Alina vom Bruck
Alina vom Bruck works in the group risk management of the Gothaer Group. Her core activity is in the Solvency II project. She joined the Gothaer in 2010. During that time she was in charge of the implementation of the ORSA and pillar 3 requirements. Since 2013 Alina is also a co-chair of the Solvency II working group of AMICE.
Alina studied business administration in Cologne, Germany, until 2010 with the emphasis on insurance business, risk management, accounting and business information systems. In 2012, she started an actuarial education program.]]>
Allan Christian | Solvency II Wire Contributor
Allan began working on Solvency II in 2007 for the Irish insurance subsidiary of an LSE-listed insurance group, focusing his efforts on ORSA, system of governance and regulatory reporting requirements and progressed to managing the project. He was also the Group Risk Analyst for 5 years, in charge of the running of all areas of the Enterprise-wide Risk Management programme , as well as aspects of corporate governance advisory work. Both he and the programme were nominees at the 2009 European Risk Management awards in Berlin. Allan established Governance Matters in 2011 to provide bespoke consultancy services on both Solvency II and ERM to the EU insurance industry. The business has been shortlisted for 2011 Risk Management Service Provider of the Year by Risk Professional Magazine. His blog, Governance Matters…on Solvency II, is a repository for personal research, benchmarking and thoughts on developments in the Solvency II/ERM spheres, and aims to draw attention to recent news releases, as well as provide a platform for honest opinion on national and pan-European legislative and regulatory developments as they are released.
Allan Kearns
Dr Allan Kearns is head of analytics within the Insurance Supervision Directorate at the Central Bank of Ireland. In this role, he is responsible for the establishment of a new analytics function as part of the Solvency II change programme within the Central Bank. The vision for this function is to extract insights from the new Solvency II Pillar 3 reporting to enhance data-driven supervisory and financial stability decision making. Prior to this role, Allan was a founding member of the Organisational Risk Division and Deputy CRO for the Central Bank, with responsibility for both financial and non-financial risk management frameworks. Within this role, he was a member of both the Central Bank’s and Eurosystem’s risk management committees. In his tenure at the Central Bank, and before that at the Bank of England, he gained wide experience across a number of other central banking policy areas, including Financial Stability, and Eurosystem/ECB relations. Allan has an MSc Economics from the London School of Economics, an MSc Risk Management (University College Dublin) and a doctorate from Trinity College (Dublin). He has additional qualifications in public relations, leadership and executive coaching. He lectures on risk management topics, including governance and culture. Allan has published on central banking topics. He is a non-executive director and member of the board for a national charity.]]>
Amy Nicholson
Amy Nicholson is a Consultant within Milliman with a broad range of experience in the life insurance industry and a particular focus on the management of climate risk.
She has supported a range of insurers of all sizes in developing and embedding their approaches to climate risk management, and regularly writes papers and delivers presentations and training on the topic.
Amy’s other areas of specialism include with-profits advisory, restructuring and rationalisation, Part VII transfers and other Independent Expert work.
Andrew Epsom
Andrew Epsom, inurance client solutions director, Royal London Asset Management
Andrew is an insurance investment specialist with 25 years of experience. Prior to joining Royal London in 2020, Andrew was a principal in the Mercer Insurance Investment Team.
Anthony Burke
Anthony Burke is a bi-lingual expert in Digital Marketing, IT Leadership and Business Development. Anthony has over 30 years leadership experience in major corporations in the Construction, Financial Services, Insurance, HR and Outsourcing sectors. He is Managing Director of Claravista Business Consulting t/a WSI.
Anthony is a certified WSI Digital Marketing Consultant and has a BA Hons in History & Spanish from University College Cardiff and an MSc in Information Systems from Brighton University. He is a qualified Prince2 Practitioner and an active member of the BCS “The Chartered Institute of IT” and of the IOD “Institute of Directors”.
Beth Dobson
Beth Dobson is PSL Counsel and heads the knowledge management function within the Slaughter and May insurance team.
Beth is the co-editor of the firm’s Guide to Solvency II. She spent time on secondment at the FSA working on UK input into the drafting of the Solvency II Level 2 Delegated Regulation and changes to the with-profits regime to reflect Solvency II. She is a member of the CLLS insurance law committee and the FMLC insurance scoping forum.
