Webinar: United Nations Day Panel Event: Global Perspectives on Industry Developments
The recording of this webinar is available on actuview, here.
The Society’s Diversity and Inclusion Mission Statement outlines the Society’s aim to create a culture of inclusion and growth for members, recognizing and respecting our difference in terms of backgrounds, beliefs, life experience, perspectives, personality and skills. A number of events have already been organized by the D&I committee on topics such as mental health, the experience of female actuaries, PRIDE, unconscious bias training, and member surveys on D&I.
The Society’s membership has become increasingly diverse over the past several years, with actuaries and actuarial students from international backgrounds coming to work and live in Ireland. While nationality and nationalism are very personal and fluid concepts, a recent survey conducted by the Society showed that c. 15% of the survey respondents did not identify their ethnicity as being Irish.
United Nations Day is celebrated on 24th October each year as a reminder of the importance of diversity, equality and unity.
Our next event will mark United Nations Day and will look at some current topics such as Covid, Data Analytics, and broader industry developments through a global lens, and how this compares and contrasts to how these topics are approached in Ireland. We will be joined by a very global panel of actuaries practicing in Ireland.
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Our event will be chaired by a recent winner of the medal for Outstanding Contribution from a Recently Qualified Member, Orla McManamly. Orla is a Pricing Actuary, with over 6 years of experience in the Life and Health reinsurance industry. Working with the Hannover Re Group since 2015, Orla has undertaken roles in Ireland, the USA and Bermuda. As part of the L&H Business Development team, Orla is involved in developing and structuring Financial Solutions for cedants across a variety of territories. Having started her career on the International Actuarial Graduate Programme at Hannover Re (Ireland) DAC, Orla understands the growth and development brought about by collaborating with actuaries in other jurisdictions. Orla is also an active member of the SAI, through which she has the opportunity to apply the actuarial skillset in a diverse array of settings - from promoting STEM subjects in secondary schools, to participating in the SAI Member Engagement Committee. |
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The panelists for this event will be: |
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Aldrin Chari is a non-life actuarial manager at Deloitte Ireland. He is a qualified general insurance actuary with over 8 years of experience. Aldrin has worked in IFRS 17 Implementation projects in South Africa for the past two years before moving to Ireland. He has vast experience in non-life reserving, pricing, and capital modelling. He has also worked on IFRS 9 credit impairment modelling projects. He is a Fellow of both the IFoA and SAI. His volunteering activities include:
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Pedro Ecija Serrano is the Head of Actuarial and Analytics at Grant Thornton Ireland and has over 20 years of experience in insurance. He has worked in Spain, UK and Ireland, and is a member of the Spanish Institute of Actuaries and a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries in Ireland, where he chairs the Data Analytics Committee. |
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Vaibhav Tyagi is Senior Manager in the Actuarial practice at EY Ireland. He is a Fellow member of Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, UK and Institute of Actuaries of India. He has over 14 years of experience in the Non-life insurance across Irish, UK, Indian and many other International markets. He has a varied experience of working in Consultancy, off-shore Centre of Excellence and with a Direct Insurer. Before moving to Ireland, he was working as Appointed Actuary of a large Insurance Company in India. |
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Sasha (Aliaksandra) Utkina is Senior Structured Reinsurance Actuary at Canada Life Reinsurance. She is originally from Russia and moved to Ireland at the age of 16, where she completed her Leaving Cert and degree in Actuarial and Financial Maths in DCU. Sasha is a qualified actuary with over 10 years’ experience. She has worked in both reinsurance and direct insurer companies in a variety of roles across Irish and international markets. |
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