Pete is a sailor and adventurer turned entrepreneur and author of the bestselling book Close to the Wind.  He now splits his time between his ongoing adventures and delivering inspirational and motivational talks to organisations around the world. A regular lecturer at business schools, he is an Associate Fellow of Saïd Business School Oxford University.

Pete is perhaps best known for his heroic rescue of Frenchman and fellow competitor Raphael Dinelli from mountainous Southern Ocean seas and hurricane force winds in the 1996 Vendee Globe single-handed round the world race, for which he was awarded the MBE by Her Majesty the Queen and the Legion d'Honneur by the French President.  He has also walked to the North Pole, kayaked around Tasmania, and recreated the voyage of the smallest migrant vessel ever to make it to Australia by building the wooden lugger Spirit of Mystery which he sailed with family members to Melbourne.

An acclaimed international speaker, Pete draws on his experiences to inspire individuals and groups to achieve beyond what they thought possible.

He has a background in the justice system, having previously been CEO of Legal Aid New South Wales, Executive Director of the Australian Law Reform Commission and Chair of the National Legal Assistance Advisory Body. Alan has also been a part-time member of a number of state and federal tribunals.

He has a long-term interest in redressing socio-economic disadvantage, having served on the boards of the Australian Council of Social Service, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre and the Welfare Rights Centre.

In 2016-17, Alan was a member of the panel for the Review of the Financial System External Dispute Resolution and Complaints Framework (the Ramsay Review). 

Andrew Rear (UK)
Chief Executive
Munich Re Digital Partners

Andrew Rear is the Chief Executive of Munich Re Digital Partners. He joined Munich Re in 2010, leading the Asia, Africa and UK life businesses until May 2016 when he took up his current role. Digital Partners is a global business working with, and investing in, start-ups, digital verticals and the sharing economy, with the ambition of building a more engaged proposition for insurance customers. Prior to joining Munich Re, Andrew was a partner and head of the EMEA insurance practice at Oliver Wyman.

Peter Banthorpe (UK)
Senior Vice President and Head of Global Research and Development 
RGA

Peter leads RGA’s advanced analytics capabilities, International experience study unit, and oversees RGA’s biometric research and related strategic research programme.  Peter is also the Lead Risk Management Office for Mortality at RGA.  

Prior to joining RGA in 2010, Peter was Head of Pricing and Reinsurance for AIG Life UK (formerly Fortis). He was one of its first employees, a member of its senior management team, and led the development of its actuarial, management information and reinsurance capabilities from initial creation until several years after its launch.

Peter is a graduate of Cambridge University and qualified as an actuary in 2003. He has been a member of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries’ (IFoA) CMI Executive Committee since 2008 and was formally a founding Director of CMI Limited.  He has previously chaired IFoA working parties on Critical Illness pricing and Genetics and the IFoA’s Mortality Research Steering Committee. Peter is also a regular presenter at industry events on a diverse range of subjects.

Pauline Vamos
Non-Executive Director
Mercer Superannuation
BALLB, FASFA, MAICD

Pauline is a non-executive director of, the Mercer Superannuation Australia Limited,   the Banking and Finance Oath (BFO), Interaction Disability Services  as well as the Chairman  of CIMA Society of Australia (formerly IMCA Australia)  and Freedom Insurance Group.

She has over 30 years’ experience in the financial services industry. 

During 2017 and 2108, she was the CEO of Regnan, a leading research and engagement provider focused on long term ESG  risks of the ASX 200 for institutional investors. Prior to Regnan, Pauline was the CEO of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) for almost nine years.

In the three years prior to 2007 when she joined ASFA, Pauline consulted to the financial services industry and was on a number of boards. Pauline was also a senior executive with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) for seven years and in that role, managed the implementation of the Managed Investment Act and the Financial Services Reform Act.

A qualified lawyer, Pauline has also been a corporate counsel, head of compliance, and strategic risk consultant. Previously, she has been a member of the peak advisory and consultative groups on pension and superannuation reform for government in Australia and the UK. Pauline was on the Advisory Council for the Centre for International Finance and Regulation (CIFR), an academic centre of excellence for research and education in the financial sector.

Pauline was voted ‘most influential in the financial services industry’ by Money Management as well as ‘most influential in the superannuation industry’ by Super Review. In 2013, Pauline was recognised as one of the ‘Australian Financial Review and Westpac 100 Women of Influence’. Pauline was also awarded in October the Superannuation Executive of the Year in the Women In Financial Services Awards 2016. In November 2016, Pauline was elected an ASFA Life Member in recognition of long standing service to ASFA and the superannuation industry.

In his role as Senior Policy Manager, Life Insurance, among other things Nick leads the policy work on the FSC Life Code of Practice and other matters relating to life insurance.

Nick has spent his career in financial services, both in industry and public policy.  He spent many years in senior industry roles in the UK before spending eight years as the policy lead for life insurance at the Association of British Insurers, and then two years at the ILC-UK, a Westminster based think-tank advising the UK Government on public policy matters relating to demographic change.

In 2014, Nick moved to Australia, spending over two years in senior industry roles before joining the Financial Services Council.

