newly-created position of principal -- strategic initiatives.

The insurer and reinsurer said she will be responsible for managing Stockton Re's organisational effectiveness by strengthening alignment between the firm's mission, strategy, processes and structure.

Her duties include strategy development, client relationship management, governance and strategic alliances.

The Harvard-trained lawyer has been consulting in Cambridge, Massachusetts with Conflict Management Inc., the process and negotiation pioneers founded by Roger Fisher (director of the Harvard Negotiation Project and author of "Getting To Yes'').

Ms Brock was called to the Ontario Bar in 1990 and the Bermuda Bar in 1993 and also worked as an intern in the United Nations Centre for Human Rights in New York.

Last year, she played a role in the search for peace in Northern Ireland by participating in a series of Internet interviews with Irish political leaders.

Ms Brock has advised and trained clients on a range of financial transactions, negotiation strategies and restructuring, school reform and diversity management.

She has mediated collective bargaining negotiations and trained grievance and commercial mediators. She also has practised insolvency litigation with Blake, Cassels & Graydon in Toronto and reinsurance law with local law firm Milligan-Whyte & Smith.

*** Two other new principals have been identified as senior executives joining Stockton Re. They are Allen Binder , who will be senior underwriter, and Paul Livingstone , who will be senior underwriter and actuary.

Mr. Livingstone arrives from his last posting as vice president of the Centre Re division of Zurich Re (North America) and previously had worked with several brokerage firms, including Johnson & Higgins and Guy Carpenter & Co.

Mr. Binder was a senior vice president and senior production underwriting officer at TIG Reinsurance in Stamford, Connecticut. He was directly responsible for the finite reinsurance and alternative surplus product lines, and reported directly to the executive committee.

Arlene Brock