The Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation (ARPC) has welcomed the federal government’s appointment of Julie-Anne Schafer to its board as a part-time member for a three-year term.

Schafer’s appointment follows both the extension of Elaine Collins’s ARPC board membership and the appointment of Jan van der Schalk as a new board member earlier this year.

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Schafer is a qualified lawyer based in Brisbane with experience across the insurance, superannuation, energy, water, transport, and health sectors. She is currently a non-executive director at Queensland Urban Utilities, CS Energy, and Av Super. She is also president of the National Competition Council, a Treasury portfolio agency.

Additionally, Schafer has a broad range of retail consumer insurance and cyclone risk experience through her past roles as president of RACQ and chair of RACQ Insurance, and as a non-executive director for the Territory Insurance Office.

Schafer holds a Bachelor of Laws with Honours (LL.B. Hons) from the University of Queensland and is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She is also a member of the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance (ANZIIF).

In a statement, Ian Carson, chair of ARPC, welcomed Schafer to the ARPC Board, saying that her “deep insurance and public sector experience, coupled with her legal background, will be an asset to the ARPC board at a time of dynamic change for the organisation.”