Mariagiovanna Guatteri - CIO Swiss Re ILS, Alternative Capital Partners
Mariagiovanna Guatteri is the Chief Investment Officer of Swiss Re Insurance-Linked Strategies Inc. ("Swiss Re ILS").*
She served as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of SRILIAC from its inception until January 2026. Prior to this, she headed the ILS Portfolio Management team for seven years and was responsible for managing all proprietary ILS-related investment strategies for Swiss Re including Cat Bonds, ILWs and catastrophe derivatives.
Prior to heading the ILS Portfolio Management team at Swiss Re, Mariagiovanna worked on Swiss Re's ILS trading desk for nine years where she was responsible for customer and proprietary trading and developed extensive knowledge and experience in the ILS market, Cat Bond trading and ILS portfolio construction.
Mariagiovanna joined Swiss Re in 2003 as a Natural Catastrophe Modeler, gaining experience in risk analysis, cat modeling and underwriting. She holds several patents in the field of earthquake modeling and parametric trigger development for Natural Catastrophe trades and has published numerous peer-reviewed papers and articles in trade magazines.
Mariagiovanna received her Master's and PhD degrees in Geophysics, and Master's degree in Statistics, each from Stanford University and holds a Bachelor's of Science and Master's of Science degrees in Physics from Università degli Studi in Bologna, Italy.
*Swiss Re Insurance-Linked Investment Advisors Corporation ("SRILIAC") was renamed Swiss Re Insurance-Linked Strategies Inc. ("Swiss Re ILS") as of 22 June 2026.
