Hamish Roberts

Global Renewable Energy Leader, Marsh Specialty

Hamish is Global Renewable Energy Leader at Marsh Specialty. He has spent 37 years in the insurance industry and has met and worked with the most exciting and interesting clients, colleagues, and markets during the years!

Hamish began his career at CT Bowring in 1984 and joined Johnson & Higgins in their new London 'start-up' company and began working in their energy department on downstream business emanating from J&H World Wide Network. It was there that Hamish began to specialise in Power Utility Business.

In 1997 Marsh purchased J&H and Hamish, along with his team were transferred into the Global Broking Company. In 2001 he was promoted to Managing Director and Head of Placement worldwide for Power and Utility business.

In 2004 Hamish joined JLT to head up their Power activity, building a team handling Global Retail and Wholesale business. Hamish was promoted to head the group’s Energy team, including power in 2007.

In 2008 he joined Aon as CEO of their Global Power business and built their team to over 200 people around the world. Hamish joined JLT Specialty in April 2014 as Business Development Director across all the Specialty divisions. Upon merging with Marsh in 2018, Hamish became global CEO of a combined Marsh JLT renewable energy group.