Joel Wood, Senior Vice President for Government Affairs, CIAB

2022ST_Joel Wood, Senior Vice President for Government Affairs, CIAB

TUESDAY, October 18 | 4:00 PM

Joel Wood is the Senior Vice President for Government Affairs for The Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers and also oversees CouncilPAC, the association’s political action committee. He has been the top regulatory and government affairs officer at The Council since 1993. He came to Washington a decade earlier to work as a press and legislative director for Rep. Don Sundquist (R-Tenn.). Over the course of his career, Wood has been deeply engaged in many issues impacting the commercial insurance brokerage industry—from health insurance reform efforts to terrorism reinsurance, to regulatory reforms both small and large, at both the federal and the state level—and has received numerous accolades as one of the top lobbyists in the financial services industry..