Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) - the corporate insurance carrier of ALLIANZ Group - announced that Maria Grace was appointed as Global Head of Property succeeding Thierry Portevin who leads AGCS's global risk consulting team since March.

Maria Grace joins AGCS from Everest Re Group, where she served as the Chief Underwriting Officer for Property and Inland Marine at the Group's Insurance Company.

Prior to Everest Re, she held numerous executive and managerial roles at Starr Companies, AIG North America and AIG's Latin American and Caribbean division.

"Grace has over 23 years of commercial underwriting and claims experience and holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Colombia and a Juris Master's Degree from George Mason University School of Law in the United States. Currently based in the United States, she will re-locate to AGCS's headquarter in Munich in the coming months".