Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Vaidyan Appointed to guide GIC Re as India’s 1st Insurer Chairwoman



Alice Vaidyan has been appointed as chair and coping with director of standard coverage Corp. of India (GIC Re), the national reinsurer.  She is the first lady to be appointed as chair within the records of Indian insurance enterprise.

Vaidyan formerly become standard manager and CFO at GIC Re, positions she held seeing that October 2012. she can remain in her new publish until July 31, 2019.

She started her profession with the general public region preferred insurer, the new India warranty Co. Ltd., in 1983. through the years, she labored in Thiruvananthapuram, Ahmedabad, Kochi and Mumbai workplaces of the business enterprise, consisting of the corporate workplace of recent India warranty organisation restrained in numerous capacities. 

Vaidyan is also a director on the board of GIC Bhutan Re Ltd., a joint task reinsurance business enterprise hooked up with the aid of GIC Re in Bhutan. As chair and managing director of GIC Re, Vaidyan also could be the chair of GIC South Africa Re Ltd., Kenindia coverage Co. Ltd., Kenya, and GIC Housing Finance company Ltd.

Vaidyan takes over the reins of the reinsurer when the coverage industry is at a important juncture, GIC Re stated in a statement. “With remote places reinsurers, together with the Lloyd’s of London, quickly to set up store right here, the Indian insurance industry [will] witness the introduction of a new reinsurance ecosystem…,” the enterprise stated.

GIC Re is the 14th largest reinsurer globally with $2.4 billion in annual premiums pronounced in 2014-15. as the handiest reinsurance employer in India, the corporation become set up by way of the authorities of India in 1973.

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