About Dame
Dame Inga Kristine Beale, DBE (born 15 May 1963) is a British businesswoman and the former CEO of Lloyd's of London from 2013 to 2018. She is a trustee of the International Panel on the Information Environment and has been the president of The British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce since February 2022.
Beale started her career in 1982, at Prudential Assurance Company in London. She trained as an underwriter, specialising in international treaty reinsurance. The industry was composed predominantly of men at the time; she once took issue with posters in the office depicting half-naked women, only to have her colleagues plaster them across her computer and chair.
She took a year off in 1989, cycling in Australia and backpacking in Asia. She left Prudential in 1992, to work as an underwriter in General Electric's insurance division. She joined GE's management in Kansas in 2001. She continued with GE Insurance Solutions until 2006, taking leadership roles in Paris and Munich. Beale then headed Swiss reinsurer Converium. In 2008, she joined Zurich Insurance Group as a member of their Group Management Board. The following year, she was named the group's Global Chief Underwriting Officer. From 2012–13, she was the Group CEO at the privately held Lloyd's insurer Canopius.