Victor K. Victorsson Head Engineering Contl Europe & MEA Trade & Infrastructure

Victor K. Victorsson graduated in 2005 with a B.Sc. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Duke University, and in 2011 with a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from Stanford University. At Stanford, he worked as a researcher in the Blume Earthquake Engineering Center, with a focus on the seismic risk assessment and resilience of civil infrastructure.

Victor joined Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd. in 2011 as an underwriter within their Global Engineering underwriting department. Victor started his underwriting career as a facultative and treaty underwriter with a focus on the UK & London reinsurance market. Over the course of the years, he has been involved in the risk assessment and underwriting of numerous construction and operational risks worldwide, including civil infrastructure, combined cycle power plants, hydro power plants, on- and offshore windfarms and onshore solar farms. Victor became the head of Swiss Re's UK & London facultative and treaty desk in 2018 and since September 2020 the Co-Head of Global Engineering's EMEA unit.