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Professionalism Awareness Committee

The Professionalism Awareness Committee (PAC) has a Chairman and five volunteer actuary members.

The Committee meets six times a year and has a Case Studies sub-committee to help deliver its projects.

 

Members of the Committee are: 

Tony Hewitt

Tony helps run the Actuarial Finance MSc at Imperial College Business School – a route for full-time actuarial trainees to qualify as actuaries, combining work-based skills with an Imperial Masters education.

Tony is also a member of the Finance & Investment Education, Research and CPD Committee.  He campaigns to integrate professional awareness into all actuarial education, research and CPD. 

Jim Boyle

Jim Boyle is Chief Actuary at Bluefin Corporate Consulting and a Scheme Actuary. He is deputy chairman of the Pensions Practice Executive Committee, chairs the Pensions CPD Committee and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland’s Pensions Committee. 

David Heeney

David works for Pacific Life Re as Chief Marketing Officer, UK & Ireland. He previously held senior roles at Swiss Re and Legal & General.

David has served for many years as a Life Principal Lecturer on professionalism courses for newly qualified actuaries. He also served for six years as Chairman of the CMI Critical Illness Committee. 

Tom Jowett

Tom is a general insurance practitioner working for Swiss Re where he has a global team developing pricing tools.   He has been a senior examiner for General Insurance.   

David Addison

David is a Director in the Risk Consulting and Software practice of Towers Watson and is the practice’s Professional Excellence leader for EMEA region.  In this role he advises colleagues on professionalism matters including conflicts of interest and other ethical issues.

David is a life assurance specialist and also holds a number of Actuarial Function Holder and With-Profits Actuary roles.  In addition he is a member of the Actuarial Profession’s Practising Certificates Committee and Life Standards and Consultations Committee.  

Carl Hitchman

Carl is a partner in Hymans Robertson LLP and has over 27 years industry experience having specialised in investment consulting since 1993.  In addition to his client work, Carl spent many years in a business risk management role within an investment consulting environment, leading on professionalism issues, working alongside internal audit and compliance as well as undertaking best practice reviews.