Dirk Lohmann recently retired after having spent over 45 years in the reinsurance and investment management industry. He began his career with Hannover Re in 1980 where he spent a total of 17 years in various capacities ending ultimately in the position of Executive Board Member. During his time with Hannover Re, Mr. Lohmann was instrumental in transforming the company from a small following reinsurer into the world’s 5th largest professional reinsurer. Subsequently, he was recruited to lead the European reinsurance activities of the Zurich Financial Services as CEO of Zurich Re and later became a member of the Group Executive Board of ZFS responsible for Group’s reinsurance business worldwide. In 2001 Mr. Lohmann managed the spin-off of ZFS’ assumed reinsurance business into Converium which was sold to the public through an IPO in December 2001. Mr. Lohmann served as Chief Executive Officer of Converium until February 2005. Subsequently, he established Secquaero Advisors Ltd, an investment advisory and asset management boutique specializing in insurance securitization. This business was subsequently acquired by Schroders in stages between 2013 and 2019 and now operates as Schroders Capital ILS managing over $6.5 billion of insurance linked securities investments.

Dirk has a keen interest in developing capital markets as an alternate source of risk capacity for (re-)insurers. He was an early pioneer in the field of insurance securitization, having personally negotiated and placed the world’s first non-life insurance securitization of catastrophe risk (KOVER) in 1993/94. During his career he was involved in a number of other transactions as a sponsor, structurer and/or lead investor.

Dirk Lohmann has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the College of Literature, Science and Arts at the University of Michigan, a MBA from the Rotman School of Business at the University of Toronto and an Executive MBA from the University of St. Gallen.