Martin Oesterreicher
Member of the Executive Board and Head of Casualty
Martin Oesterreicher joined Swiss Re’s Executive Board in September 2005 as Head of Casualty in the newly formed Products business function.
A Swiss citizen born in 1954, he started his career in the steel industry. He joined Swiss Re in 1978 as a member of the Non-Proportional Property Treaty department. Since then, he has held various product/underwriting-related positions, as well as spending over 15 years in client management. He worked in Tokyo from 1983 to 1989 and, from 1989 to 1992, in Zurich where he was involved in marketing for the Japanese and South Korean non-life market before moving to the non-life marketing department for Germany, Central and Eastern Europe. In 1997, he was appointed head of this market department and, a year later, joined the Europe Division Executive Team as product manager for Property & Casualty. In 2001 he was also named Divisional Underwriting Officer for Europe Division.
October 2006
