Zurich Insurance: Dave Anderson
Zurich Insurance has named Dave Anderson head of Credit & Political Risk.
A 14-year veteran of Zurich, Anderson recently was global business development director for Credit & Political Risk.
Anderson is accountable for the direction, management and performance of the unit, which is part of Specialty Products of Zurich North America Commercial and has political risk and single risk trade credit underwriting teams in the Americas, London, Continental Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, and a short-term multi-buyer trade credit team in New York and London. Zurich Credit & Political Risk provides political risk and trade credit insurance for financial institutions, multinational corporations, investors, exporters, contractors and infrastructure developers globally.
Anderson will remain based in Washington, D.C., and report to Bryan Salvatore, president of Zurich Specialty Products.
Anderson started with Zurich in 2002, launched the Sydney, Australia, Credit & Political Risk underwriting office in 2006, launched the Singapore office in 2009 and managed the Asia-Pacific regional team until 2012. Prior to joining Zurich, he led FCIA's eastern region for multibuyer credit insurance out of New York and underwrote political risk insurance for Citicorp International Trade Indemnity, handling mainly sub-Saharan Africa.
Anderson earned a B.A. in Political Science (magna cum laude) from Amherst College and an M.A. (Latin American Studies)/M.B.A. from University of Texas at Austin. He was also a Fullbright Fellow in Political Science at Universidad Simon Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela. He is fluent in Spanish and has a working knowledge of Portuguese, having lived, studied or worked in several Latin American countries.