Dominic Christian

Dominic Gerard Christian (born October 1960) is a Councilman of the City of London Corporation where he represents the Ward of Lime Street. He is Executive Chairman of Aon Benfield International and CEO of Aon UK Ltd. Christian is a member of the Council of Lloyd's. He was president of the Insurance Institute of London for 2015-16 and a director of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, The Bermuda Society and is Chairman of Lloyd’s Tercentenary Research Foundation. Christian was educated at St Joseph's College, Ipswich and the University of East Anglia (BA History, 1982). He was awarded an honorary doctorate in civil law from the University of East Anglia in 2015.

Christian started his 32 years + reinsurance career in 1984 with Lloyd’s brokers J K Buckenham in 1984 as International Facultative Broker. He joined Lloyd’s broker Greig Fester in 1989 as International Reinsurance Treaty Broker specialising in Retrocession. He was appointed as Director, Grieg Fester Ltd, in 1995. When Greig Fester became part of Benfield Group in May 1997, he continued to lead the Retrocession Broking activities of the Group. Dominic was appointed as Benfield Group International CEO and Benfield Ltd. CEO in 2005. In 2004 he was appointed as Board Director of Benfield Plc a former constituent of the FTSE 250 Index, the company became part of Aon Corporation trading as Aon Benfield since November 2008. He has continued to lead and guide Aon Benfield activities in various roles including International CEO, co-CEO and Executive Chairman, International

He is currently the CEO of Aon UK Ltd and Executive Chairman International, Aon Benfield. He is also a member of Aon’s Global Executive Committee.

Dominic is married to Kate, a Canadian and they have two children 21 and 18. Christian enjoys family, conversation, football, tennis, history, church architecture, lakes, trees and East Anglia.

He is the member of National Liberal Club, The Globe Theatre, Historic Royal Palaces, Norfolk Churches Trust, Racehorse Owners Association, The Wimbledon Club.

Dominic is Chairman of Lloyd’s Tercentenary Research Foundation and President of Lloyd’s Art Club and Lloyd’s Football Club.

He is the Co-Chair University of East Anglia – 50 Making a Difference Campaign and Committee member of Lord Mayor’s Appeal. The Dominic Christian Scholarship at University of East Anglia was established to enable to study MA degree course in Medieval History offered by the School of History.