Nick Studer

Nick Studer is President and CEO of Marsh Risk and Vice Chair of Marsh. He oversees Marsh’s risk business and operations globally, leading a team of approximately 45,000 colleagues who deliver data-driven solutions and advisory services across brokerage, specialties, underwriting, digital technology and consulting practices worldwide. Previously, Nick served as President and CEO of Oliver Wyman and Marsh Management Consulting. Nick has nearly 30 years of leadership and consulting experience across the world. Over the course of his career, he has held a number of senior roles at Oliver Wyman, including Managing Partner of the Financial Services Practices; Managing Partner of the Consumer, Industrial and Services Practices; and Head of the European Finance and Risk Practice. He has supported chief executives and senior business leaders on topics spanning governance, strategy, sustainability, risk management, public policy and regulatory response. He leads Marsh’s firm-wide initiatives on climate and sustainability. Nick was also a founding Director of TheCityUK, a founding advisory board member of the FICC Markets Standards Board, and a member of the Sustainable Markets Initiative. Nick is a keen advocate of inclusion and a sponsor of diversity – he led Oliver Wyman's inclusion and belonging strategy, was executive sponsor of Oliver Wyman’s racial and ethnic diversity group and has been honoured by the Black British Business Awards and by INvolve/EMpower. Nick has worked with chief executives and other senior leaders of the world's top companies on topics spanning governance, strategy, sustainability, financial and risk management and public policy & regulatory response. He led Oliver Wyman’s Financial Services practice as well as our Consumer, Industrials and Services practices, representing each of these businesses on the firm’s Global Leadership Team. Nick has also worked extensively on industry and public policy initiatives. He has supported the IIF and FSB, the World Economic Forum on the Role of Financial Services in Society, was a founding Director of TheCityUK, a founding member of the FICC Markets Standards Board, a member of the UK’s Voluntary Carbon Markets Steering Committee and Interim Chair of the Sustainable Markets Initiative Energy Transition Task Force. Nick is a keen advocate of inclusion and a sponsor of diversity – he leads the firm’s inclusion and belonging strategy, is executive sponsor of Oliver Wyman’s racial and ethnic diversity group and has been named a Top 20 advocate by INvolve/EMpower. Nick graduated with a First Class Honors degree in Manufacturing Engineering from Cambridge University.