Speakers
Sophie Farhane is the Global Chief Underwriting Officer for Cyber (Direct & Indirect) at AXA XL. She oversees the company’s global cyber insurance portfolio, driving strategy, innovation, and partnerships with brokers and clients worldwide.
She joined AXA Group Underwriting Office in 2023 as an Expert Underwriter in cyber and financial lines. In October 2025, she transitioned to AXA XL, where she assumed her current global leadership role,bringing over a decade of experience in the insurance industry. Prior to joining AXA, she held senior cyber positions at HDI Global SE, as well as roles at Hiscox and AIG.
Lesley Harding is Global Head of Strategic Relationships, Energy & Transition Risk, and Global Clients Community Executive within Global Risk Solutions, Office of Underwriting, at Liberty Mutual Insurance.
Lesley is responsible for the execution of Liberty Mutual’s global Energy and Transition Risk strategy, including profitability, growth, and strategic market positioning. She leads global industry specific strategic planning efforts and works across the business to strengthen Liberty Mutual’s presence as a partner of choice for clients operating in complex and evolving energy markets.
In her role as Global Clients Community Executive, Lesley provides senior sponsorship and strategic leadership across Liberty Mutual’s global client community. She acts as an executive level liaison with major brokers and key global and regional clients, supporting collaboration, relationship management, and the development of client led solutions across the organisation.
Lesley brings more than 30 years of experience in the energy insurance and risk management sector.
Lesley held senior roles at Texaco Inc., Swiss Re, and Willis, and joined Liberty Mutual in 2020 from BP, where she served as Vice President and Global Head of Insurance Risk Management.
Ben Kinder has been in the Energy Insurance Market for 25 Years and is currently the Chief Underwriting Officer for Marine, Energy and Renewables at Tokio Marine HCC International.
His roles include a seat on the Tokio Marine Holdings Sustainability Committee where he oversees developing and delivering various ESG initiatives across the group. Ben is ACII qualified and also has an MBA from Henley Business School where many of his studies involved the implementation of ESG Policies across many organisations.
Outside of his role in Insurance, Ben is the Chairman of Trustees for a Charity by the name of Ashford Place who look to support people with Mental Health Issues across North-West London.
Dr. Ravagni brings over 20 years of experience in the energy industry and is a clean energy architect and industry expert in clean energy, energy storage, and fuel cell technologies. Since May 1st Dr. Ravagni is the CEO of the Net Zero Innovation Hub for Data Centers, an initiative funded by Microsoft, Google, Schneider Electric, Vertiv, Data4 and Danfoss to accelerate the Net Zero Transition of the Data center Industry.
Alberto is a co-founder of InfraPrime℠, a climate neutral data center infrastructure company focused on clean energy generation and energy storage products. He leads the investment plan and the institutional relations with the European Union and the global Clean Energy sector. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of SOLIDPower, a market leading fuel cells company, which commercialized fuel cells generators in megawatt scale for residential, SME, and data center clients including the Microsoft Fuel Cell Energy Lab in Seattle, Washington, USA. Alberto was a member of the first board of the Joint Technology Initiative for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells of the European Commission, a public-private partnership which manages a €1 billion innovation program to drive the transition to zero carbon energy systems.
Alberto has a Master in Material Engineering from the University on Trento (Italy) and a Ph.D. in Material Science from the Institute of New Materials of the Leibnitz Associations (Saarbrücken, Germany), where he developed metallorganic nanomaterials and their applications. Dr. Ravagni has a MBA from the Simon School of Rochester (NY)
