Jardine Lloyd Thompson has appointed a new Northern sales director, Paul Williams.

Williams has been in insurance for 17 years and worked all over the world. He will be joining JLT from Heath Lambert, where he was regional director in charge of building and developing major accounts in the North. Prior to that, he was vice president of one of the AIG International divisions for five years, three of which were spent in New York looking after 27 global markets.

Williams will be joining JLT on 24 November and will be based in JLT's newly opened Leeds office