Deshni Subbiah Email & Phone Number

Deshni SubbiahBachelor of Science - BSc Actuarial Science (Cum Laude)Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary (CERA)Fellow of the Actuarial Society of South Africa (FASSA)Certified Director® (IoDSA)Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) Post-Graduate Diploma in General Management – PGDip (Distinction)ESG Specialization (Corporate Finance Institute)Certificate in Investments (Institute of Actuaries, UK)I am a visionary young leader with the following accomplishments:• Selected to participate in the “Brightest Young Minds” initiative, featuring the top 100 brightest young minds in the country. This initiative was designed to develop a generation of young leaders equipped with the skills and mind-set needed to address the challenges on our continent. • Voted as Chairperson of the Short-Term Insurance Committee for the Actuarial Society of South Africa from 2020 - 2022. • Chosen to be part of a taskforce set up by the International Actuarial Association, to provide actuarial support towards the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals• Invited as a speaker to the International Risk Minds Insurance Conference held in Amsterdam in 2019• Chairperson of a Social and Ethics Committee• Previously Chairperson of a Combined Assurance Forum• Previously Elected to the Board of Management for a Provident Fund• My thesis was published by the University of Pretoria in 2018, titled “The value added to stakeholders from the implementation of risk management driven through regulation”• I have been involved with the “Partners for Possibility” leadership initiative where I partnered with the Pieter Zongwane Primary School in Tembisa to provide assistance and support to the principal of the school.I have over 20 years of experience in South Africa and internationally, with close to 10 of those years as a Director (Executive and Non-Executive positions), serving on numerous Committees including Audit, Risk, HR and Remuneration, Nominations, Investment, Insurance, Actuarial, Finance, Credit, as well as Social and Ethics.My key strengths include:• Strategy and Innovation• ESG, Ethics, Governance and King IV• Actuarial, Investments and Risk Management• Finance, Audit and Combined Assurance• Legal and Compliance• Due Diligence for Business Acquisition as well as the set-up of new businesses