Mrs Alice G Vaidyan
Chairman-cum-Managing Director
Adminstration
General Insurance Corporation of India
India
Biography
Alice G Vaidyan is the Chairman-cum-Managing Director of our Corporation. She holds post graduate degree in English language and literature from University of Kerala. She has trained in “Strategy: Building and Sustaining Competitive Advantage” at Harvard Business School, Boston, USA and is a fellow of the Insurance Institute of India. She is the first lady officer to assume the post of Chairman-cum-Managing Director of our Corporation and the first lady chairman-cum-managing director in the public sector insurance industry (non-life) under Ministry of Finance in India. She has over 30 years of experience in the Indian insurance and reinsurance industry. She began her career at The New India Assurance Company Limited before moving to our Corporation as Deputy General Manager (Reinsurance) in 2008. Previously, she has been on the governing board of National Insurance Academy. She has won several national and international awards. Business Today recognized her as one of the most powerful women in Indian business in October 2016. She is also a member of the council of Asian Reinsurance Corporation, Bangkok and International Insurance Society. She is the recipient of the Maritime Standard Woman in Shipping award by The Maritime Standard Awards, Middle East and Indian subcontinent in 2014.
Research Interest
Finance Managment Ministry of Finance