Liberty Mutual Insurance Group’s subsidiary,
Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), has named Edith Quintrell its U.S.-based underwriting development director for the company’s Global Financial Risks division.
As an underwriting development director, Quintrell’s duties will involve developing LSM’s product capabilities and service offering to clients and brokers. She will be based in Washington, D.C., serving as a counterpart to LSM’s underwriting teams in London, Paris, and Singapore.
She was previously the director of operations of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance arm of the World Bank, from 2007. With MIGA, she was handling the origination and underwriting of guarantees and developing the agency’s business in areas such as infrastructure, post-conflict countries, frontier markets, south-south investment and sub-Saharan Africa.
Quintrell held senior positions in the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), such as vice president for Insurance and director of Technical Operations.
She served as chair of the Investment Insurance Committee within the Berne Union. Also, she had worked for the non-government organization Pan American Development Foundation in Washington, D.C.
