31st July 2009
A report summarizing an ILC-UK and Actuarial Profession joint-conference called “Choosing Population Projections for Public Policy”, that looked at the formulation of population projections and how they are used by policymakers.
This report and the “Choosing Population Projections” conference were made possible by the generous support of Swiss Re. The conference took place in October 2008 in London. Speakers at the conference included:
*Lord Richard Best
*Niki Cleal, Director, Pensions Policy Institute
*Peter Goldblatt, ONS Centre for Demography
*Baroness Sally Greengross, ILC-UK
*Professor Emily Grundy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
*Professor Carol Jagger, University of Leicester
*Lord Archie Kirkwood
*Martin Lunnon, Government Actuary’s Department
*Christian Mumenthaler, Swiss Re
*Chris Shaw, ONS
*Richard Willets, Paternoster