Outside work, Nick is married to Bronwyn and enjoys running, tennis, theatre and travel.

David Ritter is the Chief Executive Officer of Greenpeace Australia Pacific, an independent, environmental campaigning organisation. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Sydney Democracy Network at Sydney University, a research affiliate of the Sydney Environment Institute and an honorary fellow of the Law Faculty at UWA.  His most recent book is The Coal Truth: The Fight to Stop Adani, Defeat the Big Polluters and Reclaim our Democracy.  He has two daughters and lives in Sydney. 

Jonathan Dixon (Switzerland)
Secretary General
International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS)

Prior to becoming Secretary General, Jonathan had a long association with the IAIS, having been a member of the IAIS Executive Committee since 2009 and Chair of its Implementation Committee since 2012. He also chaired the Governing Council of the Access to Insurance Initiative (A2ii), a joint initiative of the IAIS and development partners aimed at strengthening responsible and inclusive insurance.

Prior to joining the IAIS, Jonathan was Deputy Executive Officer at the Financial Services Board of South Africa, with responsibility for insurance regulation and supervision. He was appointed to this position by the Minister of Finance in 2008. Before that he worked for 10 years for the National Treasury of South Africa on economic and financial sector policy issues.

Jonathan has a Master of Science in Economics from the London School of Economics.

John Trowbridge

John Trowbridge has a background as a consultant, executive, company director and regulator in a career spent predominantly in financial services with an emphasis on insurance-related businesses. He founded Trowbridge Consulting in the 1980s which became a leading actuarial and management consulting firm in Australia and Asia, merging with Deloitte in 2000. 

From 2006 to 2010, as one of APRA’s three Members he had carriage of life and general insurance and also executive remuneration. He chaired the Australian Government’s review of natural disaster insurance following the 2011 floods. In 2015 he chaired the Life Insurance and Advice Working Group to recommend reforms in the life insurance industry which came into effect in January 2018.

John continues to undertake occasional consulting assignments, most of which are insurance related.

John has degrees in science, engineering and arts and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia. He was President of that Institute in 1998 and a member of the Treasurer’s Financial Sector Advisory Council from 1998 to 2004.

Jessica leads the Insurance Finance team within the Westpac Group. This team oversees the financial reporting of all of Westpac’s Insurance lines including Life Insurance, General Insurance and Lenders Mortgage Insurance.

Prior to joining Westpac, Jessica led the implementation of the new Australian capital standards for TAL. She is an experienced actuary working who has worked in both the Insurance and the Investment Banking sectors. She is passionate about exploring social issues and assessing their impacts on businesses and the actuarial profession.

Jessica has degrees in commerce and engineering, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia.

Ilan is the Managing Director of Retender, a specialist firm focusing on innovating the way that risk pools are managed. He is the Chair of the Life Insurance and Wealth Management Practice Committee at the Actuaries Institute and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia.  

She has a career spanning 28 years in the financial services sector. She has a successful track record as a CEO, founder, non-executive director, client experience leader and actuary, leading businesses through growth and change in life insurance, wealth management and pensions.

• She has been CEO, CMO, CFO, and has worked in HK, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and held regional responsibility across Asia.She has worked for companies such as Manulife, AXA, Mercer and Colonial.
• She was President of the Life Insurance Association for and has been a council member for the Singapore Actuarial Society.
• She holds a Bachelor of Economics from Macquarie University in Australia, and she is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Her passion is making a difference to clients’ lives and growing businesses profitably

Sharanjit is Head of ESG Risk at QBE Insurance Group, where his responsibilities include reporting under the FSB’s climate-related disclosure recommendations.  He was previously an actuarial consultant to general insurers and banks in the UK and Australia, specialising in climate risk measurement, management and disclosure.

David has over 30 years’ experience, and has extensive and deep involvement in the development, interpretation and implementation of the new Insurance Accounting regime (IFRS 17 and the associated AASB 17) and its implications for all types of business. 

David is a member of the AASB Transition Resource Group for AASB 17, the Professional Standards Committee of the Actuaries Institute, and (of course) the Insurance Accounting Implementation Taskforce.  Over the years, he has also been a member of a number of other committees with the Actuaries Institute.  

David is currently with PFS Consulting as a Principal.  Prior to that he worked at KPMG Actuarial as a Director, at APRA where he was a senior executive, responsible for matters across Life and General insurance, Superannuation and ADIs, and also at AMP. He has also advised regulatory authorities in a number of jurisdictions on a range of supervisory matters.   

John Daley has been the Chief Executive of the Grattan Institute since it was founded ten years ago. He has published extensively on economic reform priorities, budget policy, tax reform, retirement incomes, housing affordability, and generational inequality. This work is underpinned by themes of prioritising government initiatives, and the limits to government effectiveness.

John graduated from the University of Oxford in 1999 with a DPhil in public law after completing an LLB (Hons) and a BSc from the University of Melbourne in 1990. He has worked at the University of Oxford, the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet, McKinsey and Co, and ANZ Bank, in fields including law, public policy, strategy, and finance.

