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  • The lecture is part of our commitment to events that promote thought leadership and advance actuarial science

  • Constantinou, F.F.A.): I am pleased that Michael Green, the executive director of the Social Progress Imperative, is going to be delivering the Spring Lecture

  • The work that we are doing on social progress we really think is relevant to the actuarial profession, and I think that the actuarial profession has a huge contribution to make towards the way we rethink finance to deliver Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Abstract of the London Discussion

He previously served as a senior official in the UK Government Department for International Development, where he managed British aid programmes to Russia and the Ukraine His technology entertainment and design (TED) talks have been viewed more than 2 million times. The work that we are doing on social progress we really think is relevant to the actuarial profession, and I think that the actuarial profession has a huge contribution to make towards the way we rethink finance to deliver SDGs. I will talk a bit more about that later. What Kuznets’s report gave policymakers was regular, reliable estimates of what the US economy was producing Armed with this information, eventually the US Government found a way out of the depression. We follow the guidance of GDP in our policy-making, even though we know that GDP is blind to the environmental constraints that our planet is running up against

Spring Lecture
The Social Progress framework answers universally important questions
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Central African Republic
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