Reinsurance International Study Course

Teresa started off her Reinsurance career 30 years ago with NRG Victory. After 5 years Teresa commenced with a new company, ReAC as a property underwriter covering USA and ANZ.

Following ReAC, she then worked at Swiss Re in Sydney as a Client Manager before moving over to the products side as a Senior Casualty Treaty Underwriter where she stayed for 13 years.

Teresa’s current role is a change from her previous roles and is at Guy Carpenter as a Senior Broker where she has been for 10 years. Teresa is a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance and has been on committee for RISC for the past few years, including presenting at the course and a syndicate advisor.

Victoria has more than 20 years in the (re)insurance industry.

She began her career at Munich Re on the Graduate Training Programme, and from there moved into both facultative and treaty roles underwriting Property, Marine and Agriculture risks. 
From there she moved to Allianz Australia, to look after their Rural portfolio, farmpack and crop insurance.

From there she then moved to Hannover Re, when they established their local officer in Sydney, responsible for Property and Agricultural treaty business. Victoria has been involved with RISC for at least the past five years as a Committee member, Syndicate Advisor and Presenter.

Nick is the Executive Manager, Reinsurance Operations within IAG, responsible for the operational effectiveness of the Group quota share arrangements, reinsurance and latent claims, ARPC Cyclone Pool and day to day operations. 

Nick is a Chartered Accountant by background, having trained with PwC.  He has been with the Group Reinsurance team for over 20 years, spending time looking after finance, actuarial, International and placement. 

Career highlights include setting up IAG Re Singapore, the quota share arrangements and the 2019 Catastrophe Bond issuance, which was a first for IAG and the first to be issued out of Singapore.

Jurgen has over 35 years’ experience in the finance sector, including 16 years at the Australian 
Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) in various Insurance Risk roles.

Prior to APRA, Jurgen held reinsurance positions with companies such as Allianz, Gerling and QBE. 

He lectured at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) for 8 years on Reinsurance, and is a strong 
supporter of continuous education. Jurgen recently formalised his love of training by completing the 
Diploma of Training and Development and is currently teaching at TAFE NSW, on a casual basis.

Attending RISC as a participant in 1984, Jurgen returned to RISC as a Syndicate Advisor in 1997 and 
has maintained that role ever since.

He joined the RISC Organising Committee in 2006 and ANZIIF’s Reinsurance Faculty Advisory Board in 2012.

Jurgen holds a lifetime membership of the Reinsurance Discussion Group in Sydney.

Bo joined Swiss Re in 2023 as Head of Public Sector Solutions for the ANZ market. He has over 15 years of experience in the APAC insurance/reinsurance industry, working across analytics, broking, underwriting and client management.

Bo is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia and a Fellow of ANZIIF. He has been member of the RISC community since 2017.

Irene has over 17 years experience in insurance and reinsurance. She has held a variety of roles including as a capital modeller, catastrophe reinsurance underwriter, reinsurance actuary, and has been with QBE since 2015.

In her current role as the Group Head of Underwriting Governance, Sustainability and Standards in the Group Chief Underwriting Office her current remit includes working with the business to deliver QBE's commitments - including interim targets to net-zero in underwriting. Irene is a Fellow of the Faculty and Institute of Actuaries, and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Irene has also held the role of President of the NSW RDG Reinsurance Discussion Group for a number of years, and actively participates in industry committees or working groups including the UN-convened Net Zero Insurance Alliance working group that set a Standard for GHG Reporting for re/insurance underwriting portfolios and a Target Setting Protocol.

After a brilliantly brief career as a burglar alarm salesman, Carl joined the Sun Alliance insurance company in 1989 in Glasgow, Scotland. He trained as a commercial property underwriter and spent nine years in RSA’s overseas head office in Horsham, England which included secondments to Canada and The Philippines.

He spent a further year in RSA’s European head office in London before re-locating to Sydney in 2000, specialising in reinsurance placement with RSA, Promina, Vero and Suncorp.

Sally is a senior underwriter at Berkley Re where she underwrites casualty and property business in both the treaty and facultative markets. Her responsibilities include writing Australian, New Zealand & Pacific Island Business.

Prior to this she completed her Bachelor of Commerce degree at Wollongong University followed by working at Macquarie Bank for a number of years, before making the jump into the reinsurance world in 2013.

Sally has been involved in a number of industry training programs including completing the ANZIIF certificate IV & diploma in general insurance and was the reinsurance discussion group scholarship winner in 2016.

Michael is an experienced reinsurer.

In his role as Chief Underwriting Officer of the Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation, he is accountable for establishing and administering the terrorism and cyclone reinsurance pools.

Prior to ARPC, Michael held senior underwriting roles at General Re and Swiss Re.

Michael is an alumni of The Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, holds a degree in Civil Engineering from UTS, is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and is a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance.

In 2017, Michael was awarded the Public Service Medal by the Governor-General of Australia as part of the Australia Day Honours List.

Tobias joined Gen Re in Cologne, Germany in 2000 after completing a masters degree in business and economic sciences. Tobias worked to support treaty underwriting for the French and Australian markets and after four years, moved to Sydney joining Gen Re in Australia where he focused on property and catastrophe reinsurance. In 2014 he became the Chief Underwriter in the Asia Pacific region.

In 2021 Tobias joined Unimutual as Manager Underwriting and Reinsurance. He is a Fellow CIP member of the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

In over 20 years in the insurance and reinsurance industry Tobias developed a strong reputation in the domestic and international markets as a leading underwriter.

"Jonathan is currently a Client Manager at Munich Re where he is responsible for Munich Re’s commercial relationships with its clients. 

Prior to this, Jonathan worked at the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority for eight years where he led the supervision of some of Australia’s largest non-life general re/insurers.

During this time, he had a particular focus on reinsurance and capital management. Jonathan was also part of the Government’s Cyclone Reinsurance Pool Taskforce where he was involved in the development the Cyclone Reinsurance Pool. 

Jonathan has a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) from The University of Sydney. "