Plenary speakers
Neil is a Principal working in Milliman’s London office. With over 20 years’ industry experience he has worked both in business and consulting. At Milliman Neil initiated and leads the global development of CRisALIS™, Milliman’s cutting-edge approach to risk management using complexity sciences to better identify, understand, manage and model enterprise risk. Prior to joining Milliman, Neil sat on the UK board of Winterthur, with executive responsibility for areas such as strategy, risk management, marketing, product development, compliance, legal and finance. Neil is a member of the UK Actuarial Profession’s ERM Research and Thought Leadership Committee and a number of industry groups, including the ILAG risk management practitioners’ group. Neil is one of the ten UK actuaries awarded the CERA designation as a thought leader. Last year Neil completed prize winning research on behalf of the Actuarial Profession, in conjunction with the Universities of Bristol and Bath, applying complexity science to risk appetite and emerging risk.
Peter England has over 20 years experience of financial and statistical modelling, predominantly in the Property and Casualty sector of the insurance industry. His main areas of work are:
- Risk based capital modelling
- Reserve variability methodologies
- Liability model parameterisation, including parameter uncertainty
- Catastrophe risk aggregation and reinsurance modelling
- Pricing using simulation techniques
- Generalised linear and non-linear modelling techniques.
Peter is also involved in the development of Towers Watson software, staff and client training, and is a regular speaker at seminars. He is the author (or co-author) of numerous papers, including the prize-winning Institute of Actuaries paper "Stochastic Claims Reserving in General Insurance".
Peter has a BSc and PhD in Actuarial Science from City University, London. He is a Chartered Statistician, and an Affiliate of the UK Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. He is also a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Cass Business School, London.
After a few early years in IT consultancy, Matthew Evans joined the actuarial profession in 2004 with consultants EMB. There he worked with personal lines clients on pricing and reserving projects and helped develop EMB’s pricing software suite. Matthew’s move to the Lloyd’s Market came in 2006 with Chaucer Syndicates where he gradually moved away from personal lines to become the Head of Pricing covering all classes.
In 2011 Matthew moved to Amlin. As the Actuarial Pricing Manager his focus is on bringing consistency to technical pricing models and management information across disparate classes of business. His approach is heavily influenced by his earlier career, with much effort invested in treating Lloyd’s classes with the same actuarial rigour as data-rich personal lines and in getting the best out of available IT platforms.
Will joined the Actuarial Profession in 1996 after four years working as a Physics teacher. He qualified at PwC where he worked on a wide range or reserving, capital management and insolvency projects. He moved into the London Market in 2001 with a gradually increasing focus on pricing. He has worked as Pricing Actuary at Zurich Financial Services, Chief Actuary at Ace Tempest Re Europe and for the past five years has been Head of Pricing at Canopius. He is responsible for pricing development across all Canopius classes working closely with underwriters on model construction and developing a mutual understanding of model strengths and weaknesses.
Ray Hammond is Europe’s most experienced and most widely published Futurist.
For over 30 years he has researched, written and spoken about how future trends will affect society and business. As global warming, globalization and the environmental threat continue to be priorities on the world’s agenda, Ray is one of a few commentators equipped to communicate how these massive challenges will affect our futures, the way we do business and the far reaching implications both socially, economically and politically.
Ray projects an inspirational and breathtaking vision of the future to help audiences navigate the hyper-competitive virtual economy. This vision is interpreted from a business, climate, social, political, and economic perspective providing a rounded view of how best to prepare your organisation for what the future holds.
Dr David Hancock is Head of Risk and Benefits for Transport for London. He is responsible for managing risk and opportunity across a £15 billion capital upgrade programme which includes; rail, underground and surface (roads, buses and river services) throughout London.
Renowned internationally as a leading thinker and practitioner in the risk field, he champions the case for rethinking project management as a social interaction rather than delivery through the application of process and policy. Educated at the University of Nottingham where he obtained a degree and PhD in engineering. He later added an MBA from the University of Bath and a political and social science qualification from the University of Oxford.
Author of the bestselling book “Tame, Messy and Wicked Risk Leadership” published by Gower in which he developed the concept of risk leadership. He has been involved with many major private and public sector projects including PFI and PPP contracts on airports, roads rail and water.
David has worked with the public, private and voluntary sectors and in the past has been:
- Director of risk and assurance for two London Mayors.
- Executive Director of a £500m turnover engineering consultancy and CEO of his own independent consultancy. His clients have included; Ministry Of Defence, Highways Agency, Shell, Qatar Petroleum, BAE Systems and a variety of engineering, contracting and consulting organisations.
