Thomas Buberl

Thomas Buberl
Thomas Buberl
	Buberl in 2021
Born	Cologne, West Germany (now Germany)
Education	WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management; Lancaster University; University of St. Gallen;
Title	CEO, Axa
Term	2016-
Predecessor	Henri de Castries
Board member of	IBM; Bertelsmann; Axa XL;

Thomas Buberl is a German businessman who has been the CEO of Axa since 2016.

Early life

Buberl was born in Cologne, Germany.^{[citation needed]} He earned a business degree from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management (Germany), an MBA from Lancaster University (UK), and a PhD in economics from the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland).^{[citation needed]}

Career

Axa

In 2012, Buberl joined Axa as chief executive officer of AXA Konzern AG in Germany and became a member of the Axa executive committee. In March 2015, he became CEO of Axa's global health business line and a member of the Axa's management committee.^[1]

In January 2016, Buberl was also appointed CEO of the global business line, life & savings. From March to August 2016, he was deputy CEO of Axa Group.^{[citation needed]}

Buberl became CEO and a member of the board of directors in September 2016, when Denis Duverne was made chairman (the two roles were separated when Henri de Castries left the company on this date).^[2]^[3]^[4] Under his leadership, Axa bought XL, for 12.4 billion in 2018 as part of a shift towards casualty and property insurance.^[5]

In 2019, Buberl became one of the founding members of the Climate Finance Leadership Initiative (CFLI), a group convened by Michael R. Bloomberg to help facilitate the private financing objectives included in the Paris Agreement.^[6]