Session: 20

General Insurance

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Summary

International Accounting Standards - Property & Casualty
Organized by the IAA´s Committee on International Accounting Standards 


Chairman: Sam Gutterman (USA)

Panelists:
·Ralph Blanchard (USA) 
·Francis Ruygt (The Netherlands)

Extensive discussion is now underway in the development of international accounting standards for insurance contracts through the International Accounting Standards Board. This session will explore these developments from the perspecitive of a property & casualty insurer. In addition, current efforts in the IAA's development of actuarial standards with respect to accounting for insurers will be covered.

Nationality:
Dutch

Education:
1972 Grade in econometrics at the University of Tilburg (the Netherlands)
1982 Fellow of the Actuarieel Genootschap (the Dutch Actuarial Society)

Work experience:
1995 - ING Group Corporate Insurance Risk Management 
1991 - 1994 Chief actuary of Nationale-Nederlanden Life Insurance company
1988 - 1990 Chief actuary of Nationale-Nederlanden Non-life Insurance company;
1974 - 1988 Nationale-Nederlanden Non-life Insurance company; various functions. 

Actuarial organisations:
- member of the Board of het Actuarieel Genootschap (The Dutch actuarial society) 1996 - 2002
- vice-chair of the IAA committee on IASB Insurance Accounting Standards 
- co-chair of the IAA Subcommittee on Actuarial Standards