Programme Committee
The Programme Committee is a Sub-Committee of the Member Support Executive Committee (MSEC) and is responsible for arranging the Sessional Research Programme of meetings.
Membership:
| Area of expertise: | Representative: |
| Annals of Actuarial Science | Angus Macdonald |
| British Actuarial Journal | Richard Muckart, Shane Whelan & Cathy Robertson |
| Member Support Executive Committee | Trevor Jones |
| Scottish Board | Elaine Stevenson |
| Qualifications Executive Committee | Chris O’Brien |
| ERM | Andrew Hitchcox |
| Finance and investment | Jon Hatchett |
| General Insurance | To be confirmed |
| Health and care | Emily Demetriades |
| Life | Trevor Jones & Chris O’Brien |
| Pensions | To be confirmed |
| Communications Division | Barbara Beebee |
| Events Team | Amanda Davey |
| Member Support Division | Memoria Lewis |
| Research | Pauline Simpson/Maria Lyons |
| Journals support | Nicky Wilkinson/Maria Lyons |
| Regions | Beth Montgomery |
Terms of reference:
- To arrange a high quality and varied annual programme of research and thought leadership meetings, stimulating the production of papers and other material for presentation.
- To monitor actuarial research, both member-led and university-based, working with PECs and other groups as appropriate, in order to identify and promote work appropriate for presentation at meetings.
- To recommend a meeting format appropriate to the subject matter of each meeting, for example a small seminar or formal presentation, and a suitable venue, for example a venue outside London, Staple Inn or a university.
- To engage with individuals and groups outwith the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, for example other Professional bodies, to ensure a lively, stimulating and mutually beneficial interchange of knowledge and potentially holding joint events.
- To recommend how the output from each meeting should be written up and disseminated, for example as a paper in one of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries’ journals or as a podcast, subject to the refereeing process.
- To co-ordinate the production of BAJ as a vehicle for promulgating modern actuarial thinking, encouraging contributions and commissioning review papers on topics of importance to the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.
- To report regularly to MSEC, with updates to QEC and other groups as appropriate.