Tell us what you thought of this episode! Kelly is currently a Senior Actuarial Consultant at WorkSafe Victoria, providing internal consultancy support to the scheme. She started her career as an actuarial analyst in workers' compensation at Return to Work South Australia. She then worked as a Senior Manager at PwC, specialising in working with accident compensation schemes and government insurance authorities for 10 years. She was born and raised in Malaysia, and currently lives in Melbourne wi...
Apr 02, 2024•22 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Tell us what you thought of this episode! Charlie is a Senior Valuation Actuary from SCOR Reinsurance APAC L&H Reserving, located in Singapore. His role primarily involves reviewing and supporting APAC local valuation teams in Group reporting activities, including IFRS17 and Solvency-II reporting, experience analysis, Prophet modelling, internal retrocessions, and process enhancements. Currently he is working closely with Korea valuation team to support their Group reporting stream. In 2022,...
Mar 19, 2024•33 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Tell us what you thought of this episode! Adam Butt is the Head of Actuarial Studies at Australian National University. Prior to commencing his career in academia in 2005, he worked as a superannuation consultant at Aon Consulting. Adam’s research interests focus on superannuation and personal financial decision making, and actuarial education. Adam’s research has been published in a number of top-ranked journals including Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Annals of Actuarial Science, The Ec...
Mar 05, 2024•34 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Tell us what you thought of this episode! Daphna Horowitz is a qualified actuary currently based in Israel. But these days you won’t find Daphna calculating insurance premiums or reserves – she is a Master Certified Coach who helps high-performing CEOs to up their game in business and become confident, inspiring leaders. Daphna works with leaders and teams across the globe to transform leadership effectiveness and workplace culture by digging deep into leadership habits of self-awareness, leadin...
Feb 20, 2024•44 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Tell us what you thought of this episode! Elayne Grace, CEO of the Actuaries Institute, leads the actuarial professional body known for its education program, professional standards and contribution to public policy thought leadership. With 25 years of international experience spanning consulting firms and insurance companies, she provided strategic, economic and financial advice, Elayne played a pivotal role in nurturing early collaborations between businesses, scientists, and NGOs to address c...
Feb 06, 2024•26 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Tell us what you thought of this episode! Stuart Turner is an actuary with over 25 years of experience working in life insurance and wealth management, in both corporate and consulting roles. He is currently working at Zurich Financial Services, and was previously a Partner at EY. Stuart is the Chair of the Professionalism Committee. He has developed an interest in ethics through being a volunteer ethics teacher at his children’s primary school and presenting the Actuaries Institute Professional...
Jan 23, 2024•34 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Tell us what you thought of this episode! Julia is a qualified actuary, certified coach and the Director of Guardian Actuarial. She is leading a mission to foster forward-thinking leaders in the actuarial industry and runs the Guardian Actuarial Leadership Program to help actuaries build their communication, management and leadership skills. In this interview, Julia shares: Why she became an actuary, How she started her actuarial career as a mum of three small children, How she navigated the lea...
Jan 09, 2024•31 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Tell us what you thought of this episode! In this episode, Julia recaps our top episodes and themes from the 30 interviews we’ve published since the We Are Actuaries podcast was born. Episodes mentioned in order: Data science: 6 Daniel Stone | 4 Amanda Aitken | 12 Dr Genevieve Hayes Climate Change: 9 Sharanjit Paddam | 28 Ruby Smith Actuaries making a difference: 19 David Gifford | Kirsten Armstrong 21 And in super: 11 Stephen Huppert | 29 Aidan Nguyen Emerging leaders: 1 Laura Zhao | 7 Desmond ...
Dec 26, 2023•13 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Tell us what you thought of this episode! Vy Le is a purpose-driven, qualified actuary based in Canada. She is the host of V Life Journal - Actuary, Career & Well-being, a YouTube channel dedicated to providing exclusive insights and advice on topics related to actuarial science, career development, productivity, and well-being. Through Vy’s channel, she guides young professionals in their career planning related to maths, data, and tech, while also sharing effective productivity hacks and l...
Dec 12, 2023•25 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Tell us what you thought of this episode! Aidan is an actuary working in public policy. In his current role within the Actuaries Institute’s Public Policy Team, he helps to channel the voice of the actuarial profession as a trusted adviser and honest broker to get better retirement income and life insurance policy and regulation. Aidan previously worked in policy at a peak industry body and before that as an actuarial consultant both within the superannuation and the life insurance industries. O...
