Paul Kollmer-Dorsey Joins American Academy of Actuaries as General Counsel and Director of Professionalism

WASHINGTON – The American Academy of Actuaries is pleased to announce that Paul Kollmer-Dorsey has joined the Academy staff as general counsel and director of professionalism. He was formerly the general counsel, board secretary, and designated agency ethics official of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the independent federal agency that oversees all non-military international broadcasting of the U.S. government.

At the Academy, Kollmer-Dorsey will manage and advise on all legal and professionalism matters that are core to the Academy’s mission to establish qualification, practice, and professionalism standards for actuaries in the United States. As part of his responsibilities, he will support and supervise the services the Academy provides to the Actuarial Standards Board and the Actuarial Board for Counseling and Discipline, the autonomous professionalism bodies that are housed at the Academy. In addition, Kollmer-Dorsey will support the Academy’s continuing mission to provide independent and objective actuarial information, analysis, and education for the formation of sound public policy. He will have responsibilities for supporting the Academy’s role, as the U.S. national actuarial association, to represent the professionalism interests of the U.S. actuarial profession nationally and globally.

“Paul has a truly exceptional background as a mission-driven legal adviser on governance, ethics, disciplinary, and regulatory compliance issues,” said Academy Executive Director Mary Downs. “He will be a tremendous asset to the Academy as we continue to advance our professionalism mission to serve the public and the U.S. actuarial profession.”

A member of the Senior Executive Service, Kollmer-Dorsey served for six years as chief legal officer and board secretary to the BBG, which is composed of nine presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed members. Prior to that, he served in executive and legal adviser positions to the disaster relief technology startup Global Relief Technologies Inc., Portsmouth, N.H., and large multinational and national telecommunications companies, including New Skies Satellites B.V. in The Hague and COMSAT in Bethesda, Md. He is a graduate of the Stanford University Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Stanford Journal of International Law, and is an honors graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

About the American Academy of Actuaries
The American Academy of Actuaries is an 18,500+ member professional association whose mission is to serve the public and the U.S. actuarial profession. The Academy assists public policymakers on all levels by providing leadership, objective expertise, and actuarial advice on risk and financial security issues. The Academy also sets qualification, practice, and professionalism standards for actuaries in the United States.