Georg Engl

Georg Engl was born on 30.09.1976 in Mistelbach, Austria and attended elementary school in Bad Goisern am Hallstättersee and grammar school in Bad Ischl, Austria. He continued to study Business Administration at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria, focusing on Controlling, Finance and Marketing where he graduated with a master’s degree (Magister rer. soc. oec.) in 1998 after completing his master’s thesis on the topic of “Project management at large events – shown at the example of the Formula One Grand Prix in Austria 1997.” From 2006-2008 he earned a Master of Science in Finance, with distinction, at London Business School (University of London) with specialisations in corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions and risk management. His thesis was dedicated to the insurance industry, analysing a fictional multinational merger of a large insurance group with a global reinsurer and its impact on capital requirement and profitability. In 2018 he enrolled into the joint doctoral study in International Relations of the University of Zadar and the Libertas International University, which he finished upon the public defense of his dissertation “Impact of International Investments on the Croatian Insurance Market, compared to selected CEE Countries.“ Most of his professional career he spent in the insurance industry, working for Assicurazioni Generali Group for twenty years in various countries like Austria, United Kingdom, Poland, Croatia and Slovakia and with more than ten years of experience in top management roles, including as Chief Executive Officer and President of the Management Board of Generali in Croatia and later on in Slovakia. During these activities he gained a deep understanding of the insurance business and its markets, especially in the Central and Eastern European region. Since 2020 he has shifted his career path to his entrepreneurial activities.