Panagiota Kovani

Panagiota is Head of Insurance at the German consultancy firm BearingPoint. Over the years she has advised multinational organisations in strategy and market growth, organisational design and corporate governance. Her primary focus is the financial services sector having begun her career in Banking at posts within the Operational Risk and Business Management functions for Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi respectively. Following that, she moved onto professional services advising financial services organisations on strategy & innovation, market growth, efficiency & effectiveness and operating model design. Most recently she undertook the role of Head of Insurance for the UK region overseeing engagements on both the strategy and technology implementation working with major technology providers in the sector.

Panagiota holds a Master’s degree in Management from the University of Bath, UK and a Bachelors Degree in Classics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She works and lives in London, UK. As part of the “Greeks are Back” initiative, Panagiota is looking to use her experience and learnings from various projects in creating an effective government mechanism able to serve the complexities of a recovering economy.