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Sir Clive Cowdery

Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer Resolution Life

Clive is regarded as a leading life insurance executive and has significant experience in acquiring closed block life insurance businesses. He has held Board-level roles in all prior Resolution vehicles since 2003.

Prior to 2003, Clive was Chairman and Chief Executive of GE Insurance Holdings, GE’s primary insurance operations in Europe, with over $3bn of premium income at that time. The businesses he led while at GE had operations in 12 countries. Before joining GE in 1998, he co-founded J Rothschild International / Scottish Amicable International, a cross-border insurance business based in Dublin. He started his career in insurance advising clients as a broker.

He served as a Non-Executive Director of Resolution Limited, a UK-listed life insurance Group which subsequently became the Friends Life Group PLC. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 index. He stepped down from this position in 2013.

Clive is Chairman and founder of the Resolution Foundation, a non-profit research organisation focused on the needs of low earners in industrialised countries.

Our People

Sir Clive Cowdery