Measures to promote women on the Management Board, the Supervisory Board and in executive positions

A community the size of ours at UNIQA lives and breathes through diversity. We value and respect each other, regardless of gender, age, origin, physical ability, religion or ideology. Our employees are just as diverse as our customers. A diverse workforce helps us to better understand our customers and better serve their different needs. For us, the guiding principle “Living better together” is only fulfilled when equal rights and equal opportunities are given in their entirety.

UNIQA is convinced that diversity, equal opportunities and inclusion promote employee loyalty to the company as well as their innovative potential and productivity. Since they lead to higher customer satisfaction and better financial results, diversity and inclusion are also a decisive factor for economic success and growth.

There are now four women on the Supervisory Board of UNIQA Insurance Group AG including Marie-Valerie Brunner, Anna Maria D’Hulster, Jutta Kath and since the middle of the year Monika Henzinger. This means that the proportion of female Supervisory Board members among the elected members (shareholder representatives) has reached 40 per cent and is therefore well above the quota required by law. With Sabine Andre and Irene Scheiber, two women have also been delegated to the group of employee representatives on the Supervisory Board, which means that there is now also a quota of 40 per cent female members on this board. In relation to the Supervisory Board as a whole, this also results in a proportion of women of 40 per cent, which significantly exceeds the statutory quota of 30 per cent.

The Management Boards of UNIQA Insurance Group AG and UNIQA Österreich Versicherungen AG, which include the same individuals and have been reduced to seven members, now include one woman, Sabine Pfeffer, an important sign on the way to the goal of “More women in executive roles”. The UNIQA Group does of course also continue to implement various accompanying measures in addition to its clear commitment to this goal. The objective is to change the framework conditions and prerequisites in such a way that the organisation becomes more permeable overall for women’s careers. At 57.1 per cent (2023: 57.9 per cent), the proportion of women in the UNIQA Group’s total workforce had fallen slightly by the end of 2024. This proportion which is still a high one is primarily driven by the international insurance companies (63.0 per cent).

The proportion of women on the Group’s Management Boards is 31.6 per cent, a significant increase compared to 2023 (2023: 26.3 per cent). Of the 1,431 managers across the Group, 569 are women, which equates to 39.8 per cent. There is a clear difference between the Austrian and international companies of the UNIQA Group (proportion of women 25.6 per cent compared to 45.4 per cent).