Shri Devesh Srivastava is a Chairman cum Managing Director of GIC-Re. He is a direct recruit officer of the 1987 batch and a post-graduate in Physics and also post-graduate in Management, majoring in Marketing with a Gold Medal from the Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurgaon. He began his career with Oriental Insurance Company Limited and subsequently in 1999 he was transferred to General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC-Re). At GIC-Re he was handling Reinsurance Department, specialty lines of Aviation, Marine Hull and Cargo, Oil & Energy, Miscellaneous, Motor and Liability till he was selected to head the UK branch of the Corporation in 2013. He has also handled the departments of Human Resource & Training, Re-Insurance Worldwide (RIWW), Health, Corporate Communications, CMDs Secretariat, Innovation Centre; Ministry & IRDAI matters prior to his elevation as CMD of GIC-Re.