MetLife announced that Laura Hay has been elected to its board of directors (BoD), effective immediately.

Laura Hay was Global Head of Insurance at KPMG LLP prior to her retirement in 2023, where she was an advisor on transformation, growth strategy, customer-focused innovation and risk mitigation to global boards and executive management teams.

She led a team of more than 10,000 professionals in more than 90 countries providing audit, tax and advisory services and led KPMG’s insurance practice to become the firm’s fastest growing financial services sector.

In her more than 35-year career, Hay has had extensive experience in technical accounting, client engagement, change management, risk identification and mitigation and knowledge transfer through training.

She has launched multiple initiatives to develop female financial services leaders. Hay was a member of the KPMG Global Financial Services Leadership Team and served on KPMG’s U.S. board of directors for five years and the KPMG Americas board for three years.

She started her career at MetLife in an Actuarial Development Program.