Susan Holliday

Susan Holliday has over 30 years’ experience in global financial services, with a focus on insurance and fintech in both developed and emerging markets. She has worked in several areas of the IFC and World Bank, and prior to that was a managing director at Swiss Re, serving as head of strategy for Swiss Re’s global reinsurance business and before this CFO of Reinsurance Client Markets and group Head of Investor Relations.

She has served on boards in UK, US, Brazil and India and of a holding company with operations in Africa. She is currently on the Advisory Board of Xyant, a technology company, supporting their data management and AI practice for financial services companies.

Susan is a non-resident scholar for the Insurance Information Institute in US and an Expert in Residence for Progress Partners, a US boutique investment bank. She graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford, with a degree in Modern History and Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. She is a Chartered Accountant and a Qualified Risk Director® of the DCRO Institute and hold the HBS Corporate Director Certification and NACD.DC. Susan was selected as a Business Insurance Woman to Watch in 2013 and an Exceptional Women Awardees recipient in 2021.