About WTW EMEA
WTW (Willis Towers Watson) is a leading global advisory, broking, and solutions company that helps clients around the world turn risk into a path for growth. With roots dating to 1828, WTW has more than 49,000 employees serving more than 140 countries and markets. The firm designs and delivers solutions that manage risk, optimize benefits, cultivate talent, and expand the power of capital to protect and strengthen institutions and individuals. The firm looks at the intersections between talent, assets, and ideas—the dynamic formula that drives business performance.
The story of WTW is a story of mergers. The firm as it exists today was created in 2015, following a merger between Willis Group and Towers Watson—itself a merger between Towers Perrin and Watson Wyatt Worldwide after years of direct competition between the two. Today, Willis Towers Watson is one of the world's largest HR and actuarial consulting firms, boasting over 40,000 employees and multiple offices on every continent but Antarctica. Its practices focus on human resources and risk and financial management.
Its seasoned risk advisors with specialist industry experience and market know-how are able to craft strategies to quantify, mitigate, and transfer risk—whether that means using sophisticated analytics to harness Big Data or looking at risk as a revenue-generation opportunity. The result is a new way of embracing risk that drives superior results.