Lloyd’s has named Angela Kelly as Country Manager Singapore, a role currently carried out by Asia-Pacific CEO Kent Chaplin.

Ms Kelly was previously Swiss Re Asia-Pacific head of casualty and CEO of Swiss Re International’s Singapore branch.

She has more than 20 years’ experience in insurance, including 16 years with Swiss Re, according to her LinkedIn account.

“We will be looking to [Ms Kelly] to build on the success of the marketplace, which currently offers specialist insurance and reinsurance services with local underwriting expertise and authority in 47 classes of business, with property, marine, energy, cargo and terrorism being the market’s largest lines,” Mr Chaplin said.

Lloyd’s has more than 200 underwriters in Singapore, representing 23 syndicates, and is the largest provider of offshore reinsurance in the southeast Asian financial centre.