Axa UK group chief Evans to replace Thiam as ABI chairman

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Paul Evans, the group CEO of Axa UK, has been nominated to replace outgoing Association of British Insurers (ABI) chairman Tidjane Thiam.

Evans will be elected chairman by the Board when Thiam's two-year term comes to a close on 3 July, and will be formally confirmed at the organisation's annual meeting on 1 October. He has been group CEO of Axa UK since October 2010, having previously been chief executive of AXA Life. > Read: ABI launches first comprehensive review of UK's retirement needs < Evans (pictured above) served on the ABI's Long-Term Savings and Life Insurance Committee between 2003 and 2010, at which point he became chairman of the ABI's General Insurance committee and a deputy chairman of the ABI Board. ...

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