AIA hires well-known insurance consultant

The owner and principal of insurance specialist consultancy firm 19Thirty, Melissa Crawford, joined the life insurer earlier this month, according to Ms Crawford's LinkedIn profile.

Ms Crawford has worked at BT's Securitor, Reinsurance Group of America and held multiple positions at MLC.

In her new role, she will be working with the distribution arm of the insurer "to create leading strategies and tools" in order to help advisers.

Based in Melbourne, Ms Crawford's consultancy practice provided support to businesses, advisers and clients around the areas of risk insurance.

Earlier this year, Ms Crawford worked alongside Zurich in conducting a series of workshops titled 'Cracking the Life Insurance Code'.