Leadership
Sara Teppema
Chair
Disbanded - 23 November 2025
Role
- Coordinate and facilitate the interchange and communication of relevant information within the profession globally, thus adding value to the separate contributions of our FMAs;
- Consolidate global actuarial contributions to support the work of supranational bodies engaged in responding to the implications of the pandemic on financial protection systems which may include, for example,
- Protection gaps
- Features of sustainable financial protection systems
- Considerations in public/private sharing of pandemic or other catastrophic risks
- Implications for improved risk management by financial protection systems on both a macro (global) level and on a micro level such as internal risk management, financial reporting, and prudential regulation in this area, as well as provide forum(s) for discussion;
- Improve the understanding of both the role and limitations of financial protection systems and the resulting issues for society;
- Gain deeper insight into how the COVID-19 pandemic evolved into a global catastrophe and identify key elements of the process so that future pandemics or even similar future events that have the same paralyzing effect can be predicted and/or mitigated.
- We also foresee progress in attaining the following indirect objectives:
- Wider awareness of the potential impacts of the pandemic on financial protection system risk management, reporting and disclosure;
- Increased recognition for the potential contribution of actuaries as risk experts on the part of supranational bodies, government agencies, industry and the public; and
- Development of the actuarial profession’s skill sets and capabilities to assist key stakeholders in managing pandemic-related risks.
Resources
Task Force Members
Statement of Intent
Papers
