Tan Suee Chieh becomes IFoA President

The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) is delighted to announce that Tan Suee Chieh FIA has begun his presidential term, taking over from John Taylor FFA. Suee Chieh has been part of the Presidential team for the past year, in the position of President-elect. Louise Pryor FIA joins the team as the next President-elect.

Tan Suee Chieh, IFoA President, said:

“The global Covid-19 crisis has prompted new ways of doing things both in our professional and personal lives. We now have a unique opportunity to shape the future, instead of simply responding to it. I think it is imperative that the IFoA takes this opportunity to reinvent itself for the digital age and for a rapidly transforming social agenda. Now more than ever, the actuarial profession must consider how it can best contribute to social impact and influence policy and regulatory change in the public interest around the world.

“In this organisation and across our profession, let us create a culture that promotes courage, curiosity, adaptability, judgement, imagination and continuous learning. Our quintessential values as actuaries are cautiousness, accuracy, consistency and reticence. But these can hold us back if we do not create space for other values to encourage innovation, thought leadership and diversity of our ideas. Our reinvention is really about cultural transformation of the profession. We must be bold in doing away with the practices and processes which are unhelpful, or which stand in our path.

“I begin my Presidency by launching a new strategy with a focus on vision, skillsets, mindsets and domains for the profession. We want to enable our members and the profession to thrive in the digital age, and in a future filled with both uncertainty and opportunity. We also want to ensure that the generations who come after us have the right range of skills and the growth mindset to succeed as the industrial landscapes we work in are re-drawn. The goal is to be recognised as actuaries and analytical problem solvers, not only in our core fields but across a wide range of domains, wherever our unique attributes can add value.”

Stephen Mann, IFoA CEO, said:

“I would like to congratulate Tan Suee Chieh as he becomes the next IFoA President. Over the past year, in his role as President-elect, Suee Chieh has championed the actuarial profession and collaborated closely with the executive team to deliver a strategy designed to raise the profile and influence of actuaries. I look forward to working with him on bringing this strategy to fruition.

“I would also like to take this opportunity to thank both John Taylor as he moves to the role of Immediate Past President and Jules Constantinou, who ends his three-year term on the IFoA Presidential team. And I extend a warm welcome to Louise Pryor as she officially becomes President-elect.”

Tan Suee Chieh’s Presidential Address will take place via live videoconference on Thursday 18 June 2020 at 9:30am BST. Details of how to view the Presidential Address on Zoom and YouTube are set out below.

~ENDS~

Media contacts

UK
Sonia Sequeira, Media Relations Manager, IFoA
Tel: 07525 592 198
Email: sonia.sequeira@actuaries.org.uk

Singapore

Caryn Chua FIA, Actuary Representative of South-East Asia
Tel +65 6906 0889
Mobile +65 8838 5848
Email: caryn.chua@actuaries.org.uk

Notes to Editor

1. Tan Suee Chieh graduated from the London School of Economics, after which he worked for Prudential for 20 years in a variety of roles in London, Malaysia and Singapore. These roles included CEO at Prudential Singapore and regional managing director at Prudential Asia. After a stint in organisational psychology, he returned to the insurance industry as CEO of NTUC Income, a leading composite insurer in Singapore; he eventually became group CEO of the holding entity NTUC Enterprise, stepping down in 2017. He is a Fellow of the IFoA and Royal Statistical Society and was a Past President of the Life Insurance Association of Singapore.
    
2. You can watch Tan Suee Chieh’s full Presidential Address live on Thursday 18 June at 9:30am BST.
    
3. Details to attend via Zoom can be found on the IFoA Events Calendar
    
4. Or watch the speech on the IFoA YouTube Channel
    
5. The appendix to the Presidential Address is available to download as a PDF. 
    
6. The Presidential Address slides are available to download as a PDF.
    
7. The full text of the speech entitled: "Presidential Address Strategy Culture and Imagination" is available to download as a PDF. 

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