{"id":13576,"date":"2022-12-20T11:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T06:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/?p=13576"},"modified":"2023-01-31T23:02:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T18:02:54","slug":"american-academy-of-actuaries-recognizes-members-service-to-public-u-s-actuarial-profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/2022\/12\/20\/american-academy-of-actuaries-recognizes-members-service-to-public-u-s-actuarial-profession\/","title":{"rendered":"American Academy of Actuaries Recognizes Members\u2019 Service to Public, U.S. Actuarial Profession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The American Academy of Actuaries recognized members\u2019 service to the U.S. actuarial profession and the public with the presentation of awards to five individuals at its 2022 Annual Meeting: \u201cEnvision Tomorrow\u201d in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 2 and 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2022 Kathy Riley of Boston, Mass., received the Academy\u2019s\u00a02022 Jarvis Farley Service Award, a lifetime achievement award that honors an actuary whose volunteer efforts on behalf of the Academy have made significant contributions to the advancement of the profession.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2022 Larry Johansen of Concord, N.H., received the Academy\u2019s\u00a02022 Robert J. Myers Public Service Award, an award established in 1994 to honor an actuary for a single noteworthy public service achievement or a career devoted to public service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2022 Three Academy volunteers\u2014Katie Campbell of Auke Bay, Ala.;\u00a0David Evans of San Francisco, Calif.; and\u00a0Norman Niami of Washington, D.C.\u2014received the Academy\u2019s\u00a02022 Outstanding Volunteerism Awards. The awards honor Academy volunteers who have made noteworthy contributions in their volunteer work in the last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Riley received the Jarvis Farley Service Award for her prolific contributions through 23 years of dedicated volunteer service to the Academy in 25 different roles. Her accomplishments include leading the 2008 revision of the U.S. Qualification Standards (USQS) that defined qualifications for actuaries practicing in the United States until 2022, when a new version of the USQS took effect. Through leadership and committee and task force roles, Riley also made a wide range of contributions to numerous actuarial standards of practice, to the Academy\u2019s public policy work on retirement issues through critical periods of regulatory and legislative change, and to Academy governance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cKathy\u2019s prolific contributions have had a profound impact on her colleagues and public policy stakeholders, and on our profession,\u201d said Academy 2021\u201322 President Maryellen Coggins. \u201cShe has shown us the meaning of tireless service, exemplifying the spirit of the award\u2019s namesake, Jarvis Farley.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Johansen received the Robert J. Myers Public Service Award in recognition of his extraordinary contribution to the public good through a 50-year actuarial career in public service working with public retirement systems. His career was marked by an extraordinary scope and quality of actuarial work at the New York State Teachers\u2019 Retirement System, and in service to the New Hampshire Retirement System, which went well beyond actuarial analysis and showed an enduring passion to serve others. He is known as an accomplished and valued communicator and adviser to non-actuaries and external stakeholders such as legislative and executive branch staff, unions, and others, reflecting positively on the actuarial profession as a whole and on public service actuaries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cLarry demonstrated the best in actuarial public service with a clarity of vision that the actuarial perspective is essential to sound policymaking,\u201d said Coggins. \u201cHe made that vision come true to the benefit of the public good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Outstanding Volunteerism Awards recognized:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2022 Campbell\u2019s effective and diligent leadership in ensuring the USQS remain appropriate, timely, and clear. She led the process that resulted in the publication of the revised 2022 USQS as chairperson of the Committee on Qualifications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2022 Evans\u2019 leadership as a member of the Academy\u2019s P\/C Extreme Events and Property Lines Committee in producing an update of the Academy\u2019s well-received issue paper,\u00a0Wildfire: An Issue Paper\u2014Lessons Learned from the 2017\u20132021 Events. He was recognized for going \u201cthe extra mile\u201d in calling attention to the committee\u2019s work through outreach efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2022 Niami\u2019s exceptional leadership and high level of engagement as chairperson of the Cyber Risk Task Force. Niami shepherded the task force\u2019s update and expansion of the\u00a0Cyber Risk Toolkit\u00a0and promoted this important contribution to the profession and external stakeholders in the cyber risk arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cService is at the heart of the Academy\u2019s mission,\u201d said Coggins. \u201cThe skill, dedication, and hard work of our volunteers is the lifeblood that enables us to produce our valuable public policy and professionalism work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Learn more at\u00a0actuary.org\/awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Academy of Actuaries recognized members\u2019 service to the U.S. actuarial profession and the public with the presentation of awards to five individuals at its 2022 Annual Meeting: \u201cEnvision Tomorrow\u201d in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 2 and 3. \u2022 Kathy Riley of Boston, Mass., received the Academy\u2019s\u00a02022 Jarvis Farley Service Award, a lifetime achievement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440,454],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-13576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-440","category-december-2022","tag-company-news","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13577,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13576\/revisions\/13577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}