Catrin Shi is Insurance Insider’s Editor-In-Chief and co-founder of the publication’s award-winning diversity and inclusion campaign, Insider Progress. A graduate in modern languages, Catrin has been working as a journalist for 12 years, the last nine of which have been focused on the (re)insurance industry.

She trained to become a journalist as a postgraduate at the Cardiff University School of Journalism. Catrin cut her teeth at various regional newspapers before starting out as a financial journalist at SNL Financial (now S&P Global Market Intelligence) in 2012, where she developed and launched the firm’s European insurance news product.

She joined Insurance Insider in 2015 and became Editor-in-Chief in 2022, overseeing editorial strategy across the three titles in the Insurance Insider group. She has picked up a number of trade journalism awards for her work, including BIBA’s Best Investigative Journalism award and WTW’s Features Journalist of the Year in 2023.