Newly appointed Zurich Chief Claims Officer Suzi Leung had a Sydney upbringing typical for an immigrant family — multigenerational living, parents who worked shift work, and a focus on education above all else.

As a first generation Australian, the child of Vietnamese boat people, Leung says her parents just wanted her to get into university, obtain a degree and work ‘an office job’.

‘Anything that used my brain over hard labour was the goal,’ Leung recalls.

The luxury of choice

She showed promising signs of academic prowess, and her parents dared to hope that she would get into medicine or law.

‘I had an older cousin who was a lawyer, and my decision to pursue law at university was in a large part due to her influence,’ Leung says. 

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