Rui Silva – vice president at Aon
Rui Silva serves as the Vice President and Medical Trend Leader in Health Solutions for Multinationals at Aon. In this role, he leads efforts to analyze and forecast global medical trends, providing insights that help multinational companies manage their healthcare costs effectively.
He focuses on understanding the economic volatility and inflationary pressures affecting the healthcare market, especially in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Silva emphasizes the importance of flexible benefit plans and wellbeing initiatives as strategies for companies to mitigate rising medical costs and improve employee health outcomes. His work includes addressing the primary medical conditions driving costs, such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and hypertension, and advocating for preventive health measures to manage these trends.
Under his leadership, Aon’s reports highlight significant increases in global medical trend rates, with the 2024 forecast predicting a rise to 10.1%, the highest since 2015. Silva’s insights are instrumental in helping organizations plan their global budgets and develop resilient workforce strategies.
Rui is a key benefits consultant with a professional experience working in an international environment. He has financial and actuarial expertise as well has substantial expertise in advising, designing, delivering and implementing Pension & Benefit projects. Leadership strengths include building strong relationships with clients and colleagues and the vision to create strategy for developing new business opportunities.
Specialties:
– Designing of pension and health and wellbeing schemes
– Actuarial and Risk valuation
– Global Employee Benefit broking
– Servicing multinational companies
– Training of teams
– Project management
– Benefits communication
