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Latin America Regional Committee: the Facts By Alejandra Nolibos, FCAS, CAS Candidate Liaison Committee Mission: During 2003, the CAS Latin America Regional Committee was formed to "facilitate the development and delivery of CAS services to members and candidates in Latin America, serve as liaison to local actuarial organizations and their members and coordinate CAS participation in their activities, promote local programs and seminars, develop and facilitate two-way communications between the CAS and local actuarial organizations, and serve an ambassadorial role." Staffing: Currently, the committee is fully staffed, and although most of its 12 volunteers work in the U.S., the committee truly showcases the diversity of current CAS membership. Several of the practitioners who are part of this effort are foreign-born ACAS, FCAS, or Affiliate members of the CAS. Others are U.S. actuaries currently on assignment abroad. Most speak at least one foreign language, and all share an interest in broadening the geographical reach of the CAS, to support its efforts to become the "pre-eminent resource in educating casualty actuaries and conducting research in casualty actuarial science." Specific goals: To
develop a prioritized list of potential contact organizations in each
country (such as professional or employer associations, regulatory
agencies and universities) by assessing the size and nature of the constituencies served, as well as the range of activities sponsored by the organization. The committee will develop
and launch a plan of action for each country based on that list to
establish communication between the CAS and each organization, to
support CAS members and candidates in each country, and to keep the CAS
membership current on actuarial and insurance happenings in Latin
America. |