Skip to main content
The Actuary: The magazine of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries - return to the homepage Logo of The Actuary website
  • Search
  • Visit The Actuary Magazine on Facebook
  • Visit The Actuary Magazine on LinkedIn
  • Visit @TheActuaryMag on Twitter
Visit the website of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries Logo of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries

Main navigation

  • News
  • Features
    • General Features
    • Interviews
    • Students
    • Opinion
  • Topics
  • Knowledge
    • Business Skills
    • Careers
    • Events
    • Predictions by The Actuary
    • Whitepapers
    • Webinars
    • Podcasts
  • Jobs
  • IFoA
    • CEO Comment
    • IFoA News
    • People & Social News
    • President Comment
  • Archive
Quick links:
  • Home
  • Students
Interviews

Actuary of the future: Robert Tailyour-Hayes

Open-access content Thursday 4th July 2013 — updated 5.13pm, Wednesday 29th April 2020

Robert Tailyour-Hayes of the Gevernment's Actuary's Department

2

Employer and area of work Government

Actuary's Department, advice to MoD.

How would your best friend describe you?

Reliable, honest, and good-natured.

What motivates you?

Helping a worthy cause.

What would be your personal motto? Do what you can with what you've got.

Name five dream guests you would invite to your dinner party?

Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, Queen Victoria, mountaineer Edmund Hillary, first British astronaut Helen Sharman and actor Richard Burton. I'm not sure what we'd talk about, but I'd love to sit and listen to stories of their fascinating lives. Hopefully they wouldn't talk about how bad my cooking is.

What's your most 'actuarial' habit?

I like planning ahead.

If you could learn one random skill, what would you learn?

A foreign language.

Favourite Excel function?

You can't beat a good vlookup.

How do you relax away from the office?

Playing sports; playing guitar and piano; and reading.

Alternative career choice?

Realistically, teacher. Unrealistically, astronaut.

Tell us something unusual about yourself

In 2007, I did a solo trek of 350 miles across northern Spain over 18 days.

Greatest risk you have ever taken?

Moving to California without a job - it worked out great in the end though!

If you could go back in history, who would you like to meet?

I'd have to pick Isaac Newton.

What's your most treasured possession?

My Fender Telecaster electric guitar - although I wish I could play it a lot better than I do.

What are the top three things you would like to achieve in your lifetime?

Financial security for my family; to visit every continent on earth; to skydive from the edge of space.

If you ruled the world, what would you change first?

Being ruler of the world - no one should have that much power.

Filed in:
Students
Also filed in:
Interviews
Topics:
Careers

You might also like...

Share
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Linked in
  • Mail
  • Print

Latest Jobs

Senior Underwriting Risk Manager

London (Central)
£85K-£95K + Benefits
Reference
124386

Reserving Manager (Contract)

London (Central)
£1200 - £1400 per day
Reference
124385

Life Actuary - Contract - IFRS 17 Financial Impact

England, London / England, Bristol / North Yorkshire, England
£900 - £1150 per day
Reference
124384
See all jobs »
 
 

Today's top reads

 
 

Sign up to our newsletter

News, jobs and updates

Sign up

Subscribe to The Actuary

Receive the print edition straight to your door

Subscribe
Spread-iPad-slantB-june.png

Topics

  • Data Science
  • Investment
  • Risk & ERM
  • Pensions
  • Environment
  • Soft skills
  • General Insurance
  • Regulation Standards
  • Health care
  • Technology
  • Reinsurance
  • Global
  • Life insurance
​
FOLLOW US
The Actuary on LinkedIn
@TheActuaryMag on Twitter
Facebook: The Actuary Magazine
CONTACT US
The Actuary
Tel: (+44) 020 7880 6200
​

IFoA

About IFoA
Become an actuary
IFoA Events
About membership

Information

Privacy Policy
Terms & Conditions
Cookie Policy
Think Green

Get in touch

Contact us
Advertise with us
Subscribe to The Actuary Magazine
Contribute

The Actuary Jobs

Actuarial job search
Pensions jobs
General insurance jobs
Solvency II jobs

© 2022 The Actuary. The Actuary is published on behalf of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries by Redactive Publishing Limited. All rights reserved. Reproduction of any part is not allowed without written permission.

Redactive Media Group Ltd, 71-75 Shelton Street, London WC2H 9JQ