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Rebecca Cardew Martin (FFA 2003) sadly passed away on 21 October 2019 at the age of 43. She had been diagnosed with an aggressive liver cancer just three weeks earlier.

An update for December on what our society has been up to...

Co-chairs: Scott Reid and Nicola OliverThe Diabetes Working Party was set up in 2018 and is now commissioning funded research through the Actuarial Research Centre (ARC).

The Risk Coalition is a network of not-for-profit professional bodies and membership organisations committed to raising standards of risk governance and risk management in the UK.

The 22nd Asian Actuarial Conference (AAC) was held in Singapore from 21-24 October 2019 on the island of Sentosa. The conference saw more than 750 delegates and 60 speakers from 28 countries come together during these four days.

On 8 November, the IFoA awarded the first university accreditation in Thailand to Mahidol University's BSc Actuarial Science programme.

This October, president-elect Tan Suee Chieh visited his alma mater, the London School of Economics (LSE), and took part in the Actuarial Insights Series alongside IFoA council member Kartina Tahir Thomson.

In December 2019, the IFoA presidential team will be out visiting the regions within their presidential remit.

We are pleased to announce the appointment of David Gordon to the role of senior review actuary at the IFoA.

Practitioners in the health sector have been concerned about antibiotic resistance (ABR) for many years.