General Insurance Asia International Working Party – members

Application closing date: ongoing

We are seeking expressions of interest from qualified members of the IFoA who have experience in pricing or data analytics.

The General Insurance Asia International Working Party provides a forum for general insurance (GI) actuaries to explore local and international GI issues specifically impacting members in the Asia region. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are based in the Asia-Pacific region.

We are ideally seeking volunteers who have:

• a desire to contribute to the advancement of the GI IFoA community in Asia
• experience of strategic processes, research, communications, and programme or events development
• a good network of contacts within the Asia region and the enthusiasm to further grow this network
• a passion for advancing the profession and the time to contribute

Time commitment

A minimum of one hour every month for working party meetings in addition to one to two hours per month for those actively contributing to the working party’s output.

The time commitment may increase towards the preparation and delivery of outputs. For example drafting surveys, preparing and delivering presentations at conferences, and conducting research.

Please note: Meetings will be held via video conferencing/conference call every 2 weeks. Attendance at the main monthly meeting is compulsory (with reasonable exceptions allowed). Attendance at the second meeting is encouraged but optional. Volunteers are not required to travel to participate in this working party, nor to meet in person. But members in the same location may take the lead in coordinating meetings in their offices or dialling in together, if they wish.

Research areas

Current areas of research include:

• inflation impact on Asian (re)insurers
• Malaysian motor inflation
• cyber risk in Asia
• regulatory hot topics in Asia (currently focused on IFRS17)

Past areas of research include:

• artificial intelligence: trends and challenges on insurability
• data science for actuaries survey (focused on Asia)
• solvency regimes in APAC: implementation progress and potential impacts
• non-life insurance market outlook in Asia
• embedding ESG into insurance
• C-ROSS updates from China

Next steps

If you are interested in this role but would like an informal conversation before applying, please email us at engagement.team@actuaries.org.uk.

If you have read all the above and would like to apply, please send us:

• brief details of your relevant experience
• your reasons for wishing to get involved
• your ARN (if you are a member)
• confirmation that you have read, understood, and agree to the information and requirements laid out in our volunteer information pack (please be aware that until we have received this confirmation, we will not be able to appoint you as a volunteer)

Please email all the above to engagement.team@actuaries.org.uk.

We are committed to promoting diversity, equality of opportunity, and inclusion, within all our vacancies and we actively encourage applications from a diverse range of potential candidates. Recognising and embracing the unique and diverse talents of our volunteers is fundamental to the success of our organisation.

What you need to know

Volunteering provides you with a wide range of opportunities. With all rights and opportunities come responsibilities and we ask all our volunteers to comply with the terms of the IFoA’s governance manual and volunteer information pack. Before offering to provide support, please read through: what you need to know.