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 Tom Boardman (UK)
Prudential PLC is one of the UK’s best known financial services groups, with a significant market presence in the UK, USA and Asia. In the US Prudential owns Jackson National Life one of the largest life insurance companies providing retirement savings and income solutions. Boardman is enjoying his second career with Prudential. In his current role he is responsible for developing strategic policy positioning focusing in particular on the development of the long-term savings, pension and retirement income landscape in the UK. He is also a Director of Prudential Annuities Ltd. and Prudential Retirement Income Ltd. Boardman spent his early career with Prudential in a variety of actuarial and general management roles. His last role was Strategic Change Director. In the mid-1990's Boardman left Prudential to set up and run Nationwide Building Society’s Bancassurance operation in the UK, remaining involved as a non-executive director of the Life and Unit Trust companies until 2004. He is the co-author of the prize winning “Reinventing annuities” paper presented to the Staple Inn Actuarial Society in January 2001. In addition the U.S. Journal of Risk and Insurance published a Speech he made in Chicago in 2006 entitled “Annuitization lessons from the UK – Money-Back annuities and other developments”. Boardman rejoined Prudential UK in 2001 as Managing Director of Prudential Annuities and Prudential Retirement Income which are market leaders in the UK, writing individual and bulk annuity business of £4.6Bn in 2007. From September 2003 he was the Policy Development Director for the UK Insurance business and became Group Policy Development Director in January 2007. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and has an MA in Economics from Emmanuel College, Cambridge University.
Henk van Broekhoven (the Netherlands)
Van Broekhoven started his career at the department for group business at Nationale Nederlanden. After becoming Actuary in 1987 he started a research team within Nationale Nederlanden. Since 1990 Van Broekhoven was involved in development mortality tables for the Dutch market and later also for the Actuarieel Genootschap (population tables). Work since 1998 for ING-group specialized in mortality issues, modeling Economic capital and also making models for diversification. Worked on the solvency issues for IAA in several working parties. Now vice chair of IAA solvency sub committee, vice-chair of the IAA Mortality Task Force and Chair of the IAA Risk Margin Working Group. Involved in development Solvency II for EU having an advisory role, leading a working group “groups and conglomerates” and also member of the project team and the internal models working group. Chair of the IAA risk margin working group.
David Blake (UK)
Biography: please see page Chairmen.
 Theo Kocken (the Netherlands)
Theo Kocken, founder and CEO of the Cardano Group, holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration (Eindhoven), a Master’s degree (cum laude) in Econometrics (Tilburg) and gained his PhD at VU University (Amsterdam). From 1990 onward he headed the Market Risk departments at ING and Rabobank International. In 2000 he founded Cardano, a specialized organization that supports end users such as pension funds and insurance companies around Europe with derivatives overlay research and implementation, investment advice and manager research & selection. Cardano, now over 60 employees, has offices in Rotterdam, Zug and London. Kocken is (co-)author of various books and articles in the area of risk management and pension funds. In 2006 he wrote “Curious Contracts. Pension Fund Redesign for the Future”, in which he applied modern finance theories as a basis for pension fund redesign.
 Lex Hoogduin (the Netherlands)
Lex Hoogduin is the Global Chief Economist of Robeco. His responsibility is to develop the macroeconomic view of Robeco and to present this view internally and externally. Hoogduin is not responsible for taking investment decisions in any of the Robeco funds, which allows him to develop an independent view. This view is one of the internal inputs into the investment decision-making process at Robeco. From August 2006 Hoogduin is managing director of IRIS (Institute for Research and Investment Services B.V.). IRIS is a joint venture of the Rabobank and Robeco. IRIS is doing investment research for retail clients. He combines this function with his job as Chief Economist of Robeco. Hoogduin is also part-time professor of Monetary Economics and Financial Institutions at the University of Amsterdam. Before joining Robeco, he worked in several capacities at the Dutch central Bank, amongst others as head of the monetary and economic policy department and as head of research. In 2003 he was the manager of the reorganisation and merger process of the Dutch central bank with the supervisor of the Dutch pension funds and insurance companies. From 1997 until May 2001, he has worked as the personal advisor to Wim Duisenberg, the first President of the European Central Bank.
 Gavin Jones (UK)
Gavin Jones is a vice president at Swiss Re, where he focuses on longevity risks undertaken by the reinsurer. Prior to joining Swiss Re in November 2004, he worked as Mortality Risk Actuary at Prudential UK where he co-authored 'Financial Aspects of Longevity Risk' with Stephen Richards. Jones has a PhD in mathematics from Cambridge University and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries.
Guy Coughlan (UK)
Biography: please see page Speakers.
 Onno Steenbeek (the Netherlands)
Dr. Onno Steenbeek is head of Corporate ALM and Risk Policy of the All Pensions Group (APG). This department plays a central role in the determination of the financial strategy for associated pension funds. In addition, Steenbeek manages various research projects on ALM-modeling, pension deal and longevity. One day a week Steenbeek is affiliated with the Finance department of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Apart from lecturing on various finance subjects, he conducts academic research and publishes articles in the investment management field. He recently co-edited a book titled “costs and benefits of collective pension systems”.
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