Katrina Shanks

Katrina has spent much of her career in financial services. A Chartered Accountant by trade, Katrina started her career in Audit, spent time at Newton Fund Management in London and then joined Westpac Trust. She owned her own small accountancy business for seven years, after which she was the Financial Controller for the National Party.

Katrina has a deep understanding of the legislative process and how to influence policy development, drawn from her experience as a two-term Member of Parliament. During that time, she chaired Select Committees and was a member of the Commerce Select Committee where the Financial Adviser Act 2008 was developed.

Katrina was the CEO of the Funeral Directors Association and later the CEO of Financial Advice NZ. She now leads ANZIIF.

The hidden risk of extreme heat

After Europe's heatwaves and with a threatening El Niño looming, Katrina Shanks says insurers and brokers must do more to combat extreme heat's deadly force

The new shape of insurance complaints

When complaint numbers rise, the instinct is often to ask the simple question: what’s driving it? In today’s insurance environment, however, the answer is rarely straightforward, says Katrina Shanks, CEO of the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance (ANZIIF)

Future skills are the foundation of trust

In her first column for IB as ANZIIF CEO, Katrina Shanks argues that insurers can write all the rules they like but without the right skills, trust is still on shaky ground