100 influential women in re/insurance


“My career can be characterised as a series of highlights or a dynamic progression in which every success, both large and small, contributed to the next achievement.”


Name:


Anna Manning


Company: Reinsurance Group of America Job:


Senior executive vice president, global structured solutions


Timeline: 2015—Senior executive vice president, global structured solutions, Reinsurance Group of America


Anna Manning is senior executive vice president, global


structured solutions, Reinsurance Group of America (RGA). She is responsible for RGA’s transactional businesses, including the company’s global financial solutions and global acquisitions business units. She serves on RGA’s executive council. Before assuming this role in January 2015, Manning was, for


four years, executive vice president and head of US and Latin American Markets for RGA, responsible for all operations within RGA’s US, Mexico and South American markets. Previously, she was executive vice president and chief operating officer for RGA’s international business, overseeing marketing, pricing, underwriting, claims and administration. Manning, who joined RGA in 2007, has more than three decades


of leadership experience in the insurance industry. Before coming to RGA, she spent two decades with the Toronto office of Towers Perrin’s Tillinghast insurance consulting practice. She provided consulting services to the insurance industry in mergers and acquisitions, value-added performance measurement, product development, and financial reporting. Manning is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA) and of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries (FCIA). She received a Bachelor of Science in Actuarial Science from the University of Toronto. She is a member of the ACLI’s CEO Steering Committee on Financial Services, and has served as a member of the ACLI’s Reinsurance Executive Roundtable Program Committee.


Why did you choose to work in this industry initially? I knew I had technical strengths as an actuary, and wanted to apply those strengths within a business environment where I could work


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What has been the highlight of your career so far? My career can be characterised as a series of highlights or a dynamic progression in which every success, both large and small, contributed to the next achievement. These successes led to a deeper, more layered perspective and understanding, which directly enabled me to recognise opportunities and overcome challenges that lay ahead.


What has been the biggest challenge you have


encountered? The pace and breadth of regulatory change has been accelerating in our industry over the past few years. Insurers and reinsurers both face the challenge of leading their organisations through this dynamic and shifting environment. Organisations that continue to be successful during periods of significant change are those that are able to identify emerging opportunities, and take quick action to respond to them. At RGA, we believe that change provides fertile ground for promising new opportunities, and we constantly strive to develop solutions that meet the needs of our clients within the changing environment.


If you had chosen a different professional career path, what would it have been? I am a voracious reader of all genres of books, whether fiction or non-fiction, thriller or biography, information or ideas. If I had chosen a different profession, a career as an author or book editor would have been something I would have pursued, given my passion for the written word.


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directly with clients to create solutions to help them manage risks and capitalise on opportunities. The insurance industry not only engaged my technical skills, but presented the best environment for me to collaborate with business partners to solve problems, address complex issues, and help identify new growth opportunities.


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