Sompo, a global property, casualty, specialty insurance and reinsurance provider, has appointed Zhao Haixia as Asia Pacific Reinsurance President and Global Specialty Insurance Chief Underwriting Officer.
Zhao brings more than two decades of re/insurance industry experience to the position. She joined Sompo in May 2018 as Senior Vice President and Senior Actuary, supporting the international casualty and auto reinsurance businesses.
She has since held a number of senior positions at Sompo, including senior vice president and chief pricing actuary for the international property and casualty insurance and specialty businesses and most recently chief underwriting officer for the international reinsurance business.
Prior to joining Sompo, Ms. Zhao served as Chief Risk Officer of Exin Re, where she was responsible for enterprise risk management, catastrophe modeling and accumulation controls, pricing tool development, provisioning and business reporting analysis.
She also spent more than 11 years at AXIS Capital, most recently as senior vice president and global head of agriculture, real estate, engineering and non-catastrophic pricing.
Ms. Zhao began her career at WTW as an actuarial analyst, working in the property and casualty insurance area, including reinsurance treaty structuring, pricing, benefit/cost analysis and DFA research.