Carlos Montalvo
Chris Johnson is the Head of Product Management, Market Data Services, HSBC Securities Services. He joined HSBC Securities Services in 2006 and is the Head of Product Management, Market Data Services. Chris was previously at Threadneedle Investments where he was Head of Investment Information Services. Before then he was a Director at UBS, and Vice President at Chase Manhattan and Bankers Trust. Chris is the Chairman of the TPA Solvency II Working Group, a group of fund administrators working with the Investment Management Association (IMA) to address the reporting requirements of Solvency II. TPA Solvency II Working Group members: BNP Paribas Securities Services, BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, Citi Transaction Services, HSBC Securities Services, J.P. Morgan Worldwide Securities Services, Northern Trust and State Street.The Investment Management Association (IMA) is also a member and has participated actively in our meetings with regulators. ]]>
Chris Leslie MP
Chris Leslie joined the Labour Party when he was fifteen years old, angry at the damage caused by the Thatcher government. Ever since then he has been an active Labour member, fighting against inequality, disadvantage and unfairness. Chris was a councillor on Bradford Council for four years from 1994-1998 and then in 1997 was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Shipley, a Tory ‘stronghold’ in Yorkshire where he overturned a Conservative majority of 12,000. Chris represented Shipley in Parliament for eight years, narrowly losing his seat by 400 votes in 2005. During that time Chris held several positions in the Labour Government. From 2001-2002 he was a Minister in the Cabinet Office heading up civil service policy matters, civil contingencies and emergency planning. From 2002-2003 Chris was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister with responsibilities for local government and regions policy. Following this he spent two years as a Minister in the Department for Constitutional Affairs with responsibility for the courts and elections policy. On losing his Shipley seat in 2005 Chris took up the post of Director at the New Local Government Network, a local government research organisation which campaigns for the devolution of power from Whitehall to town halls and local communities. Chris was a trustee of a national debt advice charity, CCCS (Consumer Credit Counselling Services) until the end of 2010, helping people in debt and campaigning for fairer treatment from the financial services industry. Since 5th May 2010 Chris Leslie has been the Member of Parliament for Nottingham East and he is currently Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury. He is married to Nicola and has a baby daughter.]]>
Christos Ellinas
Christos Ellinas is a researcher affiliated with University of Bristol, UK and University of Bath, UK. His work draws from notions of complexity and networks science to tackle real-world challenges in a variety of domains. His research has been featured in top-tier academic conferences – including a keynote speech in Governance, Risk and Compliance 2016 – journals and industry-focused guides, including IRM’s “Extended Enterprise: Managing risk in complex 21st century organisations”.
Christos was the finalist for the Research Writer of the Year 2013 and the Fraser-Nash Best Paper Award 2014. He recently led work that was awarded the 2015 ERM Research Excellence Award for its contribution in the body of ERM knowledge.
Clare Bousfield
Emily Penn is a Director at RBS providing actuarial and regulatory expertise around ALM solutions for insurers. Emily works with a wide range of insurers structuring derivative solutions across the major asset classes and advising more broadly on capital management and asset allocation. The team at RBS were recently awarded Best Bank for ALM Advisory by Insurance Risk Magazine.
Emily has been at RBS for 6 years having joined in 2006 from Tillinghast (Towers Watson). She is active in the Actuarial Profession and has been on a number of working parties including recently “How to hedge the Solvency II risk free rate” and “Central clearing of OTC derivatives”. She is a regular speaker at conferences including the profession’s Risk and Investment Conference and Life Conference. She is also on the Life Conference Committee.
Emily is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and holds a first class degree in mathematics from Christ Church, Oxford. She was awarded a number of prizes while completing the actuarial exams including the Sir Joseph Burn Prize for special merit on qualification.
Enrico Perotti
Enrico Perotti is Professor of International Finance at the University of Amsterdam. He received his PhD in Finance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Enrico Perotti has held visiting appointments at the University of Oxford, London Business School, London School of Economics, and MIT. His research is in corporate finance and banking, theory of the firm, political economy of finance, economic and legal innovation, and financial development. His publications routinely appear in the top economics and finance journals. He is Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, and currently serves on the Council of the European Economic Association. Professor Perotti has been a visiting scholar at the IMF research department six times since 1992, and acted as consultant to the IMF and World Bank on banking, financial reforms and stability. He was EU senior policy advisor to the Russian Ministry of Finance and Russian Central Bank in 1996-2000. Since 2010 he is senior advisor on Macro Prudential policy at DNB. In April 2011 he received the Houblon Normal Fellowship from the Bank of England. He directs since 1998 the Amsterdam Center for International Finance (CIFRA). University of Amsterdam web page.