Ian Laughlin
BSc, FIA, FIAA, CERA, FAICD
Chairman, ANZ Lenders Mortgage Insurance
Advisory Board Chair at Blackhall & Pearl

Ian Laughlin has a deep interest in risk management and risk culture - particularly in the financial services world. He has had a long career in financial services senior management and board roles, in various countries. He currently chairs the boards of a group of insurance companies owned by one of the major banks. He also is the Advisory Board Chairman of Blackhall & Pearl, a specialist risk management and board performance firm. Until mid 2015, he was Deputy Chairman of APRA, the prudential regulator of banks, insurance companies and superannuation funds. Ian was awarded Actuary of the Year by the Actuaries Institute for 2018.

Michael Rice specialises in providing strategic advice to financial institutions, fund managers, government agencies, industry associations and large superannuation funds. Michael is the Chief Executive Officer of Rice Warner, which he founded in December 1987.

Michael heads up Rice Warner’s public policy work.  He has undertaken pioneering research into Age Pension dependency and trends.  He has a keen interest in the integration of social security and superannuation, as well as measuring the adequacy of retirement incomes.

Other activities include:

• Chairman of QSuper’s Investment Committee from January 2009 to June 2013 and remained an independent investment expert on the Committee until March 2016.
• Former Councillor of the Actuaries Institute. Michael was awarded Actuary of the Year for 2017.
• Michael has been on several Actuaries Institute Committee’s and is currently a member of the Public Policy Committee.
• Michael is a member of the Advisory Board of the ANU College of Business and Economics.
• Michael was appointed to the StatePlus Board in October 2016. 

Anthony Asher
Actuary and Associate Professor
UNSW

Anthony is an actuary and Associate Professor at UNSW, currently teaching Part II  Control Cycle and ERM courses. His working life has been divided between universities, APRA and more conventional life insurance and consulting roles.

He has been active in professional committees, and is currently Convenor of the Actuaries Institute Retirement Income Working Group.

He is relatively well known in the profession for his interest in ethics in professional life, particularly the social impact of actuarial work. He has a research interest in business ethics, with a focus on educating and encouraging virtues. In August last year he jointly presented a paper on risk management and ethics at the Society of Business Ethics in Chicago – so combining the apparently irreconcilable: research and practice, business and ethics!  He has written a book Working Ethically in Finance: clarifying our vocation, which Chris White recommends that you read.

Chris Dolman has wide ranging insurance industry experience, having worked across multiple countries as both an advisor and in industry, in both traditional and non-traditional roles. He is currently Director, Data and Algorithmic Ethics at IAG, helping to ensure that modern decision making algorithms and other advanced uses of data are designed and implemented in an ethical, responsible and thoughtful way.

Rachel Keaney
Senior Pricing Actuary
Munich Re

Rachel Keaney currently works with Munich Re as a senior pricing actuary and is focused on the reinsurance of Australian Retail business. 

Before relocating to Australia in 2017, Rachel worked with Munich Re in the UK and was involved in pricing work across Protection, Longevity and Structured reinsurance deals. Prior to that she worked at a life insurance company in both Valuation and Pricing roles. 

Raymond Yeow qualified as an actuary in 2000 and worked primarily in the financial derivatives space whilst an actuary. He commenced medical training early this decade at Sydney University, and since graduating in 2014; he has worked as a Junior Medical Officer at RPA hospital, and is currently a GP Registrar in private practice.

Through his lived experience of medical training coupled with his actuarial background, he is cognisant of significant flaws & inconsistencies in the Australian health system and consequently opportunities for actuarial skill sets to optimise healthcare delivery and better patient outcomes.

He is passionate about improving health and healthcare system literacy among the public in general and the actuarial profession in particular.

He also serves as in the Army Reserves as a medical officer.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/raymondyeow/

Nathan Bonarius joined Rice Warner in early 2010 and is currently a Senior Consultant in the Market Insights team. Nathan is responsible for the production of Rice Warner’s superannuation research reports as well as maintaining our industry projections model.

Nathan actively contributes to Rice Warner’s public policy submissions including those for the Financial Systems Inquiry, Productivity Commission, Treasury and Budget. Nathan also undertook a six month secondment to the Department of Treasury in 2018.

Nathan has also been actively involved in a range of consulting activities within superannuation including the provision of strategic advice, assistance with mergers, outsourcing and administration tenders, risk management and Actuarial valuations.

Nathan qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia in 2014 and completed his Masters of Business Administration at MGSM in 2018.

Prior to this Nathan studied at Macquarie University where he obtained a double degree, Bachelor of Commerce – Actuarial Studies and a Bachelor of Science majoring in Statistics.

Adrian Mak is head of valuation at SCOR Global Life Australia 

Aloysius Lim heads the Decision Analytics team in Gen Re Life Australia. His role focuses on deriving business insights through experience analyses for Australasia. He has been heavily involved in actuarial pricing projects and regional data analytics initiatives.

Prior to joining Gen Re Life Australia, he focused on experience investigations for Medical businesses in South-East Asia for Gen Re Singapore. He has worked closely with clients to manage their Medical business in the region using the insights from these various investigations.  

