Richard Galbraith

Advisory Board Member

Richard is a a Fellow (FIA) of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA), and a CERA credential holder. He has over 20 years experience in the profession, and has worked in a wide variety of functions.  

Richard is passionate about the sustainable global development of the actuarial profession, and spends a large amount of time working with the IFoA and IAA on these areas, and presenting around the world on Professionalism and other topics. He has been drawn to the softer side of the actuarial profession, being a translator between technical and soft skills where he can enhance the actuarial skillset.

Richard has a very international background, and has enjoyed working in the USA, Netherlands and France as well as the UK. 

Jawwad Farid

Advisory Board Member

Jawwad is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a serial founder with one cross border exit and five books to his name.

Jawwad has lived and worked in London, New York, Orange County, Leesburg, Singapore, Riyadh, Dubai, Nairobi, and Karachi.

Jawwad taught the startup boot camp at Nest I/O to 12 cohorts of founders, the Entrepreneurship elective at SP Jain Executive MBA program in Dubai as an adjunct professor for 11 years. Jawwad also served as a selector, mentor, and pitch coach for Team Pakistan at the Asia Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA) from 2005 to 2018. APICTA is an annual regional innovation competition featuring 200 plus participants from 22 APAC territories. During his tenure Pakistan won 53 awards, include 17 golds and 36 runners up titles at 18 APICTA categories.

Stephen Camilli

Advisory Board Member

Stephen helps actuarial science students succeed in his role as Lecturer at the University of Connecticut where he teaches life contingencies and writing for actuaries.

Previously, as President, he oversaw content creation and the overall business at ACTEX Learning, an actuarial education and publishing company.

Stephen is passionate about actuarial student success, excellent content, meaningful relationships, and work that contributes to the common good.

Ioannis Kyriakou

Advisory Board Member

Ioannis is a Reader in Actuarial Finance at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City, University of London. He is also the Director of the Actuarial MSc programmes at Bayes.

Prior to joining City, he worked for Lloyd’s Treasury and Investment Management. He holds a PhD in Finance from City, a master’s degree in Risk and Stochastics from LSE and a bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science from City. He holds the Diploma in Actuarial Techniques and acts as an appointed independent examiner by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries at several universities.

Ioannis is actively involved in actuarial research and currently serves as Editor for the International Journal of Finance & Economics and as Associate Editor for the Annals of Actuarial Science.