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🏢 Nancy Bewlay is an American insurance executive who serves as the Group Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO) of AXA Group and a member of the AXA Management Committee. Appointed to this newly created role in 2023, she oversees underwriting strategy and discipline across all of AXA’s global insurance and reinsurance operations. Bewlay’s appointment to Group CUO reflected her extensive industry experience and technical expertise, as she was the first to hold a group-wide underwriting mandate at AXA, charged with strengthening risk management and pricing consistency throughout the organization. Prior to this, she led AXA XL’s Reinsurance business as CEO, where she was credited with repositioning the reinsurance portfolio for improved profitability. Her current mandate also involves guiding AXA’s underwriting approach amid emerging challenges, aligning with the group’s strategic plan for 2024–2026 which emphasizes disciplined growth and technical excellence.

🌟 Industry reputation. Bewlay is widely respected for her leadership and underwriting acumen. She has accumulated over three decades in the insurance industry, earning a reputation as a versatile and technically skilled executive. In 2018, Business Insurance recognized her as one of its “Women to Watch,” underscoring her status as a top female leader in the global insurance sector. Colleagues praise her collaborative and communicative leadership style – Neil Robertson, a senior executive at AXA XL, remarked that Bewlay “is able to communicate so effectively with different groups of people” and counted her among the most capable professionals he had met in his 34-year career. This professional credibility and track record of success set the stage for her rise to AXA’s upper echelon and inform the strategic weight of her current role.

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Early life and education

👨‍👩‍👧 Family background. Nancy Bewlay was introduced to the insurance world at an early age through her family. Her father worked for General Reinsurance Corp., and as a result she grew up familiar with the insurance industry. Despite this exposure, her initial passion was in a very different field – clinical psychology.

🎓 Psychology to insurance. Bewlay pursued her interest in psychology through her studies, earning her undergraduate degree from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Upon graduating, she attempted to find work in the psychology field, but after a period of searching without success, she turned to her father for career advice. He suggested she consider a career in insurance underwriting, noting that it aligned with her analytical interests in research and problem-solving. Taking this advice to heart, Bewlay decided to “get an underwriting job and see how that goes,” a choice that would mark the beginning of her long and distinguished career in insurance.

🧠 Analytical foundation. Bewlay’s academic background in psychology provided her with a unique perspective as she entered the insurance sector. Studying human behavior and risk from a psychological angle helped shape her analytical approach to underwriting and risk assessment. She graduated from Catholic University of America, a private research university in Washington, D.C., which is where she cultivated her love of research and critical thinking. Although her degree was not directly in finance or business, the problem-solving and analytical skills from her psychology training proved valuable in her insurance career. This foundation made her adept at evaluating complex risks and understanding the human and behavioral factors underlying insurance claims – an outlook that would later influence her underwriting philosophy. Bewlay’s entry into insurance via an academic detour underscores a formative theme in her development: adaptability. She leveraged her education in an unconventional way to excel in a technical field, demonstrating early on the intellectual curiosity and flexibility that would characterize her professional journey.

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Career trajectory

Early career

🏗️ Underwriting foundation. Bewlay began her insurance career in 1990 as an underwriting trainee with General Star Management Company, a division of General Reinsurance (Gen Re). Starting in an entry-level underwriter role, she gained a strong foundation in property and casualty insurance fundamentals. At General Star, she focused on excess and umbrella liability coverage, honing her expertise in evaluating high-severity risks. Over the course of 13 years at Gen Re and its affiliates, Bewlay took on roles of increasing responsibility and developed deep technical knowledge in underwriting. This lengthy tenure – from the early 1990s through the early 2000s – provided her with a “ground-up” understanding of insurance risk and a reputation for technical rigor. By working in various underwriting positions during this period, she learned to assess complex casualty exposures and navigate the underwriting cycle, experiences that would prove invaluable later in her leadership roles.

🔄 Broader perspective. In the mid-2000s, after over a decade in underwriting, Bewlay broadened her perspective by transitioning to other roles in the insurance marketplace. She briefly stepped away from corporate life around 2003 to focus on her young family (taking two years as a stay-at-home mother), but returned eager to apply her skills in new contexts. She joined Marsh & McLennan Companies as a casualty insurance broker, a move that allowed her to see the industry from the client and distribution side. Working at Marsh gave Bewlay insight into clients’ risk management needs and the importance of tailored solutions, complementing her underwriting background with strong client-facing and negotiation experience.

