Ask the Authors: 2007/03

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Property/Casualty Insurance

Jenny Lai is a consultant with Towers Perrin in Hong Kong. She has worked with both U.S. and Asian P/C insurers on reserve analysis for primary and reinsurance business, and rate-making for personal lines. She has also worked on M&As and captive insurer issues. Ms. Lai is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries.
Hussain Ahmad is a senior associate with the Tillinghast business of Towers Perrin in Hong Kong. He has worked with companies in Asia as well as the U.S. and has experience in a number of areas, including general insurance valuations, life insurance valuations, takaful and financial services regulation. Mr. Ahmad holds a B.S.B.A. in Actuarial Science from Drake University and is an Associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society.

Ming Li is a vice president with Towers Perrin in Philadelphia. He specializes in catastrophe models and is an expert in international and commercial portfolio analyses. Dr. Li has a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Rice University.
Imelda Y. Powers is a principal of Towers Perrin in Philadelphia. She leads the firm’s catastrophe modeling team and develops catastrophe risk management solutions for primary insurers and reinsurers. Dr. Powers has a B.A. in mathematics from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. in operations research from Yale University.

Ferdia Byrne is a senior consultant with Towers Perrin in London. His areas of expertise include risk and capital management, and financial reporting. In recent years, he has worked extensively with European insurance groups on the implementation and review of economic capital models. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries.
Ian B. Farr is a principal with Towers Perrin’s ERM practice in London and responsible for ERM product development globally. His areas of expertise include risk and capital management and value-based financial reporting. Mr. Farr is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries.

Alexander Dollhopf is a consultant with Towers Perrin in Stockholm. He specializes in financial reporting with a particular focus on IFRS. Mr. Dollhopf is a qualified member of the German Actuarial Society and the Swedish Actuarial Society.
Peter Wright is a principal with Towers Perrin in London. He chairs the Tillinghast business of Towers Perrin’s worldwide working party, which is tracking progress of the IASB’s insurance project. He specializes in financial reporting and statutory regulation work. Mr. Wright serves as an Ordinary Member of the Council of the Institute of Actuaries.

Andrew Milton is a principal with the Tillinghast business of Towers Perrin in Rome. He specializes in advising financial services organizations on supplementary financial reporting, mergers and acquisitions, and the implementation of value-based frameworks. He works closely with a number of multinationals as well as Italian financial services companies. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries.
Monica Florian is a senior consultant with the Tillinghast business of Towers Perrin in Milan. She has worked with a number of financial services organizations implementing financial reporting frameworks across their various lines of business, and has additional expertise in mergers and acquisitions and product development. She has a degree in mathematics from Padova University.

Ian B. Farr is a principal with Towers Perrin’s ERM practice in London and responsible for ERM product development globally. His areas of expertise include risk and capital management and value-based financial reporting. Mr. Farr is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries.
Joe Lebens is a consultant with Towers Perrin in Hartford. He specializes in capital management and loss reserving analyses for insurers. Mr. Lebens is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries.
Hubert Mueller is a principal of Towers Perrin in Hartford. He specializes in risk and capital management topics, financial management, product pricing and actuarial valuations, with emphasis on embedded value. He is a member of Towers Perrin’s global ERM team, with responsibility for economic capital in North America. Mr. Mueller is an FSA, MAAA and a Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst (CERA).
Mark J. Scanlon is a senior consultant with Towers Perrin in New York. He specializes in life insurance mergers and acquisitions and enterprise risk management, with particular focus on embedded value and economic capital. Mr. Scanlon is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and the Society of Actuaries. He is a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries and a Chartered Financial Analyst. Life Insurance

John Nigh is a managing principal of Towers Perrin in New York, with responsibility for Tillinghast’s Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructuring practice (life and property/casualty) in the Americas. Mr. Nigh is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries.
Mark Arian is the Global Change Management Leader and co-leads the M&A group for Towers Perrin. Mr. Arian has worked on assignments for many large organizations. An attorney by background, he earned a B.A. degree from Duke University and a J.D. from the Columbia University School of Law. He is also a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business Executive Education Program.

Peter D. Needleman is a principal of Towers Perrin and Global Practice Director of the Tillinghast business of Towers Perrin. He leads Tillinghast’s worldwide Life and Financial Services practice and has expertise in mergers, acquisitions and restructuring; risk and capital management; and financial reporting. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and past Member of the U.K. Actuarial Profession’s Life Board.