Willis Group Holdings, the global risk adviser, insurance and reinsurance broker, has appointed Andy Whitehouse as Group Director of Marketing and Communications.Whitehouse joins Willis following eight years with McKinsey & Company, where he served most recently as Interim Global Communications Director and Deputy Director of Communications. In his new role, reporting to Group CEO Dominic Casserley, Whitehouse will succeed Josh King, who has led the communications function at Willis since 2009 and is now assuming a leadership role in the business with Willis's Technology, Media & Telecommunications industry group.
Earlier in his career, Whitehouse served in the UK government, leading teams in the Prime Minister's Social Exclusion Unit, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Department of Health. Whitehouse, a graduate of Oxford University and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, is a visiting lecturer at Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government and a trustee of the UK education non-profit organisation SAPERE.