Shabnam Ahmed, FIA, serves as the Senior Vice President, Underwriting for Elementum (Bermuda) Ltd. Her primary responsibilities include underwriting and portfolio construction with a specific focus on the CRI branch of the firm’s business. Shab has worked in the re/insurance space since 2004, most recently at Axis Re Bermuda where she launched the company’s retrocessional catastrophe product, and underwrote and managed a wide portfolio of global treaties. Earlier experience centered around a variety of risk analytics roles in both Bermuda and the UK at Partner Re, Guy Carpenter, and Tillinghast (now Willis Towers Watson). Shab is a graduate of the University of Oxford where she earned a BA in Mathematical Sciences and an MSc in Applied Statistics. She is also a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.