Esko Kivisaar
Chief Executive Director Insurance Supervision, BaFin
Curriculum Vitae
1980 to 1985 – Law studies in Mainz and Freiburg 1985 – First state examination 1986 to 1988 – Studies at Harvard University; Master in Public Administration (MPA) 1991 – Second state examination 1992 to 1999 – The Boston Consulting Group, Düsseldorf; Corporate Consultant, from 1996 Manager 1999 to 2001 – Dresdner Bank AG, Frankfurt a.M.; Department Head, Head of Global Group Development 2001 to 2010 – Marsh GmbH, Frankfurt a.M., London; Chief Executive Officer, Marsh Europe Central Region 2010 to 2012 – Agora Beteiligungen GmbH, Bad Homburg v.d.H.; Managing Partner; Inex24 AG, Ismaning; Founding Partner and Chairman of the Supervisory Board 2011 to 2012 – Westlake Partners, Munich, Hong Kong/Shanghai; Partner Since January 2013 – Chief Executive Director of Insurance Supervision at the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin)]]>
Fiona Le Poidevin
Fiona Le Poidevin is Technical Director & Deputy CEO, Guernsey Finance. She joined Guernsey Finance, the promotional body for the Island’s finance industry, at the end of March 2011. Her role includes assisting with business development in new and emerging markets, providing technical support to industry and liaising with industry associations.
Francesco Mazzaferro
Peter Skjødt is Executive Director, at the Danish Insurance Association, responsible for the Economic Affairs Department from 2007. Peter has held various roles at the association since 1993, working on a range of areas including, prudential regulation, accounting, taxation, Solvency II and investment issues. He has been actively involved at EU level in the development of the Solvency II regime and IFRS for many years.
In 2010 Peter took up the post of Associate professor in Pension Economics at the Copenhagen Business School. He was also a Lecturer and Associate Professor in International Finance at Copenhagen Business School between 1989 – 1997, and a Lecturer in Macroeconomics at the Copenhagen University between 1987 – 1989. Peter received a Masters in Economics from Copenhagen University in 1989.
In addition to an accomplished academic career Peter has held a number of positions in the private sector. Between 1988 – 1991 he was an Economist at the Danish Manufacturer’s Association and held a similar position at Carlsberg International A/S between 1991 – 1993.
Philip Simpson
Philip Simpson is a principal and consulting actuary in the London office of Milliman. Philip has extensive Solvency II consulting experience. He also has experience on UK and European annuity assignments.
Philip has been Actuarial Function Holder, With-Profits Actuary, and the Appointed Actuary and Signing Actuary to a number of UK and European insurers. He has also been Independent Expert or Independent Actuary on a number of insurance business transfers. Prior to being a consultant, Philip worked in reinsurance.
Robert Chaplin
Robert Chaplin is an insurance partner at Slaughter and May.
He has practised insurance and related company and commercial law for nearly 25 years. His practice spans (re)insurers, intermediaries, other financial institutions, the Lloyd’s market, governments, international organisations, regulators and corporates; covering all aspects of work in the sector.
Alongside Beth Dobson, Robert edits “Solvency II”, an industry leading publication on the prudential solvency and supervision requirements for insurers, which they have also converted into App form.
Ross Evans
Ross Evans is a Director of RBS’s award winning Insurance Asset Liability Management (“ALM”) Advisory team. He combines regulatory, investments and actuarial expertise to aid the development of bespoke ALM solutions for insurance companies. Ross is a regular speaker at industry conferences and a member of several Actuarial working parties.
Ross Evans is a Director of RBS’s award winning Insurance Asset Liability Management (“ALM”) Advisory team. He combines regulatory, investments and actuarial expertise to aid the development of bespoke ALM solutions for insurance companies. Ross is a regular speaker at industry conferences and a member of several Actuarial working parties.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and holds a first class degree in Mathematics, Operational Research, Statistics & Economics from the University of Warwick.
Prior to joining RBS, Ross worked in the Actuarial & Insurance Management Solutions practice at PwC.
Ross Shepherd
Ross Shepherd, senior statistician in Insurance Development branch, Office for National Statistics (ONS) Ross joined the Solvency II development team in May 2016. Ross has 15 years’ experience of collecting, quality assuring, analysing and publishing insurance statistics of the UK market. His specialist knowledge is widely recognised inside and outside ONS. Ross has completed the ordinary statistics modules from the Royal Statistical Society.
