Longevity 20 - Plenary Speakers

Tim Adair is a demographer and Principal Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne and an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow. Assoc Prof Adair leads a program of research that aims to advance knowledge about contemporary life expectancy trends and inequalities by strengthening the policy utility of mortality statistics. His work involves the application of innovative methods to linked data (multiple cause of death, morbidity, Census, health survey) to strengthen cause of death statistics, measure mortality from co-morbidities and leading risk factors, and quantify their socio-economic inequalities. His research program includes analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy, the role of obesity in adverse cardiovascular disease mortality trends and widening inequalities in mortality risk.

Douglas Anderson is the founder of Club Vita (www.clubvita.net) which specialises in applying modern data science techniques to innovate in longevity and mortality risk management.  Club Vita is currently embarking on an exciting new chapter, collecting longevity data in the United States, its third country.  The smarter collection and structuring of data enables more cost-effective ways both to reduce the risks of financing in later life and to help our societies face up to the challenges of ageing populations. He passionately believes that an international longevity “currency” would increase the security of pension promises.

Douglas has thirty years’ experience in practicing as a consulting actuary, across a diverse spectrum of engagements.  He is a fellow of the UK’s Institute of Actuaries, and a Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary.  Douglas lives in Edinburgh, with his wife and two teenage children.  To stay fit, Douglas enjoys cycling and skiing, and has recently taken up running to suit his nomadic lifestyle.

Patrick Cheung is a Senior Vice President and Head of Longevity Product at RGA.  He is based in London.  He leads a broad range of initiatives around longevity products, risks, assumptions, data and modelling. Patrick has been with the company since 2012.   Prior to RGA, Patrick worked in the pension consultancy industry and for insurance companies in the annuity area.

Patrick holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Applied Finance and a MSc in Financial Engineering.  He is a Fellow of the Institute & Faculty of Actuaries.

Guy Coughlan has over three decades of experience in pensions, investments and risk management. He is currently Chief Operating Officer at Clota Varde, a corporate finance boutique focused on impact investment. He is also a member of the Advisory Board at Longitude Solutions and a non-executive director of J.P. Morgan Pension Trustees.

Guy’s career spans investment and risk advisory, pension advisory and pension management. He spent 17 years at J.P. Morgan where he was a Managing Director holding different global, US and European roles, finishing as co-head of European Pension Advisory.

Guy was then Chief Risk and Analytics Officer at Pacific Global Advisors, a US pension investment advisor and fiduciary manager.  Most recently he spent nearly eight years at the University Superannuation Scheme (USS), a UK pension plan with £90bn of assets as at 31 March 2022. At USS he held the positions of Chief Risk Officer, Valuation Programme Executive and Senior Strategic Advisor, serving on the executive committees of both USS and its investment management subsidiary.

Guy has a D.Phil (i.e., PhD) from Oxford University, an MBA from Henley Business School (UK) and a BSc (Hons) from the University of Western Australia.

Mark Flint is Head of Product Development, Global Longevity at SCOR.  He has worked in Reinsurance for over 20 years, starting in Protection business – life insurance, critical illness and income protection – before moving to Longevity.  Prior to that he worked as an actuary advising DB scheme trustees and employers on retirement benefits.  He has also worked in Hong Kong and Chicago, advising employers in Asia Pacific and the US on employee benefits.  He has a rounded view of longevity risk, as he is a member of several defined contribution and defined benefit schemes, some of which have insured benefits in the PRT market!

Tiger Li is the Head of Business Development APAC for SCOR Digital Solutions and the Founder and CEO of Bee Tech. He holds the designations of FSA and CERA.

Mr. Li began his career in 2008 at Standard Life China. He then joined the actuarial consulting team at KPMG China 3 years later. In 2014, Mr. Li joined SCOR Global Life China as a valuation actuary. Two years later, he became the Head of Marketing at SGL China. In 2021, Mr. Li successfully advocated for the establishment of Bee Tech. In 2024, he assumed the role of Head of Business Development APAC for SCOR Digital Solutions while simultaneously expanding Bee Tech China to the APAC region.

