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2017 Section Elections Results

See the results of the SOA section council elections. The elected members will begin serving on their respective section councils beginning at the 2017 SOA Annual Meeting & Exhibit. Congratulations to all who were elected on a section council and thank you to all who ran for section councils.

Below are the elected SOA section council seats:

Actuary of the Future

  • Minyu Cao, FSA, CERA
  • Tim van Laarhoven, ASA, MAAA

Education and Research

  • Colin M. Ramsay, PhD, ASA, MAAA
  • Hal Tepfer, FSA, MAAA, EA, MSPA, FCA
  • Thomas Wakefield, FSA

Entrepreneurial & Innovation

  • Melissa Carruthers, FSA, FCIA
  • Jennifer Healy, FSA, MAAA
  • Eric T. Sondergeld, ASA, CFA
  • Justin Yiu, ASA ( two-year term )
  • Chris Greig, ASA, CERA, ACIA ( one-year term )

Financial Reporting

  • David C. Armstrong, FSA, MAAA
  • Lance Berthiaume, FSA, MAAA
  • Enzinma Miller, FSA, MAAA

Health

  • Geof Hileman, FSA, MAAA
  • Jacqueline Lee, FSA, MAAA
  • Marilyn McGaffin, ASA, MAAA, FLMI
  • Rick Pawelski, FSA, MAAA, CERA

International

  • Arpita Das, FSA
  • Yanjie Feng, FSA, MAAA
  • Susan Mateja, FSA, MAAA

Investment

  • Hal Pedersen, ASA
  • Suhrid Swaminarayan, FSA, CFA, FRM, FIA
  • Erik Thoren, FSA, CERA, MAAA
  • Alan Chan, ASA ( one-year term )

Joint Risk Management

  • Ribhi Alam, FSA
  • Siew Chen Ow, FSA, CERA, MAAA, CFA
  • Florian Richard, FCAS
  • Chet Szczepanski, FCAS, MAAA

Leadership & Development

  • James F. Clark, FSA, MAAA
  • Brent Walder, FSA, MAAA
  • Ying Zhao, FSA, MAAA, FRM

Long-Term Care Insurance

  • Jamala Murray Arland, FSA, MAAA
  • Jan Graeber, ASA, MAAA
  • Matthew Morton, FSA, MAAA

Marketing and Distribution

  • Brendan Costello, ASA
  • Mark Friederich, FSA, MAAA
  • Manoj Gandhi, FSA, FCIA
  • Zachary Aters, ASA, MAAA ( two-year term )

Modeling

  • Hoi Yan (Daphne) Kwan, FSA, MAAA
  • Zohair Motiwalla, FSA, MAAA
  • Eric Schwartz, FSA, MAAA

Pension

  • John G. Eng, FSA, EA
  • Mathieu Laurendeau, FSA, FCIA
  • Ruth E. Schau, FSA, EA, FCA

Predictive Analytics and Futurism

  • Roujie (Joy) Chen, ASA, CERA
  • Cassie Minyu He, FSA, MAAA
  • Nathan Pohle, FSA, CERA, MAAA

Product Development

  • Curt Clingerman, FSA, MAAA
  • Anthony Ferraro, FSA, MAAA
  • Benjamin Wadsley, FSA, MAAA

Reinsurance

  • Kyle Bauer, FSA, MAAA, CERA
  • Jean-Marc Fix, FSA, MAAA
  • Laura Muse, FSA, MAAA

Smaller Insurance Company

  • Carolyn Covington, FSA, CERA, MAAA
  • Pamela Hutchins, FSA, MAAA
  • Jacqueline Yang, FSA, MAAA, ACIA
  • Kevin Dill, FSA, MAAA ( two-year term )

Social Insurance & Public Finance

  • Janet Cranna, FSA, MAAA, EA, FCA, MSPA
  • Douglas Fiddler, ASA, MAAA, EA, FCA
  • James J. Rizzo, ASA, MAAA, FCA, EA

Taxation

  • Sivakumar Desai, FSA, MAAA
  • Tom Edwalds, FSA, ACAS, MAAA
  • S. Vincent Zink, FSA, MAAA

Technology

  • Ravi Bhagat, FSA, MAAA
  • Henry Han Chen, FSA, ACIA, MAAA
  • Paul San Valentin, FSA, CERA, MAAA
  • Shyam Kolli, FSA, MAAA ( two-year term )