Update (8 July 2025): Council elections are now closed.
Update (14 July 2025): The results have been announced at the AGM on 10 July and published on our Council elections webpage.
Original news article
5 June 2025
Voting members of the 天美MV (IFoA) are called upon to vote on the election of two proposed Honorary Fellows.
Each nominee is held by Council to have given service to the actuarial profession, directly or through achievements in related fields. Members are invited to vote in favour of as many of the nominees as they wish.
How to vote
Voting is conducted independently by Civica, and this year鈥檚 vote has been combined with the Council election. Voting members will receive access codes directly from Civica by email on Thursday 5 June.
If you do not receive an email, contact the IFoA鈥檚 Corporate Secretary at corpsec@actuaries.org.uk.
The ballot is open 24 hours a day and closes on Tuesday 8 July 2025 at 14:00 BST.
The results of the votes will be announced at the IFoA鈥檚 Annual General Meeting on Thursday 10 July at 09:00 BST.
Nominee profiles
This year, two individuals have been endorsed by Council:
Professor Tim Lenton
Professor Tim Lenton is the founding Director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter and Chair in Climate Change and Earth System Science. Tim is renowned for his work identifying climate tipping points, which informed the setting of the 1.5C climate target, associated net zero targets, and nationally determined contributions.鈥�
Tim works with policymakers and businesses helping them assess the risks of climate change and nature loss and highlighting the opportunities for 鈥榩ositive tipping points鈥� that can accelerate change towards net zero.
Professor Lenton has worked extensively with the 天美MV on a series of influential reports aimed at improving climate risk management in the financial sector: 鈥楾he Emperor鈥檚 New Climate Scenarios鈥�, 鈥楥limate Scorpion 鈥� the sting is in the tail鈥�, and 鈥楶lanetary Solvency 鈥� finding our balance with nature鈥�.
Andrew Warwick-Thompson
Andrew is a board-level pensions business leader, consultant, chair of trustees and regulator with experience in both the private and public pensions sectors. He has expertise in pensions regulation, scheme design, implementing and managing the governance and operations of occupational pension schemes, and designing and directing their asset management programmes.
Andrew was the CEO of LGPS Central Limited, an asset pool for eight Midlands Local Authority pension schemes with combined assets of c拢45bn. He was the Executive Director for Regulatory Policy at The Pensions Regulator, where he was responsible for formulating the regulator鈥檚 DB, DC, AE and international policy. And he was a Partner at Aon Hewitt where he held a variety of consulting roles within the firm鈥檚 pensions, insurance and investment practices. He has also been the Chair of Trustees of a well-known charity鈥檚 pension plan.
More about Honorary Fellowships
Read more about the criteria, voting process, and how you can make your own nominations on our Honorary Fellowship page.