PartnerRe make plethora of global appointments

by Richard Kilner

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PartnerRe Ltd has announced a range of personnel changes in its global leadership positions.

Emmanuel Clarke is named as the new worldwide Specialty Lines chief, with the appointment taking effect from 1 September of this year.

Clarke replaces Kurt Angst, who is to retire at the end of 2008 after four decades in the industry.

He will be responsible for all the firm’s non-US specialty lines business and will report directly to chief executive officer of PartnerRe Global, Costas Miranthis.

Clarke joined the firm 11 years ago, and will bring 14 years of reinsurance industry experience to his new position.

He will work closely with Angst leading up to his formal assumption of his new role.

PartnerRe is also appointing a new global chief of Property and Casualty, Alain Flandrin.

Flandrin, who will also report to Miranthis, first joined the firm 6 years ago and will be succeeded in his present role as Property and Casualty chief for Benelux by Patrick Chevrel.

Elsewhere in the firm, Scott Altstadt will retain his post as chief pricing actuary and also take up the newly created position as deputy head of global Property and Casualty.

Francis Blumberg becomes head of Property and Casualty for Canada.