Training & Workshops

Training delivered to regulators, industry bodies, and insurer teams

IFRS 17 and actuarial workshops delivered across 8+ countries — to national regulators, industry associations, and in-house insurer teams. Programmes range from executive briefings to multi-day technical curricula.

What I deliver

Training scope

IFRS 17 Foundations

Standard overview, scope, and key concepts — calibrated for actuarial and finance audiences
Measurement models in depth: GMM, PAA, and VFA with worked examples
CSM mechanics, coverage units, and roll-forward walkthroughs
Transition approaches — full retrospective, modified retrospective, and fair-value

IFRS 17 for Finance & Audit

Calibrated for non-actuarial audiences — CFOs, controllers, auditors, and board members
Translating actuarial outputs into financial statement impact
Disclosure pack walkthroughs and audit-committee briefings
KPI and performance-metric design under the new standard

Actuarial Workshops

Reserving, capital modelling, and valuation workshops for in-house actuarial teams
Regulator supervision teams — IFRS 17 review and Q&A preparation
Case-study-led sessions with live exercises and marked solutions
Technical deep-dives on reinsurance, onerous groups, and systematic allocation ratios

Custom Programmes

Bespoke multi-day curricula built around a client's data, products, and open questions
Industry-association and regulator-led programmes for country-wide capability build
Co-delivered with VA colleagues and subject-matter specialists where scope demands
Delivered in-country, remote, or hybrid — across 8+ countries to date

Workshops & training delivered

Named engagements across regulators, industry bodies, and insurers

Clients who invested in their team's capability — listed by name. Training embedded in insurer implementations is summarised separately and anonymised.

🇿🇦 South African Reserve Bank

Regulator supervision teams · multi-year IFRS 17 programme

Delivered IFRS 17 training for SARB's supervision teams across two programmes (2023 and 2025).
April 2025 programme: multi-day curriculum covering PAA, GMM, Policy & Methodology, with GMM Application and P&M case-study exercises.
Activities and worked case studies produced for classroom use, with guided solutions and marked answers.
Materials calibrated specifically for regulator review — supervisory teams reading insurer IFRS 17 submissions.

Outcome: supervisory capability built for review of IFRS 17 submissions across the South African insurance market.

South African Reserve Bank (SARB) — Prudential Authority.

🇪🇬 Egypt · Regulator + Industry Body

Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA) + Insurance Federation of Egypt

Two separate IFRS 17 engagements — the FRA (regulator, 2023) and the Insurance Federation of Egypt (industry body, 2022).
FRA programme: full IFRS 17 curriculum — BE cash flows, risk adjustment, disclosures, FX, LC & RI LRC, NPR, VFA measurement.
Insurance Federation of Egypt seminar: industry-wide IFRS 17 upskilling, presented to member insurers.
Both the national regulator and the industry association invested in IFRS 17 capability, independently.

Outcome: IFRS 17 fluency built at both the supervisory and industry level across the Egyptian insurance market.

Financial Regulatory Authority of Egypt and Insurance Federation of Egypt.

🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea

PNG insurance industry including the regulator · multi-day workshop

Multi-day IFRS 17 workshop delivered to the PNG insurance industry, including the national insurance regulator.
Industry-wide programme — designed to lift IFRS 17 capability across the whole PNG market simultaneously.
Curriculum spanned measurement, transition, and implementation planning, co-delivered with a senior colleague.
Workshop brochure and multi-session programme designed specifically for the PNG market context.

Outcome: country-level IFRS 17 capability built across PNG insurers and the regulator in a single programme.

PNG insurance industry + PNG insurance regulator.

🇿🇦 RMA

South African mutual · IFRS 17 executive training

Delivered IFRS 17 executive training sessions for RMA's leadership, including a dedicated reinsurance module.
Training plans and slide decks curated to RMA's book, products, and reinsurance structures.

Outcome: executive team equipped to interpret IFRS 17 results and reporting outputs.

Rand Mutual Assurance (RMA).

🌍 Embedded · Africa · ASEAN · Middle East

Training embedded in IFRS 17 implementation programmes

Training workstreams embedded within end-to-end IFRS 17 implementations — delivered to in-house teams as the engine went live.
Governance, reinsurance, KPI, and performance-metric modules calibrated to each client's product mix.
Co-delivered with implementation teams so training tracked live configuration decisions, not generic theory.
Executive sign-off training: equipping leadership to own results independently after hand-over.

Outcome: implementation clients able to run and defend their own IFRS 17 results post go-live.

Representative of training embedded across multiple implementation programmes — clients anonymised.

Formats delivered

How the training lands

In-person · on-site

Multi-day classroom workshops delivered in-country — South Africa, Egypt, Papua New Guinea, and across ASEAN.

Remote · virtual

Live virtual classrooms with interactive exercises, breakout groups, and shared case-study workbooks.

Hybrid · blended

In-person anchor sessions paired with follow-up virtual deep-dives and asynchronous case-study marking.

Conference · industry body

Industry-association and regulator-hosted seminars — market-wide upskilling in a single programme.

Multi-day workshop

Bespoke 2–5 day curricula with worked exercises, guided solutions, and certification-ready materials.

Embedded in delivery

Training woven into implementation programmes — equipping in-house teams to own results after go-live.

Delivery partner

Engagements on this page are delivered in partnership with Virtual Actuary. Virtual Actuary is the delivery vehicle; strategic direction, scoping, and technical leadership sits with me.

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