Victoria Fimea, JD

Ms. Fimea is the chief captive analyst for the Arizona Department of Insurance and Financial Institutions. She is an attorney with over 35 years of insurance and public affairs advocacy experience, including over 20 years in C-suite and senior-level positions. Her extensive captive insurance experience includes serving as a senior vice president with an alternative risk provider where she managed the regulatory, claims, underwriting, and captive formation departments, and as a senior vice president and general counsel in the life insurance industry forming captive insurers for reserve financing transactions. Ms. Fimea spent several years in Washington, DC, with a major national insurance trade association. Ms. Fimea volunteers at Northern Arizona University (NAU) to grow its Risk Management and Insurance (RMI) certificate program at The W.A. Franke College of Business, and she is an adjunct professor at NAU, teaching the senior year capstone course for NAU's RMI certificate program. Ms. Fimea has a bachelor of science degree from NAU, a master of arts degree from The American University School of International Service, and a juris doctor from The American University Washington College of Law. She is admitted to the Bars of Arizona, California, the District of Columbia, and Illinois. Ms. Fimea is the 1981 Truman Scholar for the State of Arizona.