Dr. Shinichi Kamiya is an Associate Professor at Nanyang Business School and the Co-Director of the Insurance Risk and Finance Research Centre at NTU Singapore. He earned his Ph.D. in risk and insurance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2010 and his master’s degree in applied mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003. Prior to his doctoral studies, Dr. Kamiya taught actuarial courses at Keio University and Tohoku University in Japan.

His research has been published in prominent journals, including the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Risk and Insurance, North American Actuarial Journal, and Insurance: Mathematics and Economics. His current research focuses on the impact of climate change on insurance, catastrophe risk management, and corporate risk management.

Paul Kitson is an Actuary and UK Leader of EY’s Pensions Consulting team who advise pension funds, their corporate sponsors and several providers in the pension fund eco-system. Paul has led several ground-breaking longevity hedging transactions in the UK, including British Airways Pension Fund’s longevity swap with a panel of global reinsurers.

Paul has developed several techniques to use technology to better understand longevity risk for UK pension funds, and has acted as a longevity expert in relation to insurance company transactions.  Most recently Paul has been helping pension fund clients think about how best to manage longevity risk as they consider whether to run-on or move to insurance.

Lou Lin is the director of Government-Enterprise Cooperation Division in the Strategic and Research Department of China Re Life, responsible for the overall management of business cooperation, data cooperation and research projects between the government and enterprises.

Lou Lin is holder of dual MSc degrees in Quantitative Finance (Tilburg) and Stochastic Analysis (Amsterdam). He was a Quantitative Specialist at NN Re. He joined China Re Life in 2017, serving as the director of the Data Management, Product Management, Business Planning and Overseas Support Office. He is one of the pioneers in longevity risk innovation of the Longevity Risk Laboratory of SIRE, and promoted the implementation of the first Longevity Risk Solutions Conference in China.

Rohit Mathur leads Prudential’s International Reinsurance business, where he is responsible for the longevity risk transfer (LRT) and funded reinsurance businesses in the UK and Europe. Prudential's reinsurance activities have led the firm to being named “Reinsurer of the Year” for four consecutive years. The team has closed over $95 billion in longevity reinsurance transactions since 2011, covering members of nearly 200 pensionRohit Mathur funds in the United Kingdom including British Airways, HSBC, Marks and Spencer, and Rolls-Royce.

Prior to this role, Rohit was head of Global Product and Market Solutions, where he was charged with assessing the corporate finance implications of pension risk management to cultivate a consistent recognition of pension de-risking solutions. Partnering with Prudential's distribution team in the service of its clients, Rohit focused on promoting an understanding of pension risk issues among credit and equity analysts, treasurers, chief financial officers and investment bankers. Rohit has been involved in structuring and executing several large and innovative transactions in the United States, including the agreements with Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Philips and J.C. Penney to transfer pension liabilities.

Before joining Prudential, Rohit was an executive director and led the Capital Structure and Strategy advisory team for UBS Investment Bank. There, he advised clients in multiple industries, focusing specifically on corporate finance, risk advisory and pension issues. Prior to that, Rohit was with Moody's Investors Service, where he published research on accounting and pension issues and worked with credit analysts to incorporate those risks more systematically into company ratings. He also co-authored Moody's methodologies on assessing risk of multi-employer pensions and other post-retirement healthcare obligations.

Prudential Financial Inc. (PFI) and its affiliated companies are not affiliated in any manner with Prudential plc (United Kingdom) or with Prudential Assurance Company, a subsidiary of M&G plc, incorporated in the United Kingdom.

Moshe A. Milevsky is a professor of finance at the Schulich School of Business, a member of the Graduate Faculty in Mathematics and Statistics at York University in Toronto, a fellow of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences and is on the editorial board of numerous academic and practitioner journals.

