Sompo, a global provider of property, casualty, and specialty insurance and reinsurance, has appointed Haixia Zhao as President of APAC Reinsurance and Chief Underwriting Officer, Global Specialty.
Zhao brings more than two decades of re/insurance industry experience to the role. She joined Sompo in May 2018 as Senior Vice President and Senior Actuary, supporting the international casualty and motor reinsurance business.
Since then, she has held several senior positions at Sompo, including Senior Vice President and Chief Pricing Actuary, International P&C and Specialty, and most recently as Chief Underwriting Officer, International Reinsurance.
Prior to joining Sompo, Zhao served as Chief Risk Officer at Exin Re, where she was responsible for enterprise risk management, catastrophe modelling and accumulation control, pricing tool development, reserving, and business reporting analytics.
She also spent more than 11 years at AXIS Capital, most recently as Senior Vice President, Head of worldwide agriculture, property, engineering, and non-catastrophe pricing.
Zhao began her career at WTW as an actuarial analyst, working across P&C lines including reinsurance treaty structuring, pricing, benefit/cost analysis, and DFA study.
