John Trowbridge has a distinguished career as an actuary, consultant, executive, company director and regulator, working mainly in financial services with an emphasis on insurance-related businesses.
He founded Trowbridge Consulting in the 1980s, which became a leading actuarial and management consulting firm in Australia and Asia, specialising in insurance, and merged with Deloitte in 2000.
He has held senior executive positions at QBE and Suncorp, and, from 2006 to 2010, he was the APRA Member for insurance. He chaired the Australian Government’s review of natural disaster insurance following the 2011 floods, and in 2015, he chaired an industry working group to recommend reforms in the life insurance industry, which came into effect in 2018. In 2019, he completed a review for the RBNZ of prudential matters related to CBL Insurance, an NZ insurer that failed.
In 2021, John conducted an independent strategic review for the Insurance Council of Australia on the affordability and availability of commercial lines of insurance in Australia. The Council accepted all 13 of his recommendations. Since then, he has conducted an independent review of strata insurance in 3 phases, concentrating in the first two on intermediary matters and in the third on affordability and availability of strata insurance.
