2019 Section Council Elections
The Society of Actuaries sponsors 20 professional interest sections, each with a section council which plans and executes the activities of the section in line with its mission. Councils range in size from nine to 12 members, elected by section members. Each year, one-third of each council is replaced by new volunteers.
Below is a list of this year’s section council candidates and the biographical information and answers to the questions they provided. Biographies are limited to identification of employment, major fields of professional activity, service in the Society of Actuaries, and other relevant experience. Candidate names are listed on the ballot, and in this document, in the order in which they were received.
Voting will open on August 19 and close on September 6.
Actuary of the Future (vote for 3)
- Daniel Clark, ASA, MAAA
- Tony Johnson, ASA, MAAA
- Joel Abassah-Manu, ASA, MAAA
Education & Research (vote for 4)
- Liang (Jason) Hong, FSA, PhD
- Jeffrey Zheng, FSA, FCAS
- Charles S. Fuhrer, FSA, MAAA, FCA
- Diana Skrzydlo, ASA
Entrepreneurial & Innovation (vote for 3)
- Karan Rustagi, FSA, MAAA
- Pauline Reimer, ASA, MAAA
- Blake Hill, FSA
- Carl Ghiselli, FSA, MAAA
- Vikas Advani, FSA
Financial Reporting (vote for 3)
- Eric Chen, FSA, FCIA
- Mark Hutchinson, FSA, MAAA
- Alexandre Lemieux, FSA, MAAA
Health (vote for 4)
- Ali Zaker-Shahrak, FSA, MAAA, CFA, PhD (Econ)
- Karan Rustagi, FSA, MAAA
- Joshua Axene, FSA, MAAA, FCA
- Sudha Shenoy, FSA, MAAA, CERA
- Doug Norris, FSA, MAAA, PhD
- Alex Zaid, FSA, CERA, MAAA
- Craig S. Kalman, FSA, MAAA
- Shuaiqing Liu, FSA
- Wendy Kwan, FSA, MAAA
International (vote for 3)
- Qi (Tim) Sun, FSA
- Jon Wu, FSA, MAAA, CERA
- Shirley Song, FSA, MAAA
- Abhinav Dendukuri, FSA, CERA
- Alberto Abalo, FSA, MAAA, CERA
- Maïthé Luneau, ASA
- Jie Ming, FSA, MAAA
Investment (vote for 3)
- Marc Altschull, FSA, CFA
- Walter Wang, FSA, CERA, MAAA
- Garfield L. Francis, FSA
- Daniel Mark Schobel, ASA
Joint Risk Management (vote for 4)
*CIA nominees. The section will reserve a seat for a member of the CIA.
- Matthew Emery, FSA, MAAA, CERA
- Xinliang Stella Lu, ASA, CERA
- Kyle Rooker, FSA, MAAA
- *Kailan Shang, FSA, ACIA, CFA, PRM
- Sandee Schuster, FSA, MAAA
- *Vy (Ngoc) Le, FSA, FCIA, CERA, CFA
- Nannan Liu, FCAS
- Gerald Adamski, FSA, MAAA
- *Shannon Patershuk, FSA, FCIA, CERA, MBA
- Erzhe Zhang, FSA, MAAA
Leadership & Development (vote for 3)
- Olyvia Leahy, ASA, ACIA, MAAA
- Kelly Rabin, FSA, CFA, MAAA
- Emily Hsu, FSA, CERA, ACIA
- Katie Rook, FSA, MAAA
- Brian Ritchie, FSA, MAAA
- Heather Hokamp, FSA, MAAA
- Lori Weyuker, ASA, MAAA
Long Term Care Insurance (vote for 3)
- Aaron Weatherman, FSA, CERA, MAAA, CFA
- Mike Bergerson, FSA, MAAA
- Brian Kelly, FSA
- Brian Ulery, FSA, MAAA
- Sisi Wu, FSA, MAAA
Marketing & Distribution (vote for 3)
- Jean-Francois Langlois, FSA, FCIA
- Jing Lang, FSA, FCIA
- Mike Prendes, FSA, MAAA
Modeling (vote for 3)
- April Shen, FSA, CFA, MAAA, CERA
- Tim Deitz, ASA, MAAA
- Sean Abate, FSA
- Bryan Lindsley, FSA, MAAA
- John Fowler, FSA, MAAA
- John Gramelspacher, ASA, MAAA
Predictive Analytics & Futurism (vote for 3)
- Kevin Lee, FSA
- Lin Yuan, ASA
- Nick Hanewinckel, FSA, CERA
- Kim Steiner, FSA, MAAA
- Stephen J. Gruber, FSA, MAAA
- Xuan Zhang, FSA, CERA, MAAA
Product Development (vote for 3)
- Nicholas Carbo, FSA, MAAA
- Leonard Mangini, FSA, FRM, FALU, CLU, ChFC, MAAA
- Christopher Fioritto, FSA, MAAA
- Bill Bade, FSA, MAAA
Reinsurance (vote for 3)
- Nina Han, FSA, MAAA, CERA
- Faisal Haddad, FSA
- Sean Kim, FSA, FCIA, MAAA
Retirement (vote for 4, three 3-year terms, and one 1-year term)
- Todd Tauzer, FSA, MAAA, CERA, FCA
- Grace Barbieri, FSA, EA, MAAA
- Lee Gold, ASA, EA, MAAA
- Robert J. Reiskytl, FSA, FCA
- Michael Raker, FCA, ASA, MAAA, EA
- Lisa G. Ullman, FSA, MAAA, EA, FCA
Smaller Insurance Company (vote for 3)
- Stefanie J. Porta, ASA, MAAA
- Claire Wolfe, ASA, MAAA
- Bryan Amburn, FSA, MAAA
Social Insurance & Public Finance
(vote for 4: three 3-year terms, and one 2-year term)
- Ali A. Zaker-Shahrak, FSA, MAAA, CFA, PhD (Econ)
- Paul Angelo, FSA, MAAA, EA, FCA
- Stephanie Entzminger, FSA, MAAA
- Tom Vicente, FSA, EA, MAAA
- Michael Stephens, ASA
Taxation (vote for 3)
- Lawrence Hersh, FSA, MAAA
- Erik Pronovost, FSA, CFA, CERA, MAAA
- Tony Phipps, FSA, MAAA
Technology (vote for 3)
- Hugh Lakshman, FSA, MAAA
- Ramandeep Nagi, FSA, FCIA, MAAA
- In Kyung Pyo, FSA, MAAA
- John Henrik Rogers, ASA, MAAA, MS