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Past presidents

The Institute of Actuaries was founded in 1848, constituting a president as its leader and elected by its council. The Faculty of Actuaries, established in 1856, elected a chair of its council for each year until 1887 when its leader was designated president.

On this page you can see all presidents of each body from 1887 to the contemporary leaders of the UK actuarial profession. When respective memberships voted to merge as the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries from 2010, its leadership became the president, immediate past president, and president-elect for each year.

See our past presidents from:

2010 to today

Past presidents of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.

 

Rishabh Surana, CoordinatorMatthew Saker, 2022 to 2023

Arpit Surana, Vice PresidentLouise Pryor, 2021 to 2022

Shivang Gumber, CoordinatorTan Suee Chieh, 2020 to 2021

Rishabh Surana, CoordinatorJohn Taylor, 2019 to 2020

Rishabh Surana, CoordinatorJules Constantinou, 2018 to 2019

Rishabh Surana, CoordinatorMarjorie Ngwenya, 2017 to 2018

Rishabh Surana, CoordinatorColin Wilson, 2016 to 2017

Rishabh Surana, CoordinatorFiona Morrison, 2015 to 2016

Rishabh Surana, CoordinatorNicholas Salter, 2014 to 2015

Rishabh Surana, CoordinatorDavid Hare, 2013 to 2014

Rishabh Surana, CoordinatorPhilip Scott, 2012 to 2013

Rishabh Surana, CoordinatorJane Curtis, 2011 to 2012

Rishabh Surana, CoordinatorRonald Bowie, 2010 to 2011

1950 to 2010

Past presidents from the Faculty of Actuaries and Institute of Actuaries between 1950 and 2010.

 

Institute of Actuaries

  • Nigel Masters, 2008 to 2010
  • Nicholas Dumbreck, 2006 to 2008
  • Michael Pomery, 2004 to 2006
  • Jeremy Goford, 2002 to 2004
  • Peter Clark, 2000 to 2002
  • Paul Thornton, 1998 to 2000
  • Duncan Ferguson, 1996 to 1998
  • Christopher Daykin, 1994 to 1996
  • John Martin, 1992 to 1994
  • Hugh Scurfield, 1990 to 1992
  • Roger Corley, 1988 to 1990
  • Marshall Field, 1986 to 1988
  • Professor Peter Moore, 1984 to 1986
  • Stewart Lyon, 1982 to 1984
  • Anthony Ratcliff, 1980 to 1982
  • Peter Moody, 1978 to 1980
  • Michael O’Brien, 1976 to 1978
  • Gordon Bayley, 1974 to 1976
  • Geoffrey Heywood, 1972 to 1974
  • Ronald Skerman, 1970 to 1972
  • James Pegler, 1968 to 1970
  • Bernard Benjamin, 1966 to 1968
  • Sir Herbert Tetley, 1964 to 1966
  • Kenneth Usherwood, 1962 to 1964
  • John Gunlake, 1960 to 1962
  • Frank Redington, 1958 to 1960
  • Charles Wood, 1956 to 1958
  • John Bunford, 1954 to 1956
  • Frank Gardner, 1952 to 1954
  • Frederick Menzler, 1950 to 1952

Faculty of Actuaries

  • Ronald Bowie, 2008 to 2010
  • J Stewart Ritchie, 2006 to 2008
  • Harvie Brown, 2004 to 2006
  • Thomas Ross, 2002 to 2004
  • David Kingston, 2000 to 2002
  • Fraser Low, 1998 to 2000
  • Paul Grace, 1996 to 1998
  • Malcom Murray, 1994 to 1996
  • Professor John McCutcheon, 1992 to 1994
  • Alistair Neill, 1990 to 1992
  • James Souness, 1989 to 1990
  • William Morrison, 1987 to 1989
  • John Macharg, 1985 to 1987
  • Alexander Shedden, 1983 to 1985
  • George Gwilt, 1981 to 1983
  • Douglas McKinnon, 1979 to 1981
  • Robert Macdonald, 1977 to 1979
  • Maxwell Thornton, 1975 to 1977
  • John Wallace, 1973 to 1975
  • John Young, 1971 to 1973
  • David Donald, 1969 to 1971
  • Arthur Bromfield, 1968 to 1969
  • James Dow, 1966 to 1968
  • John Anderson, 1964 to 1966
  • Trevor Haynes, 1962 to 1964
  • David Scrimgeour, 1960 to 1962
  • Alexander Robert Reid, 1958 to 1960
  • Francis McGregor, 1956 to 1958
  • Kenneth Weatherhead, 1954 to 1956
  • Richard Lloyd Gwilt, 1952 to 1954
  • John Ross, 1950 to 1952

1900 to 1950

Past presidents from the Faculty of Actuaries and Institute of Actuaries between 1900 and 1950.

