Women in reinsurance


PrOFILE Name:


Ingrid Carlou


Company: Patria Re Job:


Managing director


Timeline: 2012—Patria Re 2004—Converium 1999—AXA Cessions


Ingrid Carlou has been managing director of Patria Re since May 2013. She started her career as a broker in 1993, then moved to AXA Cessions where she was in charge of MENA and Latin America for three years, operating from Paris and then from Singapore, looking after the ASEAN subsidiaries.


In 2004 Carlou left AXA and moved to Mexico to join


Converium as an underwriter for Mexico and the Caribbean. At the time, Patria Re was engaged in repositioning its operations and Carlou was invited to join the team to help reorganise different departments and cross-manage the company.


“Cultural diversity has certainly been a very interesting part


of my professional life,” she says. “Working in Paris, then in Singapore, then with a Swiss company and finally being immersed in a Latin American environment has certainly demanded a lot of dynamism, reflection and strength.”


She says the last six years of her career have been particularly


challenging. “Helping a company very much in touch with its traditions and history, reposition itself in the international market and strengthen its position as a profitable, international venture and a reference of Latin American reinsurance has given me an insight not only regarding the importance of legacy and the


weight and strength that comes with it, but also with all aspects of reinsurance and the transformation of its environment,” she says.


“I guess I could say I am becoming a bridge-builder, and the


process has taken place at a very important time for my personal life too.”


Her ambition for the future is to continue to help people and companies develop their professionalism, competitiveness and creativity.


“I am becoming a bridge-builder, and the process has taken place at a very important time for my personal life too.”


12 | INTELLIgENT INsUrEr | May 2014


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