Disciplinary board members' biographies

Jane Irvine

Jane has specialised in resolving consumer service disputes for the past 20 years. She has provided arbitration and adjudication decisions and mediation services to resolve disputes about a range of services including funerals, holidays, mobile phone and internet, surveying and financial services. She was Lay Inspector within HM Inspectorate of Constabulary for Scotland from 2001 until 2004. In this capacity she examined handling of complaints lodged against the police in Scotland. She then chaired a working group for the Justice Minister reviewing legislation governing police complaint and conduct issues through all ranks from police constable to chief constable in preparation for the new independent police complaint commission.Jane was appointed as the Scottish Legal Services Ombudsman in April 2006 and on 1 January 2008 took on the role as Chair of the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission. She is also Deputy UK Pensions Ombudsman and Pension Protection Fund Ombudsman, having been appointed in November 2009 to these roles.

William Abbott

Bill retired from the Legal & General Group in 2002, where he had been its group actuary for the previous 12 years. His particular interests were in life and general insurance, pension fund management business and corporate financial management and reporting. He is a former treasurer of the Institute of Actuaries (one of the predecessor bodies of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries) and has played an active role in the International Actuarial Association, including the development of international accounting standards for insurance companies.Since retirement, he has been the convener of interim orders panels and disciplinary tribunal panels, and chaired 10 such panels during the three years to February 2008.

Alan Botterill

After reading Mathematics and Physics at Glasgow University, Alan joined Standard Life and became a Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries (one of the predecessor bodies of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries) in 1977. He joined Towers Perrin in 1984 where he specialised in international benefits financial management and was the Managing Director, EMEA, for HR consulting services when he retired at the end of 2009. His service for the Profession includes: Honorary Secretary of the Faculty, member of Faculty Council, member of the boards of Professional Affairs, Pensions and General Insurance; also, since his retirement he has been assisting the Profession to develop strategy to support members to expand careers into risk management.

Stewart Coutts

Stewart pioneered the use of actuarial techniques in pricing both commercial and personal lines of business. He was also one of the prime movers in the development of dynamic financial analysis (DFA). He has worked on a number of board level projects, such as cash flow analysis and asset and liability modeling, in the international marketplace. Stewart is now working on the use of actuarial methodology in the field of insurance regulation (S2) and linking this to return on capital at both regulatory and actual levels

Brian Duffin

Brian joined Scottish Life in 1976, having read Mathematics at St Catharines College, Cambridge. He qualified in 1979 as a Fellow of the Faculty and held various posts with Scottish Life before being appointed its group chief executive in 1999. After Scottish Life demutualised and was acquired by Royal London in 2001, he was executive director of Royal London until 2007. He currently holds directorships in the life assurance industry, appointments with pension schemes, and other appointments, including non-executive director of the Debt Management Office of HM Treasury.After serving as a tutor and as an examiner, he was a member of the Faculty Council between 1991 and 1996, including a period as chairman of the Profession's public relations committee. In 2007 he was appointed to the disciplinary pool. In the following year he was appointed to the investigations and professional conduct enforcement committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland as a public interest member.

Alan Fishman

Alan Fishman is retired, his last position being Managing Director of HSBC Actuaries and Consultants Limited. He was formerly Chairman of the Association of Consulting Actuaries, President of the Society of Pension Consultants and a Vice-President of the Institute of Actuaries.

Judith Goulden

Judith Goulden is a Solicitor. She is a former member of the Regulatory Decisions Committee of the Financial Services Authority and the Disciplinary Panel of The Actuarial Profession.  She is currently a member of the Disciplinary Panel and Competency Scheme of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, and holds Lord Chancellor’s appointments as a Lawyer Chairman of the Rent Assessment Panels of the Residential Property Tribunal Service and a Justice of the Peace.

Terence Mowschenson QC

Terence Mowschenson read law at London University (Queen Mary College) and Oxford (Exeter College) and was called to the Bar in 1977. He took silk in 1995. He practices in London in a wide range of business related matters with a particular emphasis on finance. He was pointed an assistant recorder in 1998, a recorder in 2000, a part-time judge of the Financial Services and Markets Tribunal in 2000, a deputy High Court judge in 2003 and a part time judge  of the Pensions Regulator Tribunal in 2005. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a qualified mediator. He is a bencher of the Middle Temple.

Robert Stenlake

Robert joined Standard Life in Edinburgh in 1969 after graduating from St Andrews University. He moved to Crusader Insurance in Reigate in 1973 and qualified as a Fellow of the Faculty in 1974. He moved to consulting actuaries, Bacon & Woodrow, in 1986 and was a partner with the firm, specialising in pensions. He retired from Hewitt, Bacon & Woodrow in 2003 to pursue a wide range of personal interests. He has been a course leader on our professionalism courses for newly qualified actuares and has served as deputy convener and convener of the interim orders panels under the Profession's disciplinary schemes. He is a voluntary adviser for the Pensions Advisory Service. He is an employer elected member of the Social Housing Pension Scheme committee.