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Chien-Teng ‘CT’ Chia

PartnerLondon

Advises insurers and private equity investors on strategy, transactions, and large-scale performance transformations with a focus on commercial insurance

Chien-Teng advises insurers and private equity investors on corporate strategy, transactions, and large-scale performance transformations. She is a leader in McKinsey’s Commercial Insurance Practice, where she works with global carriers to accelerate growth, strengthen underwriting performance, and redesign operating models for sustained value creation.

Recent examples of Chien-Teng’s client work include:

  • shaping a 10-year enterprise strategy for a global commercial insurer, covering portfolio strategy, talent, technology, and data modernization
  • developing a 5-year strategy for a leading UK wealth and asset manager, including preparation for its capital markets day and board engagement
  • reviewing the portfolio and distribution strategy for a global specialty insurer and defining a roadmap to double growth
  • designing and implementing multiple enterprise-wide productivity transformations at specialty and global commercial insurers, driving productivity and growth across underwriting, claims, and central functions, including the deployment of AI-enabled capabilities
  • redesigning the operating model of a global commercial insurer across specialty, large corporate, and mid-market segments
  • leading commercial due diligence for multiple commercial insurance assets

PUBLISHED WORK

How commercial lines is weathering a period of uncertainty and change,” McKinsey & Company, January 2026

Alternative capital in property and casualty: A way forward,” McKinsey & Company, May 2023

EDUCATION

Brown University
BA, Economics and East Asian studies

University of Oxford – Pembroke College
Visiting student, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics