Messages from Past Presidents

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Lisa Slotznick

Lisa Slotznick, President (2024)

Academy President Lisa Slotznick delivers her farewell address at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Members. (Nov. 13, 2024)

Lisa Slotznick and Darrell Knapp’s renewal message to members, thanking them for their membership and highlighting the Academy’s 2024 accomplishments. (Nov. 8, 2024)

In her November/December President's Message, President Lisa Slotznick discusses how actuaries can connect the dots. (Contingencies, November/December 2024)

Academy President Lisa Slotznick delivers presidential remarks at Envision Tomorrow 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Oct. 15, 2024)

In the September Actuarial Update, Academy President Lisa Slotznick outlines new Academy membership requirements that will begin in 2026, aimed at reinforcing the high standards and credibility of the U.S. actuarial profession. (Actuarial Update, Sept. 2024)

In her September/October President's Message, President Lisa Slotznick discusses self-regulation as it pertains to reputational risk. (Contingencies, September/October 2024)

In her July/August President's Message, Academy President Lisa Slotznick discusses another of the Academy’s mega-issues: cyber risk. (Contingencies, July/August 2024)

In her May/June President’s Message, Academy President Lisa Slotznick looks at retirement and financial security. (Contingencies, May/June 2024)

President Lisa Slotznick highlights the Academy’s work on mega-issues, debuting with a focus on climate in her March/April President’s Message. (Contingencies, March/April 2024)

In her first President’s Message column for Contingencies, Academy President Lisa Slotznick highlights the value of Academy membership. (Contingencies, January/February 2024)

Lisa Slotznick’s renewal message to members, thanking them for their membership and highlighting the Academy’s 2023 accomplishments. (Nov. 16, 2023)

Lisa Slotznick delivers her inaugural remarks as the 59th president of the American Academy of Actuaries at Envision Tomorrow: 2023 Annual Meeting. (Nov. 13, 2023)

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Ken Kent

Ken Kent, President (2023)

In his latest message for Contingencies magazine, Academy President Ken Kent discusses the many tools the Academy develops and provides to inform and aid the public policy debate on thorny issues that benefit from actuarial analysis. (Contingencies, March/April 2023)

In his first President’s Message column for Contingencies, Academy President Ken Kent writes about the importance of actuaries’ work, how it is understood by the public, and the potential that actuaries have to impact financial security. (Contingencies, January/February 2023)

Ken Kent delivers his inaugural remarks as the 58th president of the American Academy of Actuaries at Envision Tomorrow: 2022 Annual Meeting. (Nov. 2, 2022)

Ken Kent’s message to members for renewal, which notes there will be no increase in membership dues for 2023. (Nov. 17, 2022)

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Maryellen Coggins

Maryellen Coggins, President (2022)

Academy President Maryellen Coggins delivers her farewell address at the 2022 Annual Meeting. (Nov. 2, 2022)

In her March/April President’s Message column for Contingencies, Academy President Maryellen Coggins discusses actuarial standards in practice. (Contingencies, March/April 2022)

In her first President’s Message column for Contingencies, Academy President Maryellen Coggins discusses the process of renewal and her goals for the Academy in 2022. (Contingencies, January/February 2022)

Read Academy President Maryellen Coggins’s Thanksgiving message to Academy members, wishing them well and thanking them for their membership. (Nov. 23, 2021)

Maryellen Coggins delivers her inaugural remarks as the 57th president of the American Academy of Actuaries at the 2021 Hybrid Annual Meeting and Public Policy Forum. (Nov. 4, 2021)

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Tom Campbell

Tom Campbell, President (2021)

Academy President Tom Campbell delivers his farewell address at the 2021 Hybrid Annual Meeting and Public Policy Forum. (Nov. 4, 2021)

In a letter to members of the Academy, Academy President Tom Campbell announced the appointment of William “Bill” Michalisin, CAE, CIA, as the Academy’s Executive Director. Bill is a highly qualified and experienced professional and association leader and starts in the position on Sept. 27, 2021. Michalisin shared that he is “honored to join such a dynamic organization as the American Academy of Actuaries, which is at the forefront of critical issues, initiatives, and policies impacting the actuarial profession and the public.”

In his May/June President’s Message for Contingencies, Academy President Tom Campbell discusses how the Academy built and maintains the infrastructure of professionalism that the actuarial profession relies on. (Contingencies, May/June 2021)

Academy President Tom Campbell asks members to take the 2021 Academy Volunteer Survey which is available on the members-only section of our website. (June 30, 2021)

Read Academy President Tom Campbell’s National Volunteer Week message to Academy volunteers thanking them for their dedication to supporting the Academy’s mission by providing objective analysis to policymakers and helping to establish, maintain, and enforce high professional standards of actuarial qualification, practice, and conduct. (April 22, 2021)

In a letter sent to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), Academy President Tom Campbell reiterated and reinforced the Academy’s commitment to work with the NAIC’s Special (EX) Committee on Race and Insurance to address diversity and inclusion concerns pertaining to insurance coverages. The comments were made regarding recently proposed 2021 charges of the committee. (April 9, 2021)

Following a Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) statement earlier this month regarding the CAS board’s response to member/regulator feedback on the rescinded CAS Statement of Principles on Ratemaking, Academy President Tom Campbell said that the Academy has issued and will continue to produce resources that will be useful to our members, the regulatory community, and the public that touch on P/C insurance ratemaking considerations, such as bias in data, assumptions, and models—but that practice notes are “not intended to provide interpretations of actuarial standards of practice, nor are they meant to be a codification of generally accepted actuarial practice.” Read more. (April 9, 2021)

After two years of litigation funded by the Conference of Consulting Actuaries (CCA), Judge Michael Mullen of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, entered summary judgment in the lawsuit in favor of the defendants—the Academy and current and former members of its Board of Directors. Judge Mullen found that the Academy Board had the authority to adopt a September 4, 2018, bylaws amendment that changed the membership of the Academy’s Selection Committee. Read President Tom Campbell’s letter to members. For more background information, read here. (March 16, 2021)

In his March/April President’s Message for Contingencies, “Generational Shift,” Academy President Tom Campbell writes about reliance in the actuarial profession. (Contingencies, March/April 2021)

In his first President’s Message, Academy President Tom Campbell discusses new challenges in the New Year for the actuarial profession. Read it in the January/February issue of Contingencies. (Contingencies, January/February 2021)

Read Academy President Tom Campbell’s Thanksgiving message to Academy members, wishing them well and thanking them for their membership. (Nov. 19, 2020)

Tom Campbell delivers his inaugural remarks as the 56th president of the American Academy of Actuaries at the 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting and Public Policy Forum. (Nov. 5, 2020)