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President, Institute and Faculty of Actuaries

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.

Speaker | Author | Photographer | Actuary | Investment Professional | NED

Jenny has had a long and varied career in finance, with a mathematics degree from the University of Oxford, qualifying as an actuary and working as a pensions and investment consultant. She specialised in leading sales teams for asset management companies, most recently as global head of distribution for Fidelity International.

A spat with cancer gave her a new perspective on purpose, and she now enjoys a portfolio career. Via her ‘Speaking With Images’ consultancy she helps businesses to create cultures people want to work in, through public speaking, training programmes and her four books on motivation at work. She also holds a number of non-executive board roles, is an ambassador for The Diversity Project and serves as Chief Investment Officer for Nesta Trust.

Jenny spends her free time preparing for a piano diploma, running half-marathons and taking (what she hopes are) beautiful photographs.

Partner and Insurance Consulting Leader at LCP

Cat is a partner in LCP's Insurance Consulting practice. She has nearly 20 years of consulting experience and helps her clients understand and manage their insurance risks better. She works with a wide range of insurers, including large personal lines insurers, commercial insurers and Lloyd's syndicates. She holds a UK Chief Actuary Practising Certificate and is the Appointed Actuary for an insurer in Australia. She recently led LCP’s Global review of Insurance Reserving and Transformation across over 150 insurers internationally, presenting widely on its findings in the UK, Ireland, the USA, Gibraltar and Luxembourg.

Cat is the Chair of the IFoA’s GI Board, and has previously been the Chair of the IFoA's GI Lifelong Learning Committee. She is also a founding member of LCP's LGBT+ network which leads initiatives and provides support to ensure that we provide an accepting environment for LGBT+ individuals to thrive and prosper. She is also on the Senior Advisory Board of Link (the insurance industry’s LGBTQ+ network).

She has won a number of industry awards, most recently the "Role Model of the Year" at the 2023 Women in Insurance Awards.

Outside work, she enjoys spending time with her partner, son, three cats and a dog(!), as well as playing piano, organ and saxophone.

Immediate Past President, Institute and Faculty of Actuaries

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.

Kalpana became President-elect in June 2022 and President in September 2023.

Non Executive Director, The City of London Investment Trust plc

Sally qualified in 2004 and, after five years in consultancy, she joined Beazley in 2006. Initially she worked within their largest underwriting division on claims actuarial work. She became group reserving manager in 2012 and chief actuary in 2014.

She went on to be group CFO in 2019, which included CFO for the group’s seven Lloyds syndicates. Sally was responsible for finance, actuarial, investments, corporate governance and investor relations. She sat on the group executive and plc Board (amongst many others).

During her time as CFO, Sally completed a debt raise, two equity raises, implemented IFRS17 and was pivotal in steering the company through the Covid-19 pandemic. She also saw the company double their premiums income and enter the FTSE100.

Sally was Beazley’s executive sponsor for the HM Treasury Women in Finance charter, which successfully delivered a significant increase in women in senior leadership roles. She received a number of awards, including being a Business Insurance Women to Watch Honoree in 2021 and Insurance Insider’s CFO of the year in 2023.

Principal at Lane Clark & Peacock LLP

Shayala is a qualified actuary bringing more than 30 years’ pensions experience to her work as a Principal within LCP’s Pensions Research team to support her colleagues - and through them their clients – with her technical expertise and familiarity with the legislative framework within which pensions operate and by having her finger on the pulse of developments in the industry. She analyses and advises on the thornier questions generated by pensions legislation and industry developments and communicates these, often complex, issues in a manner that is clear and easy to digest.

Shayala volunteers with the IFoA's 400 Club and her other current industry roles include sitting on the Society of Pensions Professionals' Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Group and chairing its Legislation Committee. She is also proud to have sat on the Committee of LCP’s Women’s Network since its inception 10 years ago, with a particular focus on the support its gives the Marylebone Project, a ’grass roots’ charity providing a life changing service to vulnerable homeless women.