Stephan van Vliet

Group Chief Investment Officer

Nationality:Dutch

Born: 1970

Skills and experience

Stephan van Vliet has extensive international experience in asset management in the insurance sector. He joined Zurich as Group Chief Investment Officer and as a member of the Executive Committee in May 2022. Prior to this, he served as chief investment officer for Prudential Corporation Asia, Hong Kong, from 2017 to March 2022. Before Prudential, he worked at PineBridge Investments (2014-2016) as head of insurance asset management; at ING Insurance Asia Pacific as head of investments (2010-2013); and at ING Investment Management (1994-2013) in roles spanning asset ownership and asset management. These roles involved advising and managing portfolios for many different insurance companies and pension funds – both affiliated and third party – under multiple regulatory models.

External appointments

Mr. van Vliet is a member of the board of trustees of the Foundation for Constructivist, Concrete, and Conceptual Art (Museum Haus Konstruktiv) in Zurich and is also a member of the advisory council of the Diversity Project Europe.

Educational background

Mr. van Vliet earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Nijenrode University, the Netherlands, in 1991. Between 1991 and 1994, he completed a master’s degree in international affairs at Johns Hopkins University and an MBA at Bocconi University.