Caroline Barr, Non-Executive Director (NED) at the British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) has been announced as incoming Chair, taking over the position when Jonathan Evans’ tenure finishes at the end of the year.
Graeme Trudgill, BIBA CEO, made the announcement during his opening address at The BIBA Conference 2025, thanking Jonathan for his exceptional leadership over the past six years as BIBA Chair.
Telling the audience that BIBA is entering a new era he introduced Caroline as the first female Chair of BIBA. Caroline was previously a Deputy Director at HM Treasury, she was a member of the Financial Services Consumer Panel, is a NED at Blackrock Life and has sat on the BIBA main Board for six years.
Caroline also chairs BIBA’s influential Access to Insurance Committee spearheading its signposting and financial inclusion work.
Caroline said: “I am extremely proud to have been offered this position, albeit that Jonathan will be sorely missed when he leaves. He did fantastic work for the association during his tenure and I want to continue the momentum that he built. There is still much work to be done.”
Graeme paid tribute to Jonathan’s invaluable contributions including the significant challenges that he took the association, and brokers, through during his time as Chair.
He concluded: “Caroline has already been a guiding light on our main Board, and we look forward to her leading us forward into the new era of insurance broking.”
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The British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) is the UK’s leading general insurance intermediary organisation representing the interests of insurance brokers, intermediaries and their customers.
BIBA membership includes around 1800 regulated firms, employing more than 120,000 people.
General insurance brokers contribute 1% of GDP to the UK economy; they arrange 77% of all general insurance with a premium totalling £105.5bn and 94% of all commercial insurance business.
BIBA is the voice of the sector advising members, Government, regulators, consumer bodies and other stakeholders on key insurance issues.
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