Great trip to Nigeria to help build actuarial capacity.
I spent eight days in Nigeria setting the stage for the insurance industry to expand by building actuarial capacity. Milliman has a joint venture with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to help developing countries. For a country to expand economically and create a strong middle class, citizens and businesses need access to an affordable and strong insurance market. Actuaries play a key role in maintaining a strong and competitive insurance market.
My colleagues and I spent eight days in Nigeria meeting with regulators, insurance company CEOs, the Nigerian Actuarial Society (NAS) , local actuaries and representatives from the United Nations. It was a great trip and we made many new friends. The pictures below are from the regulator workshop, an intense 16-hour workshop of training over two days in Abuja, Nigeria. My colleague Chris van der Merwe and I covered a lot of topics, including pricing procedures in the US and South Africa, loss reserving, risk-based capital (RBC), scenario testing, own risk and solvency assessment (ORSA), a case study on insurance insolvency, Solvency II, the future role of actuaries, identifying fraudulent motor claims and many more topics. The audience was very engaged and had a lot of questions. At times there was a good exchange of ideas between the attendees.
A big shout-out to a couple of people for all of your help. First my co-presenter Chris van der Merwe, and then Kingsley Miller, President of the Nigerian Actuarial Society (NAS); Yeside Kazeem, Past President of NAS; Yeside Oredugha, CEO of NAS; and Daniel Adeleye from Milliman. Also, to Henry Akwitti of UNDP, thank you for coordinating all of the meeting and bringing us all together. Henry, it was also a pleasure getting to know you and having dinner together.
Also, a thank you to Madeline Timmers from Milliman for helping with the presentation.
Our goal is to provide support to NAS and help NAS expand actuarial capacity in Nigeria.