Artificial intelligence thought leadership series: AI and the work of actuaries

Chair

Matthew Edwards is an experienced life actuary working as the innovation lead in WTW’s UKI life division. He has been at the forefront of introducing predictive analytics into life and pensions work, with particular regard to mortality modelling. More recently, he co-wrote WTW’s response to the Bank of England’s consultation on the use of AI in financial services. He has also been working on a range of insurance applications of Ggenerative AI.

He is leading a small working group on the actuarial profession’s approach to Ggenerative AI. He is a former Chair of the CMI, co-chair/co-founder of the COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group, and was elected to Council in 2023.

Atreyee Bhattacharyya works as the Executive Vice President of Actuarial Business Applications at Star Health and Allied Insurance, India. She is responsible for developing and overseeing all activities pertaining to actuarial analytics within the company and implementing these to drive business decisions across various departments such as actuarial, underwriting, claims, and sales.

Atreyee is a member of the Ethics in AI Working Party of the IFoA and of the AI and Data Science Working Group of the Actuarial Association of Europe. Previously she was the chair of the IFoA AI and Automation Working Party for Life and Health. Atreyee is also a member of the AI task force set up by the International Actuarial Association. In these capacities, Atreyee has written several articles for The Actuary magazine and spoken at various conferences on the topics of application of AI in actuarial work and ethical considerations of AI.

Cat is a partner at LCP and the Chair of the IFoA’s General Insurance Board. She has also previously been the Chair of the General Insurance Lifelong Learning Committee. Cat has nearly 20 years of consulting experience and helps insurers and reinsurers manage their risks and businesses better. She has won a number of awards for her work in the industry, most recently Role Model of the Year at the 2023 Women in Insurance Awards.

Cat is also a passionate advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion. She co-founded LCP’s LGBTQ+ network and sits on the Senior Advisory Board of Link, the Insurance Industry’s LGBTQ+ network.

Alexey is a Data Science Project Manager at Allianz Partners. Here he is orchestrating various data-driven initiatives ranging from onboarding actuarial hubs to the modern modelling approaches to portfolio analytics and operations optimisation. Prior to shifting his professional focus to machine learning he spent 9 years on various general insurance actuarial roles in several locations and companies of Allianz Group. Alexey’s academia background includes actuarial sciences and a PhD in Game Theory from Moscow State University.

He is leading the lifelong pillar at the IFoA Data Science Practice Board, incorporating the membership and sustainability and climate change working parties under its hood.