Pierre LAURCFO AXA Tianping,Chair of the Insurance Working Group of the European Chamber of Commerce of China - 2024

Pierre Laur is the Chief Financial Officer of AXA P&C operations in China, based in Shanghai where he arrived in 2022.

Before coming to China, Pierre spent almost 10 years at AXA head office in Paris, holding various senior roles in the finance department. He notably developed extensive experience in global cross border insurance M&A executing some landmark transactions such as the acquisition of XL Group in the US ($15bn, 2018) and the IPO of AXA Equitable Holdings in the US ($4bn, 2018). He was also in charge of the performance management of some of the Group’s largest business units such as AXA France, AXA XL and AXA Investment Managers.

He started his career as an investment banker at BNP Paribas.

In parallel, Pierre has been a corporate finance lecturer at HEC Paris for 10 years in various programs (Masters, MBA and Executive Education).

He holds a Master of Sciences in Management from the HEC School of Management in Paris.