 

Institute of Actuaries

  • Sir George Maddex, 1948 to 1950
  • Sir Andrew Rowell, 1946 to 1948
  • Reginald Simmonds, 1944 to 1946
  • Henry Melville, 1942 to 1944
  • William Penman, 1940 to 1942
  • Henry Oakley, 1938 to 1940
  • Henry Brown, 1936 to 1938
  • Charles Coutts, 1934 to 1936
  • Sir William Elderton, 1932 to 1934
  • Harold Trouncer, 1930 to 1932
  • Abraham Levine, 1928 to 1930
  • Sir Joseph Burn, 1926 to 1928
  • Digby Besant, 1924 to 1926
  • William Phelps, 1922 to 1924
  • Sir Alfred Watson, 1920 to 1922
  • Geoffrey Marks, 1918 to 1920
  • Samuel Warner, 1916 to 1918
  • Ernest Woods, 1914 to 1916
  • Frederick Schooling, 1912 to 1914
  • Sir Gerald Ryan, 1910 to 1912
  • Sir George Hardy, 1908 to 1910
  • Frank Wyatt, 1906 to 1908
  • Henry Cockburn, 1904 to 1906
  • William Hughes, 1902 to 1904
  • Charles Higham, 1900 to 1902

Faculty of Actuaries

  • Andrew Davidson, 1948 to 1950
  • Colin Penn, 1946 to 1948
  • James Gray Kyd, 1944 to 1946
  • Finlay James Cameron, 1942 to 1944
  • William Bannatyne, 1940 to 1942
  • William Alexander Robertson, 1938 to 1940
  • Alexander Donald, 1936 to 1938
  • Hugh Wylie Brown, 1934 to 1936
  • Randolph Gordon-Smith, 1932 to 1934
  • Steuart Macnaghten, 1930 to 1932
  • Charles Guthrie, 1928 to 1930
  • Ralph Hill Stewart, 1926 to 1928
  • George Lidstone, 1924 to 1926
  • William Walton, 1922 to 1924
  • Lewis Orr, 1921 to 1922
  • Alfred Sprague, 1919 to 1921
  • George Macritchie Low, 1915 to 1919
  • William Hutton, 1913 to 1915
  • Gordon Douglas, 1910 to 1913
  • James McLauchlan, 1908 to 1910
  • Archibald Hewat, 1906 to 1908
  • Niel Ballingall Gunn, 1903 to 1906
  • George Macritchie Low, 1900 to 1903

1848 to 1900

Past presidents from the Faculty of Actuaries and Institute of Actuaries between 1848 and 1900.

 

Institute of Actuaries

  • Henry Manly, 1898 to 1900
  • Thomas Young, 1896 to 1898
  • Alexander Finlaison, 1894 to 1896
  • Augustus Hendriks, 1892 to 1894
  • Benjamin Newbatt, 1890 to 1892
  • William Sutton, 1888 to 1890
  • Archibald Day, 1886 to 1888
  • Thomas Sprague, 1882 to 1886
  • Arthur Bailey, 1878 to 1882
  • John Hill Williams, 1875 to 1878
  • Robert Tucker, 1872 to 1875
  • William Hodge, 1870 to 1872
  • Samuel Brown, 1867 to 1870
  • Charles Jellicoe, 1860 to 1867
  • John Finlaison, 1848 to 1860

Faculty of Actuaries

  • David Deuchar, 1898 to 1900
  • James Meikle, 1896 to 1898
  • Thomas Sprague, 1894 to 1896
  • Andrew Turnbull, 1892 to 1894
  • Spencer Thomson, 1890 to 1892
  • John McCandlish, 1887 to 1890
  • James Borthwick, Chair of Faculty Council, 1856