Six new Honorary Fellows elected to the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries

The Honorary Fellows are:

• Professor Wai-Sum Chan, Professor of Finance at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
• Dr Peter England, worldwide expert in stochastic reserving techniques and author of many important research papers.
• Professor Karel Van Hulle,  former Head of Insurance and Pensions at the European Commission and now lecturer at KU Leuven and at the Goethe University,  Frankfurt.
• Professor Carol Jagger,  AXA Chair in Epidemiology of Ageing at Newcastle University’s Institute for Ageing and Health.
• Sir Philip Mawer, former chair of the IFoA’s Professional Regulation Executive Committee (PREC), now known as Regulation Board.
• Professor Hailiang Yang, Professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Hong Kong.

Full biographies can be found by clicking each name.

It is anticipated that all six candidates will be presented with their Honorary Fellowship at events in the UK and Hong Kong over the coming months, with further details to follow.

The IFoA has over 100 Honorary Fellows who are leaders in their fields of business, academia, government and other public bodies, both in the UK or internationally.  New Honorary Fellows are elected by Fellows and Associates of the IFoA.  The candidates have been invited on the basis of achieving distinction in fields relating to actuarial science or giving significant service to the actuarial profession, and will have an ongoing relationship with the IFoA.

We welcome all six new Honorary Fellows to our professional body and look forward to their involvement over the coming years.

If you have any queries about this process, please contact Lorraine Atherton at the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.