‘Nine months later’

Director - TSAP Consulting

Adrian is an actuary and director of TSAP Consulting, providing support to the Life Assurance sector.

His career includes direct insurance, reinsurance and consultancy. TSAP has a particular focus on database applications needed for mortality. morbidity and longevity, Adrian co-ordinates a specialist team focusing on software and risk management with an emphasis on experience analysis, longevity swap administration and data transformations. TSAP’s EASui and PAXmin systems are highly regarded industry standards for Experience Analysis and Longevity Swap administration. He is a regular contributor and speaker at industry forums, helping decision makers to understand the narrative that data is revealing so that better-informed decisions are made.

Prior to founding TSAP in 2005, Adrian headed up reinsurance pricing operations for Revios, Life and Group Risk technical pricing terms for Swiss Re and Group Risk management for Southern Life.

Adrian studied to become an actuary at UCT in South Africa where he qualified as an FIA. During the early 1990’s he was at the forefront of research into Life Office implications of the HIV epidemic.

In 2008, working with a team of industry colleagues, he demonstrated how causes of mortality were signalling a marked slow-down for mortality improvements within 5 years.

Actuary & Director - Willis Towers Watson

Matthew Edwards is an actuary working at Willis Towers Watson, where he leads the life insurance practice’s demographic risk work, focusing on mortality, longevity and associated analytics.

He has a particular interest in the interface between actuarial work and medical science.

Before his (circa) twenty years at Willis Towers Watson (via legacy Watsons and Towers Watson), he worked for Aviva, including several years in Italy, and for the Actuarial Education Company tutoring life and mortality courses.

He is Chair of the CMI, Editor of the IFoA’s Longevity Bulletin and chaired the profession’s Antibiotic Resistance Working Party.