Aurore Lecanon

Chief Risk Officer at Ageas UK

Speaker

Aurore has over 20 years of experience with global insurers and investment banks and has deep technical, market, and commercial knowledge of the insurance and savings industry. She will be joining Ageas UK as Chief Risk Officer in October 2024 (subject to regulatory approval). She was Chief Risk Officer of Direct Line Group until December 2023 where she led the Risk and Compliance function through a significant transformation during a period of significant internal and regulatory change and scrutiny, bleak economic outlook, and volatile markets. Before DLG, she held several Risk roles at M&G / Prudential including Chief Risk and Compliance Officer of Prudential International Assurance, Transformation Risk Director, and Financial Risk Director of the UK insurance business. Aurore was Head of Asset Liability Management at Old Mutual plc and worked in investment banking at Credit Suisse and Société Générale. She holds a Business Sustainability Management certificate from Cambridge, a Masters's in Stochastic Mathematics and Financial Engineering from Princeton University and the University of Paris VI and is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale Superieure of Economics and Statistics in France.