Aloysius is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia (FIAA) and a Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary (CERA).

Angat Sandhu is the Head Of Oliver Wyman’s Australian Insurance and Wealth Practice. He is motivated to improve consumer awareness and trust in these sectors and believes the industry needs to further increase transparency, simplify and make better use of advances in technology and analytics. Prior to joining Oliver Wyman, he worked at Macquarie Group and Towers Watson. He is an Actuary, a holder of the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst & designation and the Financial Risk Manager designation.

Anthony Saliba is a qualified actuary with ten years experience in the financial services industry, possessing a unique skill set and a passion for solving complex problems in the retirement income and wealth management spaces and communicating results in innovative ways. Anthony has applied his sound grasp of modern technologies (including mobile and web development) to address long-standing problems.

Anthony currently works at CommInsure as a Senior Actuary, spending most of his time on the annuities portfolio and dealing with pricing, investment and valuation considerations.

Prior to that, Anthony was a Senior Manager at EY, where he spent over seven years in the banking and derivatives team, assisting clients with stochastic modelling techniques and retirement income design and assessment.

Anthony is also a regular contributor to Treasury consultations on retirement income and currently is independently developing an economic scenario generation tool, including a CIPR-style retirement income module that is aimed at assisting advisers with communicating the trade offs between different retirement solutions.

Douglas Isles, FFA, MA Math (Trinity College, Cambridge)

An actuary by training, Douglas first joined Platinum in 2003 as an investment analyst, having been at the Commonwealth Bank as a product actuary and, prior to that, as an investment manager at Aegon Asset Management in Edinburgh. 

Douglas left Platinum in 2008 to relocate to Singapore where he made a significant contribution to developing Standard Chartered Bank’s equity broking business.

Having re-joined Platinum in 2013 as an investment specialist, Douglas serves as a bridge between Platinum’s investment team and the financial advisory community.

Eric Ranson has been working on improving pathways for innovators to find funding and on a number of startup ventures.

Fund Manager: He worked in the US life settlement market for over 10 years. He managed a Luxembourg based retail life settlement fund for over 3 years before it was sold and helped establish a San Francisco based provider.

Treasurer: Previously, he was treasurer of Australian Mortgage Securities and responsible for risk management and the funding of approximately $6bn pa of prime mortgage backed securities.

Investment banker: Eric left the actuarial world to manage swaps and options books at Bankers Trust. He was involved at the beginning of the Australian securitization market and spent a year establishing an Australian commercial paper conduit with over $1bn of assets.

Actuary: He has his own consultancy firm and has also consulted for Tillinghast and MIRA.

Eric is an FIAA and has a Masters of Applied Finance.

• Retirement solutions design including longevity solutions such as group-self annuitisation/mortality pooling solution and investment-linked life annuity.
• Superannuation lifecycle investment strategies design with multiple factors.
• Public policy submissions including those for Treasury, DSS and APRA.
• Development of investment performance reporting system and investment risk management tools.
• Development of Members’ Default Utility Function (MDUF) which is an open-architecture metric to assist the industry to design retirement outcome solutions. It subsequently won two industry awards.
  

Estelle is currently the convenor of the Actuaries Institute’s Superannuation Projection and Disclosure Sub-committee.

Johan Rampen is currently a senior projects actuary for Swiss Re's ANZ Life & Health Pricing team covering both retail and group insurance clients. He joined Swiss Re’s Netherlands office in 2011 where he was the senior pricing actuary responsible for the Dutch market.  His other experiences include team leadership and a secondment to the Canadian office.

Johan is a qualified actuary with the Swiss Actuarial Association. He started his career in the Netherlands, where he's originally from, working in employee benefits consulting and asset liability management. He's enjoys the variety of work and he is passionate about helping Swiss Re's clients close the protection gap by bringing ideas from his varied background to Australia & New Zealand.

John De Ravin is a retired actuary who spent most of his actuarial career in the Government Actuary’s Office and as an Appointed Actuary to the Australian operations of two of the world’s leading reinsurers.  He holds Bachelor degrees in Science and Economics (from ANU), an MBA from Macquarie University and a Graduate Diploma in Financial Planning from Finsia.  He is a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute and a CPA.  He has won numerous prizes, awards and scholarships.

His interests are in financial planning and investment.  He convenes the Actuaries Institute’s Rule of Thumb Working Group and he is a member of the Institute’s Retirement incomes Working Group. He has held many roles within the Actuaries Institute and was on Council from 1999 to 2001. 

He has written about twenty papers on a variety of actuarial topics, and also, since his retirement, a book about personal financial strategies, Slow and Steady: 100 wealth-building strategies for all ages.

Kaise has led a number of senior roles and engagements in the Australian, New Zealand and European insurance and reinsurance markets. He has provided advice relating to strategic and operational insurance matters as well as reserving, pricing and capital modelling advice. He has led actuarial streams in a number of merger & acquisition deals. Kaise continues to serve in a number of Appointed Actuary roles.

