General Assembly 2023 : Christian Strasser, new President of ACA

Marc Lauer

Vice-President

Groupe Foyer – Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Managing Director since 15 April 2014. His mandate was renewed in 2022 for a period of 3 years.
Born in 1965, of Luxembourg nationality, Marc Lauer holds a degree in Actuarial Sciences and a degree in Economics.
He began his career at the Commissariat aux Assurances in 1989 and became a member of the Management Committee in 1995.
In 2004, he joined the Foyer Group as Chief Operating Officer. In 2013, he became a director of Foyer S.A. and since the 2014 General Meeting, he has been its Chief Executive Officer.

Mr Lauer is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Foyer Santé S.A. He is a director of Foyer Vie S.A., Foyer Assurances S.A., Wealins S.A. and CapitalatWork Foyer Group S.A. He is also Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Association des Compagnies d’Assurances (ACA) and President of the Institut National pour le Développement durable et la RSE (INDR).
Mr Lauer is a member of the board of Directors of the Commissariat aux Assurances (CAA), the Union des Entreprises Luxembourgeoises (UEL), Luxembourg For Finance (LFF) and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE). He is a member of the Fédération des Professionnels du Secteur Financier (PROFIL), the Haut Comité de la Place Financière de Luxembourg (HCPF), as well as a founding member of the Institut Luxembourgeois des Actuaires (ILAC) and an effective member of the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce.

Christian Strasser

President

Groupe LALUX – Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Christian Strasser, CEO of Lalux, holds a Master’s degree in Economics, and started his professional career at BIL in 1994. He has worked in various departments of the bank including Financial Markets, Branch Network, Human Resources, Private Banking and Personal Banking. He joined BIL’s Management Committee in 2010 and in 2012 took over responsibility for the Branch Network, Direct Banking and Marketing. He joined the insurance company Lalux in July 2015 as a member of the Management Board. In January 2016, he was appointed Managing Director of Lalux Assurances and Lalux Assurances-Vie and took over the Chairmanship of the Boards of DKV Luxembourg and Lalux Re. This is his second term as Chairman of ACA.

Nicolas Limbourg

Vice-President

VITIS LIFE S.A. – Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Octavie Dexant

Vice-Présidente

AXA Luxembourg & AXA Wealth Europe – Chief Executive Officer

Born in 1984 and of French nationality, Octavie Dexant is a graduate of Sciences-po Paris, Franco-German course. She started her career in insurance as an auditor at PWC for 3 years before joining the Strategy Department of the AXA Group in 2010. In 2014, she became Head of Strategy and then Secretary General of AXA’s global entity dedicated to loan insurance. In 2017, she joined the Commercial Department of AXA Partners, and in 2018, she won ING’s tender for a global digital partnership, and became Deputy CEO of this virtual JV. In 2022, she was appointed CEO of the AXA entities in Luxembourg, and became Vice President of ACA in June 2022.

Octavie Dexant is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Luxembourg Road Safety Association and of the Victor Hugo Association.

Florent Albert

Administrateur

Lombard International Assurance – Managing Director Europe & Group CFO

Alain Nicolai

Administrateur

(Bâloise Assurances Luxembourg)

Andrea Schmid

Administrateur

(Hiscox) 

Guy Van den Bosch

Administrateur

(CALI Europe) 

Jean Elia

Administrateur

SOGELIFE – CEO

Jean Elia has more than 25 years of experience in Insurance, out of which 15 as CEO of leading life insurance companies. He started his career with a UK insurer, before joining Société Générale Assurances in their subsidiary in Lebanon. He was appointed CEO of their subsidiary in Egypt in 2006 and in Morocco in 2009. In 2013 Jean became CEO of SOGELIFE, a leading life insurance company in Luxembourg providing wealth planning solutions across Europe.

Jean Elia has a Doctorate in Business Administration from Business Science Institute and Université Jean Moulin (Lyon III). His thesis “Leadership of Digital Transformation” is a useful guide for leaders in the financial sector to conduct Digital Transformation. He also holds an International MBA from Paris Dauphine University and has advised several insurance companies in the MENA region.

Pascal Herrmann

Administrateur

The Shipowners´ Mutual Protection and Indemnity Association (Luxembourg) – General Manager

 (The Shipowners´ Mutual Protection and Indemnity Association (Luxembourg))

Pascal Herrmann is the General Manager for The Shipowners’ Mutual Protection & Indemnity Association (Luxembourg) since 2009 as well as being the “Dirigeant Agréé” for Spandilux S.A. the Luxembourg group reinsurance captive. He is a Non-Executive Director of the Shipowners’ Protection (Hellas) since 2019 and an alternate Director for Hydra (Bermuda). He has more than 20 years’ experience in the international insurance and reinsurance sector.

Previously, he worked as an external auditor, and then as an internal auditor for a Luxembourg insurer.

He is a Non-Executive Director of ACA (Association des Compagnies d’Assurances) since 2018 (alternate Director from 2014 to 2018) and served as chairman of the non-life insurance committee from 2018 to 2020.

He is a Non-Executive Director of AGERE (Association des Gestionnaires de Réassurances) since July 2011.

He is an ILA certified director since 2016.

He graduated in finance from the Business School of Strasbourg University (IECS/EM Strasbourg). He also spent a year at Stirling University in Scotland. He speaks fluent French and English.

