100 influential women in re/insurance


“The two nicknames I was given, “serial specialist” and “simplifier” really exemplify my career reputation as an expert who focuses on a specific issue and then breaks it into its components so Guy Carpenter can develop new products and solutions for our clients’ evolving needs.”


Name: Julia Chu


Company: Guy Carpenter Job:


Managing director, Global Strategic Advisory


Timeline: 2007—Managing director, Global Strategic Advisory, Guy Carpenter 2001—Vice president, Aon Re 1996—Consulting actuary, Milliman


Julia Chu is a managing director who works in the Global Strategic Advisory group for Guy Carpenter. A casualty solutions architect, she is helping to develop Guy Carpenter’s approach to addressing the emerging risk of cyber attacks on public utilities and the power grid. She also works as senior sponsor for the company’s emerging leaders employee resource group helping to develop young talent within the company. She designed the AXIS presentation which has become the benchmark of many public companies’ analytics template. She has also volunteered with Streetwise Partners’ mentoring programmes on job skills training. Chu, who has been with the company eight years, brings an extensive actuarial background to Guy Carpenter. She came to Guy Carpenter from Aon Re, where she worked for more than five years after working as a consulting actuary at Milliman for approximately five years.


Why did you choose to work in this industry initially? I was a pure math major in college and grad school. I love problem solving and passed a couple actuarial exams in college for fun. After I got out of grad school, my mother told me to get a job, so I applied for an entry level actuarial position at Farmers and that’s how I started in insurance.


What has been the highlight of your career so far? Besides being hired as a managing director for Guy Carpenter from Aon, my major career highlight is being recognised as the go-to person on all the “no-easy-answer” questions such as the emerging risk of cyber attacks on the power grid and public utilities.


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The two nicknames I was given, “serial specialist” and “simplifier” really exemplify my career reputation as an expert who focuses on a specific issue and then breaks it into its components so Guy Carpenter can develop new products and solutions for our clients’ evolving needs.


What has been the biggest challenge you have


encountered? The biggest challenge has been finding time to slow down the pace once in a while and softening the tones on delivering difficult messages to clients. That comes with the territory when you are your clients’ most trusted advisor.


If you had chosen a different profession/career path, what would it have been? My strength has always been numbers but also their visualisation. This ability helps tremendously in presentation, as most people react better to charts and graphics that tell a story rather than to a table of numbers. That has always been my strong suit; translating difficult metrics into simple digestible graphics. As such, I probably would have been an interior designer or fashion stylist, where I can utilise another, more creative side of my visual and analytical skills in a three-dimensional perspective.


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