He has published 15 books and over 60 peer-reviewed articles in the areas of financial mathematics, pension economics, actuarial science, as well as the history of annuities. His most recent (2019) book is entitled: Longevity Insurance for a Biological Age: Why Your Retirement Plan Shouldn’t Be Based on the Number of Times You Circled the Sun.

Cord-Roland Rinke is Managing Director of Hannover Re - Life & Health Analytics and Longevity, which includes the global responsibility for longevity business and a data analytics team. During the last years, Hannover Re has actively worked on transferring longevity risks from pension schemes and insurance companies onto its books. Cord and his team have written various longevity deals with a number of insurance carriers. His team has written business not only in the UK but also in North-America, Continental Europe and the Australian continent. Before that he was in charge of the life reassurance business in Asia and the annuity reassurance business in the UK. His team structured tailor-made life reassurance solutions for Hannover Re’s clients in the UK and the clients of the branch offices in Asia and Scandinavia. In the advent of Solvency II, he was also responsible for the corporate actuarial department building a life internal model for Solvency II and managing the calculation of Hannover Re’s market consistent embedded value. He joined Hannover Re in 1990. In the middle of the 1990s he was largely involved in the establishment of Impaired Live Annuities and Enhanced Annuities in the UK. Since then Hannover Re has successfully become the market leader in the reassurance of UK Enhanced Annuities. Cord holds a degree in Mathematics, is a member of the Deutsche Aktuar Vereinigung and a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries.

Roshan Tajapra is the Head of Longevity Research at SCOR, where he leads the team responsible for the best estimate demographic assumptions underlying SCOR’s global longevity offering. Roshan joined SCOR in 2018, having previously held positions at Prudential, Canada Life, and Legal & General. He has a particular interest in mortality trends and has spoken on the subject at various longevity conferences and industry webinars. He is also a member of the IFoA’s Diabetes Working Party Steering Group. Outside of work, Roshan is a keen cyclist, having swapped the busy London tube for a cycle into the office a few years ago.

Mark Woods is Head of Research and Development at Canada Life Reinsurance, based in Dublin, Ireland.

Mark joined Canada Life Re in 2016 and worked in various roles including Longevity and Structured Reinsurance Pricing, before taking up the R&D role in 2020. Mark’s R&D team supports business development, assumption setting, modelling, and pricing for Canada Life Re’s wide range of reinsurance product offerings across Europe and the APAC region, of which longevity risk management is a major product line.

Mark is an actuary, and prior to joining Canada Life Re had 6 years of experience as a practising medical doctor, specialising in neurosurgery.

Han Yan is a Senior Longevity Research Actuary at SCOR. She has over 10 years of post-qualification experience in Longevity research with the focus on multi-factor modelling and base mortality assumption setting. Her actuarial career started in Singapore from Protection pricing and continued in the UK on Solvency II model calibration before settling down in the field of Longevity research. Before joining SCOR in 2021 she was working at Canada Life as Longevity Pricing Lead. She is also a member of the IFoA’s Diabetes Working Party Technical Group. Outside of work Han has shown great enthusiasm on food. She is often surprised by how much her friends consult her on food recommendations but not on longevity!

Joey Zhou is an Associate Professor Practice in Insurance, Actuarial Science, and Risk Management at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. A qualified actuary and certified financial risk manager, Joey has nearly two decades of experience across the insurance, reinsurance, and government sectors. Before transitioning to full-time academia, he held various roles within the insurance value chain, including actuarial functions, product development, distribution services, business management, and marketing.

Joey's research focuses on retirement protection, life and health risks, and climate risk. He is particularly interested in inclusive insurance solutions for vulnerable, underserved, and senior populations. He is the academic director of the Nanyang Enterprise Risk Management Program and Sustainable Finance Executive Education Program. Internationally, he served as deputy chair of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA)'s Diabetes Research working group, driving insurance innovations for ageing populations. He also represents Singapore in the International Actuarial Association's (IAA's) Mortality Forum.