Risk Management Research and Thought Leadership Committee

The Risk Management Research & Thought Leadership Committee has key objectives which focus on the following themes:

• identify, promote and foster research opportunities, including:
  • oversight and guidance of member-led research initiatives, in accordance with the Guidance for new working parties;
• working with the Executive’s Research team to:
  • establish links with universities and external research bodies
  • identify topics/areas for commissioned research
  • review and evaluation of commissioned research
  • identify topics for the sessional research programme and source volunteers to peer review papers and chair events
• support annual conference programme development (facilitate working party involvement in liaison with the relevant Conference Programme Committee)
• foster cross-practice research activity where there are overlapping interests eg Solvency II. This includes the incorporation of Risk Management into research initiatives, in accordance with the Risk Management strategy.
• maintain a watching brief on the progress of and needs of existing member-led working parties
• actuarial science will be interpreted as widely as needed to reflect the cross-practice nature of Risk Management.

Membership is drawn from all practice areas, academia, and anthropology

Risk Management Research & Thought Leadership 2021/2022 Membership: 

• Fred Vosvenieks (Chair)
• David Trefusis (Deputy Chair)
• Neil Cantle
• Graeme Charters 
• Tiejun Ma
• Amar Purohit
• Sundaramurti Tribhuvanaram
• Matthew Wilmot
• Xiao Yu

The Risk Management Research & Thought Leadership Committee operates within Terms of reference.  If you have any questions for the Committee please contact their dedicated email address: risk@actuaries.org.uk