IFoA India Conference 2024 | Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (original) (raw)

Fri 29 Nov 2024, 12:00 -
Sun 01 Dec 2024, 14:00 (IST)

Join us in New Delhi from 29 November to 1 December 2024 for the first-ever IFoA India Conference. This is your opportunity to engage with cutting-edge topics, including AI, climate risk and more, all within the theme ‘Actuaries of the Future’. Don't miss this chance to connect with peers and leaders in the field. Book your spot now.

Schedule

Featured Speakers

John is the Chief Actuary at RSA Insurance Group and is a member of the RSA executive team.

He joined RSA as a Trainee Actuary on the graduate programme just over 20 years ago and qualified as a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries in 2008. Throughout his career, John has worked across various departments and in many countries across the globe, always with a focus on general insurance. From 2004-2009 he specialised in pricing and underwriting across various personal and commercial lines products, with a focus mainly on the UK personal lines side.

Between 2009 and 2013, he moved into a corporate role and specialised in capital modelling. In 2013 John moved into the reserving team. He became the Group Reserving Manager with responsibilities for overseeing much of the reserving work throughout RSA Group globally. This gave him the chance to travel and work extensively with many different actuarial teams across Europe, Asia and North and South America.

John worked closely with the RSA India team since its inception in 2007 and in December 2015, he was appointed to lead the Indian team. He still leads the RSA India team today as a Board member of our Indian company. He supports and guides over 200 of our colleagues in India for the work they do throughout our business.

In early 2018, John moved to Toronto after being appointed as the RSA Canada Chief Actuary. He held this position until February 2020 when he moved back to London upon being appointed as the RSA Group Chief Actuary.

Intact acquired RSA Group in June 2021 and upon acquisition, John continued in the role of Chief Actuary for Intact’s acquired UK & International business from RSA, the role he is very proud to hold today.

Mr K V Dipu, as Senior President at Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company, a joint venture of the Bajaj Group & Allianz, has been instrumental in driving digital transformation, innovation, and industry leadership. His leadership extends to a team of over 1,400 professionals, serving a customer base of more than 140 million across over 1,000 locations, a testament to his ability to manage at scale.

Mr Dipu’s accomplishments include receiving more than 125 country, continental, and global industry awards and garnering wide press coverage, solidifying his international recognition. Bajaj Allianz GIC has been awarded ‘Digital Insurer of the Year’ three times across Asia.

A management graduate from the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIM Lucknow), Mr Dipu joined Bajaj Allianz GIC in 2016 after a stellar career of nearly 20 years with GE Capital. He is a certified Lean Six Sigma black belt and a CII National Committee on Financial Inclusion and FinTech member.

Mr Dipu is a recognized thought leader in the industry, sharing his insights on strategy, innovation, leadership, and digital transformation at various domestic and global industry forums. His expertise is not only recognised but also demonstrated through his extensive contributions to various publications, with over 225 published articles and his numerous speaking engagements, having addressed audiences in five continents at over 450 conferences.

Kulin is an industry expert with almost 30 years’ of experience in the global pension and insurance sector. Through his extensive career he has held various technical and leadership roles at some of the largest global pension consultancies across UK, North America and Asia. He has also recently been appointed as the next Executive Director of Abelica Global, a global network of around 30 actuarial and risk consultancies.

At various stages through his career, Kulin has had experience across the full spectrum: actuarial, reporting, product development, business strategy, technology, regulatory, administration, employee communications and trust governance consulting.

Akash Rughani has been a part of the financial world for more than a decade and has an excellent experience in the Risk Consulting and Educational training domain.

Akash, after completing his Chartered Accountancy in 2010 securing a 34th Rank All India and FRM by Global Association Risk Professionals (GARP), entered the field of Risk consulting and Investment Advisory domain. He helped various companies in their fund-raising journey via debt syndication and equity funding. In the risk consulting domain, he advised India’s Largest Private Sector General Insurance Company in the field of process excellence and redesign to obtain operational efficiency

Akash, simultaneously Co-founded a leading Actuarial and Analytics Training Company in 2013. Within 10+ of mentoring students, Akash has mentored more than 5000 students in this domain. He has also tied up with various colleges in Mumbai, training the students on Data Analytics.

It has since been a journey of firsts for Akash and growing his team of educational enthusiasts – the latest being the setting up of the Institute of Actuarial and Quantitative Studies (IAQS) in association with Patkar-Varde College affiliated with the University of Mumbai in 2019, a first of its kind initiative enabling students across domains to pursue the Actuarial Science and Quantitative Finance Programs. In 2020, it became the first program to be accredited by the IFoA (UK) for exemptions for up to 6 actuarial exams in India.

