Vicki Zhang

Teaching (2013-2014):

ACT230 – Math of Finance (Syllabus: ACT230 Syllabus New)

ACT240 – Fundamental of Investment and Credit (Syllabus: ACT240 Syllabus New)

ACT245 – Financial Principles I

ACT247 – Introduction to Life Contingency Model

Major Industry Experience: Vicki Zhang was a client specialist and training actuary at Toronto-based GGY Consulting. In this role, she gave numerous in-house and on-site training sessions to users of the actuarial software AXIS. She covered various lines of insurance business including life (participating and non-participating), disability, long-term care, critical illness, etc. Her trainees were located in Canada, US, Western Europe, and Asia. She also provided day-to-day modeling support for AXIS users globally. Before becoming a client specialist, she was an AXIS developer focusing on life and disability modules.

Prior to joining GGY, Vicki had a one-year stint as a mergers and acquisition actuary at PricewaterhouseCoopers, working on employee benefits issues in M&A process for private equity firms and investment banks. She was also a collaborator on PwC’s Chinese healthcare reform research project. Before that, Vicki was a niche development manager for Milliman Denver’s risk adjuster and life-style based analytics projects. She was also heavily involved in various healthcare pricing and experience studies including US federal government’s multi-billion dollar TRICARE, US behavioural healthcare experience analysis, and medical underwriting guideline development.

Vicki was a consultant for United Nation’s microinsurance program in China and Mongolia in 2009. She is currently a member of the Climate Change Index task force, a committee jointly sponsored by SOA, CIA and CAS.

Vicki is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, a Member of American Academy of Actuaries, an Associate of Canadian Institute of Actuaries, and a Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst (forthcoming). She holds a Master’s degree in Statistics from University of California, Santa Barbara.