Laura Hanson

Laura Hanson works in the Office of the Chief Actuary at Pacific Life, where she oversees actuarial regulatory affairs for the retail, institutional, workforce benefits, and reinsurance divisions. Over the years, Hanson’s responsibilities have included product design, development, and implementation; policyholder contracts, disclosures, and annual statements; state product filings; indexed product illustrations; asset adequacy testing; appointed actuary memoranda; and own risk and solvency assessment (ORSA) memoranda. She has worked with fixed indexed annuities, variable annuities, indexed universal life insurance, long-term care insurance, longevity risk transfers, and pension risk transfers.

Prior to joining the Actuarial Standards Board (ASB) in 2022, Hanson was chair of the ASB Task Force to Revise ASOP No. 22, Statements of Actuarial Opinion Based on Asset Adequacy Analysis for Life Insurance, Annuity, or Health Insurance Reserves and Other Liabilities. She has also served on the Academy Life Practice Council (LPC) as Academy Vice President (Life); chairperson of the Life Products Committee; vice chairperson of the Annuity Illustration Work Group; and chairperson of several task forces to provide comments to the ASB. Hanson is currently co-chairperson of the LPC Diversity Equity & Inclusion Task Force and is a member of several other LPC work groups. She regularly presents at NAIC, SOA, and Academy conferences.

Hanson holds a J.D. from the Mitchell Hamline School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from the University of Minnesota.