Ms. Preeti Chandrashekhar is a seasoned insurance and pension actuary with over 35 years of experience spread across industry and consulting. As the first elected women President of the Institute of Actuaries of India, her focus is on attracting bright young minds to the profession, collaboration and value creation for sustainable growth of the profession. A firm believer in developing a growth mindset she constantly challenges the status quo for herself as well as her team. Her belief is that today’s complex problems need a collaborative approach since one single profession cannot address the myriad of issues.

She holds an M.Phil in Statistics from University of Delhi and is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Actuaries of India and Institute and Faculty of Actuaries UK. She is a panel and committee member in several committees of the government and interacts with policy makers in matters relating to design and risk management for pension, social security and employee benefits in the macroeconomic context in India. She is often quoted in the media and has co-authored several papers in areas of Pension and Enterprise Risk Management.

In her recent role at Mercer as the India Business Leader for Health and Wealth, she provided advice to companies on managing long terms costs and risks for employee benefits through actuarial advice, evaluating design alternatives for employee benefits, governance and risk management and communication strategies for better employee engagement. She has rich industry experience in areas of design and implementation of pensions and has worked extensively in the Actuarial valuation of Pension and Group Schemes, Pricing of Voluntary Retirement Schemes and Annuity products.

She is a regular speaker at client and industry events of financial and actuarial issues and has been quoted several times in media. She has authored several international and national papers discussing issues relating to the insurance and pension industry.

Piyush is a seasoned actuarial leader with over a decade of experience across the global insurance landscape, including the UK, Europe, the Middle East, and India. He has earlier served as the company’s Appointed Actuary, bringing a deep understanding of regulatory frameworks and risk management.

Throughout his career, Piyush has held pivotal roles at prestigious organizations such as McKinsey, KPMG, RSA Insurance Group, and AXA XL. Today, he bridges the gap between traditional actuarial science and modern technology, spearheading Kshema’s pricing and catastrophe modelling initiatives while supporting the firm’s regulatory transformation, reinsurance and data science initiatives.

Anjani Choudhary is a Fellow Actuary and currently Vice President leading Product and Pricing at CreditAccess Life Insurance. She writes on inclusive insurance and behavioural science, exploring how human behaviour shapes decision-making across the insurance value chain. Anjani is also the author of Where There Is Risk, There Is an Actuary, a book on the actuarial profession told through personal stories.

Sunil Padasala, FIA, FIAI, is the head of pricing for Retail P&C at Jio Allianz General Insurance and a Fellow of both the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (UK) and the Institute of Actuaries of India. Over the past decade, he has worked across traditional insurance, InsurTech, data science and financial services, building expertise in pricing, reserving, underwriting, product innovation, and the application of artificial intelligence to insurance.

In his current role, Sunil is helping shape AI-native capabilities across retail P&C insurance, with a particular focus on pricing, underwriting, and decision support. Prior to this, at Assurekit, he created a data-led underwriting model that leveraged granular customer and behavioural data to drive automated risk assessment and pricing. He has also led the development of GLMs, machine learning models, and AI-enabled actuarial solutions, combining deep actuarial expertise with modern data science to solve complex business problems.

Sunil is an active member of the India InsurTech Association (IIA), contributing to initiatives at the intersection of insurance, technology, and innovation. As a founder/operator in the InsurTech space, he brings an entrepreneurial perspective on how emerging technologies, including AI, are reshaping insurance business models, product design, and actuarial work—shifting the industry from automation to fundamentally better decision-making and more strategic, value-creating roles for actuaries and insurers

Yash is a Qualified Risk Actuary (CERA) who has worked as a consultant with several multi-national and regional banks, lending institutions, financial conglomerates and insurance companies across Americas, EMEA and Asia-pacific on engagements covering risk, investments, actuarial, finance and technology.

He has worked extensively in areas such as financial risk management (credit, market, liquidity and IRRBB), asset-liability management (ALM), quantitative modelling, fund-transfer pricing (FTP), treasury, derivative pricing, capital adequacy and financial technology.

He is a director and one of the co-founders at Acies (www.acies.consulting) – a technology and advisory firm based out of Mumbai having a global presence spanning across 5 countries. Prior to Acies, he was working as a consultant in the quantitative risk advisory practice of Deloitte India.

He is currently serving as the Chair of the banking community leadership team – Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFOA) and as a committee member of the Advisory group on banking, finance & investments (AGBFI) – Institute of Actuaries of India (IAI).

Shreesh Rao is an Associate Actuary bringing five years of specialised expertise in general insurance pricing. As an Actuarial Manager at Marsh, Shreesh has developed a comprehensive knowledge across standard and speciality non-life risks, with a particular focus on technical pricing methodologies. His professional strength encompass stochastic modelling and programme optimisation, enabling him to deliver sophisticated solutions for complex risk portfolios.

Suchit Fafadia is an Associate Actuary with over 9 years of experience across the Actuarial Profession. His career began with UK Pensions before moving into General Insurance, where he has developed deep expertise in reserving and risk finance strategies across a broad range of risks – ranging from Property & Casualty to Specialty risks. At Marsh, he works with a diverse range of clients across the UK market, driving client engagement while contributing to thought leadership and innovation within the team. He offers both broad cross-practice insight and hands-on actuarial experience, with a perspective shaped by both technical practice as well as broader strategic exposure.