Dan Georgescu

Welcome to the October issue of The Actuary, which is packed to the brim with great content.

Normally, August means a mass exodus out of the office and to a beach, city break or walking holiday.

Former Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King talks to Dan Georgescu about over-reliance on black box models, and the impossibility of quantifying all risks

The high-flying new president of the IFoA, Tan Suee Chieh, talks to Dan Georgescu about his rise to the top and his vision for the actuarial profession

This month we celebrate 30 years since SIAS, with the support of the IFoA, launched The Actuary to reach the profession’s entire membership.

Dan Georgescu talks to Professor Nick Higham, Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Manchester, about his role in applying maths to financial problems

Each issue of The Actuary brings new highlights, and every time I think: we won’t be able to top that.

A side effect of the coronavirus is that it has turned our friends, family, colleagues and others we may normally interact with face-to-face into potential threats – hence the need to stay at home as much as possible.

COVID-19 and the virus that causes it, coronavirus, have caught the world by surprise, and currently much of the global population is under lockdown to try and contain the spread.

Steve Hales talks to Dan Georgescu about working abroad, data science, and the importance of putting people front and centre