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Council is the governing body of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA). It exercises governance and control over the IFoA and its affairs. Representative and accountable to the IFoA’s members, Council demonstrates leadership and drives the mission, vision and values of the IFoA by setting its strategic direction.

Established under our Royal Charter, Council both reserves to itself and delegates to the Management Board, our Boards, and Committees, and the Chief Executive certain powers.

The role, responsibilities, and procedural rules applying to the business of Council – and the powers which it delegates to others – are set out in the IFoA’s Constitution.

Upcoming Council meetings

  • 10 March 2022
  • 23 March 2022 (President-elect election meeting)
  • 9 June 2022

The approved minutes for past Council meetings can be found below. James Harrigan is the Secretary to Council.

View a full list of your current Council members.

Members of the IFoA are encouraged to contact the Council with any views, comments, or questions

Members may contact a specific named Council member by emailing our governance team at council@actuaries.org.uk.

Latest news from Council

The latest news from your Council is published in The Actuary following each Council meeting.

Minutes of past Council meetings

Approved Minutes for Past Council Meetings

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Contact Details

James Harrigan, Corporate Secretary

James.Harrigan@actuaries.org.uk

I will try to respond to email queries within five working days.

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Events calendar

  • Pensions Winter Forum: Corporate Transactions

    25 January 2022

    Spaces available

    Over recent months there has been a sharp rise in M&A activity involving British businesses, with interest from overseas, domestic buyers and Private Equity investors.  

  • Finance in the Public Interest 2022 - Frank Redington: The Man and His Ideas

    26 January 2022

    Spaces available

    Frank Redington is recognised as one of the most influential actuaries of all time. In this talk, Craig will review some of Redington's most important ideas. He will identify the consistent actuarial principles that form a common thread across the contributions Redington made to a broad range of actuarial fields, and will highlight the ongoing relevance of Redington's thinking to 21st century actuarial practice.

  • Mental health in insurance: Where are we as an industry and how can we improve?

    4 February 2022

    Spaces available

    The IFoA Mental Health working party look back over their week of blogs and podcasts considering all aspects of the relationship between mental health and life insurance. The expert panel spans adviser, underwriter and actuarial experience and they  explore triggers for purchasing insurance relating to mental health, the various routes to insurance and how these may be more suited to different people depending on their conditions and preferences, the products and processes involved in purchasing these as well as what claims and support are available to policyholders and how to access them.

  • A Cure for Short-sightedness: Using Systems Thinking to Improve Finance

    15 February 2022

    Spaces available

    Part of the 'Finance in the Public Interest 2022' webinar series. If it was ever okay to consider your business in isolation from its surroundings, today it most definitely is not. Thinking about business within its surrounding system is now a necessity. The question we seek to discuss is: How should we prescribe the boundaries in which we consider problems to enable us to create better products and more resilient companies and systems?

  • ARC Webinar - The next generation of CDC pensions? Analysing a post-retirement retirement vehicle

    18 February 2022

    Spaces available

    What will happen to DC pension savers who see life annuities as poor VFM but still want an income for life?  Pooled annuity funds could offer them a decent lifetime income while reducing significantly the complex choices and risk inherent in income drawdown.  They could be the next generation of CDC pension schemes, slotting into the existing DC framework as a post-retirement option.