- From 1998-2001 he was responsible for creating and delivering the opportunity-risk management system for the successful £4.2bn Terminal 5 Project at Heathrow. He worked with British Airways (BA), British Airports Authority (BAA) and their supply chain, which is considered industry leading in project and opportunity/risk management for project delivery.
- From 1996-1997 he was the risk manager for the £500m Copenhagen Metro project integrating companies from 5 different national backgrounds into a single risk management process.
He is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Personnel and Development and Fellow of the Association of Project Management. He is also a member of the programme board for the Major Projects Association, and a teaching Fellow at Cranfield University in their School of Management. In 1998 he was voted “Public sector risk manager” of the year.
Paul heads up Aon Benfield’s international actuarial team. He has broad experience in reinsurance analysis and strategy with a particular interest in risk appetite, risk measurement and decision focused analytics. Prior to joining Benfield in 2000 Paul had 13 years of insurance company experience, including underwriting and analytics. He is a Mathematics graduate and Chartered Insurance Broker.
Mohammad Khan is a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Mohammad leads the Personal and Commercial lines practice and has significant experience discussing and training Boards on issues ranging from reserve adequacy to strategy, capital, pricing, finance function effectiveness, M&As, claims design and optimisation and risk management.
Ioannis Kotsianos is responsible for the insurance segment risk oversight at Allianz SE. His role is to ensure that the modeling infrastructure and relevant model governance processes support sound risk-based decisions and meet regulatory expectations. Furthermore, his team engages with the Allianz entities by bringing expertise in particular topics, such as large or complex transactions and business reviews, as well as by shaping risk governance standards and methods. Ioannis has recently taken on this role, following his five year tenure as Head of Risk Coverage for a region that included Allianz entities in France, BeNeLux, Southern Europe and Latin America. In that capacity, he was responsible for the comprehensive risk oversight – risk control & risk management - of the assigned operating entities.
Prior to joining Allianz SE in 2008, Ioannis was employed for six years at Towers Perrin Tillinghast in Stockholm where he worked as a life actuarial consultant, focusing on projects in the area of financial modeling, M&A, product development and ERM. He started his career in the finance area of General Motors, working in Germany and the Nordic Region.
Ioannis holds a degree in Mathematics from Brown University and qualified as an ASA (2005) and CERA (2012) through the Society of Actuaries.
Steve Peters is a consultant psychiatrist, bestselling author and Head of Sports Psychology for UK Athletics. In addition to his extraordinary success with British cycling, he has worked on twelve other Olympic disciplines as well as Premier League football and English rugby.
Steve began as a maths teacher, before switching to medicine and specialising in patients with severe and dangerous personality disorders. His focus is now on how the mind can enable us to reach optimum performance in all walks of life. Working with sports people at the top of their game, he gives them the confidence to come back from defeat and out-perform the opposition. Steve has been described as a “Genius” by Team GB cycling coach Dave Brailsford. Chris Hoy, Victoria Pendleton and Bradley Wiggins have all attributed their success to him.
In speeches as in his book The Chimp Paradox, Steve explains his method to help us understand and control our ‘inner chimp’ - the irrational, impulsive, seemingly impossible part of our mind that often holds us back. Examining motivation, confidence and communication, he shows that competition is as much in the mind as it is in the field or on the track - or in the office.
James is responsible for Beazley’s Internal Model and manages the capital modelling team. James specialises in using capital models in a range of business areas including; business planning, reserving, exposure management, reinsurance purchase, pricing and acquisitions. Prior to working at Beazley, James was an actuarial consultant providing advice on capital modelling to a range of Lloyd’s and London Market clients.
Stephen Wilcox is the Chief Risk Officer for Allianz UK. He was appointed by the company in November 2010, and his appointment was confirmed by the FSA in February 2011. Apart from oversight of risk within the UK group Stephen is also responsible for the UK programme implementing Solvency II, a role he shared in his previous job as Risk Actuary.
He started his career with Allianz in 1996 as an actuarial trainee, working mainly in private car business. He had a sideline in marine reserving, where he quickly learnt that mathematical models are useful but cannot tell you everything. He qualified as an actuary (FIA) in 2000, and spent a number of years supporting mid-corporate commercial lines, undertaking reserving, planning and pricing projects. In 2006 he was invited to set up a team to develop an internal model that met the requirements of the FSA’s ICA regime.
Stephen holds a degree in Maths and Philosophy from Oxford University. He then spent some time undertaking postgraduate research in the field of Mathematical Logic, before deciding to move to the commercial world. In his spare time he enjoys making and listening to music and riding a tandem with his wife.