Kaise has authored and presented papers at Actuaries Institute and industry forums on topics including: Offshoring, Telematics, Insurance Cycle Management, ALM, and more

Kirsty Hogan is a life insurance actuary who has worked in a variety of Life Insurance roles both here and in the UK.

Kirsty currently works for Munich Re, where she is the Head of Pricing, Profitability and Experience.  Prior to that Kirsty has worked with Munich Re a in a number of different roles both here and in the UK, including Head of Pricing for UK & Ireland, and Head of Operations here in Australia.

Prior to working at Munich Re, Kirsty worked as a pricing and valuation actuary in a number of direct life offices both here and the UK.

Kudzai Gumbie has over 12 years’ experience in reinsurance, working in various roles for RGA in the UK, Middle East and Australia.  His experience spans valuations, capital, pricing and product development and he is currently a Senior Research Actuary in RGA’s Sydney office. 

Mark Smith is RGA Australia’s Claims Training and Development Consultant. Mark has 20 years of Life claims experience across both insurers and reinsurers. Mark joined RGA in 2013 after working for AC&L / AXA / AMP and Swiss Re and is the Treasurer of the ALUCA Claims Management Group. In this role works in partnership with major life insurers across Retail and Group product lines to development best practice claims management training designed to enhance the claims assessment skills of assessors across the industry.  Marks’ previous roles have included claims management, process and policy development, research and compliance reporting. 

Mathew Ayoub is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia and Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary.

Mathew regularly contributes to the actuarial profession including driving policy recommendations during his time at APRA for the program of changes regarding the Appointed Actuary role and Actuarial Advice Framework, the release of actuarial transformation and capital related papers, and actuarial part three course leadership.

Mathew has looked at the industry through the full spectrum of lenses from working at a corporate insurer, a regulator and in consulting, covering core actuarial, finance, capital, risk management and strategy related roles.

Mathew works for Deloitte Consulting and is passionate about balancing customer and shareholder insurance outcomes for long term customer value.

Paul Scully is an actuary with 40 years’ experience in financial services both in Australia and overseas.  His last full-time position was CEO and Managing Director of ING Investment in the Asia Pacific region.  Since then he has pursued a portfolio career in non-executive roles on the Boards and Committees of listed entities, superannuation funds and various financial services businesses, and as a consultant in various capacities, including teaching at Macquarie University and assisting improvement programs for retirement and provident funds in the Pacific islands under the auspices of the Asia Development Bank.  

Rein Van Rooyen is an Investment Manager at QSuper where he is responsible for the development of ALM strategies for the DC fund. Rein serves on the IAA Education Committee, the Actuaries Institute’s Education Council Committee, the Superannuation, Projections and Disclosures Sub-Committee as well as the Young Actuaries Program Committee. He is also the Convenor for the Investment Management and Finance Faculty at the Institute as well as being the Superannuation and Investments Editor for Actuaries Digital.

Prior to joining AustralianSuper Richard was Insurance Segment Leader at Mercer, providing consulting services as follows:

• Appointed Actuary to four friendly societies;
• Calculation of policy liabilities, capital management, pricing and risk management for life insurers;
• Insurance benefit design, independent pricing of premiums, general advocacy and the design and review of insurance management frameworks for superannuation funds; and
• Strategic asset allocation and investment consulting for insurers.

Richard was a member of the Actuaries Institute’s Life Insurance and Wealth Management Practice Committee (LIWMPC) for the four years to 2017 where he edited the LIWMPC newsletter. He is currently the tutor for the Actuaries Institute’s Life Insurance course and also held this position for three years until 2017. He is an active contributor to the actuarial and insurance communities and has co-presented at Actuaries Institute’s Insights sessions and conferences, at the Conexus Group Insurance Summit, the Public Sector conference and the Indigenous Super Summit.

Richard was a member of the Actuaries Institute’s International Accounting Standards Committee for approximately eight years and co-presented at Actuaries Institute summits and assisted in writing submissions to the IASB.

Xavier Conort is the Chief Data Scientist for DataRobot, where he leads the R&D efforts in Data Science globally from Singapore. Xavier is a French actuary with 20 years experience in France, Brazil, China and Singapore. Since 2011 he has transitioned into a data scientist. He has won 10 prizes and was a former #1 ranked Data Scientist on Kaggle. He is passionate about extracting value and insight from data and has applied machine learning to a diverse set of business problems from claims modelling to flight arrival prediction, essay scoring, sales forecasting and biological response prediction.

Antony Claughton
Actuary
Finity Consulting

Antony has eighteen years of experience in the insurance industry, and has worked within and consulted to companies and governments in Australia and the UK.  Antony is currently straddling both the general insurance and health insurance worlds, providing services to a number of general insurance companies, health insurance funds and government insurers. 

Antony has been a member of the Actuaries Institute’s Health Practice Committee since and the AASB 17 Implementation Taskforce since 2016.  He was a member of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries’ GIRO working party on PPOs for five years.   Antony has presented publicly five times already on the impact of AASB 17 on the Australian general insurance and health insurance industries, and is providing assistance to a number of companies and funds on AASB 17. 

