Statistics Insights Seminar Series

Title: Actuaries and statisticians in sustainability: understanding, modelling, and reporting.

Biography: Lloyd is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, a Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary and a Chartered Statistician. He is a Managing Director and Head of Actuarial at consulting firm Crowe where he works with insurance, banking and asset management clients helping them to understand climate and sustainability risks and opportunities. As well as his consulting role, Lloyd is a Teaching Fellow at QMUL’s School of Mathematical Sciences.   

This talk is from the Worshipful Company of Actuaries (WCA) and two representatives who share insights about being an actuary and career prospects.

Speaker: Alex Marcuson, Managing Director, Marcuson Consulting.

Talk title: From Statistics to Stories: Using Actuarial Skills to respond to Non-Life Insurance Challenges in a Changing Climate.

Biography: Alex established Marcuson Consulting, a specialist team of 10 general insurance actuarial consultants, in 2010.  Prior to this, he was an insurance partner with accountancy firm Deloitte. 

His career has seen him advise the European Commission on the implementation of Solvency II and the Australian Government’s Royal Commission into the collapse of the country’s second largest insurer, HIH Insurance.  He has acted several times in the UK High Court and overseas as an expert witness on general insurance matters. 

He now chairs the IFoA’s General Insurance Climate Change Reserving Working Party, which in 2023 was awarded the prestigious Brian Hey Prize for best paper.

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Speaker: Jennifer Stott, Head of Finance Lloyds Banking Group.

Talk title: Your first Goal is to Qualify but from then on your Career path is something you own!

Abstract: Jenni followed a traditional route, having studied Maths, then qualifying as an actuary as a Pensions Consulting firm.  Now Head of Finance, at Lloyds Banking Group Jenni is also the Chair of the IFOA’s Sustainability Board, a Board Member of a Private Company and a Trustee of the Worshipful Company of Actuaries’ Charity. 

There is also a prize-giving ceremony to one/two current final-year actuarial science students with outstanding performance in their first and second years. 

Title: From Data to Decisions: Navigating Entrepreneurship, Investment, and Opportunity in a Data-Driven World.

Biography: Adam is a Partner at Antler, co-leading the UK fund. He is a Founding Partner and Chair of Houghton Street Ventures, a pre-seed and seed fund investing in alumni of the London School of Economics and a Non-Executive Director at Innovate Finance, the UK industry body for fintech. Previously, he was the Co-Founder and CEO of Scalable Capital, a fintech unicorn valued at $1.4 billion, backed by BlackRock, Tencent, and Hedosophia, as he recognized the opportunity to build a business to make investing more accessible, more convenient and more cost-effective by using technology. Earlier in his career, Adam served as an Executive Director of Trading at Goldman Sachs. Adam graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2007 with a BSc in Business, Mathematics and Statistics.