IFoA Generative AI Working Party

Generative AI
in actuarial practice.

We research and apply Generative AI to the actuarial profession, assess its impact, and establish best practices for its use.

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2026 Working Party

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Lei Fang

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Dr Lei Fang is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Queen Mary University of London, where she serves as Programme Director for the MSc Risk Analytics and Deputy Head of the Centre for Mathematical Education. Her expertise spans actuarial science, risk analytics, and applied machine learning. Dr Fang is the founding Chair of the GenAI Working Party at IFoA, where she leads efforts on integrating GenAI into actuarial education and professional practice. Her research explores digital transformation, AI in education, and the mathematical foundation of AI.

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Daniel Ramsay

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Daniel Ramsay is an Associate Director in WTW’s Insurance Consulting and Technology division, where he works in research and development. His work primarily focuses on introducing GenAI features to WTW’s actuarial software suite. Daniel is a founder and co-chair of the IFoA’s GenAI Working Party and has presented on topics of GenAI and AI agents at the IFoA Life conferences in 2023 and 2024. Daniel is also a member of the International Actuarial Association AI Taskforce.

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Betty Zhu

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Betty is a qualified actuary with deep expertise in insurance pricing, data science, and extensive experience in insurance software development gained through roles at multiple leading industry vendors, including WTW (Radar Suites), Aon (Aon Pricing Platform), and Akur8. She's always passionate about leveraging the cutting-edge GenAI knowledge and techniques into the day-to-day work and has delivered multiple presentations and workshops in this avenue. Betty is now co-founder of SOLUX TECH, a boutique tech-enabled advisory based in the UK, where she focuses on delivering actuarial consulting, AI-enabled analytics, and education services.

Members

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Krushna Bhala

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Krushna has over 8 years of actuarial consulting experience, with a focus on finance transformation and AI in life insurance. He is especially interested in how AI agents will reshape finance and actuarial workflows in insurers.

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Disha Dagli

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Disha Dagli is a Senior Pricing Actuarial Analyst at Brit Insurance, with previous experience as a Lead Actuarial Associate at WTW in pensions consulting. She is passionate about the transformative potential of AI within the actuarial profession and believes actuaries have a critical role to play in shaping its future. Disha is particularly interested in the ethical and regulatory considerations that must underpin the profession’s adoption of AI technologies. She is currently a member of both the IFoA’s GenAI Working Party and the Data Science, Regulation and Ethics Working Party.

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Ben Dennesen

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Ben Dennesen is an experienced actuary, architecting and delivering large-scale technical solutions with modern technology. He deeply understands insurance finance change, regulatory reporting, capital management, and the operational intricacies of actuarial functions. For the past couple years, he has focused on Artificial Intelligence, applying his software engineering and statistical knowledge to effectively use AI models in the insurance sector.

Within this working party, Ben contributes his thought leadership on AI's impact on actuarial science, leveraging his experience implementing AI in actuarial processes. He is passionate about using AI to enhance the efficiency of actuarial work.

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Hiteshi Gupta

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Hiteshi is a life actuary at PwC with experience across UK, US, and India. She focuses on modelling, transactions, and GenAI use cases in life insurance. She brings a strong perspective on responsible adoption and is active in client engagement on GenAI strategy.

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David King

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David has over thirty years’ experience in investment management, with a focus on data-driven research, risk management, and NLP techniques for company document analysis. He contributes to the working party’s exploration of GenAI in financial text analysis and believes it can extend traditional NLP tools in identifying investment opportunities.

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Aniketh Pittea

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Aniketh is a Manager at Grant Thornton UK, actively involved in developing AI propositions for the actuarial profession. He has presented on practical AI use cases for actuaries at multiple IFoA Conferences, with a particular focus on leveraging AI to enhance spreadsheet-based workflows and improve efficiency in actuarial processes.

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Ben Ratcliffe

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Ben is Deloitte’s GenAI lead across actuarial. He is focused on the practical implementations of GenAI, and the risks that this can pose. Ben recently led the working party discussion with the profession to develop training material around how to deploy Agents safely.