Scott Hawkins is a Managing Director and the Head of Insurance Research at Conning. Conning is a global investment management firm serving the insurance industry. Scott leads the firm’s insurance research practice. His work analyzes long-term trends shaping insurers and the wider financial services market. He has spent nearly two decades in insurance research and consulting. Scott Hawkins spoke at the 2024 InsurTech Spring Conference on the panel “Increasing Speed of Underwriting,” alongside Sophie Norman, Nanditha Nandy, and Natasha Alexeeva.
Scott has been with Conning since 2006. He began as Vice President of Insurance Research and Consulting. He later served as Director of Insurance Research. He was named Managing Director and Head of Insurance Research in 2022. His research covers the strategic questions facing life and P&C insurers.
Earlier in his career, Scott worked as a senior research fellow at Skandia. There he provided strategic research on long-term trends to the group’s CEO. He also participated in European Commission research projects. He contributed to the company’s intellectual capital measurement systems. He began his career as an analyst at American Skandia. He was also a senior research fellow at the Networks Financial Institute at Indiana State University.
Scott studied at Yale.