🛡️ Specialty expertise. She also held a role with Admiral Insurance Company, an excess and surplus lines insurer, during this period. At Admiral, she continued to build expertise in specialty casualty underwriting, further diversifying her skill set. By the late 2000s, Bewlay had accumulated a wealth of experience across underwriting and brokerage functions, establishing the solid professional foundation upon which she would build her executive career. These early-career roles imparted not only technical know-how but also a broad, 360-degree view of the insurance industry’s value chain.

The rise

📈 Management ascent. Bewlay’s career gained momentum as she moved into senior and executive roles, distinguishing herself in both insurance company and reinsurance company leadership positions. In 2006, she joined C.V. Starr & Co., an insurance organization led by former AIG executives, marking her first foray into upper management. Starting as the manager of C.V. Starr’s East Coast offices, Bewlay quickly advanced through the ranks. She took on expanding responsibilities, including serving as Executive Vice President and Director of Field Operations, where she oversaw regional underwriting teams and agency operations.

👩‍💼 CEO leadership. Her effective leadership led to a major promotion: from 2011 to 2013, Nancy Bewlay served as President and Chief Executive Officer of C.V. Starr & Company (California). In this CEO role, she was responsible for the overall operations of C.V. Starr’s California-based insurance agency, managing everything from underwriting strategy to profitability. This period was a proving ground for Bewlay’s executive capabilities. She demonstrated an ability to turn strategic goals into operational results, and she successfully led the agency through a competitive market environment. Her achievements at C.V. Starr established her as a rising figure in the industry, adept at running a complex insurance business.

🌍 Reinsurance strategy. In 2013, Bewlay transitioned into the reinsurance sector by joining Swiss Re, one of the world’s largest reinsurance companies. At Swiss Re’s Americas division, she served as Managing Director and Head of Underwriting for Casualty in the United States and Canada. In this high-profile role, her trajectory accelerated as she took charge of underwriting strategy for a broad portfolio of casualty reinsurance treaties across North America. Bewlay led both underwriting and actuarial teams, focusing on pricing adequacy, portfolio management, and strategic development of the casualty book. This position at Swiss Re expanded her international experience and gave her insight into risk on a global scale.

📊 Managing complexity. She was responsible for ensuring profitability in a challenging line of business (liability and casualty) during years when the insurance industry was grappling with evolving litigation trends and emerging risks. By overseeing treaty underwriting for multiple markets, Bewlay gained a reputation for strong analytical skills and disciplined underwriting practices. She has credited this period with further sharpening her ability to manage risk portfolios and with exposing her to innovative reinsurance solutions. Her success at Swiss Re made it clear that she could excel in the top echelons of the industry, setting the stage for the next leap in her career.

🚀 Global mandate. In April 2017, Nancy Bewlay joined XL Group (then XL Catlin, now part of AXA) as Global Chief Underwriting Officer for Casualty insurance. This move marked her entry into a large multinational insurance and reinsurance organization and came shortly before XL was acquired by the AXA Group in 2018. At XL Catlin, Bewlay was tasked with overseeing casualty underwriting worldwide, which involved monitoring the portfolio performance of liability insurance lines across numerous countries and ensuring consistency in underwriting standards. She was based in Stamford, Connecticut for this role, reflecting XL’s U.S. operations hub. Over the next few years, Bewlay’s remit expanded. After AXA acquired XL, forming the AXA XL division, she was promoted in April 2020 to AXA XL’s overall Global Chief Underwriting Officer, responsible for underwriting governance, pricing, and profit and loss across all property, casualty, and specialty lines of business at AXA XL.

📉 Restoring profitability. This was a critical role, as AXA XL represented AXA’s large commercial insurance and reinsurance segment, and it had encountered profitability challenges in the late 2010s (notably from natural catastrophe losses and U.S. casualty claims). Bewlay championed stricter underwriting discipline and implemented a common framework for assessing risk quality and pricing adequacy across AXA XL’s diverse portfolio. Under her leadership as CUO, AXA XL placed greater emphasis on technical pricing and risk selection, contributing to improved underwriting results in subsequent periods. Her success in this role was evident as the subsidiary’s combined ratio and earnings began to recover during 2021, reflecting the “technical excellence” drive that AXA’s management had prioritized and that Bewlay helped execute.

🤝 Reinsurance leadership. Recognizing her effective leadership, AXA appointed Nancy Bewlay as Chief Executive Officer of AXA XL’s Reinsurance business in March 2022. In this position, she succeeded Charles Cooper and took charge of AXA XL Reinsurance, which is one of the world’s leading reinsurers with a global footprint in property, casualty, and specialty reinsurance lines. As CEO of AXA XL Reinsurance, Bewlay faced the task of steering the business through a hardening reinsurance market. She oversaw underwriting strategy at a time of rising catastrophe losses and tightening capacity in certain lines, and she worked closely with brokers and cedents (insurance company clients) to reposition the reinsurance portfolio for better profitability.

