| Melanie Hampton managing director Alexander Miller Insurance Brokers Melanie Hampton set up Alexander Miller Insurance Brokers 23 years ago after a fast track career in the City. She gained a great deal of experience in placing multinational risks in the London market and set up her business to provide the same levels of service given by the national brokers to the SME sector. Fun, feisty and formidable she spent many months banging the drum for the Vote Leave campaign. Not afraid to speak her mind and independent in her thoughts she believes that GB business will thrive as we embrace the global market and move away from the dying trade block of the EU. | |
| Carol Hall head of European affairs Association of British Insurers Carol Hall joined the ABI eight years ago as a policy adviser and has been head of European affairs for the last five. This means she regularly divides her working week between the ABI offices in London and the European Parliament in Brussels, representing the interests of member insurers at an international level. Prior to this she was in Brussels as an aide to MEPs on the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee in the European Parliament. | |
| Steve White chief executive British Insurance Brokers' Association Steve White has spent over 35 years in the insurance industry, working for the Orion Insurance Company, the General Insurance Standards Council and the Financial Services Authority, prior to joining BIBA in March 2004, as head of compliance and training. Steve sits on the Directors’ Committee of BIPAR (the European Federation of Insurance Intermediaries). In 2010, Steve was awarded the Compliance Personality of the Year award at the prestigious Complinet Compliance Awards. Steve is married, lives on the Kent coast, has two children and is an Arsenal season ticket holder. | |
| Will Moy director Full Fact Will has been the director of Full Fact since 2010. In this time he has given evidence to a number of government reviews into media standards and government information, including to the Leveson Inquiry, the Public Administration Select Committee and the Public Accounts Select Committee. Will appears regularly on TV, radio and at events to discuss Full Fact's work and factchecks. He and the team often provide assistance to the media with factual and statistical issues, both on and off the record. Before Full Fact, Will worked for the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Transport Safety and non-affiliated peer Lord Low of Dalston. | |
| Martin Kornacki brand editor Insurance Times Martin Kornacki is an experienced business magazine editor, trained journalist, and publishing professional. Having worked across a number of market-leading finance, HR and tax titles he has a strong understanding of the issues faced by regulated industries. Within insurance he has a keen interest in innovation and disruption, as well as the issues faced by brokers and insurers operating in the new digital consumer landscape. His current role with Insurance Times sees him actively participating in industry roundtables, forums and conferences, as well as liaising with government and regulatory authorities. | |
| Anand Menon professor of European politics and foreign affairs King’s College London Anand Menon is director of the Economic and Social Research Council’s The UK in a Changing Europe - www.ukandeu.ac.uk - and Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at Kings College London. Previously, he was Director of the European Research Institute at the University of Birmingham. Prior to this, he taught at the University of Oxford (St Antony’s College). He has held positions at Sciences Po, Columbia University and NYU. He has written on many aspects of contemporary Europe including EU politics and institutions and European security. He is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of the European Union (OUP, 2012) and author, amongst other things, of Europe: The State of the Union (Atlantic Books 2008). He can be found tweeting at @anandmenon1 | |
| Siân Hill partner KPMG Siân Hill is a partner in KPMG’s financial services tax group, based in London. She is experienced in general tax advisory services (both UK and international), tax compliance, M&A and restructuring and has advised on a number of insurance group restructurings, including a recent cross border merger. Siân’s clients currently include a wide range of international financial services groups and cover the insurance (including intermediaries and the Lloyd’s market) and banking sectors. She is currently leading KPMG LLP’s insurance sector’s response to Brexit. Siân joined KPMG’s audit practice in 1984 transferring to tax in 1990. She has over 25 years’ experience of advising clients on international corporate tax issues particularly those arising on mergers and acquisitions, disposals and corporate restructuring and reorganisations. Siân was head of KPMG’s UK financial services tax group from 1999 to 2003 and again from 2008 to 2010. Siân was also head of KPMG’s UK and European M&A tax team from 2003 to 2006. Siân holds an MA (Hons) from Oxford University and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. | |
| Paul Merrey partner – insurance strategy KPMG Paul specialises in strategy advice to the insurance industry, and has significant experience in strategic options assessments and growth strategy development. He is currently leading KPMG’s work on strategy within the Lloyd’s and London market, supporting the Vision 2025 ambitions. Prior to joining KPMG, Paul spent 10 years at Prudential plc, where he was latterly Group Head of Strategy and M&A. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PwC and has an MBA from Warwick Business School and an MA from the University of Oxford. | |
| Mark Nicholson director - insurance ratings S&P Global Mark Nicholson is a director in the European insurance developed markets team. He focuses chiefly on non-life companies in the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands. Mark has worked in S&P Ratings Services since 2009. He was previously an equity analyst with S&P, following non-life, reinsurance and Nordic insurers. Before that, he was a credit ratings analyst with Fitch Ratings for six years where he covered a range of insurance companies in Europe and Asia. Mark is a chartered accountant, having qualified with KPMG while working as an auditor covering the financial sector. He also holds a BA in History from the University of Cambridge. | |
