Jeff Courchene

With over 20 years of experience in international property and casualty (re)insurance, Jeff has worked in both personal and commercial lines across the UK, the US, and continental Europe, including:

• Reserving and financial conditioning: Leading reviews using both deterministic and stochastic techniques to evaluate a wide range of property and casualty classes.
• Portfolio transfers: Serving as the Independent Expert for Part VII transfers and supporting that effort in the UK; acting as Independent Actuary for Section 13 transfers in Ireland.
• Reinsurance and capital restructuring: Assisting clients with the modelling and structuring of ILS investments as well as reinsurance optimisation.
• Methodological reviews and transformation: Leading projects to improve automation and operational efficiency.
• Solvency II actuarial function: Managing outsourced roles and responsibilities such as Actuarial Function Reports, ORSAs, Undertaking Specific Parameter applications, and evaluating loadings for Events Not in Data.
• Training: Leading bespoke board training sessions on actuarial matters; leading actuarial seminars on stochastic modelling for clients and industry associations.

Jeff previously worked at the Cologne Re (now GenRe) as a reserving and research actuary, responsible for facultative and treaty motor and general liability.

Jeff is a native speaker of English and speaks near-fluent German.