✅ Strategic repositioning. Her tenure saw a focus on “smart cycle management,” ensuring that AXA XL Re would capitalize on favorable market conditions while mitigating exposures in challenging segments. According to AXA XL’s CEO Scott Gunter, during 2022 Bewlay “worked to reposition our reinsurance portfolio and we are seeing the benefits of this work,” a testament to her strategic adjustments yielding positive results. By strengthening underwriting guidelines and reallocating capacity to more profitable or strategic areas, she helped improve the performance of AXA’s reinsurance arm. Bewlay’s leadership in this period was characterized by a proactive approach to emerging risks (such as climate-related catastrophes) and an emphasis on technical rigor. These accomplishments in the “Rise” phase of her career – from leading a regional insurance agency, to managing a continental reinsurance portfolio, to overseeing global underwriting and then running a major reinsurance operation – all distinguished Bewlay as a versatile leader capable of driving change and results. This set the stage for her elevation to AXA’s Group Management Committee.

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Current mandate

🏛️ Group oversight. Nancy Bewlay joined AXA’s Group Management Committee and assumed her current role as Group Chief Underwriting Officer on September 1, 2023. In this capacity, she is responsible for underwriting oversight at the Group level, meaning she guides the underwriting strategy and policies for all AXA entities worldwide, across both insurance and reinsurance segments. Her appointment came as part of AXA’s leadership reorganization to prepare for a new strategic cycle, and the Group CUO position was created to reinforce technical excellence across the company’s global operations. As Group CUO, Bewlay’s mandate includes setting underwriting standards, aligning risk appetites, and sharing best practices among AXA’s diverse businesses (from commercial specialty lines to retail insurance). She works closely with other C-suite leaders on the Management Committee to ensure that underwriting considerations are central to AXA’s strategy and that the company maintains profitability amid evolving market conditions. This role leverages her extensive background: having worked in both primary insurance and reinsurance, and across multiple markets, Bewlay provides a holistic view of risk that is vital for group-wide oversight.

💡 Innovation philosophy. One of Bewlay’s key focuses in her current role is to drive innovation and consistency in how AXA underwrites emerging and complex risks. She has emphasized that even in areas of new or extreme exposure, thorough analysis can often make seemingly “uninsurable” risks insurable. “When I hear ‘uninsurable’, I often think the homework hasn’t been done,” Bewlay told Insurance Times in a 2025 interview, indicating her belief that the industry must innovate rather than shy away from challenging risks.

🛠️ Practical application. In line with this philosophy, she is spearheading efforts at AXA to enhance data-driven risk modeling, incorporate sustainability and climate risk factors into underwriting, and develop solutions for emerging risks (such as cyber threats and pandemic-related coverages). Her group-level perspective allows her to identify trends across markets and ensure AXA adapts its underwriting approach proactively. For example, under Bewlay’s guidance, AXA has been embedding stricter underwriting criteria and pricing tools across its entities to respond to inflationary claims trends and more frequent natural catastrophes. She also plays a role in talent development, mentoring the next generation of underwriters and fostering a culture of “technical excellence with accountability” throughout the underwriting community at AXA.

🗺️ Strategic alignment. Since taking on the Group CUO role, Bewlay has been a key contributor to AXA’s new strategic plan, Unlock the Future 2024–2026. This plan, launched in early 2024, sets ambitious financial targets for the group and emphasizes scaling up profitable growth while maintaining disciplined risk management. Bewlay’s remit dovetails with these goals: she is tasked with ensuring that underwriting discipline supports AXA’s growth initiatives – for instance, by improving combined ratios in commercial lines and sharpening pricing in regions where AXA is expanding. Thomas Buberl, AXA’s CEO, has highlighted the importance of “technical expertise” and “predictable underwriting risks” in achieving the group’s targets, and Bewlay’s team is central to delivering that predictability. In practical terms, her current initiatives include group-wide underwriting reviews, setting up a central CUO office that provides guidance to local AXA underwriting units, and overseeing group reinsurance purchasing to optimize risk retention. By late 2025, AXA’s leadership confirmed that the company was on track to exceed its plan objectives, attributing success in part to strengthened underwriting performance across its portfolio, an area under Bewlay’s oversight.

