructures (securities and derivatives only).

Suzette was also responsible for managing the team that finalised the technical requirements of the new risk based solvency regime, introduced into legislation in South Africa in 2018.

Suzette represents the Prudential Authority in various industry forums in South Africa. She is currently the third Vice Chair of the IAIS’ Executive Committee, representing the emerging markets and developing economies. She is also the IAIS’ Regional Coordinator for the Sub-Saharan Africa region.

Arup Chatterjee 

Principal Financial Sector Specialist, Asian Development Bank

Arup Chatterjee is Principal Financial Sector Specialist at the Asian Development Bank responsible for leading financial sector development initiatives and providing operational support in financial sector reform and development, regulatory and supervisory oversight architecture, insurance, and Fintech. As the focal for insurance, he has advised on disaster risk financing, agriculture insurance, health insurance, microinsurance, pensions and social security reforms, and Takaful in Asian, African, and Latin American countries.

In his over three and half decades of association with the insurance sector, he has traversed across insurance and reinsurance operations, financial sector policymaking, and regulations.

He has earlier served with the IAIS at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India, and the Ministry of Finance, Government of India.

An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Delhi University, Arup is an active blogger and regularly contributes to newspapers and journals on contemporary topics.

Petra Hielkema

Chairperson, European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA)

Petra is the Chairperson at EIOPA and has been leading the Authority since September 2021. On 27 May 2021 the Council appointed her to this position following confirmation by the European Parliament on 18 May 2021.

Petra was an Alternate Member of the EIOPA Board of Supervisors. She was also the Chair of the EIOPA Policy Committee.

Previously, Petra worked as a Divisional Director of Insurance Supervision at De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB, the Dutch Central Bank). The division is responsible for the supervision of the Dutch insurance sector.

Petra initially joined DNB in February. In 2013 she was the Head of Insurance Policy. In 2015 she was appointed as Head of the DNB Expert Centre for Fit & Proper testing, assessing (supervisory and management) board members in the financial sector. In February 2017 she was selected as Director of Payments and Market Infrastructures and was responsible for the payments and collateral operations of the central bank, oversight, policy and cyber intelligence. In addition, Petra was responsible for the TIBER project (Threat Intelligence Based Ethical Red teaming).

Prior to joining the Dutch Central Bank Petra had an international career in the oil and gas industry. .Petra holds a European Masters in Law & Economics and a Masters in Russian Studies. She is married and a proud mother of three children.

Cameron Murray

Head, Government Policy and Affairs, Lloyds of London

Cameron has held the position of Head of Government Policy & Affairs at Lloyd’s since August 2019. Prior to that he was Head of Middle East & Africa, responsible for Lloyd’s business development, operations and regulatory affairs and compliance across the region, supported by teams in London, Dubai and Johannesburg.

Cameron joined Lloyd’s in 2000 to develop and implement a system for accrediting and registering new Lloyd’s brokers. He subsequently spent 3 years in Asia as Lloyd’s Country Manager for Hong Kong and 9 years managing regulatory affairs globally and leading market access negotiations with the authorities in India and Turkey. He has also recently spent a year on the Executive Committee of Lloyd’s European subsidiary in Brussels as the company’s Head of European Branches. He joined Lloyd’s from the Association of British Insurers where he held policy roles on EU regulation and UK distribution and also served for a year as Secretary to the Board.

Cameron holds a Masters degree with Distinction in International Strategy & Diplomacy from the London School of Economics and a Bachelors degree in European languages from the University of Bradford in the UK. He graduated from the Lloyd’s Leadership Programme at the London Business School in 2008. He is married with a daughter.

Kai-Uwe Schanz

Deputy Managing Director and Head of research and foresight, The Geneva Association

Kai-Uwe Schanz was appointed Deputy Managing Director and Head of research and foresight of The Geneva Association in 2019. In this capacity, he also serves as the Secretary to the Global Reinsurance Forum.

Before joining The Geneva Association, the only global association of insurance companies, based on individual CEO membership, Kai-Uwe co-ran a reinsurance-focused strategy, business development and communications consultancy, which he co-founded in 2007. During those years, he served as an external advisor to The Geneva Association and a number of re/insurers and government units worldwide, primarily in emerging markets. From 2016 to 2018 he was a non-executive member of the board of directors of Trust International Insurance and Reinsurance Company in Bahrain. 

Kai-Uwe started his career in re/insurance in 1995, as a senior economist at Swiss Re, before moving to Hong Kong as the company’s first chief economist for the Asia-Pacific region and returning to Zurich as managing director global communications content. In 2004, he joined Converium (which was later acquired by SCOR) as Head of corporate development and communications.  

Kai-Uwe holds a master’s degree in economics from the University of Konstanz (Germany) and a PhD in economics from the University of St Gallen (Switzerland). In 2003 he received a lifetime appointment as research fellow at Peking University. 

Laurent Dupont (moderator) 

Senior Data Scientist, Fintech-Innovation Hub, Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution (ACPR).

