Maïté Irakoze Baur is Chief Investment Officer for Farmers Insurance Group since 2021. She is responsible for managing the insurance balance sheets and retirement plan assets. Maïté joined Farmers as Head of Insurance Investments in 2016. In this role she was responsible for implementing the investment strategy across the insurance balance sheets and managing a fully outsourced multi-asset manager platform. Between 2011 and 2016, Maïté was Head of Investment Mandates and Treasury in Investment Management Switzerland for Zurich Insurance Group, where she had the responsibility to implement the investment strategy and liquidity management for various insurance balance sheets based in Switzerland. Before that, Maïté held other positions within Zurich Insurance Group in New York and Zurich. Maïté holds a Master of Arts in Information Management from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland and is also a CFA Charterholder. She currently serves on the California Organized Investment Network (COIN) Advisory Board and is a member of the Insurance Women’s Investment Network (IWIN) Board.