5 June 2025
Voting members of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) are called upon to vote on the election of two proposed Honorary Fellows.
Each nominee is held by Council to have given service to the actuarial profession, directly or through achievements in related fields. Members are invited to vote in favour of as many of the nominees as they wish.
Voting is conducted independently by Civica, and this year’s vote has been combined with the Council election. Voting members will receive access codes directly from Civica by email on Thursday 5 June.
If you do not receive an email, contact the IFoA’s Corporate Secretary at corpsec@actuaries.org.uk.
The ballot is open 24 hours a day and closes on Tuesday 8 July 2025 at 14:00 BST.
The results of the votes will be announced at the IFoA’s Annual General Meeting on Thursday 10 July at 09:00 BST.
This year, two individuals have been endorsed by Council:
Professor Tim Lenton is the founding Director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter and Chair in Climate Change and Earth System Science. Tim is renowned for his work identifying climate tipping points, which informed the setting of the 1.5C climate target, associated net zero targets, and nationally determined contributions.
Tim works with policymakers and businesses helping them assess the risks of climate change and nature loss and highlighting the opportunities for ‘positive tipping points’ that can accelerate change towards net zero.
Professor Lenton has worked extensively with the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries on a series of influential reports aimed at improving climate risk management in the financial sector: ‘The Emperor’s New Climate Scenarios’, ‘Climate Scorpion – the sting is in the tail’, and ‘Planetary Solvency – finding our balance with nature’.
Andrew is a board-level pensions business leader, consultant, chair of trustees and regulator with experience in both the private and public pensions sectors. He has expertise in pensions regulation, scheme design, implementing and managing the governance and operations of occupational pension schemes, and designing and directing their asset management programmes.
Andrew was the CEO of LGPS Central Limited, an asset pool for eight Midlands Local Authority pension schemes with combined assets of c£45bn. He was the Executive Director for Regulatory Policy at The Pensions Regulator, where he was responsible for formulating the regulator’s DB, DC, AE and international policy. And he was a Partner at Aon Hewitt where he held a variety of consulting roles within the firm’s pensions, insurance and investment practices. He has also been the Chair of Trustees of a well-known charity’s pension plan.
Read more about the criteria, voting process, and how you can make your own nominations on our Honorary Fellowship page.