Francis Beens
Actuary
Finity Consulting

Francis has spent thirteen years consulting to general insurers and accident compensation schemes on actuarial valuations, financial projections, and capital. He is currently a member of the Actuaries Institute AASB 17 Implementation Taskforce, and the liaison between that taskforce and the Actuaries Institute General Insurance Practice Committee.  He has presented a number of times on the changes of AASB 17 in Australia for the general insurance industry, and on topics such as superimposed inflation and ICAAP best practice.  Francis is currently providing assistance to a number of general insurance companies on the implementation of AASB 17. 

Darren Wickham
General Manager Group Product and Pricing, Investments and Retirement Incomes
TAL

Darren has written a number of papers on superannuation, insurance and employee benefits. Darren was Actuary of the Year in 2008 which now makes him Actuary of yesteryear! 

Angie Mastrippolito worked as a consulting actuary for over 22 years before changing course to become a Super fund executive with 5 years as CEO of NESS Super.

Phil Patterson
Actuary and Senior Consultant
Willis Towers Watson

Phil has over 30 years’ experience in the superannuation and employee benefits industries, specialising in group insurance. He has over 10 years of previous experience dealing with group life and disability insurances, including 5 years as Group Risk Actuary with Legal & General.

Nick Stolk is a consulting health insurance actuary and the editor of the Institute’s Private Health Insurance Letter. He has worked in the private health insurance industry for 15 years and loves to discuss the people, politics and intricacies of Australia’s health system with anyone who will listen.

Dilan is a former Research Assistant at the School of Risk and Actuarial Studies and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR). Dilan completed his undergraduate degree at the University of New South Wales, receiving a First Class Honours and the University Medal in Actuarial Studies. He is presenting his research, which focuses on the application of statistical learning techniques to mortality modelling and forecasting. Dilan now works as an Actuarial Consultant at Ernst & Young.   

Gavin Pearce
Chief Risk Officer
icare NSW

Insurance & Care NSW (icare) was created on 1 September 2015 to deliver the State’s insurance and care schemes. Gavin joined icare in November 2015 as their inaugural Chief Risk Officer (although his LinkedIn profile says “Chief Risky Dude”).

Gavin is part of icare’s Executive Team and he manages the Risk & Governance area. Prior to joining icare, Gavin was the Chief Risk Officer at Zurich Financial Services Australia Limited.

Gavin has also held senior actuarial positions in a number of large insurance companies. Before moving to Australia in 2008, Gavin worked at the Accident Compensation Corporation in New Zealand where his last role was Chief Actuary.

Gavin has a Masters degree in Statistics, an MBA from Henley Management College, a Graduate Certificate in the Psychology of Risk from ACU and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia (FIAA) 

Diane Somerville
Principal
Deloitte

Diane is a Principal in Deloitte, with over 20 years’ experience in the financial services industry, specialising in superannuation and other employee benefits. During her career she has provided actuarial, consulting and strategic advice to many of Australia’s largest employers and superannuation plan trustees across all aspects of the superannuation value chain.

Diane is a lead author of Deloitte’s regular Dynamics of the Australian Superannuation System publication. She has a keen interest in how our superannuation system can support, and ideally improve, the retirement outcomes and financial security of all Australians in an environment of investment volatility and uncertain longevity.

Diane is a member of the Institute’s Superannuation Practice Committee and the Accounting Sub-Committee of the SPC.

Greg Martin
Chief Actuary & Risk Officer
ClearView Wealth Limited

Greg Martin BA FIAA FFin FAICD CERA has more than 30 years experience in life insurance and funds management, including in the areas of financial management, governance, product development, and capital and risk management. He currently oversees ClearView’s actuarial team, and group risk management and compliance team. Prior to joining ClearView in 2011, he was a Partner of KPMG, where he provided actuarial advice to the industry for 17 years. He has held 10 appointed actuary roles during his career and has been a member of various regulatory, industry and professional committees and Boards, advised regulators, and published a number of industry related papers and articles. He has been a member of the Actuaries’ Institute Council and was Institute President in 2008. He is a currently a member of the International Actuarial Association’s Actuarial Standards Committee.

Shane Burdack
Senior Underwriting Consultant

Shane's career spans 25+ years across reinsurance / insurance including Chief Underwriter & Claims Manager positions and with these, seats on respective company senior management teams. He has served as a member of the IFSA (now FSC) Risk Management Board, National ALUCA Executive Board and is a member of the FSC Genomics Working Group. Shane represented the Industry as a member of the Australian Government appointed Human Genetics Advisory Committee (HGAC) for the triennium 2009 - 2012. He has been published in national and international industry journals, presented and chaired sessions at the 2015 and 2017 FSC Annual Life Insurance Conferences, and has delivered presentations at ALUCA bi-annual and mini-conferences, retail insurer national risk conferences and key broker / distribution seminars.

Shane is a Fellow - ALUCA, Senior Associate - ANZIIF, Associate of the Academy of Life Underwriting in the U.S. (with distinction) and holds a Diploma of Health Counselling.

