Ahead of this weekend’s International Women’s Day, Insurance Business is proud to reveal the industry’s Elite Women for 2025.
Each year, Insurance Business invites industry professionals from across each of its regions to nominate exceptional female performers. These are women who are leaders, breaking through barriers or inspiring those around them. Nominators were asked to outline their achievements over the last 12 months – and those achievements were then put to an independent panel of judges for assessment. In the UK, that panel consisted of:
The judges reviewed the nominations and narrowed the list down to 75 Elite Women in the UK.
In total, there are 75 women listed, but among those celebrating is Carpenters Group owner and joint director Donna Scully. Already proclaimed as Merseyside Woman of the Year for 2024, you can read more about her remarkable story here.
In addition, to the Elite Women list, the report contains vital insights on how the industry is progressing in terms of gender equality and presenting genuine opportunities for women to succeed.
For example, survey data showed that 96% of respondents feel there is a lack of women leaders for younger women to look up to and aspire to follow in their footsteps.
Feedback from female industry respondents included: “Insurance has been dominated by men for a long time, and being a woman in technology within insurance and from an ethnic background makes it difficult. Navigating through unconscious bias is the most difficult thing I have been exposed to.”
You can read the full report, for free, now.
