17th Global Conference of Actuaries

17th GCA Programme Schedule

 

17th GCA Photos Photos Pre GCA Dinner 2015 AGFA Day 1 Day 2 Family Videos of Fellows 2014

 

Presentations

Plenary Sessions 1, Day 1 - 2nd Feb 2015

Chairperson: Dilip Chakraborty - 17th GCA Organizing Group, IAI, India Speakers: Rajesh Dalmia, President - IAI, India Topic : Special Address T S Vijayan, Chairman - IRDA, India Topic : Keynote Address K Subrahmanyam,Chair - Advisory Group on Peer, Stakeholder and International Relations, IAI, India Topic : Vote of Thanks

Plenary Sessions 2, Day 1 - 2nd Feb 2015

Current Topics  --   Click here for Presentation Chairperson: Fiona Morrison, President, IFoA, UK Speakers: N P Majmudar, CEO, Aviva Ltd, Singapore Topic : Current Issues on Life Insurance - Global G Srinivasan, CMD, New India Assurance Co. Ltd, India Topic : Current Issues on General Insurance in India D K Pandit, Partner, M/s K.A.Pandit, India Topic : Current Topics on Retirement Benefits Practice in India

Plenary Sessions 3, Day 2 - 3nd Feb 2015

Pension & Others  --   Click here for Presentation Chairperson: Rajesh Dalmia, President, IAI, India Speakers: Hemant G Contractor, Chairman, PFRDA, India Topic : Key Note Address Emily Gingrich, Vice President – AIG Life & Retirement, FSA, USA Topic : US Defined Benefit (DB) environment Dilip Chakraborty, Senior Advisor, India Topic : Sum Up and Vote of Thanks

Plenary Sessions 4, Day 2 - 3nd Feb 2015

Panel Discussion  --   Click here for Presentation Chairperson: Pournima Gupte, Member, IRDA, India Speakers: Kunj Behari Maheshwari, Consultant - Risk Consulting, Tower Watson, India Topic : IPO in Insurance industry S S Gopalarathnam, MD, Cholamandalam MS General Insurance Co. Ltd., India Topic : Actuaries Role in GI – Challenges and Opportunities Ankur Agarwal, Head-Actuarial Function, AXA Business Services Pvt. Ltd, India Topic : Maturation of Global Actuarial Function in India

IAI Student Event, Day 1 - 2nd Feb 2015

IAI Student Event  --    Click here for Presentation Chairperson: Fiona Morrison, President, IFoA Speakers: Derek Cribb - Chief Executive, IFoA, UK Topic : The elevator pitch

Concurrent Session

C1: Concurrent Sessions on Life Insurance

 

C1: Concurrent Sessions on Life Insurance, Day 1 - 2nd Feb 2015

C1.1: Appointed Actuaries Session: (Panel) Chairperson: Chandan Khasnobis, Director and Appointed Actuary, IndiaFirst Life Insurance Company Ltd, India Speakers: Chirag Rathod,Appointed Actuary & Director - Products & Strategy, Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life, India Topic : Regulation, Actuarial & Business Issues B N Rangarajan,Chief Risk Officer & Appointed Actuary, Exide Life, India Topic : Regulation, Actuarial & Business Issues   C1.2:     Click here for Presentation Chairperson: N M Govardhan, Actuary and Former Chairman LIC of India Speakers: M Karunanidhi,Executive Director – Actuarial Services - RGA, India Topic : Behavioral Drivers of Mortality Experience   C1.3:     Click here for Presentation Chairperson: Richard Holloway, MD, South East Asia, Milliman, Singapore Speakers: Dr. Wolfgang Droste,Chief Advisor, Asia, Gen Re, Germany Topic : Results from Gen Res Survey on Critical Illness Andrew Rallis,Executive Vice President and Global Chief Actuary, MetLife, USA Topic : Global emerging actuarial issues and the role of emerging markets in meeting actuarial needs

C1: Concurrent Sessions on Life Insurance, Day 2 - 3rd Feb 2015

C1.4: Current Industry Issues: (Panel) Chairperson:Kamalji Sahay, Advisor, GIC Re, India Speakers: Kamalji Sahay,Advisor, GIC Re, India Topic : Current state of Bancassurance Sudhin Roy Chowdhry,Ex Member (Life) IRDA, India Topic : Regulation and impact on Life Industry Sushobhan Sarkar,Director, NIA, India Topic : Insurance Education Thomas Mathew,Former Chairman-in-Charge, LIC of India Topic : Distribution in Life Insurance   C1.5: Click here for Presentation Chairperson: Sanjeev Pujari, Executive Director - Actuarial & Risk Management and Chief Risk Officer, SBI Life Insurance Co. Ltd., India Speakers: Topic : Pandemics and other Catastrophes: managing the impact on your life and health portfolio Subhash Chandra, Associate Director - Life Reinsurance, Aon Benfield, Asia Pacific, Singapore Pierre Vende, Head of Accident, Health and Life Aon Benfield, Asia Pacific, Singapore Topic : Participating business in India: where do we go from here? Shamit Gupta, Consulting Actuary, Milliman, India Alex Bryant, Consulting Actuary, Miliman, Singapore Topic : Changing Product Designs C. Srinivasa Kumar, Deputy Director, Actuarial, IRDA, India S. Karthikeya Sarma, Assistant Director, Actuarial, IRDA, India

