Speaker profile: Sandra Hack

Sandra Hack is a Principal Expert at the Risks & Financial Stability Department of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA). She is responsible for, amongst other areas, all EIOPA activities around insurers’ financial reporting. Previously, she managed EIOPA’s pension policy team which is dealing with a wide range of topics related to prudential and supervisory issues in the area of private pensions in Europe. She joined EIOPA in 2011 as a Senior Expert on Valuation responsible for EIOPA’s work on the valuation of assets and liabilities for the purposes of Solvency II. Furthermore, she is EIOPA’s accounting expert with various engagements at European and international level regarding the development, endorsement and enforcement of IFRSs. Before joining EIOPA from 2007 to 2011 Sandra worked for the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). Her main responsibilities lay in the project on Insurance Contracts where she led the global outreach activities. Before joining the IASB, Sandra was a lecturer for international accounting at Technische Universität Berlin and a technical advisor in the accounting policy departments of DZ BANK and Ernst & Young’s National Offices. Prior to that, Sandra held several posts in national standard-setting, consulting services and external audit. Sandra gained her master’s degree in Business, Economics and Social Sciences at Universität Hohenheim.