Mike Thornton
Chief Risk Officer

As Chief Risk Officer, Mike is responsible for risk and compliance capabilities, and has 30 years’ experience in life insurance and wealth management, largely in the UK, Asia and Australasia.

He has held a wide range of executive roles, including Group Chief Actuary and Chief Risk Officer roles. Prior to joining AIA in February 2016, Mike was the Group Chief Risk Officer at AMP, and prior to that, had a long career with the AXA Group.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in Australia and the UK, and is a Certified Experienced Risk Actuary.

Wen Chen
Research Scientist
Data61 CSIRO

Wen Chen (Monica) has a PhD in computational mathematics and financial mathematics from the University of Western Australia. She developed mathematical and statistical models, as well as numerical and optimisation methods in quantitative finance and actuarial science. She is currently developing stochastic optimisation algorithms for superannuation management, optimal withdrawal strategy and retirement income problems under financial and longevity risks.

Grace Li
Director
National Disability Insurance Agency

Grace is a Director in the National Disability Insurance Agency’s (NDIA) Office of Scheme Actuary with experience in applying actuarial skills in a social policy context and is proud for be part of a ground breaking scheme aimed at bettering the lives of people with a disability. Prior to joining the NDIA, she was a consultant at PwC where she worked with clients across the healthcare, government and general insurance sectors. Grace is currently a member of the Actuaries Institute Wider Health Subcommittee.

John Walsh retired in 2013 as a Partner in the Advisory practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he worked for more than twenty years. John's major client work was in the areas of social policy and funding of accident compensation insurance, health, and disability services. His ability to contribute to social policy is assisted by his own disability, traumatic quadriplegia.

John has contributed heavily in accident compensation, health and social policy and has been a Board member of the NSW Motor Accidents Authority, the NSW Homecare Service, the NSW Paraquad Association, and is currently on the Board of the National Disability Insurance Agency and the Australian Commission for Safety and Quality in Healthcare.

In 2001 he was named Australia’s Actuary of the Year, and in 2011 was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia, and received the Prime Minister's Award for outstanding service to the disability sector. In 2015 John was appointed Australia's Patron for the United Nations International Day of People with a Disability, and is currently the Principal Member of the NDIS Independent Advisory Council.

John has an appointment as Adjunct Professor in the School of Medicine at University of Sydney, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

Bridget Browne
Partner
Ernst & Young’

Bridget is a Partner in Ernst & Young’s actuarial services group providing actuarial consulting advice principally to the government sector in human services and risk quantification. Bridget has over 25 years’ experience in actuarial practice and education both in Australia and internationally and is both a Certified Enterprise Risk Actuary and a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia.

Bridget brings a wealth of experience in human services sector across child protection, disability and justice, combining extensive actuarial modelling experience with active involvement in the development of the investment approach and the social impact investment sector. Bridget’s engagements throughout Australia and New Zealand means she has familiarity with much of the literature and research in the field as well as extensive experience working directly with sensitive linked longitudinal datasets.

Bridget has lectured in actuarial studies and risk management at the Australian National University with a research focus on aged care, mortality, longevity and securitisation of these risks.  Prior to this Bridget practised in the life insurance and reinsurance sectors both in Australia and in Canada, the UK and France, ultimately leading the global pricing team for life reinsurance for a major reinsurer and responsible for the development of their stochastic economic capital model across all life course risks.

As a Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary, Bridget has practiced in all areas of the enterprise risk management framework, which enables her to put quantitative outputs into context for organisations.

Jon Tindall
Actuary
Finity Consulting

Jon has over 16 years of experience across a wide variety of investment and general insurance roles.  Jon has previously held positions with Milliman Inc, JP Morgan and QBE Insurance.

Jon regularly assists clients in managing the risks generated from exposure to financial instruments and counterparties, including:  the design of weather derivative contracts, the dynamic hedging of investment portfolios and the management of systemic risk for Australia’s securities exchanges. 

Jon has a particular interest in the convergence of insurance and capital markets and with the intersection of debt and equity markets more generally.  He has published a number of articles and papers on various topics across capital markets and alternative risk management, including:

• “Weather Derivatives Pricing and Risk Management Applications” (2006)
• “Securitise This - The Structuring, Pricing and Risk Management of Insurance Securitisation” (2011)
• “Weather and Carbon Derivatives - Pricing and Managing Risk in the ART Market” (2010)
• “On the Theory of the Firm: What the Debt is Equity Anyway?” (2015)
• “CAT Bonds and ILS - Getting Bang for your Buck in a Maturing Market” (2018)

Sarah Johnson
Scheme Actuary
National Disability Insurance Agency

Sarah Johnson is the Scheme Actuary of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.  

Prior to her appointment, Sarah was a Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers.  Sarah has worked within the disability sector, and broader health and human services sector for the last fifteen years. She assisted the Disability Investment Group in costing a NDIS in the Way Forward report, and worked with the Productivity Commission on the Disability Care and Support Inquiry. 

A Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia, Sarah has also collaborated with a number of state/territory departments and undertaken actuarial work in accident compensation, housing, child protection, health and aged care. 

