Gregory Schiffer

Head Global Specialty, Swiss Re

Bio Current as of June 18, 2021

Beginning July 1, 2018 Greg has assumed the role of Global Head of Trade and Infrastructure expanding his responsibility to not only include Engineering, but Credit & Surety as well. Prior to this role, Greg was the Head of Global Engineering where he led a team of seventy highly trained Construction Underwriters. Swiss Re is one of the top reinsurers in the world providing risk transfer solutions for all types of construction projects occurring globally. Greg is very proud to be a part of an
organization that is on the frontier of technology to help make the world a cleaner, healthier place for future generations.

Prior to this, Greg was Chief Property Underwriter for the US & Canada, a position which he held since 2008. Greg successfully led a team of staff who were responsible for the underwriting performance of a USD $2.0 billion premium portfolio of property fire and natural catastrophe business in the US and Canada.

Greg previously held the position of Head of US Treaty Underwriting Property at Swiss Re where he was responsible for all underwriting analysis of Global, National and Specialty accounts in the United States.

Before joining Swiss Re in 1998, Greg was an underwriter with St. Paul Re.

Greg graduated from Fordham University in New York with a BS in Finance and have my designation as a Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter.

As of February 2020, Greg was re-elected as Chairman for American Nuclear Insurers.