Kathryn is a senior finance reporter for POLITICO, based in Brussels, where she covers EU policy on banking and capital markets and co-writes the daily Morning Financial Services newsletter. She is recognised for breaking news on major EU financial policy developments and for her reporting on senior leadership races and market integration initiatives.
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Patrick Davison is an underwriting performance specialist with extensive experience supporting the Lloyd’s market’s underwriting community. He currently serves as Director of Class Underwriting Performance and Solutions at Lloyd’s, where he supports sustainable underwriting performance across the lines of business written in the Lloyd’s market.
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Frédéric de Courtois is a senior leader in the European insurance sector with extensive experience across strategy, finance, operations, risk, and underwriting. An actuary by training, he currently serves as President of Insurance Europe, Chairman of AXA Climate, and Senior Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer of the AXA Group.
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• President, Insurance Europe (since May 2024)
• Chairman, AXA Climate
• Senior Advisor to Thomas Buberl, Chief Executive Officer of the AXA Group
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• Deputy CEO, AXA Group, in charge of Finance, Operations, Strategy, Risks, and Underwriting
• Member, AXA Group Management Committee
• General Manager, Generali Group, overseeing central functions and strategy implementation
• Deputy CEO, AXA Re and AXA Corporate Solutions
• Chief Financial Officer, AXA Japan
• Deputy CEO, AXA Japan
• CEO, AXA Italy, Greece and Serbia
• M&A Expert, UAP
• Began his career at CGI
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• Graduated from Telecom ParisTech (1990)
• Graduated from Collège des Ingénieurs (1991)
• Actuary
Stephen Frank is President and CEO of the CLHIA, bringing over 20 years of public and private sector experience to the role. He advocates on behalf of Canada’s life and health insurance sector for policies and perspectives that support a sound and successful insurance system for the benefit of all Canadians.
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Steven Hardy is an experienced reinsurance executive and actuary specialising in life and health, financial solutions, and risk management. He currently serves as Director, Head of Life & Health Ireland & Canada at Hannover Re, a role he assumed in June 2025. Based in the Dublin subsidiary, he leads one of the group’s key hubs for developing the Financial Solutions business in Europe.
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• Director, Head of Life & Health Ireland & Canada, Hannover Re (since June 2025)
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• Chief Risk Officer and Head of Actuarial Function, Hannover Re (Ireland) DAC
• Held various actuarial and risk roles at Hannover Re over more than 20 years
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• Financial Solutions
• Capital and solvency
• Risk management
• Actuarial leadership
• Oversight of large and complex transactions
• Solvency II implementation
• Internal capital model development
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• Degree in Actuarial Science, Bayes Business School, University of London (2000)
John Huff is President & CEO of the Association of Bermuda Insurers & Reinsurers (ABIR). He leads the association’s global public policy, regulatory, advocacy, and education initiatives and brings extensive leadership experience from both the public and private sides of the insurance and reinsurance sector.
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Beth Dwyer is an insurance regulation expert with extensive experience across private law practice, state government, and national insurance policy. She currently serves as Superintendent of Insurance and Director of Business Regulation for the Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation and is actively engaged in leading insurance regulatory bodies in the United States and internationally.
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Pravina Ladva is Group Chief Digital & Technology Officer and a member of the Group Executive Committee, a role she has held since January 2022. She brings extensive experience in financial technology, digital transformation, and operational leadership, with a career spanning banking, payments, and insurance. Over the course of her career, she has led strategy, technology, operations, and change programmes across a range of business areas.
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Andreas Milidonis is Professor of Finance and Head of the Department of Accounting & Finance at the University of Cyprus. His work focuses on risk management, corporate finance, compensation incentives, information intermediaries, insurance economics, and actuarial science, and he has published extensively in leading finance, insurance, and actuarial journals.
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Mario Nava is Director-General of DG EMPL at the European Commission. He has held several senior leadership roles within the European institutions, including serving previously as Director-General of DG REFORM and in Director and Head of Unit positions in the Directorate-General for Financial Services. He also served as President of the Italian Financial Market Authority. Alongside his institutional roles, he is active in academia and teaches at Bocconi University and at Solvay Business School. In 2023, he was awarded the title of Bocconi Alumnus of the Year.
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Felipe Navarro is a senior insurance and financial services executive with extensive experience in acquisitions, bancassurance, investor relations, capital markets, and corporate treasury. Since joining MAPFRE Group in 2002, he has held a range of leadership positions in Spain and internationally, contributing to the Group’s M&A activity, bancassurance development, and management of strategic interests abroad.
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Violaine Raybaud is Deputy CEO of Descartes Insurance and a recognised leader in the insurance and reinsurance sector. With 15 years of experience spanning Life to P&C, and Direct to Reinsurance across global markets, she is dedicated to leveraging technology to build societal and economic resilience against climate and emerging risks.
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Manuel A. Richter is an experienced German entrepreneur who has lived in Mexico for nearly 23 years and has worked across a range of sectors, including renewable energy, mining, commodity trading, and agricultural technology. He is the co-founder of Luxelare, a Mexican agrotech/insurtech company dedicated to modernising agriculture through data-driven and sustainable practices.
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Fabian Rupprecht (1969, German/Swiss) has served as Group CEO since 2023. He studied business management at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Koblenz, Germany, with a specialisation in finance and controlling. He brings extensive international leadership experience across insurance and financial services, with senior executive roles spanning Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and global markets.
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Alexander Sarrigeorgiou is Vice-President of Insurance Europe and CEO of the Eurolife FFH Insurance Group. He is also Chairman of the Hellenic Association of Insurance Companies and brings extensive leadership experience from the insurance and asset management sectors in Greece and the United States.
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John Schindler is a financial stability and economic policy expert with extensive experience in central banking, international financial regulation, and academic research. He joined the Financial Stability Board (FSB) as Secretary General in February 2023, following more than 20 years at the Federal Reserve Board.
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Andreas Schwarz has served as Head of Cabinet to Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva (Startups, Research and Innovation) since December 2024. He brings extensive experience from senior roles across the European Commission, with a background spanning budgetary policy, anti-fraud leadership, and economic analysis.
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Thea Utoft Høj Jensen is a leading voice in European and global insurance policy, with extensive experience across industry representation, public affairs, EU institutions, and financial services regulation. She currently serves as Director General of Insurance Europe, the European insurance and reinsurance federation, and as Secretary General of the Global Federation of Insurance Associations (GFIA).
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Eddy leads the Guy Carpenter Advisory practice in Continental Europe, bringing more than 30 years of experience across the reinsurance sector. His expertise spans the modelling and management of insurance and reinsurance risks, enterprise and capital management, regulatory developments, and the management of emerging risks.
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