Regulation Board
The Regulation Board has a Lay Chairman, a Lay Member and eight volunteer actuary members.
The Committee meets eight times a year and has a number of reporting sub-committees and working parties to help deliver its projects.
Alan is Chair of ILEX Professional Standards Ltd, the regulatory arm of the Institute of Legal Executives. Since 1983 he has specialised in professional regulation. He has worked in both executive and non-executive roles, and has served as a lay member of a range of regulatory bodies. In all he has been involved in standards setting for some 50 professional groups, has published numerous articles on the subject in professional journals and has delivered papers at national and international conferences.
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Desmond Hudson is the new lay chairman of the Professional Regulation Executive Committee (PREC). He takes over from Sir Philip Mawer on 1 July.
Des graduated in law from the University of Leeds in 1977. He qualified as a solicitor in 1980 and worked in private practice until 1987. During that time he became a partner in a major provincial law firm in the north west of England, specialising in crime and child protection work.
In 1987 Des joined the Yorkshire Building Society as an assistant solicitor and held a number of positions becoming Director of the Society during five years there.
Des joined the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland in September 2004 as chief executive designate, subsequently becoming chief executive.
On 4 September 2006 Des took up the position of chief executive of the Law Society of England and Wales. |
Jane is a managing principal with Aon Hewitt's retirement practice, and Immediate Past President of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA). Jane is also on the IFoA's Management Board.
Roger is Chair of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries Membership Committee and is a member of the PREC International Sub-Committee (PISC).
Huw is a Senior Consultant at Towers Watson in Reigate. He advises companies and trustees on a wide range of pensions and employee benefits issues and has been a Scheme Actuary since 1997 for schemes ranging from 20 members to 20,000 members. He is a member of Towers Watson’s team of valuation specialists and team of mortality specialists.
Huw is a member of Council and has served on a number of the Institute and Faculty’s committees. In particular he chaired the Pensions Practice Executive Committee from 2010 to 2012 and was granted a President’s Award in 2012 for his work on the profession’s responses to consultations in relation to the review of the IORP Directive.
Huw was an Investigating Actuary for the Profession before his first term as a member of Council.
Huw has been a volunteer adviser for The Pensions Advisory Service since 1998 (Regional Organiser 2002 – 2011).
Yvonne Lynch, FSAI FIFA MSc(Mgmt), is the Director of Professional Affairs at the Society of Actuaries in Ireland (“Society”). In this role, which she has held since 2003, she helps the Society’s Council to formulate strategy and policy and, focusing in particular on professional and technical matters, she provides executive support to the Society’s Council, Professional Affairs Committee, Committee on Professional Conduct and Practice Committees, as well as a number of strategic working parties and member services committees.
Yvonne represents the Society on the Standards, Freedoms and Professionalism Committee and the Education Committee of the Groupe Consultatif Actuariel Européen and is a member of the Groupe’s Standards Project Team.
At the International Actuarial Association, Yvonne represents the Society on the Professionalism Committee, Education Committee, Executive Officers Forum and Joint Education Forum, and she is the Society’s ‘alternate’ Council delegate. She is also a member of the international Standard Setters Round Table.
Prior to taking up her current role, Yvonne had more than 25 years experience in the life assurance area, mainly in actuarial, marketing and corporate governance (including Company Secretary) roles in both established and start-up firms.
David Martin holds a Scheme Actuary Certificate and advises Pension Scheme Trustees and Companies on their pension arrangements.
David is Leader of the Scottish Board of the UK Profession, a Member of Council, Deputy Chair of PREC, Chair of the PREC International Sub-Committee, a member of the Groupe Consultatif, a member of 2 IAA Committees, and is also on the UK's Management Board.
Fiona is a partner in Lane Clark & Peacock LLP, where she chairs the Professional, Conflicts and Ethics Committees. She is appointed Scheme Actuary to a number of schemes.
Fiona is a member of the Council of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, where she is a member of the Professional Regulation Executive Committee. She is also a Trustee of the Worshipful Company of Actuaries' Charitable Trust Fund.
Andrew is an Actuary working in the field of general insurance. He is the P&I Actuary at Charles Taylor & Co Ltd and is based in London. Andrew is a member of the Professional Regulation Executive Committee and also sits on the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries GI PEC's Standards sub-committee.
Penny is a member of the Advisory Group for the Green Investment Bank and was formerly a member of the Mayor of London's Sustainable Development Commission. She has worked with the finance sector for thirty-five years, including over fifteen years on sustainability and corporate responsibility issues, and is a former Chartered Engineer. Prior to joining PREC, she was a member of the precursor to the BAS/POB Actuarial User Committee.
Penny is also a member of the Institue and Faculty of Actuaries Funeral Plans Working Party.