John J Haley

John Haley is the CEO of Willis Towers Watson. He joined the company in 1977 and throughout his career served in a variety of roles including consulting actuary to several of the company’s largest clients, manager of the Washington, D.C. consulting office and leader of the global Retirement practice. John was named CEO in 1998. Under his leadership, the company has completed three historic mergers, in 2005, 2010 and 2016, which formed present-day Willis Towers Watson. John also serves on the board of directors of the U.S.-China Business Council and MAXIMUS, and served as a director of Hudson Global, Inc. He is a Fellow of both the Society of Actuaries and the Conference of Consulting Actuaries, and has served as a trustee of The Actuarial Foundation. John has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Rutgers College and received a fellowship for two years of study at the Graduate School of Mathematics at Yale University.