The Spencer Educational Foundation Announces Funding Their Future Gala To Be Held on September 22, 2022
The Spencer Educational Foundation Announces Funding Their Future Gala To Be Held on September 22, 2022
Liberty Mutual’s Neeti Bhalla Johnson to Be Honored
New York, NY – The Spencer Educational Foundation, which supports the next generation of risk management and insurance leaders, will hold its Funding Their Future Gala on Thursday, Sept. 22, in New York City at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel.
This year’s Spencer Gala will honor Neeti Bhalla Johnson, President, Global Risk Solutions of Liberty Mutual Insurance for her outstanding achievements in risk management and insurance and her commitment to the future of the industry.
Neeti Bhalla Johnson joined Liberty Mutual in September 2013. Prior to her current role, she was president and chief investment officer, Liberty Mutual Investments. She was previously a managing director at Goldman Sachs, where she began her career in 2000 working as an analyst in the firm’s Investment Banking Division in London. Bhalla Johnson is active in Liberty’s employee resource groups, including as the executive co-sponsor of LEAAP@Liberty (Leading and Empowering Asian & Ally Professionals), and as an active participant in WE@Liberty, which is committed to supporting and empowering women professionals and their allies.
“We are proud to honor Neeti, an incredibly accomplished individual in the industry, and to celebrate Spencer’s far-reaching impact on industry talent at this year’s Gala,” said Robin Roeder, Spencer Board Chair and Senior Vice President Risk Management at Sedgwick. “The collective accomplishments of Spencer Scholars are untold. These students have gone on to impact countless lives through their commitment to better the industry, and we applaud their achievements and successes yet to come. And to the many Spencer supporters, we say thank you for your generosity. You, too, elevate the industry and shape the world in ways that benefit us all.”
Since 2009, Spencer’s Gala has brought together hundreds of risk management and insurance industry leaders to honor executives and their companies for their contributions to industry education. Due to the pandemic, Spencer’s Gala pivoted to an annual fundraising campaign titled Funding Their Future in 2020 and 2021 to continue raising funds for Spencer’s five programs. The Foundation looks forward to hosting this year’s Funding Their Future Gala in person, aiming to raise $1.5 million to support scholarships, grants, and additional industry experiential learning and educational programming.
“After a two-year hiatus, we are excited to be back in person at the Spencer Funding Their Future Gala applauding the efforts of our distinguished honorees,” said Duncan Ellis, Chair of Spencer’s Fundraising Committee and Head of North American Retail Property at AIG. “We hope many of you will join us in supporting this year’s Gala and celebrating with colleagues we haven’t seen in far too long.”
In 2021, the Spencer Educational Foundation awarded over $1.2 million providing 89 scholarships, 66 grants, and 36 internships. Since Spencer’s founding 43 years ago, the Foundation has awarded nearly $9 million in scholarships and more than $7 million in grants that have directly impacted the quality of risk management and insurance education and the talent entering the RMI profession.
More information regarding sponsorship and ticket packages will be available soon. For information on the Spencer Educational Foundation, please visit www.spencered.org.
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About The Spencer Educational Foundation
The Spencer Educational Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization funding the education of tomorrow’s risk management and insurance leaders through scholarships, grants, internship opportunities, on and off campus experiential learning, and support of risk management/insurance curricula. Since Spencer was founded in 1979, we have awarded nearly $9 million in scholarships and over $7 million in grants to universities and professional institutions impacting an estimated 70,000 students through our programming. For more information, please visit us at www.spencered.org
About Neeti Bhalla Johnson
Neeti Bhalla Johnson is the President, Global Risk Solutions, Liberty Mutual Insurance. She leads the company’s commercial and specialty insurance business unit, with operations in 24 countries producing $18.5B in gross written premium. Notably, the business is ranked first in Global Surety and is the fifth largest global commercial and specialty lines writer. Neeti was previously President and Chief Investment Officer, Liberty Mutual Investments.
Neeti joined Liberty Mutual in September 2013. She was previously a managing director at Goldman Sachs. She began her career with Goldman Sachs in 2000, working as an analyst in the firm’s Investment Banking Division in London. In 2002, she joined the Goldman Sachs Investment Management Group in New York, where she was responsible for tactical asset allocation decisions for Private Wealth Management clients. In her position as head of the Tactical Asset Allocation team, she was a member of the Investment Strategy Group. Before Goldman Sachs, Neeti worked at the Central Bank of Kenya and the Nairobi Stock Exchange.
Neeti is the executive co-sponsor of LEAAP@Liberty (Leading and Empowering Asian & Ally Professionals) and an active participant in WE@Liberty, a women’s network and advocacy group at Liberty Mutual. While at Goldman Sachs, she also participated in the women’s network and mentored women in the firm’s Returnship program. Neeti has been featured in Working Mothers Magazine, Glass Hammer, Insurance Business America, Insurance AUM Journal, as well as having been honored by the Foreign Policy Association.
Neeti was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where she earned an MBA and MSc in Social Anthropology. She also has a BA in Economics from Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya.
Neeti currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Peterson Institute for International Economics; member of the Board of Directors of the Trustees Organization; member of the International Council of the Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University; and a member of the Board of Trustees, Rhodes Trust, University of Oxford.