Until December 31, 2024, Kai will serve as Deputy Managing Director and Head of Research & Foresight at The Geneva Association, the premier think tank and only global association of insurance and reinsurance CEOs, representing companies with over US$ 22 trillion in assets under management. In this role, he also acts as Executive Director of the Global Reinsurance Forum, an advocacy body of CEOs from 13 leading reinsurance companies, covering two-thirds of the global reinsurance market. After January 1, 2025 Kai will continue to support The Geneva Association as a Senior Advisor, focusing on financial inclusion and addressing protection gaps.
Before joining The Geneva Association in 2019, Kai was Co-Founder and Chairman at a reinsurance-focused business development advisory firm and served as a non-executive member of the Board of Directors at Trust International Insurance and Reinsurance Company in Bahrain.
Kai began his reinsurance career as a Senior Economist at Swiss Re. He then moved to Hong Kong as the company’s first Chief Economist for the Asia-Pacific region, later returning to Zurich as Managing Director of Global Communications Content. Subsequently, he joined Converium (a global Top 10 reinsurer, later acquired by SCOR) as Head of Corporate Development and Communications/Investor Relations.
Kai holds a master’s degree in economics from the University of Konstanz (Germany) and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). He is also a lifetime-appointed Research Fellow at Peking University: https://www.linkedin.com/Kai-UweSchanz .