James Newland
Vice-President and Corporate Counsel
RGA International Corporation

James Newland is Vice-President and Corporate Counsel for RGA International. He provides general legal advice to serve the growing demands of RGA’s international reinsurance business, focusing on corporate governance, regulatory issues, treaty and contract, and business structure. He also has direct responsibility for serving the legal needs of RGA’s operations in Latin America.

Prior to joining RGA, James served in a variety of legal and compliance positions at Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services (formerly The National Life Assurance Company of Canada), including being National Life’s first (and as it turned out, only) Compliance Officer, and for several years served as Chief Legal Counsel at Industrial Alliance in Toronto. He has broad experience with legal and compliance issues relating to life insurance, as well as other areas of law including corporate ethics, human resources, business continuity, privacy and anti-money laundering.

He has spoken extensively at events across Canada on various issues relating to the law and life insurance.