Jean-Michel Chatagny
Jean-Michel Chatagny has been with Swiss Re for 20 years – nearly half his life – with half of that time spent as Swiss Re's life & health representative in Japan. A member of the Life & Health Executive Board, he is responsible for Asia, L&H Global Clients, and business support for the Zurich-based business units. Married and with three sons, his hobbies include biking, hiking, skiing, classic sports cars, and music.
"Life and Health Division has made a quantum leap in the last five years, more than trebling in size and capturing nearly 25% of the world’s professional L&H reinsurance market; so I believe we are very well positioned as the industry leader. We now contribute nearly 40% of Swiss Re's premium volume and even more of its earnings."
"Knowledge attracts knowledge. If you have very good people, it makes it much easier to attract other very good people, because they want to be part of this great environment."
"My best motivators are my team and my clients: they make it fun to come to work in the morning."
"In a way, organisations have become tools for people to achieve their own goals: and where the organisation can't provide what they want, they will go elsewhere. So it's a significant challenge for any organisation, I think, to keep the talent it has, keep it motivated and challenged; but I have no doubt that this organisation is moving in the right direction."
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"Be creative! Come up with crazy ideas! If someone has ten different ideas and you can implement two of them and benefit the clients and the shareholders, that's a big success in my view."
