Liz formally took over as CEO during the ICMIF Biennial Conference in Buenos Aires in November 2024.
Reporting to the ICMIF Board, Liz is responsible for steering the strategic direction of the Federation, ensuring the delivery of unparalleled value to ICMIF’s global network of more than 200 mutual/cooperative insurers across 53 countries, and representing the interests of the membership to key external stakeholders.
In her role as ICMIF CEO, Liz is an ex-officio of the ICMIF Board of Directors, a member of the ICMIF Executive Committee and Intelligence Committee, and a trustee of the ICMIF Foundation. She is also ex-officio Member of Steering Committee of the Insurance Development Forum (IDF), a Member of the IDF Operating Committee, and in September 2026 assumed a seat on the Board of the International Cooperative Alliance.
Liz’s former role as Executive Vice-President focused on ensuring that ICMIF’s members gain optimum value and that the Federation understands each member organisation’s strategic priorities and competencies.
Before joining ICMIF in 2012, Liz spent 13 years working in senior influence and communications roles for the UK life insurance sector at Swiss Life (UK) and then for Royal Liver Group before it was acquired by the UK’s largest mutual, Royal London Group. Before then, she was a PR consultant specialising in financial services accounts.
She has completed her Level Seven course in Executive Coaching and Mentoring and has achieved Master Practitioner Level in Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP). Liz previously held a board seat at Liverpool Chamber of Commerce and sat as a Governor on two school boards.
She has spoken at a wide variety of ICMIF conferences, board and executive meetings as well as representing the Federation at other non-ICMIF conferences and symposiums.