After two decades in software engineering and data governance, Laurent joined the ACPR as the Authority’s first data scientist. Within the Fintech-Innovation Hub, he works primarily on the SupTech programme (applying machine learning and data analytics to supervisory missions) and on accompanying the financial ecosystem along its technological maturation (whether via the publication of AI guidelines, hosting webinars, tech sprints or experimentations).

He is co-Chair of the IAIS working group on AI and machine learning.

Nick Silk (moderator) 

Technical Specialist, Insurance Analytics Division, Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), Bank of England.

Nick started his career in scientific research, and completed a doctorate in biochemical engineering before moving to the UK financial regulator 11 years ago. He spent five years supervising a range of UK retail insurers before taking on a technical specialist role in the PRA’s Insurance Analytics division, focussing on the motor and home insurance markets. As part of this role, he considers the risks arising from the adoption of financial technology and the digitalisation of the market, particularly the potential for business model disruption. More recently, he took on his current role as co-Chair of the IAIS working group on AI and machine learning.

Jon Godfread 

Insurance Commissioner, North Dakota

Jon Godfread is Insurance Commissioner for North Dakota and was elected North Dakota’s 22nd Insurance Commissioner on 8 Nov 2016. In service to the citizens of North Dakota, Jon has prioritised consumer advocacy, ensuring North Dakotans are better aware of the services offered by the North Dakota Insurance Department beyond industry regulation. He has also worked to restructure the Department for efficient and effective use of tax-payer dollars, along with employee satisfaction. On a national level, Jon has been an active voice in discussions about insurance regulations including the use of technology, air ambulance service and health care reinsurance. He currently chairs the Innovation and Technology Task Force for the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC).

Jon earned a law degree and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of North Dakota in 2011. He earned his bachelor’s degree in business with honours from the University of Northern Iowa in 2005.

Shân M. Millie

Founder, Bright Blue Hare; Innovation and Customer Lead, GreenKite; Coaching Director, EDII

Focused on tech-enabled value generation in Insurance and Financial Services, Shân is an expert in practical support for corporate intrapreneurs, and scale-up advisory for entrepreneurs. She is a facilitator, speaker, StoryTeller, coach and advisor. In addition to her own firm, Bright Blue Hare, Shân is Innovation & Customer Lead for GreenKite, a boutique professional services firm specialising in Delegated Authority Management; and Coaching Director for corporate creativity experts, EDII. Shân specialises in FinTech's role in Financial Inclusion, Open Finance, ESG, and AI/Data Ethics. "Working on the basis that Tech-enabled Innovation should create sustainable value for Colleague, Customer and Society, my starting point is always: what do the real humans building, regulating and working in 21st century Financial Services need to know, think about, do more -- and differently?", she says.

Shân is a FinTech Delivery Panel Board member for InsurTech, and co-Chair of the TechNation FinClusion 2.0 initiative. She is an active connector and collaborator, including Cabinet Office-sponsored Access to Insurance and Finance Innovation Lab's Data Transparency Network. She is Board Advisor for biodiversity social enterprise Heal Rewilding; and the co-host of the podcast series #HerStory, powered by grassroots Digital4All community, Digital Women. Shân originated and co-edited Wiley bestsellers The AI Book (2020) and The InsurTech Book (2018), and Open Finance: The Future of Insurance Innovation? (TechNation, July 2021).

Gwilym Morrison

Head, Analytics & Data Science, Royal London

Gwilym is Head of Analytics & Data Science at Royal London, the UK’s largest mutual life and pensions provider. He’s been with Royal London for almost 10 years and in his current role he leads a team of Data Scientists and Engineers in applying the tools of Advanced Analytics, particularly Machine Learning, to solve complex problems in Life and Pensions. These problems span areas such as Underwriting, Claims, Fraud Detection and Retention. Before joining Royal London, Gwilym held a variety of analytics roles across several industries, including Telecoms, Construction, Banking, and Insurance. His educational background is in Molecular Biology and he began his career in academia carrying out scientific research in the field of Bioinformatics.

Managing Director, Data and Strategic Transformation, Great Eastern Life Insurance

Leslie is currently responsible for enabling data analytics and data science across the organisation, and leading business transformation efforts. 

Prior to this, he was Head of Data Science, Policy and Data Initiatives as well as Advisor to the CEO at Grab, a consumer super-app focused on Southeast Asia

Leslie’s former career focused on finance and policy-making. He was the Director of the Economics and Investment Strategy Department and Chief Economist at GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund. There he oversaw the team responsible for asset allocation, total portfolio construction, systematic investing, and identification of key long-term trends that would impact GIC’s portfolio.

Leslie has previously worked at the International Monetary Fund. During his IMF career, he worked in various departments, including the Asia Pacific, Monetary and Financial Systems, Policy Development and Review, and European II. His fund career was primarily focused on financial systems and systemic stability, and included helping set up the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP), carrying out stress testing, and assessing regulatory frameworks

He was also appointed Head of the Financial Surveillance Division at the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
Leslie has a Liberal Arts and Sciences degree from the University of Chicago and PhD in Economics and Finance from the University of Rochester. He has a Master in Information and Data Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and is an alumni of Wharton’s Executive Management Program. In addition, he is a certified Financial Risk Manager and a CFA charter holder.