Episode #25
Potential with AIG
With Laura Hunt, Ellie Jaques and Ana Lawther from AIG, UK. Moderated by Emily Weiner, Chief of Staff at greenlight for girls.
Unlocking our potential was the main theme of this broadcast. From taking the path less traveled to manifesting the life we want, our incredible speakers from AIG provided a glimpse of hope, potential and possibilities for our future scientists. Our speakers did an outstanding job of answering our participants’ career-related questions as they spoke from their hearts and recounted their own career journeys.
This episode’s speakers
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Laura Hunt joined AIG in September 2022 as Chief Information Officer UK and is a member of the UK Executive Leadership team. Laura has 20 years’ experience in technology and spent the last 10 years in insurance. She’s previously held senior roles in both start-up technology companies and large global financial services organisations. She has worked in the US, UK, Channel Islands and Asia. Most recently, Laura was responsible for the creation of an underwriting division within a Lloyd’s and Company insurance market and built a high performing team who wrote a substantial book of both Cyber Insurance and Reinsurance business. Turning her hand back to technology with a deep understanding of the business Laura has joined AIG to drive forward our technology, digital transformation and e-trade strategy, she is an advisor on the AIG Global Women In Technology Group and an active mentor for upcoming talent in the London market.
Meet, Ellie Jaques! Ellie joined AIG in 2017 as a Commercial Underwriting Summer Intern. She then returned to AIG in 2018 as an Underwriting Graduate in the Surety team. In April 2020, Ellie moved to the Cyber team as an Assistant Underwriter and was promoted to Cyber Underwriter in 2022. Ellie is now responsible for her own portfolio of renewal business and is also regularly underwriting new business. Ellie grew up in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, and after completing A-Levels in Maths, Biology & Chemistry, went onto Oxford University to study Chemistry for four years and achieve her Masters’ degree. Ellie’s Masters’ research has lead her to be listed as an author in a research paper published in Nature Synthesis earlier this year, four years after leaving university.
Meet Ana, an Underwriting Graduate at AIG! Ana recently graduated this summer with a first class masters in Marine Biology and is now working within the cyber team at AIG. Ana is a driven individual on the subject of sustainability and completed her Masters’ research project on the effect of climate change on coral reefs. She now is working towards becoming an underwriter in cyber and strives to join her passions for sustainability and the insurance sector to progress corporate climate responsibility.
Watch some snippets below!
Hear from our speaker, Laura, to learn more about her unconventional career path and some fantastic advice on how to maximise your potential!
Hear from our speaker, Ellie, to learn more about manifesting the life we want and how we can work towards our career goals!
As we talk about unlocking our potential, this g4g experiment shows how a few tricks allow simple ingredients to turn into a massive structure. Watch the video to see how you can make a giant, fiery carbon snake at home!
