Shawna Ackerman

Shawna Ackerman is the Chief Risk and Actuarial Officer of the California Earthquake Authority, a quasi-governmental instrumentality of the state which provides residential earthquake insurance to more than 1,000,000 California households. In this capacity she oversees the ERM program and actuarial functions.    

Shawna was a founding principal of Pinnacle Actuarial Resources, Inc., in San Francisco, California from 2002 – 2010. At Pinnacle she provided litigation support and expert witness testimony to insurance companies and financial institutions and provided reserving, legislative costing, pricing, and product development support to numerous clients. She began her insurance career at the California Department of Insurance. At the Department, she was responsible for evaluating ratemaking formulas and procedures for most property and casualty lines of insurance; providing expert witness testimony and other litigation support in Administrative Hearings related to Proposition 103 matters.

Shawna is a member of the American Academy of Actuaries (AAA) and Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS.) She is active in the actuarial profession having previously served as the Co-Chair of the AAA Extreme Events Committee, as Vice President, Casualty Practice Council and as its President from 2018-19. She has also served as a member of the Casualty Committee of the Actuarial Standards Board and the General Committee. She recently chaired the Catastrophe Modeling Task Force which was charged with drafting actuarial standards of practice for using catastrophe models in actuarial work. She has also served as a member of the CAS Board of Directors.