Mark Cook is a Director in Willis Towers Watson’s Global Services and Solutions group based in London and advises on a range of international employee benefits issues. He is an international benefits expert and has worked at Willis Towers Watson for over 20 years.

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Mark leads Willis Towers Watson’s benefit financing group globally and assists a variety of clients from different sectors with the optimisation of employee benefits financing. This includes a wide range of self-insurance, insurance, multinational pooling and captive related assignments ranging from annual management/governance such as premium setting and claims/reserving analysis to the set-up of successful and sustainable benefit captives, global underwriting models or multinational pooling arrangements. Recent developments in this space include the transfer of retiree medical assets or retirement pension liabilities to a captive, the bulk portfolio transfer of certain EB risks to a single insurer or the transition to a cross border regional benefit plan.