Seamus Creedon
Seamus Creedon is a native of Dublin, Ireland and qualified as an actuary in 1976. His career in financial services has been divided between Ireland and the United Kingdom and embraces both insurance and banking. He is a non-executive director of several life and non-life (re)insurers in Ireland and Britain.
Seamus is a member of the Irish, UK, and North American actuarial bodies and was one of the KPMG team which studied solvency assessment models and recommended the three-pillar framework for Solvency II (in May 2002). He has led the volunteer involvement of the European actuarial profession (through the Groupe Consultatif Actuariel Europeen) in the Solvency II development for several years.
Seamus served as a member of the governing council of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries until 2011 and is a member of the Enterprise and Financial Risks Committee of the International Actuarial Association. He has been sole or joint author of a number of professional papers and is a regular speaker on financial services industry matters.
Simon Kirby
Simon Kirby, Senior Pre-Sales Consultant and Solvency II specialist, SAS UK & Ireland. Simon has over twenty years’ experience working in the insurance and banking sectors. Prior to joining SAS in June 2011, Simon worked for the Financial Services Authority where he headed a team of insurance regulators supervising the activities of over thirty companies in complying with regulations such as Solvency II. Before this, he worked for PwC and then spent ten years at Royal Bank of Scotland. Simon cut his teeth in the insurance industry for Royal & Sun Alliance.
As Senior Pre-Sales Consultant and Solvency II specialist, Simon’s role is to understand both the complexities of the Directive and the challenges being faced by insurers. He enjoys demonstrating to clients how they could manage risk more effectively and helping them get the most out of Solvency II, not only in terms of compliance but also long term business benefit.
Sven Giegold
Sven Giegold MEP Sven Giegold is a Member of the European Parliament and Coordinator of The Greens/EFA in the Economic and Monetary Affairs committee (ECON). Since 2010 he has been rapporteur on the establishment of the European Securities markets Authority (ESMA) and the revision of the European Banking Authority regulation (in the context of the SSM) and UCITS V, as well as taxation and ECB related files. He has also been a shadow rapporteur on a number of macro-economic and financial regulation files covering taxation, consumer and investor protection, and Omnibus II.
Prior to becoming an MEP in 2009 Mr Giegold was involved in setting up and coordinating the activities of a number of social movements critical of globalization, ecology and tax policy. Between 1986 and 2001 he did voluntary work in the youth environment movement. In 2000 he co-founded of Attac Germany and became a representative of Friends of the Earth Germany in the council of Attac. Since 2002 he has been involved in the European coordination work of Attac. In 2002 he co-founded the Tax Justice Network.
Since 2007 Mr Giegold has been a Member of the Presidential Meeting of the German Protestant Church Congress. In January 2010 he co-founded the Institute Solidarische Moderne e.V. (Berlin), and in March 2012 became a Party Board Member of Alliance 90 / Greens North-Rhine-Westphalia. Mr Giegold was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1969. Has a degree in Adults Education, Policy and Economics from the universities of Lüneburg, Bremen and Birmingham (1996) and obtained a Masters degree in Economic Policy and Economic Development from the University of Birmingham in 2011.
Victoria Raffé
Victoria Raffé heads up the FSA‘s Prudential Insurance Policy Department which is responsible for ensuring that there is a coherent and effective prudential policy framework for UK insurance firms across the spectrum of life/non-life and retail/wholesale. This work includes both ensuring that the current framework is clear, implementable and appropriate through both steady state and through periods of market disruption, and working to secure that future frameworks deliver the best achievable outcomes for the supervision of UK firms, most notably through Solvency II and IAIS policy developments.
After a decade working in insurance and investment management firms, and later as a management consultant, Victoria joined the FSA in 1995 where she has worked in a number of roles.
William Coatsworth
William Coatsworth is a Consulting Actuary with the London office of Milliman. He is a leading practitioner and commentator on Solvency II matters across Europe and has been heavily involved in all aspects of Solvency II. His work has included helping a number of companies across Europe with their preparations for Solvency II, particularly focusing on the corporate governance and reporting requirements under Pillars II & III, as well as working with industry bodies to help draft the industry responses to the developing Solvency II regulations.
William is the author of a number of Milliman summary papers concerning Solvency II and has spoken at a number of industry events across Europe and Asia on the subject.