C2: Concurrent Sessions on General Insurance, Health Insurance, ERM & others

 

C2: Concurrent Sessions on General Insurance & Health Insurance, Day 1 - 2nd Feb 2015

C2.1: Appointed Actuaries Session: Panel Click here for Presentation Chairperson: Biresh Giri, Appointed Actuary, Max Bupa, India Speakers: Tania Chakraborty, Appointed Actuary, Royal Sundaram Alliance Insurance Company Limited, India Topic : Regulation, Actuarial & Business Issues Mayur Ankolekar, Appointed Actuary, ECGC,India Topic : Regulation, Actuarial & Business Issues   C2.2: Click here for Presentation Chairperson: G N Agarwal, Past Presient, IAI, India Speakers: Darryl Wagner, Principal, Deloitte, US Topic : Actuarial Modernization   C2.3: Consumer Behaviour and Risk Evaluation Click here for Presentation Chairperson: Andrew Wong, CEO Reinsurance, Asia Pacific, Munich Re, Singapore Speakers: Arjun Kumar Kanduri, Vice President - Product Actuary, Swiss Re, India Topic : Applying behavioral economics lessons to Health Insurance Dr. Siddharth Kachroo, Head of Client Management, Munich Health, South Asia , Munich Re, Singapore Topic : Health Reinsurance: Leveraging of Global Best Practices

C2: Concurrent Sessions on ERM & Others, Day 2 - 3rd Feb 2015

C2.4: Ageing Population Click here for Presentation Chairperson: P A Balasubramanian, Ex Member (Life), IRDA, India Speakers: Frank Ashe, Owner Quantitative Strategies, Australia Topic : Problem ? What Problem? An heretical perspective on the ageing population burden   C2.5: Presentation by IAI members Click here for Presentation Chairperson: B N Rangarajan, Chief Risk Officer and Appointed Actuary, Exide Life, India Speakers: Topic : A structured approach to defining and identifying risk Simon Walpole, Partner, Deloitte Consulting, Hong Kong Topic : Role of Actuaries in ERM Sonjai Kumar, Head - Insurance and Financial Risk, Aviva India, India Rajiv Mukherjee, Associate, IAI, India Topic : Issues in implementation of ERM in Non-Life Insurance Company Atmaram Cheruvu, India Representative - Non-life, Hannover Re Consulting Services India Pvt Ltd, India

C3: Concurrent Sessions on Pension & Others

 

C3: Concurrent Sessions on Pension & Others, Day 1 - 2nd Feb 2015

C3.1: Scheme Actuary Session (Panel) Click here for Presentation Chairperson: Saket Singhal, Consulting Actuary, India Speakers: A D Gupta, Consulting Actuary, Charan Gupta Consultants Pvt. Ltd., India Topic : Regulation, Actuarial & Business Issues Dr. Sriram, Consulting Actuary, India Topic : Regulation, Actuarial & Business Issues   C3.2: Click here for Presentation Chairperson: M M Chitale, CA, Partner, Mukund M. Chitale & Co, India Speakers: M M Chitale, CA, Partner, Mukund M. Chitale & Co, India Topic : Accounting Standards on Employee Benefits (AS 15) Dr. Avinash Chander, Technical Director, ICAI, India Topic : Improving Disclosures in Financial Statements - Strengthening Corporate Governance Dinesh Khansili, Partner - Mithras Consultants - An Actuarial Firm, India Topic : Serving the Public Interest:Co-existence of Accounting and Actuarial Profession

C3: Concurrent Sessions on Pension & Others, Day 2 - 3rd Feb 2015

C3.3: IAI Research Paper Click here for Presentation Chairperson: K K Wadhwa, Consulting Actuary, India Speakers: Vinod Kumar, Head of Research, IAI, India Topic : Salary Trend in Public Sector Banks   C3.4: Presentation by IAI members Click here for Presentation Chairperson: K Subrahmanyam, Consulting Actuary, India Speakers: Kulin Patel, Client Account Management, Towers Watson, India Topic : Global update on Retirement Benefits Sakshi Gupta, Process Champion, Mercer Consulting India Pvt. Ltd., India Topic : Canadian Mortality Studies