Board Members

Chairman
Paul Seymour		Paul Seymour qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 1969. He has operated at senior managerial and director level in the financial services sector for more than thirty years, including four years as Chief Executive of the Laurentian Financial Group, and has held a number of independent non-executive directorships over the last ten years. He has been involved in the Actuarial Profession in many capacities.

Director, Actuarial Standards
Louise Pryor		Louise Pryor qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 1987. She has been involved in financial modelling and risk management for over 25 years, as a university lecturer, a software developer and consultant, and a consulting actuary in both life and general insurance. She has contributed to and chaired Actuarial Profession working parties on many topics, including operational risk, professionalism, and software use.

Members
Mike Arnold		Mike Arnold qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 1973. He is Head of the Life Practice at Milliman in London. Mike has acted as independent actuary for most of the demutualisations or reconstructions of life companies and life funds which have taken place over the last ten years. His past appointments include two terms as a Member of Council of the Institute, as well as Chairman of both the UK and International Associations of Consulting Actuaries.
David Blackwood		David Blackwood is a maths graduate and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1984. He was extensively involved in pensions and the associated actuarial issues during his 5 years as Group Treasurer of ICI until end 2006, and also previously when he was Group Financial Controller. He is also a member of the Advisory Panel assisting the ASB with its review of FRS17. In October 2007 he was appointed Finance Director of Yule Catto.
Lawrence Churchill		Lawrence Churchill is the Chairman of the Pension Protection Fund and is the Senior Independent Director at The Children's Mutual and Monkton Group; he also chairs the Audit Committee at Huntswood. His extensive executive career in the insurance sector included CEO of Zurich Financial Services, Executive Chairman of UNUM Ltd and Chief Executive of NatWest Life. He has served in a non-executive capacity on the boards of the Personal Investment Authority, the Association of British Insurers, the Employers' Forum on Disability, the Financial Ombudsman Service and been a Trustee of the Royal Society of Arts.
Harold Clarke		Harold Clarke qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 1975. He is a Director in the European Actuarial Services practice of Ernst & Young with particular responsibility for non-life business in Continental Europe. He is also a Non-executive Director of the Medical Defence Union. He has worked as a consultant in non-life insurance since 1986 specialising in reserving, mergers and acquisitions and capital management for insurance companies. He was previously an actuarial partner in Deloitte.
Christopher Daws		Christopher Daws is mathematics graduate and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1972. He has been financial and deputy secretary of the Church Commissioners since 1994. The Commissioners have a unique mix of pension obligations and responsibilities for providing financial support to the Church of England. They have pioneered the application of actuarial methods to such obligations. His earlier career included senior financial positions at Cadbury Schweppes plc and Dowty Group plc. He is a trustee of NCH and a trustee-director of the NCH superannuation fund.
Steven Haberman		Steven Haberman qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 1975. He is Professor of Actuarial Science and Deputy Dean at Cass Business School, City University. He has worked at Prudential Assurance and for the Government Actuary's Department, and served two terms as a Member of Council of the Institute. He was a member of the External Advisory Panel to the Morris Review. He has written over 135 papers on a wide range of topics, but most particularly on mortality and morbidity models, annuities and pensions.
Dianne Hayter		Dianne Hayter has a PhD in history. She is Chair of the Property Standards Board and of the Consumer Panel of the Bar Standards Board, and a member of the Insolvency Practices Council, the Determinations Panel of the Pensions Regulator, and of the Labour Party's National Executive Committee. She was on the Board of the National Consumer Council; Vice Chair of the Financial Services Consumer Panel; Chief Executive of the Pelican Cancer Centre, the European Parliamentary Labour Party, Alcohol Concern and the Fabian Society; Director of Corporate Affairs at the Wellcome Trust. She was a JP, and a member of the Royal Commission on Criminal Procedure.
Julian Lowe		Julian Lowe qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 1989. He is the General Insurance (GI) Actuarial Director at Aviva, having joined Commercial Union in 1992. He is a former Council member of the Institute of Actuaries and was Chairman of the Actuarial Professions GI Board. He has written or co-authored papers on a wide range of topics including measuring reserve variability, Insurance Futures, Neural Networks, Model Offices and Game Theory. He has chaired a number of Actuarial Profession working parties including 'The Cost of Compensation Culture' (2002) and 'UK Asbestos: the definitive guide' (2004).
Jerome Nollet		Jerome Nollet gained an MSc in economics at Paris-Nanterre University in 1982, and then an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of Business. His executive career included seven years insurance experience at AIG in both the US and Europe, six years at Morgan Stanley in the securities division, two years at Chase-JP Morgan in M&A and two years at Swiss Re. He is now a consultant offering specialist risk advice to insurers.
Tom Ross		Tom Ross qualified as a Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries in 1970. After a career as a pensions adviser with Aon, he is now Senior Independent Director of Royal London Mutual Insurance Society, Chairman of the Trustee Boards of the Smiths Industries Pension Scheme and of the Alstom UK Pension Scheme, Chairman of the Edinburgh UK Tracker Trust and of Penta Capital Partners (Holdings) Limited. He is the Founder Chairman of the Pensions Policy Institute and a member of the Code Committee of the Takeover Panel, as well as the Past President of the Faculty of Actuaries.
Sir Derek Wanless		After taking a first class maths degree at Cambridge in 1967, Sir Derek joined NatWest, where he rose to be Group CEO, retiring in 1999. He is now Chairman of Northumbrian Water plc and Vice Chairman of the Statistics Commission. He was Chairman of the Adult Financial Literary Advisory Group for the Secretary of State for Education and Employment. He led a review of long term trends in the NHS for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, publishing reports in 2002 and 2004. In March 2006, he completed a report on social care for the King's Fund and in September 2007 he produced, for the King's Fund, a report reviewing health services since 2002. He was knighted for public service in 2005.
Martin Weale		Martin Weale gained a first class degree in economics from Cambridge in 1977. Since 1995 he has been Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. His economic research takes a strong interest in the problems of uncertainty, particularly those surrounding demographic forecasts. He has also worked on pension issues and related questions of means testing. A past member of the Treasury's Panel of Independent Forecasters, he was appointed CBE in 1999 and a Statistics Commissioner in 2000. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 2001, and is an Honorary Treasurer of the Alzheimer's Research Trust.

Observers
Valerie Christian		Private Pensions Policy, Department for Work and Pensions
Caroline Instance		Chief Executive, The Actuarial Profession
Jim Kehoe		Groupe Consultatif Actuariel Europeen
Will Price		Head of Europe, Defined Benefit and Research - The Pensions Regulator
Paul Sharma		Director of Wholesale Prudential Policy, Financial Services Authority
James Templeton		Head of Institutional Investment, H M Treasury