Speaker

Keith Bell

Keith Bell is Senior Vice President, Accounting Policy, Corporate Finance at The Travelers Companies, Inc. He is responsible for setting accounting policy, monitoring the development of accounting and regulatory reporting standards, and interacting with accounting standard setters as well as domestic and international insurance regulators on financial matters. Prior to joining Travelers, he held similar responsibilities at Aetna, Inc. (formerly Aetna Life & Casualty).

Mr. Bell has worked in the insurance and financial services industry for over thirty years and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Rhode Island Society of CPAs.

He has been active on several NAIC advisory committees, the American Council of Life Insurance’s Accounting Committees, and is currently co-chairman of the American Properety Casualty Insurance Association Financial and Regulatory Committee, a member of the Federal Reserve Insurance Policy Advisory Committee, a member of the U.S. Treasury Advisory Committee on Risk-Sharing Mechanisms, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Conference of Insurance Guaranty Funds (member of the Accounting, Finance, and Public Policy Committees), a former member of the AICPA Insurance Expert Panel and a member of the AICPA/National Association of Insurance Commissioners Task Force.