About

Alexandra Pizzinini has three post-graduate degrees and is fluent in five languages (English, France, Spanish, Portuguese, and German). This thirst for knowledge has shaped her professional life as a lawyer. Based in New York, Pizzinini is currently the Latin American regional counsel for Swiss Re, a global provider of insurance and reinsurance solutions. In this role she oversees legal, compliance and regulatory matters in 20 countries across the region (including the Caribbean), with the help of her team of 10 direct reports. Since joining Swiss Re in 2005 Pizzinini has been involved in matters related to corporate governance, litigation, arbitration, M&A, as well as cross-border internal and external compliance. Although Pizzinini and her team have a good regional and practice area coverage, it is still necessary to use outside counsel across the 20 countries they support – and Pizzinini has expertly managed external budgets for legal advice in a time of increasing cost constraint. Today she is considered by peers as an expert in regulatory, corporate, compliance, M&A, and reinsurance matters, ably supporting Swiss Re in its expanding commercial ventures in Latin America. Swiss Re’s senior executives have often asked her to present a risk assessment of Latin America to other members of the senior management team across the world. Before joining Swiss Re Pizzinini was an associate at international law firm Cozen O’Connor where she was able to build her knowledge of the insurance market and cross-border litigation. Before practicing law as an attorney in New York, she spent a time working at an NGO focussed on the creation of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is currently seated in The Hague.