Allianz faucets new members for supervisory board

The supervisory board of Allianz SE has introduced that it’ll suggest to the corporate’s annual common assembly (AGM) on Might 8 that Jörg Schneider and Stephanie Bruce be elected to the supervisory board as shareholder representatives.

Schneider and Bruce will succeed present board members Herbert Hainer and Christine Bosse, whose phrases will expire on the upcoming AGM as a consequence of reaching the age and size of service limits, respectively.

Schneider, a enterprise economist and lawyer, left the Munich Re board of administration in 2018 after greater than 18 years with the corporate as chief monetary officer. Bruce was on the board of administrators and served as chief monetary officer for British asset supervisor abrdn plc till Might 2023. She beforehand served as senior monetary companies companion at PwC.

Ought to SWchneider be elected, he’s supposed to function Hainer’s successor as deputy chairman of the supervisory board. A choice on the successor of board chairman Michael Diekmann shouldn’t be due till 2026, Allianz stated.

“Lengthy-term planning, continuity and readability are our prime priorities in terms of new appointments and succession planning for the supervisory board,” Diekmann stated. “With Jörg Schneider and Stephanie Bruce, we’re proposing two excellent candidates who’ve each been among the many highest-profile executives within the worldwide monetary companies business for a few years.”

In different firm information, Allianz just lately sponsored a brand new disaster bond designed to offer safety towards European windstorms. The corporate additionally just lately introduced the appointment of Petros Papanikolaou as CEO of Allianz World Company & Specialty.

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