Community & speaking

Society of Actuaries in Ireland

William Hannan Medal 2025 — awarded by the Society of Actuaries in Ireland for Outstanding Contribution by a Recent Qualifier.

1. Council member (board of directors)

   Jun 2025 – present

2. Chair, Recently Qualified Committee

   Mar 2025 – present

   Coordinate the committee and its meetings, and give guidance at events for school and university students considering the career.

3. Co-lead, 2026 Current Topics Paper

   2026

   • Designed and analysed a membership-wide survey on AI's impact on the actuarial profession (69 responses), with strategic input from the Society's CEO.
   • Presenting the findings, and the event's introduction and close, at the Current Topics event on 3 December 2026.

4. Committee member

   Mar 2022 – present

   Member of the Data Science & AI Committee and the Nominations Committee.

Writing

Six articles for the Society of Actuaries in Ireland:

• AI explainability: SHAP and other methods
• The EU AI Act
• Ethics in AI
• A member survey on AI and the future of the profession
• Inflation
• Cyber risk aggregation, with case studies including Fastly, CrowdStrike and NotPetya

Talks

• Current Topics event, Society of Actuaries in Ireland — 3 December 2026: findings of the member survey on AI and the profession.
• Ethics and the Use of AI, Society of Actuaries in Ireland — May 2025: a virtual-assistant LLM product case.
• CPD talks on AI and modelling ethics — data ownership, GDPR and the EU AI Act, model overconfidence and overfitting, and the risks of using AI without adequate training.
• Young Actuaries Leaders Seminar, Munich, 2025 — selected participant (Young Actuaries Initiative).
• Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting, 2017 — panelist.
• Internal Deloitte sessions and client trainings on software development, Agile, object-oriented design, statistical methods and data ethics.

Other volunteering

• Volunteer maths teaching for secondary school students.