Since 1997

Member of the Executive Board of Hannover Re, Hannover, Germany

1996 - 1997

Managing Director, Hannover Re, Hannover
Responsibility for Asia, Africa and Australia

1992 - 1995

Vice President, Hannover Re, Hannover
Responsibility for Asia, Africa and Australia

1981 - 1991

Hannover Re, Hannover, Germany
Underwriter; various responsibilities with a focus on Asian, African and Australian business and the London Market

1975 - 1981

University of Hannover

Degree: Bachelor of Economics

Since 2000

Member of the Executive Board of Hannover Re, Hannover, Germany

1996 - 2000

Gerling Group, Cologne, Germany
Head of Treaty Reinsurance for Europe and South America, Head of Legal Department and Claims Management

1991- 1996

Gerling Globale Rück, Milan, Italy
Assistant to the Managing Director
Property and Life Reinsurance

1989 - 1991

Gerling Globale Rück, Cologne, Germany
Life Reinsurance Trainee

1986

Awarded a doctorate

1980 - 1989

Studies in Law, University of Cologne, Germany

Second Final Exam in Law; Degree: Assessor

Since 2001

Member of the Executive Board of Hannover Re,
Hannover, Germany

1985 - 2001

Hannover Re, Hannover, Germany
Managing Director responsible for property and casualty reinsurance in Romance-speaking countries, Latin America and Arab markets

Since 2000 additional responsibility for Northern and Eastern Europe

1978 - 1985

Bayerische Rückversicherung, Munich, Germany
Awarded power of attorney in 1983

1976 - 1978

Trainee at IBM France

1971 - 1976

Studied mathematics at the Université des Sciences Claude Bernard, Lyon and the Institut des Sciences Financières et des Assurances, Lyon

Graduated in mathematics

1968 - 1971

Classes Préparatoires Grandes Ecoles, Paris Mathématiques supérieures, Mathématiques spéciales