JLT appoints former AIG vice chair to board

Broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT) has appointed of Nicholas Walsh as a non-executive director.

Until the end of September 2014, Walsh worked at American International Group (AIG) where he most recently served as vice chairman, AIG Property & Casualty, chairman of AIG Europe and AIG Asia Pacific Insurance.

Geoffrey Howe, chairman of JLT, said "We are delighted to welcome Nic Walsh to the board of JLT. Nic has significant insurance expertise following a long and distinguished career at AIG. Having spent the last 12 years based in New York, Nic also has specialist knowledge of the US insurance market, which will prove invaluable to JLT as we build our US operations, including the expansion of our specialty capabilities and the development of our reinsurance broking business JLT Re.''