Joan Amble
Member of the Board of Directors
Nationality: U.S.
Born: 1953
Skills and experience
Joan Amble has substantial financial industry experience. She started her professional career as an accountant with Ernst & Ernst (currently Ernst & Young) in 1977. From 1984 to 1989, she served at the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), specializing in pensions, derivatives and other financial instruments. She then spent 14 years with the General Electric Company (GE) in various leadership roles, including CFO GE Real Estate, COO and CFO GE Capital Markets, and as vice president and chief accounting officer GE Financial Services. From 2004 to May 2011, Ms. Amble served as executive vice president and principal accounting officer and, until the end of 2011, as executive vice president, finance, of the American Express Company. In December 2011, Ms. Amble completed a four-year term as a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council (FASAC) and in December 2020 she completed the second of two three-year terms as a member of the Standing Advisory Group (SAG) for the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). From 2006 to 2008, she was a member of the board and chaired the audit committee of XM Satellite Radio and, following the merger of XM Satellite Radio with Sirius Satellite Radio, she was from 2008 to 2021 a member of the board of Sirius XM Satellite Radio and chaired the audit committee. From 2016 to 2022, Ms. Amble served as an independent adviser to the control and risk committee of the executive committee of the U.S. affiliate of Société Générale S.A., a French multinational banking and financial services company. She has been a member of the boards of Zurich Insurance Group Ltd and Zurich Insurance Company Ltd since April 2015.
Committee membership
Governance, Nominations and Sustainability Committee, Risk and Investment Committee
Other directorships within the Group
Zurich Insurance Company Ltd
External appointments
Ms. Amble is a member of the board and the audit committee at Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation and Spire Global, Inc. Until May 2023, she was a board member, audit committee chair and member of the nomination and governance committee at BuzzFeed Inc. and now acts as an adviser to them. She is also involved in supporting women in business, including as chair emeritus and co-founder of W.O.M.E.N. in America Inc., and through her various speaking engagements. Ms. Amble also participates in director and other forums and speaks on corporate governance and culture.
Educational background
Ms. Amble received a Bachelor of Science in accounting from The Pennsylvania State University, and later became a certified public accountant (currently inactive).
