Sean Kevelighan, a Bush White House alum who is global head of public affairs for Zurich Insurance Group, is returning stateside next month to lead the Insurance Information Institute in New York.
The 43-year-old Kevelighan will take the president and CEO title Aug. 8 atop the trade group, which describes its mission "to improve public understanding of insurance -- what it does and how it works."
The III's current president fo 18 years, Robert Hartwig, is slated to become a faculty member at the Univ. of South Carolina's Darla Moore School of Business. He will maintain a relationship with the trade group writing papers and offering testimony on III's behalf, the group said.
Kevelighan was previously group head of global consumer banking public affairs at Citigroup, led North American media relations for Zurich, and served the Treasury Dept. and White House Office of Management and Budget during President George W. Bush's administration.
Earlier in his career, he did agency stints at Edelman and Hill+Knowlton in between Capitol Hill assignments.
III board chair Bruce Kelley said a search committee screened dozens of candidates but unanimously decided on Kevelighan for the job.
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