Worshipful Company of Actuaries (WCA) Annual Lecture Event
- Time:
- 18:00
- Date:
- 19 February 2024
- Venue:
- Centenary Building (100), room 4013
Event details
Climate Change – How actuaries could save the day? Sandy Trust, lead author of The Emperor’s New Climate Scenarios, a joint paper between actuaries and scientists at Exeter University, joins us to share the findings and implications - covering why science needs to be complemented by risk, how we underestimated climate change, reasons for hope and how actuaries could save the day. Sandy joins us from the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries where he is Council Sustainability Lead, explaining why it is so risky to go past the 1.5C ‘net zero’ target, why it is likely we will and the role we as an industry can play in creating a solution.
The lecture will be from 6-7pm and this will be followed by refreshments at 7-8pm in building 56. You must book to attend this event, bookings close at 1pm on 14 February 2024.
Speaker information
Sandy Trust, is passionate about climate change and sustainability. His personal mission is to help reconnect finance and the economy to nature and the biosphere to deliver a future worth living in. Sandy sits on IFOA Council and is past Chair of the IFOA’s Sustainability Board. He leads IFOA research paper collaborations with Earth System scientists on climate change and sustainability topics. He works in financial services with large investors – pension schemes, asset managers and insurance companies with typically several hundred billion dollars of assets under management - to develop and implement their approaches to sustainability – allowing them to protect value, comply with regulation and compete in this fast moving area. He was the first ESG hire into EY’s UK Financial Services business, helping them to build their consulting capability in this space. He is currently Head of Organisational Risk at M&G plc, a FTSE100 investment firm, where he is the risk lead on sustainability. Sandy also works in the charity sector and founded the UK branch of climate action charity Protect Our Winters UK. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife and two children and loves getting outdoors.