The IFoA upholds high professional standards, ethics, and regulatory integrity to sustain the IFoA’s position as the leading global professional body for actuaries.
The IFoA upholds high professional standards and promotes proportionate regulation that enhances public trust. We lead in setting ethical, technical, and professional standards, ensuring actuaries remain trusted experts serving the public interest.
In the UK, we safeguard our established regulatory role and continue shaping the evolving regulatory landscape. Internationally, we strengthen our influence in targeted markets, ensuring members operate on a fair and competitive footing.
Our public positions are member-led and evidence-based, reinforcing the credibility and authority of the profession.
The IFoA is a learned society dedicated to advancing actuarial knowledge, equipping actuaries with the skills and expertise needed to succeed at every stage of their careers.
The IFoA is a learned society committed to advancing actuarial science through high-quality education, research, and lifelong learning.
We want IFoA actuaries to be the most sought-after in the world. Our qualifications set the global benchmark for actuarial excellence, ensuring actuaries are equipped with the skills and knowledge needed for a rapidly evolving profession.
We are committed to a fair, positive, and trusted education experience for students, while also providing career-long learning opportunities, including CPD, leadership development, and new qualifications that complement our Chartered Actuary designation.
The world continues to change rapidly, and actuaries need to change with it. Education does not end at the point of qualification, and we aim to provide meaningful professional pathways and valuable skills to support members on their lifelong learning journey.
The IFoA is a respected global professional body with a strong presence in key markets, ensuring its qualifications and professional standing remain valued worldwide.
The IFoA is a global organisation with a strong presence in key markets, ensuring its professional standards and qualifications are respected and valued worldwide. We engage strategically where actuarial expertise is most needed, strengthening our position in priority markets.
Our influence is shaped by factors such as market maturity, industry needs, and geopolitical climate, ensuring that our offering remains relevant to members, employers, students, and regulators. Where appropriate, we will seek to grow our presence while maintaining the highest professional standards.
To support our international role, we will establish a clear governance and operating structure for IFoA activities outside the UK. Our UK heritage remains a foundation of our credibility and leadership.
The IFoA leads the way in using technology to support actuaries and enhance their work.
The IFoA leads the way in supporting actuaries integrating AI, automation, and data science into their daily work to enhance actuarial analysis and decision-making.
The IFoA promotes the use of emerging technologies as tools that increase the power and efficiency of actuarial work.
To support actuaries in meeting evolving industry needs, the IFoA will promote technological literacy and best practices.
The IFoA also uses technology to improve the member experience through personalised and automated services.
Members are at the heart of everything the IFoA does. The IFoA fosters a strong and connected actuarial community, delivering meaningful engagement and professional support.
The IFoA is committed to delivering a meaningful membership experience, ensuring actuaries feel connected and supported at every career stage. We adapt member support based on regional needs.
The IFoA fosters a strong actuarial community by offering networking opportunities, professional support, and relevant insights that help members thrive.
The IFoA actively listens to members, evolving our services to remain relevant to their changing needs. Our communication will be open, transparent, and personalised through the effective use of technology.
The IFoA wants members to feel that they are part of a bigger actuarial community which is there to support them through their career, and will look to foster this network through events and the use of new technologies.
The IFoA advances actuarial knowledge by driving research and fostering thought leadership, ensuring the profession remains relevant and innovative.
The IFoA drives actuarial research, enabling actuaries to explore new frontiers in risk, finance, and emerging fields.
The IFoA supports member-led research and thought leadership, encouraging fresh perspectives and expanding actuarial thinking into new domains.
The IFoA will strengthen collaborations with researchers, academics, and industry experts to advance actuarial science and its practical applications.
In addition to research and thought leadership in traditional fields, we will encourage members to guide our thinking into new domains, and shape our programme of work in these emerging areas.
We use the research to inform the IFoAs advocacy and regulatory engagements.
The IFoA advocates in the public interest, ensuring actuarial expertise informs policy, regulation, and decision-making on key societal challenges.
The IFoA champions the public interest by engaging with governments, regulators, policymakers, and professional bodies to ensure actuarial expertise informs key societal and industry decisions. Public interest is delivered through our members’ work and the professionalism that they exhibit.
We focus on advocacy, ethical leadership, and professional influence to ensure actuaries contribute meaningfully to public policy and risk management.
We will work to improve access to actuarial knowledge through our advocacy efforts, ensuring decision-makers can engage with actuarial insights.
The IFoA ensures financial sustainability and operational efficiency.
The IFoA is committed to maintaining a strong financial foundation and operational resilience to support its long-term strategic objectives. Financial strength enables IFoA to invest in members, research, and the profession's future.
We will ensure financial sustainability through prudent management, strategic investments, and an adaptive operational model that enables growth while delivering value to members.
Our high-performing operational model will focus on efficiency, agility, and continuous improvement, ensuring we remain responsive to the evolving needs of the profession.
The IFoA’s culture drives strong governance, fostering collaboration, trust, ethical leadership, and professionalism to achieve its vision.
The IFoA fosters a culture of trust, inclusivity, and accountability, ensuring governance remains transparent, collaborative, agile and aligned with strategic priorities.
Our governance framework supports transparency, effective decision-making, with leaders, staff, and members upholding professional integrity and contributing to an open and ethical environment.
