Volunteer of the Year Awards

Anthony Lowe

Anthony received the President’s Award for his outstanding leadership as Chair of the Public Policy Council Committee since 2018.  He has been a member of this committee since 2014.  Anthony’s outstanding work alongside our public policy team has elevated discussion through a thoughtful program of external guests, facilitated lively discussion and renewal of volunteers ensuring diversity of thought. He has also spent many hours conducting final reviews of all the Institute’s thought leadership papers, including as a sponsor or member of a steering group. He has also authored some papers.

Anthony is a role model for how the actuarial way of thinking can be applied in wider fields to make a significant difference.

Susan Ley

Susan is a valued and longstanding member of the General Insurance Practice Committee. For 16+ years she has dedicated her time and expertise to support GI actuaries, mostly recently by ensuring professional standards and guidance are both current and relevant. She engages strongly and contributes significant time bringing important issues to the forefront. Susan continually goes above and beyond to consistently deliver and is a role model to others in the profession.

Rade Musulin

Rade has been  Chair of the Climate Risk Working Group since 2020 and a member since 2017. He has been an active volunteer since 2007 and has helped the Institute produce a wide range of research on property insurance, professional practice for Appointed Actuaries and other climate risk issues. In the last two years, as the Institute’s representative on the International Actuarial Association Climate Risk Taskforce, Rade has helped drive a series of excellent papers to engage the profession and enable deep thinking about climate risk. He has been the lead researcher on the Australian Actuaries Climate Index for several years. In addition to this, Rade is an active media spokesperson for the profession and the Institute.

Paul Shallue

As the Chair of the Superannuation Legislative Committee (20+ years), Paul has been instrumental in drafting many of the Institute’s professional standards, practice guidelines, and information and discussion notes. His understanding of the legislation, taxation rules, prudential standards and history of the development of superannuation in Australia is second to none. Paul is not only relied upon by the Committee for his understanding but also by Treasury, which has often turned to him for his perspective. 

Ash Bhalerao

Over the last 11 years, Ash has worked tirelessly to contribute to topics across life insurance, and risk management and has led several cross-practice initiatives such as the Target Capital Practice Guide and, more recently, the Financial Resilience, Recovery and Resolution Working group. He has been involved in the development of the Risk Management Information Note for actuaries.

Michelle Ng

Michelle is known for her passion for supporting young actuaries and promoting women in the actuarial profession. A role she has consistently done since graduating from university. Michelle plays a key role in the Young Actuaries Program, Young Actuaries Advisory Board and the Volunteer of the Year Awards selection panel.

Evelyn Njoo

Evelyn is an active member of the Health Practice Committee. Since joining, she has taken on extra responsibility, playing a leading role in the 2021 PHI forum to discuss the impact of COVID on the industry and as Chair of the Future of Health Summit for 2022. She also contributes to the working group reviewing Financial Resilience, Recovery and Resolution.

Harrison Gee

Kriti Khullar

Shang Wu

Shang coordinated the extensive revision of the Institute's Retirement Income Public Policy Statement and supporting document that was over a year in the making and launched in 2021. He is a very active contributor to Superannuation and Investments Practice Committee and the Retirement Income Working Group.