Our Council Members

Jenny Lyon - President

BSc, FIAA

Jenny is a Director of SKL, a specialist actuarial recruitment firm. She has over 20 years’ experience advising and recruiting actuaries in Australia, New Zealand and across Asia. Jenny holds two non-executive director roles and convenes the Education Development Group for the Institute.

 

John Evans - Senior Vice President

MBA, FIA, FFin, FIAA, CERA

John is an Associate Professor at the Sydney Business School where he directs the Centre for Research in Retirement Policy and Management. John also chairs several Risk and Compliance Committees for financial institutions and has consulted to several industry superannuation funds. John lectures in Australia and Hong Kong on risk management and has published in leading international academic journals on the same.

Nicolette Rubinsztein - Vice President

B Bus Sc (Hons) EMBA FIAA GAICD

Nicolette is a non executive director at UniSuper, SuperEd and Onepath Insurance. Prior to that she was a General Manager at Colonial First State/ CBA for 14 years and also on the board of ASFA for eight years. She is a graduate of AICD and also has an executive MBA from the AGSM. She is a UNSW Alumni Leader and on the  Macquarie University Faculty of Business and Economics Advisory Board. Nicolette is also author of the book, Not Guilty, about career mums.

Andrew Brown

BSc, DipEd, FIAA, FFin

Andrew is a Director at lead.first where he partners with clients to address their business strategies through developing effective leadership mindsets and practices. He also consults to Swinburne University of Technology, and lectures in Actuarial Practice and Control (Honours year) at The University of Melbourne. He has previously held senior executive roles as Chief Actuary for AXA Life Singapore, CFO for Philippine AXA Life and Head of Learning and Leadership Development for AXA Asia Pacific Holdings.

 

Hoa Bui,

BEc, FIAA

Hoa is a Director of KPMG Actuarial Pty Ltd. She joined KPMG Actuarial as a partner in 2004, bringing 20 years’ experience working in large and small life insurers. Hoa now manages KPMG’s actuarial life insurance/financial services practice, a full service actuarial consulting practice, which incorporates risk management and claims & underwriting advice.   

 

 

Ann-Maree Cook

BSc, FIAA

Ann-Maree has experience across superannuation, life insurance and general Insurance having commenced iher actuarial journey in a large Australian mutual before then working in both established and developing consulting practices. She more recently served as the Actuary on the Asia Pacific management team of a large multinational general insurance company. 
 

Andrew Doughman

BCom, BAppFin, FIAA

Andrew is a Reinsurance Underwriter and Client Manager at Hannover Re, the 3rd largest Reinsurer both in Australia and globally. Andrew is responsible for servicing clients across Australia and New Zealand for all casualty lines including Public and Products Liability, PIDO, Medical Malpractice, Workers Compensation and CTP. Prior to Hannover Re, Andrew worked in General Insurance consulting as a Senior Manager for EY as well as in Product Management for the Workers Compensation portfolio at Suncorp. Andrew has deep expertise in both the Product Management side as well as dealing with various stakeholders (including regulators) across the Workers Compensation and CTP classes.  

Bill Konstantinidis

BEc, FIAA, MBA(Exec)

Bill has extensive experience within the general insurance area. He is currently General Manager Product at Covermore where he looks after the product, underwriting and actuarial teams of the company for travel insurance. He was previously Executive Manager Pricing Commercial Customer at Suncorp within the Chief Data Office (where he managed a large team of actuaries and analysts covering valuation, pricing and analysis of a wide range of general insurance products across the Suncorp Group), having held other Executive Manager positions with Suncorp prior to that. He has also held Chief Underwriting Officer/Executive Manager roles with Allianz Global Assistance, RACQ Insurance and CUNA Mutual. In 2011 he was President of the Queensland Branch of ANZIIF (Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance).

Michael O'Neill

BActS/LLB, PhD Finance, FIAA

Michael is an Equity Analyst at Investors Mutual Limited where he has worked for more than six years. He was previously an actuary for the Commonwealth Government’s Treasury department and achieved a Doctor of Philosophy in Finance in July 2014.

Chao Qiao

BCom (Hons), FIAA, CERA

Chao is an actuarial consultant with PwC who provides consultancy services in general insurance premium pricing, reserving, forecasting, monitoring, data collection and experience analysis. Chao also works on broader projects within the financial services industry, including regulatory reviews, product research and risk management. Chao is a recently qualified young actuary, and actively participates in research and discussions, especially on longevity insurance.

Barry Rafe

FIAA, CERA

Barry has held senior consulting positions as a strategy partner at Accenture; head of financial services at Trowbridge Consulting; senior manager with AMP; and CEO of Mellon Bank’s Australian operations. He presents governance courses for the Australian Institute of Company Directors and recently achieved first class honours in Philosophy at Sydney University. Barry served as Institute President in 2011. He is also a past director and treasurer of the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia and of ASFA.

Andy Yang

BEc, FFin, FIAA

With over 25 years work experience across seven Asia-Pacific countries, Andy has worked primarily in the investment management industry. Andy’s experience includes portfolio management, ALM, insurance investment, risk management, business development/M&A, product development, and performance/attribution analysis. Andy has been involved with multiple asset classes including equities, fixed income, mortgages, real estate derivatives and structured investments.