Immediate Past President of the IFoA

Kalpana brings 30 years of business experience in the insurance and investment industry. She was longstanding Group Chief Actuary and Partner at Hiscox until 2016. She is now one of a handful of female Chairs in the insurance industry, a non-executive director of several organisations and a member of the Capacity Transfer Panel for Lloyd’s of London.

She is also a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Insurers and member of Court of the Worshipful Company of Actuaries. She has Chaired and contributed to committees for the IFoA, Bank of England, Lloyd's of London and the Bermuda Monetary Authority. In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, Kalpana headed the first voluntary team of actuaries helping the UK’s National Health Service with emergency analytics and planning.

Kalpana is a regular judge for the Women in Insurance Awards and a frequent speaker on insurance and diversity related topics. Over the years she has been recognised for her work by organisations including the Institute of Directors, Financial Times, Cranfield University, Insurance Insider and Brummell Magazine.

Andrew D Smith spent the first 30 years of his career with a large consulting firm, applying actuarial skills to solve a wide range of business issues in diverse fields across more than 20 countries. He is well-known for his actuarial research in stochastic modelling. For the past seven years, Andrew has taught data science at University College Dublin, where he directs the Actuarial MSc programme. Andrew represented Ireland as team leader for the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2020 and 2024.

IFoA President

Kartina brings 25 years of diverse actuarial, risk management, governance, and regulatory experience. Her prior experience includes a Big-Four audit firm, the Bank of England, global insurance carriers, and brokers. Her most recent executive role is with WTW, the largest global insurance consultancy, as a Senior Director where she leads the risk, regulation, and governance proposition. Kartina also has non-executive experience, most recently for an FTSE-listed company and a fintech firm.

As a subject matter expert in the UK and European insurance regulation, she advises firms on resolving their regulatory issues and adding business value by helping boards in their decision-making. From roles as Chief Risk Officer, a member of the supervisory panel at the Bank of England, and a partner to C-suites and boards of various firms, she brings practical experience to business solutions.

Kartina holds leadership positions in the actuarial profession in the UK and globally. She has served on the IFoA Council for the past seven years and was a member of its Audit and Risk Committee. She was also on the Board of Directors of the Actuarial Association of Europe for four years.

Kartina is passionate about inclusion, social mobility, and education, which she has channelled through her role as the Chair of the IFoA Foundation for the past three years. She mobilised the charity to make a remarkable impact on the next generation of actuaries and the wider actuarial community.

Kartina became President-elect in September 2023 and President in July 2024.

Dr Arvind Virmani is a member of NITI Aayog. He specialises in policy and institutional reforms for sustained, fast and inclusive economic growth.

He is a macro economist who has bridged the gap between academics, think tanks and policy makers, through research based policy advice and policy oriented research. He played a prominent, professional and advisory role in the economic reforms of the 1990s and 2000s, such as tax, tariff, foreign exchange, financial sector and expenditure policy reforms.

He was the founder Chairman of the Foundation for Economic Growth and Welfare (EGROW) and President of the Forum for Strategic Initiatives (FSI, Delhi). He earlier served as Executive Director, IMF, Chief Economic Advisor, Ministry of Finance and Principal Advisor, Planning Commission.

He was Director and Chief Executive of ICRIER and has published over 60 journal articles, books and chapters, and more than 100 working and policy papers in macroeconomics, growth, tax and tariff reform, foreign exchange, international relations and national security strategy.

He was a member of the TRAI, a mentor (public policy and economics) to FICCI, and member of Technical Advisory Committee on Monetary Policy, RBI.

His experience in the finance sector includes: Chairman, Board of Trustees of SBI Mutual Fund, Director LIC, Member of SEBI Appellate Tribunal and Depositories Act, Member Board of Trustee at UTI and Director in PNB, Allahabad Bank and EXIM Bank.

His think tank experience includes Member, Board of Governors in CPR & RIS, Non-resident Sr. Fellow in Brooking Institution, USA, Affiliate Professor & Distinguished Sr. Fellow in George Mason University, USA.

Pricing and booking

For group bookings of five people or more, there will be a 10% discount.

Super saver: 16 August to 2 October

Student member: £100
Qualified Member: £225
Non-member: £300

Early bird: 3 October to 2 November

Student member: £125
Qualified Member: £250
Non-member: £325

Late: 3 to 18 November

Student member: £150
Qualified Member: £300
Non-member: £375

Virtual attendance

For sessions listed as ‘hybrid’ on the schedule, remote attendance is fully supported, ensuring you can engage seamlessly from anywhere. One workshop in each stream will also be offered in a hybrid format, and we will inform you of the specific sessions at a later time.

Member: £200
Non-member: £250

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CPD

IAI members attending the conference can claim the sessions under ‘Other Verifiable CPD’ hours.