Andrew Gale is an actuary with over 20 years’ experience in the Australian health insurance industry.  He currently provides actuarial advice as an independent consultant.  He has previously held Chief Actuary roles for Medibank Private and AXA Health Insurance (now BUPA), where he was responsible for the appointed actuary functions and providing actuarial advice to the board and management. 

He has published papers and presented extensively on numerous private health insurance topics, including historical trends and developments, community rating, demutualisations and claims selection effects.  He also presents health lectures to actuarial students at the University of Melbourne and the Actuaries Institute Commercial Actuarial Practice course. 

Dr Zili Zhu is the Director of RiskLab at CSIRO’s Data61. RiskLab is the Australia node of the global RiskLab network (RiskLab.com.au).

At RiskLab, he leads the R&D team in developing quantitative models and analytic solutions for achieving optimal decisions in superannuation life-cycle management. RiskLab has performed in-depth analysis of a large dataset on SMSF from ATO and comprehensive superannuation dataset of pensioners from DHS.

Another major research focus at RiskLab is on developing the latest math models for exotic options valuation in the foreign-exchange market.

Louise Campbell
Senior Consultant
Willis Towers Watson

Louise Campbell is a senior member of Willis Towers Watson’s consulting business, working in superannuation at Willis Towers Watson in Sydney. Louise has 29 years’ experience in superannuation and benefits, and is the appointed actuary for a number of superannuation clients, including funds in the public and private sector. Her area of expertise is defined benefit pension funds with long tail pension liabilities. Louise has experience in a wide range of superannuation matters including mergers and acquisitions and expert witness work.

Prior to re-joining Willis Towers Watson as part of the acquisition of Russell Investments actuarial business in 2017, Louise spent eight years with Russell Investments, and was head of their actuarial business from 2013 to 2017.

Louise is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia and holds an honours degree in Science from the University of New South Wales majoring in pure mathematics. Louise is a current member of the Actuaries Institute Superannuation Practice Committee, and was the convenor of the Leadership and Career Development Committee from 2015 to 2018.

Jeff Humphreys

Jeff has been practicing as an actuary in the superannuation industry for over 25 years.

He is a member of the Institute’s Superannuation Practice Committee and Working Groups on Climate Change, Code of Conduct Guidance and Retirement Incomes.

He was a member of the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal for 6 years.

Jane Dorter
Director
KPMG

Jane is a Director at KPMG and heads the Insurance Claims & Underwriting Solutions and Workplace Health division. She lead KPMG’s engagements on transformation projects, provides Insurers with reviews on better practice and improved operating models across the Life, Workers Compensation and Health insurance sectors. In Jane’s previous Life reinsurance role she was responsible for driving client insurance and re-insurance solutions across Claims, Underwriting and Consulting services. She has been significantly involved with Mental Health issues and the Insurance sector across Life and Workers compensation for over 20 years, and has contributed to the development of industry standards of practice for Mental Health issues management in Insurance. 

Ignatius Li
Health Actuary
Deloitte

Ignatius is a health actuary at Deloitte and the current convenor of the Institute’s Health Practice Committee.  Over the years, he has advised both government and non-government clients on health insurance and is a big believer in the role that actuaries can play in health. 

Andrew Boal 
Chief Executive Officer
Rice Warner

Andrew is an experienced financial services professional who specialises in providing actuarial and strategic consulting advice to leading companies and superannuation funds. Prior to joining Rice Warner in April 2019, Andrew spent more than 30 years advising clients on superannuation, life insurance, employee benefits, risk management, investments and talent management.

During his career, Andrew has also driven research and public policy in various areas of interest, including retirement income products and solutions, retirement adequacy, member disclosure and advice, member engagement and digital solutions, governance and managing conflicts.

Elaine Collins is:

• Fellow of the Actuaries’ Institute; and 
• Professional Non-Executive Director with two current Board roles: for Zurich Insurance, where she Chairs the Risk, Compliance & Audit Committee and the ARPC (providing terrorism reinsurance) where she is also on the Audit Committees
• Professor of Practice with the UNSW Business School

Prior roles include being:

• Partner of Deloitte for six years; and 
• Director of KPMG for five years,
  where she carried out Appointed Actuary roles, as well as a wide range of other assignments. 

She is also a Member of the Professional Standards Committee at the Institute. 

Bartosz Piwcewicz is a Director and the Head of Actuarial Transformation, Systems and Data at KPMG.

Bartosz is a passionate leader with broad experience across different industries gained in both corporate and consulting roles. He has a proven track record in successfully building and leading actuarial and analytical functions, engaging with executives and boards, developing and implementing impactful data-driven strategies and improving business practices for companies in Australia and New Zealand.

Bartosz is also the Convenor of Actuaries Institute’s Data Analytics Practice Committee.

Simone Leas
Executive Lead, Risk Management
MLC Life Insurance

Simone is a fellow of the Actuaries Institute of Australia (FIAA) and has over 19 years of experience across risk management, capital management, compliance and consulting in Australia, the UK and South Africa. She is currently the Executive Lead, Risk Management at MLC Life Insurance and was previously Head of Group Risk and Compliance at ClearView Wealth.