Rebeca Olazabal Head RES Property Spain, France & South Africa Swiss Re Corporate Solutions

Rebeca Olazabal is Head of RES Property ES, FR, SA at Swiss Re Corporate Solutions. In this role, Rebeca leads a multinational team of property risk engineers, delivering technical expertise and actionable insights to support underwriters and clients across some of Europe’s most dynamic markets.

Rebeca began her career in 2009 as fire engineer consultant for Madrid Barajas Airport and later joined insurance as property risk engineer for Generali GC&C, where she led Iberia and Latam risk engineering and loss prevention team for Property, Engineering & Construction, Casualty and Marine. For 9 years, she contributed to the expansion and professional development of the team in the different regions, development of risk engineering guidelines, standards and innovative solutions to better support risk management decisions and the profitable growth of the portfolio.

As an account engineer, Rebeca developed her expertise for large corporates for a variety of sectors, especially Power Generation & Renewables.

In 2021, she joined Swiss Re Corporate Solutions as a Senior Risk Engineer in Madrid. In 2022, she took on leadership responsibility for the risk engineers in Spain, Italy and Switzerland and was promoted to Head RES Mediterranean (Spain, Italy and France) in 2024. Rebeca is passionate about building up high-performing teams, with a strong focus on customer satisfaction and alignment with business strategy.

Rebeca holds a Master of Fire Engineering from Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio and a Master of Industrial Engineering with a major in Mechanical Engineering from ETSII Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. She has completed her skills with green-belt training on Lean 6 Sigma and Change Management at HEC University in Paris.