CAS Appoints Lauren Finnis, Shaun Wang to Board of Directors for One-Year Terms
The Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) announces the appointment of Lauren Finnis, senior vice president of distribution at QBE North America, and Shaun S. Wang, FCAS, PhD, professor of finance at Southern University of Science and Technology, China, to its Board of Directors for one-year terms.
Finnis works closely across QBE’s distribution function globally and partners across North America to strengthen distribution channels, support growth, drive service excellence, and refine broker and customer data insights. Her background spans distribution, underwriting, pricing, and claims roles with insurance carriers and brokerage firms, with a consistent focus on leveraging data and technology to enhance customer relationship management. Finnis joined QBE in 2025 from Willis Towers Watson, where she served as Head of Commercial Lines in its insurance consulting and technology practice, and previously spent more than a decade on the carrier side with large U.S. and global insurers.
Wang is an internationally recognized scholar in actuarial science and risk management whose career includes academic appointments at the University of Waterloo, Georgia State University, and Nanyang Technological University, along with significant industry roles including Research Director at SCOR Reinsurance and Deputy Secretary General of the Geneva Association. His research has received numerous honors, and he is widely known for authoring the Wang Transform, a foundational formula used in pricing catastrophe insurance and weather derivatives. Wang is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (FCAS) and a Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst (CERA).
Dave Cummings, FCAS, chair of the CAS Board of Directors, said, “We’re pleased to welcome Lauren and Shaun to the CAS Board. Lauren brings extensive industry experience across a wide range of areas, and Shaun brings globally recognized expertise in actuarial science and risk management. Their combined insights will help advance the CAS mission and support our members worldwide.”
