Cultivating careers: An evening of insights, connection and celebration

Chair

Yeside is a qualified actuary and a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and Nigeria Actuarial Society. She is currently an Independent Non-Executive Director for an insurance company.

She is active with the International Actuarial Association where she serves on the strategic planning committee as well as being the part of the leadership of the Africa subcommittee. 
 
She is also a Past President of the Nigeria Actuarial Society where she reignited the society, achieved full member status of the IAA and exponentially grew its membership. 

Her professional experience spans Europe and Africa. She was the CEO of Prudential Beneficial General Cameroon, the CRO and Chief Actuary for Prudential Beneficial Group spanning three countries (all Prudential plc subsidiaries). 
 
She also worked as the Senior Business development lead for Prudential Africa covering eight African markets. Prior to Prudential, she worked for Old Mutual Nigeria and Deloitte UK in various actuarial roles covering pensions, investment and life assurance giving her experience in valuation, merger and acquisition transaction, audit and accounting for insurance companies and pension funds.

Diane Chua is the Chief Actuary for the P&C and health business units of AXA UK, and has held a variety of roles within the risk function since joining AXA in 2012. Alongside her day job, Diane also held a directorship role as a trustee of the AXA Company Pension Scheme for two terms. She found it fulfilling to be actively involved in D&I by becoming one of the first executive sponsors to drive inclusion and belonging at AXA. 

Prior to joining AXA, Diane worked at the FSA (now PRA) and was involved in setting the standards for internal model approval and Solvency II policy negotiations at the EU level. She was also lead general insurance actuary on circa 30 UK firms across the London Market and non-Lloyd’s market. Her experience in industry includes working for large UK groups (L&G and RSA) and spans across traditional pricing, reserving, capital modelling and reinsurance roles in both UK retail, commercial and health lines. Earlier in her career, Diane was also a pensions consultant at PwC.

Outside work, Diane’s real ‘full time’ job is looking after her three-year-old toddler, who keeps her on her toes.

Jane is prominent in the UK financial services industry as a Past President of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (having been the first female President), following years of service to the IFoA in a variety of roles including, in particular, education and professional regulation.

She has been a volunteer for the IFoA for more than 35 years. She continues to support it in regulatory matters and represent it on the strategic planning committee of the International Actuarial Association.

In 2014 she was appointed as the second only ever female non-executive director of the Lloyds Banking group insurance board but left the board at the end of 2022 to take up a similar role with Aviva UK Life.

She is a senior partner at Aon where she has spent her entire working career. In her role as Scheme Actuary, Jane is well respected by her UK pension scheme trustee clients at Aon, having advised a wide range of pension scheme clients over her 40-year career and her portfolio currently contains some household names. Her no nonsense, pragmatic style of consulting seems to appeal to professional service firms as she has a number of London city law firms and one of the big four accounting firms within her portfolio of clients. She is also chair of the trustee on Aon’s own multi billion pension scheme board giving her a key insight into ‘the other side of the table’.

She is also non-executive chairman of The Exercise Clinic, a UK business founded by her daughter which focuses on providing support for patients with prostate cancer.

Fiona Morrison is an executive coach, mentor, and adviser working with a wide range of clients including senior and future leaders as well as new managers and professionals. Her own background in senior leadership within professional services enables her to work with clients to strengthen their leadership, influence, and confidence in meetings and presentations, their ability to manage challenging relationships, and their client relationship management. She has had particular success in helping clients to build strong project teams, drive diversity and equality, and in empowering women in leadership roles.

As a senior partner in consulting firm Lane Clark & Peacock LLP, she led client teams, and was the Chair of the LCP Professional Committee as well as creating its Women’s Network. She worked alongside professionals and clients from many walks of life. Clients came from FTSE 100 companies to small family-owned businesses. She has extensive experience of non-corporate business structures – as a partner in an LLP and in a traditional partnership, and as a senior volunteer in a Royal Chartered professional body.

Fiona is a past President of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, only the second woman to hold this position. Fiona is passionate about diversity and equality and is a regular keynote speaker for both professional bodies and firms.

As a coach, adviser and mentor, Fiona brings examples and insights from her extensive professional experience, combined with her coaching and mentoring skills, to provide her clients with the opportunity to both practically and strategically address their business and career challenges and ambitions.

Fiona is accredited by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC Global) at practitioner level in coaching and mentoring and accredited for the psychometric assessment Smart Collaboration Accelerator, launched in 2020.

Seema joined Aviva as UKGI Chief Risk Officer (subject to regulatory approval) and member of the UKGI executive in April 2025. She joined Aviva from Enstar where she was Group Chief Risk Officer and a member of the group corporate executive, having previously been the Chief Transaction Actuary responsible for pricing the various M&A transactions across the group. At Enstar, she had executive responsibility for ESG where she sponsored a number of DEI events and charitable partnerships. 

With more than 15 years of prior consulting experience, she was a Director in Deloitte’s actuarial insurance practice where she led the UK general insurance actuarial advisory team. She worked with a wide range of insurers, including large personal lines insurers, commercial insurers and Lloyd’s syndicates and has previously held Lloyd’s SAO and UK Chief Actuary (with Lloyd’s) practising certificates. 

Until 2019, Seema was an active member of the IFoA volunteering community having been the Chair of the IFoA’s General Insurance Lifelong Learning Committee, Chief Examiner for SP7 (Reserving and Capital) and member of various committees such as GIECPD and GIROC. More recently she has volunteered her time as Vice Chair of Governors and Safeguarding Lead for a London school. Outside work, she enjoys spending time with her husband and children, as well as playing piano and netball in her free time.