Thomas Buberl

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.

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.

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). Under his leadership, Axa bought XL, for 12.4 billion in 2018 as part of a shift towards casualty and property insurance.

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.

From 2008 to 2012, he was CEO of Zurich Financial Services in Switzerland.

In 2008, Buberl was named a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum. In July 2019, he became a Knight of the French Legion of Honor.

In 2005, Buberl joined the Winterthur Group as a as member of the management board in Switzerland, first as chief operating officer and then as chief marketing and distribution officer.

From 2000 to 2005, Buberl worked at the Boston Consulting Group as a banking and insurance consultant in France and abroad.

Thomas Buberl (born 24 March 1973), is a German businessman, and the CEO of Axa since 2016.

Buberl was born on 24 March 1973 in Cologne, Germany. 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).