Andreas Brandstetter has been CEO of UNIQA Insurance Group AG since 2011. Before entering the insurance business in 1997, where he has held various leadership positions, he was head of the EU office of Österreichischer Raiffeisenverband. From 1993 to 1995, he was active in politics. Andreas Brandstetter graduated from the University of Vienna in 1994 with a doctorate degree in political science, also holds an Executive MBA from the California State University, Hayward, and completed further courses at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Harvard Business School. Since 2018, he has been the president of Insurance Europe, the European insurance and reinsurance federation.