Loïc Le Foll

Administrateur

La Mondiale Europartner – Directeur Général

Loïc Le Foll is CEO of La Mondiale Europartner since October 2018. As an actuary, he holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the London Business School. He has spent his entire career within the insurance sector, with more than the half in Luxembourg where he has made an active contribution to developing wealth insurance.

With a strong background, he successively held the positions of Director of Wealth Products and Solutions at Lombard International Assurance and Deputy Managing Director of Swiss Life Luxembourg before joining La Mondiale Europartner.

Since the 1^st of December 2022, Loïc Le Foll has joined the Executive Committee of AG2R LA MONDIALE in charge of the whole Wealth Insurance activity, which includes the two entities La Mondiale Partenaire and La Mondiale Europartner.

Amandine Motte

Administratrice

Barents Reinsurance S.A – Chief Executive Officer

Xavier Nevez

Administrateur

Zurich Eurolife – Managing Director

Xavier Nevez joined Zurich Eurolife in 2011. He is currently Managing Director, and has over 20 years’ experience in Financial Services. He is also a Member of the Board of the Association of Luxembourg Insurers. Xavier started his career as attorney-at-law with Loyens & Loeff (in Paris and Luxembourg) and joined an international bank in 2006 where he was company secretary. He moved then in the insurance sector in 2009 to join Swiss Life Luxembourg as Regional Head Legal & Compliance. Xavier is a qualified lawyer and holds a Master’s Degree in Law from the University of Nancy and an executive MBA from HEC Paris.

Eric Winter

Administrateur

Allianz Life Luxembourg – CEO

Born in 1967, of French and Luxembourg nationalities, Eric has over 30 years of experience in the insurance sector.

He successively held the positions of Sales Manager at Swiss Life (Luxembourg) S.A. and at Clerical Medical (Lloyds Banking Group) before joining the Foyer Group in 2007 as Head of Sales of Foyer International.

In 2017, following the merger between Foyer International and IWI, he became Deputy CEO of Wealins S.A.

Eric joined Allianz in January 2019 as CEO of Allianz Life Luxembourg and General Manager of Allianz Insurance Luxembourg. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of Allianz Benelux S.A.

Alexandre Draznieks

Administrateur

Cardif Lux Vie – CEO

Alexandre Draznieks has been CEO of Cardif Lux Vie since 1 September 2022. A graduate of the École Polytechnique de Paris and the École Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Analyse Économique (ENSAE), he started his career in 1994 at INSEE (Institut national des statistiques et études économiques) as a study leader. In 2002, he joined the Treasury Department of the French Ministry of the Economy and Finance as deputy head of the “G7 and summit preparation” office, then as head of the “emerging markets” office. In 2005, he was appointed to the EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction & Development, London) where he was in charge of the President’s office and then held the position of Director of Official Co-financing. He joined the BNP Paribas Group in 2009 at IRB (International Retail Banking), where he was in charge of strategy. In 2012, he became Head of Northern Europe & Emerging Markets for BNP Paribas Cardif. In 2020, he joined BNP Paribas Cardif France where he was named head of the AEP business unit, a French player in asset-based life insurance.

Marc Hengen

Managing Director

E-mail:  marc.hengen@aca.lu
Phone : +352 44 21 44 1

Marc Hengen has been ACA’s Managing Director since 2013. A lawyer by training and an insurer by profession, Marc joined the ACA Management Committee in 2010. Marc is also a member of the Haut Comité de la Place Financière, a member of the Executive Committee of the UEL (Union des Entreprises Luxembourgeoises), the Secretary General of AGERE (Association des gestionnaires d’entreprises de réassurances) and a member of the Management Committee and Treasurer of Insurance Europe.

Rejean Besner

Administrateur

Swiss Re Europe – Managing Director

Réjean Besner is Canadian and a L&H actuary by profession. He holds a B.Sc. in Actuarial Science from Laval University in Québec, Canada. Since then he has lived and worked in 6 different countries. 

He is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries and of the Society of Actuaries (USA) and a member of the Institut Luxembourgeois des Actuaires. He is also a Chartered Financial analyst (CFA).

He joined Swiss Re in 2008, first in Zurich before relocating to Luxembourg in 2013 and has held various roles within the Group.

He has more than 40 years of experience as an actuary practicing in life and health insurance & reinsurance and has held various roles within the industry.

He is also Vice-President of the ECOFIN committee of Insurance Europe and member du conseil d’administration de l’Institut Luxembourgeois des Actuaires.

Julie Dubuisson

Administratrice

Convex Europe – Dirigeant Agréé and General Manager

Julie Dubuisson is the Dirigeant Agréé and General Manager of Convex Europe and serves on its board of directors.

Before joining Convex in 2021 to launch the European entity based out of Luxembourg, Julie has spent 18 years working in corporate and specialty Re/insurance including senior roles at Axa Corporate Solutions, AXA Africa Specialty Risks (Lloyd’s Syndicate 6130), Marsh and Swiss Re in North America, Europe, and Africa.

Julie earned a Master of Science in Insurance from Ecole Nationale d’Assurances (Paris) and a Master of Science in Finance from Fordham University – Gabelli School of Business (New York City). She is a dual citizen of Luxembourg and France.