Nov 28, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Tell us what you thought of this episode! Ruby is a qualified actuary working in Finity's Climate Analytics practice, focusing on physical risk, transition risk and modelling of long term climate-related issues. Passionate about the environment, Ruby is a member of the Institute’s Climate and Sustainability Working Group, with particular interests in decarbonisation, risk quantification and the social impacts of climate change. In this interview, Ruby shares: Why the environment is so important ...
Nov 14, 2023•21 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Tell us what you thought of this episode! John is a senior pensions professional, working primarily with companies who sponsor UK pension schemes. John is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and a Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary. Originally hailing from Ireland, he has worked in the pensions industry for almost 10 years, having studied Actuarial and Financial Maths at Dublin City University. John has worked on various projects for pensions schemes, including exercises to help me...
Oct 31, 2023•34 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Tell us what you thought of this episode! Alex is a senior actuary of the Wealth Protection valuation team in ResolutionLife Australasia, managing the technical and delivery aspects of management and regulatory reporting. In this role, Alex is also involved in transformation projects such as separation from AMP, US GAAP, and IFRS17. Alex has 10+ years of experience in valuation, pricing strategy, and data analytics across life insurance, wealth management, and banking practices. He spent 3.5 yea...
Oct 17, 2023•22 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Tell us what you thought of this episode! Sheridan is an actuary with the Transport Accident Commission in Geelong. She has previously worked in a variety of roles across corporate, consultancy, a regulator and a fintech start-up. She has also spent much of the past 20 years living and training in traditional yoga ashrams in India and Australia. A qualified yoga teacher since 2008, Sheridan has conducted yoga classes, retreats, workshops and lectures, sharing the different branches of yogic know...
Oct 03, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Tell us what you thought of this episode! For the past 40 years Mark has had an extensive global career as a C-Suite executive and Director in complex financial services organisations in Sydney, Hong Kong, London & Cape Town with his main specialty being strategic risk management and developing and leading large complex and diverse teams. Being orphaned in his teenage years and from a working-class background - Mark developed a strong community focus and has supported a number of not-for-pro...
Sep 19, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Tell us what you thought of this episode! Alan Hsu began his actuarial career at AXA Equitable, where he quickly developed a passion for pricing and product development. He has experience pricing life insurance products in the US and Australia, and he is currently working at New York Life pricing institutional life insurance products. A graduate of the Guardian Actuarial Leadership Program, Alan is a strong believer in more personal and professional development opportunities in the workplace. In...
Sep 05, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Tell us what you thought of this episode! Chris Dolman is an actuary working at IAG. His current role of Executive Manager, Data and Algorithmic Ethics helps to ensure that modern decision-making algorithms and other advanced uses of data are designed and implemented in an ethical, responsible and thoughtful way. Prior to this, Chris held a variety of senior management positions in the insurance industry and consulting, in Australia and the UK. Chris is an award-winning volunteer, researcher and...
Aug 22, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Tell us what you thought of this episode! Kirsten is an experienced non-executive director and strategic adviser with a 25-year career in health, disability, social insurance and international development. She currently leads Social Ventures Australia’s social impact bond work, supporting governments, social-purpose organisations and impact investors to create high impact projects that generate evidence and change the lives of Australia’s most vulnerable. In previous roles, Kirsten has helped go...
Aug 08, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Tell us what you thought of this episode! Cameron is an actuary with four years’ experience working for a life reinsurer in Sydney. His experience has mostly involved valuation and regulatory capital work, and in addition he has recently become a manager for the first time. He is currently a Valuation Actuary at RGA and prior to this worked as an analyst in the valuation and pricing teams at the company. In his spare time he enjoys going for hikes with his wife and cuddling up with his two cats....
Jul 25, 2023•32 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Tell us what you thought of this episode! David is the Scheme Actuary for the NDIS. He has worked for nearly thirty years across social insurance, general insurance and government in both consulting and organisational roles. David was previously Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Risk Officer at the Transport Accident Commission, and held consulting roles for more than fifteen years, at PwC and most recently Quantium. David has a Bachelor of Economics and an MBA from Melbourne Business School and ...
