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IFoA news: Dr Patrick Poon supports IFoA Foundation and Thought Leadership series


Business leader and philanthropist Dr Patrick Sun Cheong Poon has donated £500,000 to the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA). Dr Poon has had a career spanning over 40 years in the insurance industry in China and South-East Asia. In 1975, he became one of the earliest Chinese-born citizens to become a Fellow of the IFoA.

 

As a result of Dr Poon’s generosity, the IFoA Foundation will be setting up a £500,000 China and South-East Asia scholarship fund to provide bursaries for actuarial students across both regions, as well as enabling the IFoA’s inaugural Thought Leadership programme and the Presidential Speaker Series to achieve a wider reach.

 

Every year, five actuarial graduates from Mahidol University will be eligible for the Scholarship if they meet the selection criteria. The Scholarship is currently worth over THB38,000 per winner. The IFoA welcomes accreditation applications from other universities in Thailand.

 

The IFoA would also like to welcome all SOAT members to participate in the new IFoA Thought Leadership programme which seeks to re-position actuaries at the centre of key societal debates. This multi-day series of three keynote webinars, individually presented by leading economist John Kay, Sir Paul Collier (Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government), Ashok Gupta (Chair at Mercer Ltd), and Nico Aspinall (Chief Investment Officer at B&CE), will open up discussion on these essential topics. The series will culminate in a panel session with Chief Economist of the Bank of England, Andy Haldane. For further details and to register your free place, please visit the event page.

 

Please contact Caryn Chua if you wish to find out more about the IFoA Foundation and the forthcoming Thought Leadership programme.