Description: To review 2021 and look forward to 2022 as the new Chair of the Actuary of the Future section council

Description: An overview of bias and fairness in machine learning models, as they apply to use cases in life insurance.

Description: To outsiders, the actuary's work is not well known. This article shows how actuaries add social and economic value across disciplines.

Description: A look at how the female actuary is portrayed in fiction and whether it is a true portrayal.

Description: The article contains a description of the Emerging Topics Community. The focus of the article is what is a community, what makes the Emerging Topics Community special, and benefits of the Community. Included after the discussion on the community are ways to get involved and be a part of the community.

Description: A Note from the Editor...encouraging actuaries to expand into some nontraditional areas.

Description: This piece is on Risk normalization and looks to draw upon underlying ideas as to why in some cases, risks are under or over analyzed from an individual perspective in society. This piece is intended to make the reader think about what risks they partake in on a daily basis that may have been 'numbed' in some sense by societal normalization fo these risk. Conversely, readers also may be questioned with what risks have overplayed by society, in particular risks that have been over inflated by media and other driving factors.

Description: A list of the lessons the author learned through his own failure(s). The intent is to help readers avoid making the same mistakes and reflect on how far they've come.

Description: Phil Gold reviews the effect of the competency framework on various stages of inception and development of the AXIS Actuarial System.

Description: A summary to inform the members of Actuary of the Future section's strategy in 2020.