Actuary | Problem Solver | Sustainability Campaigner

Hello, I'm Geoff

About Me

I am an actuary by profession, recently retired from full-time work after 41 years in general insurance and accident compensation.
I spent this time as a consulting actuary with Finity Consulting and several predecessor firms, beginning in 1984. After an extremely rewarding and successful career, I now have the brainspace for some other work — work intended to benefit the sector in which we operate and the country in which we live.
I regard myself as a problem solver, a scheme designer and a sustainability campaigner.

Experience

My experience includes:
  • Creation and evolution of workers compensation and motor accident schemes in most states and territories.
  • Reforms to resolve the liability insurance crisis in 2001 after the collapse of HIH.
  • Development of accounting and actuarial standards for general insurance, including some work with APRA and RBNZ.
  • Identifying liabilities for asbestos-related diseases and tracking models and progression
  • Resolution of the Medical Indemnity crisis in 2002 following the administration of UMP
  • Design of the Terrorism Reinsurance Pool in 2003
  • Advising two Citizens Juries in CTP, one successful and one not
  • Developing the 'tort temperature' concept and searches to understand and mitigate it
  • Advisory work leading to the Cyclone Reinsurance Pool and investigations into potential insurance solutions for flood
  • International work in Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, Pakistan, North Macedonia and New Zealand
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