📅 Future focus. As of February 2026, Nancy Bewlay remains AXA’s Group CUO and a pivotal member of the top leadership team. She continues to shape underwriting strategy at the highest level, balancing growth with risk management in a volatile global environment. Her current priorities include responding to the challenge of climate change (e.g., updating underwriting guidelines for wildfire and flood risks), leveraging artificial intelligence for better risk analysis, and ensuring that AXA’s insurance solutions remain relevant and comprehensive for new industries and technologies. Bewlay’s role is fundamentally about safeguarding AXA’s financial strength through prudent underwriting while enabling innovation to meet clients’ needs.

🏅 Enduring impact. It is a delicate balance, but one for which her 35+ years of industry experience have prepared her well. Under her guidance, AXA has reinforced its position that technical excellence in underwriting is a key competitive advantage – a theme that runs throughout Bewlay’s career. Having successfully integrated into AXA’s core leadership, she is expected to continue driving improvements in underwriting performance and to play a significant part in AXA’s future strategic achievements. AXA’s AXA Management Committee listing as of December 2025 includes Bewlay as Group CUO, reflecting the company’s ongoing confidence in her stewardship of underwriting.

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Personal life

🏠 Family priority. Outside of her professional roles, Nancy Bewlay leads a grounded personal life focused on family and personal growth. She is married and has two children. In fact, Bewlay made a life choice early in her career to pause her corporate trajectory and dedicate time to raising her children, taking a two-year career break in the mid-2000s to be a stay-at-home mother while her kids were young. This decision reflects her values regarding work-life balance and family priority.

🔄 Resilient balance. After this hiatus, she returned to the workforce with renewed perspective, later noting that the break taught her resilience and time-management in new ways. Her ability to successfully resume and even accelerate her career after focusing on family has been an inspiration to colleagues, highlighting that she embodies a philosophy of integrating life and work in a sustainable manner. Bewlay’s family resides primarily in the United States, and throughout her various international assignments, she has often managed a trans-Atlantic schedule to be present for both her work in Europe and her family in the U.S. (though she also spends significant time in AXA’s Paris headquarters as needed). She has kept her personal life relatively private in media discussions, but it is known that she maintains close ties to her family and credits their support – including the early guidance of her father and the encouragement of her husband and children – as foundational to her success.

🤝 Mentorship advocacy. Beyond her family life, Nancy Bewlay is passionate about mentoring and championing diversity in the insurance industry. She has been active in professional organizations that support the development of women in insurance and finance. For example, she has served on the U.S. regional management committee of The Supper Club, a network for senior women in the insurance industry, and has been involved with the Association of Professional Insurance Women (APIW). Through these groups, Bewlay frequently mentors younger professionals, sharing her experiences on navigating career paths and balancing personal responsibilities with professional ambitions. She is also a member of Women of the World in Stamford, Connecticut (an AXA XL initiative focused on networking and empowerment). Colleagues and friends describe her as someone who is generous with her time and advice, often highlighting how her own non-linear career, including switching sectors and taking a family break, can encourage others to pursue opportunities at their own pace.

📚 Continuous learning. In terms of personal interests and hobbies, Bewlay tends to keep a low public profile. While specific hobbies are not widely publicized, she has expressed a general love for continuous learning and new challenges. “Through the process you learn and you become stronger at what you do,” she has said of taking on new opportunities and stepping outside one’s comfort zone. This growth-oriented mindset is something she carries into her personal life as well, whether it is staying informed about global events, reading on leadership and psychology (a nod to her college major), or informally advising start-ups and industry newcomers.

🧠 Thoughtful character. Friends note that her analytical nature (honed from her early interest in psychology and years in underwriting) also makes her a thoughtful problem-solver in everyday life. She is known for approaching personal decisions with the same measured, research-driven approach that she applies to business issues. Yet, those who work closely with her also observe a warm, personable side – she often remembers small details about coworkers’ lives and celebrates team successes enthusiastically, which speaks to her empathetic leadership style.

🌍 Adaptive philosophy. Nancy Bewlay’s personal philosophy centers on challenging oneself while maintaining balance. She has lived and worked in multiple cities (Washington D.C., New York, Stamford, and now frequently Paris and London) and believes that adaptability is key to both career success and personal fulfillment. In interviews, she often attributes her achievements to staying open to new ideas and learning from setbacks. This outlook likely stems from her own journey, switching career plans, re-entering the workforce after a break, and taking on roles in different facets of insurance. It has made her an advocate for flexibility in career development and for creating supportive workplace environments. In summary, while Nancy Bewlay may be best known for her professional accomplishments in insurance, those close to her would emphasize that she is equally a dedicated family person, a mentor to others, and a lifelong learner. These personal dimensions have undoubtedly influenced her effective leadership, grounding her ambitious corporate life in a strong set of values and a sense of perspective that extends beyond the boardroom.

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