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Alex Kimura

PartnerSingapore

Leads McKinsey’s insurance work in Asia and advises leading financial-services organizations with a specialized focus on transformation programs to improve client impact, accelerate performance, and drive shareholder value

Alex Kimura is a leading advisor to global CEOs, top-management insurance executives, and government regulators, leveraging his knowledge of the financial services and insurance industry to advise executives on strategy, and operations. He primarily serves leading insurers on their multi-year transformation to materially improve client impact, accelerate performance, and drive shareholder value.

Alex brings with him over 25 years of strategic and deep operating experience. Prior to joining McKinsey, Alex worked in investment banking and management consulting; he also held CXO positions at global insurance firms in the life/retirement, P&C, and wealth management sector. With a more recent focus on digital innovation, he helped spearhead efforts to build new insurance business models and chaired the Monetary Authority of Singapore digital innovation roundtable in the city-state. Over the years, Alex has also served on several boards with leading financial institutions across Asia.

Alex is a frequent speaker at numerous industry conferences on digital insurance and regularly judges at fintech competitions. You can also hear his perspectives as the host of the McKinsey on Insurance podcast. 

Alex is an avid tennis player and global traveler and has traveled to more than 80 countries. His travel goal is to visit at least one UNESCO heritage site a year. After having resided and worked in 11 countries, he is now based in Singapore with his wife and five children.

Published work

"Global Insurance Report 2025: Growth and relevance in life and beyond," McKinsey & Company, November 2024

Global Insurance Report 2025: Finding profitable personal lines growth,” McKinsey & Company, November 2024

Global Insurance Report 2025: The pursuit of growth,” McKinsey & Company, November 2024

How insurers can serve Asia’s aging population,” McKinsey & Company, September 2024

Global Insurance Report 2023: Navigating Asia’s evolving market,” McKinsey & Company, November 2023

Why Asian insurers are ideally positioned for embedded market gains,” McKinsey & Company, July 2023

Five steps to improve innovation in the insurance industry,” McKinsey & Company, March 2022

Connecting employee health and wealth: Interview with CXA Group’s CEO,” McKinsey & Company, January 2022

From insurtech to incumbent: How Aviva Singlife came to life,” McKinsey & Company, October 2021

Global perspectives on insurtechs,” McKinsey & Company, September 2021

Product innovation: The new imperative for insurers in Asia,” McKinsey & Company, March 2021

Insurance strategy in Asia: Using programmatic M&A during the pandemic,” McKinsey & Company, October 2020

Asia: Primed for digital disruption, Asia Insurance Review, 2018

Interview

Asian insurers must harness post-pandemic wave of innovation,” Insurance Business Asia, 2021

Past experience

Aviva
Managing director and chief strategy officer

AXA
Group regional executive officer, Chief strategy officer
Chief operating officer

Taikang Life
Member of the board of directors

Bain & Company
Manager

EDUCATION

Columbia University
MBA