Jul 11, 2023•27 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Tell us what you thought of this episode! Michael is an actuary with broad pricing, reserving, and capital experience across different products and global markets. Starting his journey at IAG and RACQ, Michael loved the technical focus but sought a deeper connection to customers and make a greater impact in the insurance industry. Following postgraduate studies abroad, Michael returned to accidentally take a temporary role in travel insurance. In it, however, discovered a captivating niche that ...
Jun 27, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Tell us what you thought of this episode! For as long as he can remember, James has been fascinated by human development and been on a quest to answer two key questions: “What makes for a successful life?” and “What makes people change?” He thought he had all the answers as he spent two decades of his life traveling the world and rapidly gained “success” and recognition across various business, creative and spiritual spaces. Little did he know that he was slowly breaking apart inside and losing ...
Jun 13, 2023•37 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Tell us what you thought of this episode! After 20+ years working as an actuary in life insurance for insurance companies and consulting, Mark relocated to Israel 12 years ago. Mark is the Senior Pricing Actuary for Israel and Medi at Swiss Re with responsibility for costing, writing and monitoring Swiss Re's book of reinsurance life and health contracts covering life, disability, critical illness, long term care and various other life and health risks as might cross his desk. Mark's move to Isr...
May 30, 2023•28 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Tell us what you thought of this episode! Janice is a Non-executive director, consultant and actuary with significant experience in the financial services sector including employee benefits, investments and financial planning. After starting her career at AMP, her actuarial career spans more than 30 years and has included a wide range of activities, including providing advice to companies, trustees and government; and managing people, projects and budgets. Janice is a Fellow of the Institute of ...
May 16, 2023•36 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Tell us what you thought of this episode! Martin Mulcare is currently enjoying a portfolio of activities where the common theme is that he loves sharing ideas. This can take the form of a facilitator, a sounding board, a mentor or a company director. His prior experience included work as a consulting actuary, a corporate actuary and a company executive. Many of you may have met him in his role as facilitator of the Professionalism Course from 2009-2019. Martin is involved with a number of social...
May 02, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Tell us what you thought of this episode! Alison Visser is an actuary specializing in defined benefit pension funds, currently working at Mercer in Washington DC. Alison’s actuarial career started in life insurance in Sydney and included a stint as a lecturer at the Australian National University in Canberra. A Guardian Actuarial Leadership Program graduate, Alison draws on a wide range of experience in today’s podcast. In this interview, Alison shares her reflections about: Working in different...
Apr 18, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Tell us what you thought of this episode! Dr Genevieve Hayes is the Director of Genevieve Hayes Consulting , an AI and analytics consultancy focussed on helping organisations maximise the value of their data. She has experience in technical, leadership and academic roles, through which she has applied cutting-edge statistical and machine learning techniques to a range of business problems, including image and text classification, social network analysis and psychometric assessment design. Genevi...
Apr 04, 2023•32 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Tell us what you thought of this episode! Stephen Huppert is a qualified and experienced actuary who is currently enjoying a “portfolio career”. He is also the Head of Engagement at Optimum Pensions . Stephen has over 30 years of experience in Superannuation, Wealth Management and Life Insurance in a range of consulting and corporate roles. He provides advice to organisations that are committed to improving the retirement outcomes of Australians. These range from some of Australia’s largest supe...
Mar 21, 2023•32 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Tell us what you thought of this episode! Jennifer Lang is an independent director and actuary, and is currently on the Boards of Pacific Life Re, Propel Funeral Partners, Medical Insurance Australia, Auto & General Insurance and Bicycle Network. Earlier in her career she was the CFO and Chief Actuary of CommInsure, and a Partner of Deloitte and KPMG. Jennifer was the Actuary of the Year in 2020, is a regular presenter at conferences on leadership, insurance and risk management, and is often...
Mar 07, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Tell us what you thought of this episode! Sharanjit Paddam is an actuary with nearly 30 years’ experience in actuarial consulting in the UK and Australia. He is a Fellow of both the Institute of Actuaries of Australia and the UK Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. Sharanjit is a leading expert on climate change, receiving the prestigious award of “Insurance Leader of the Year” in 2022 by the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance for his work on championing action on clima...
Feb 21, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 9
