Zohair MotiwallaConsulting Actuary
 FSA, MAAA

Professional designations

  • Fellow, Society of Actuaries
  • Member, American Academy of Actuaries

Current responsibility

Zohair is an actuary with the Life insurance consulting practice in the Seattle office of Milliman. He joined the firm in 2007.
 

Experience

Zohair has extensive experience in the variable annuity area and specializes in helping clients develop models to support Actuarial Guideline 43, C-3 Phase II, and US GAAP financial reporting requirements. He has also been involved in a number of projects in the areas of stochastic modeling, mergers and acquisitions, MCEV, economic capital and pricing.

Prior to joining Milliman, Zohair worked at a large life insurance company in a financial reporting role, specializing in statutory and GAAP reporting, embedded value, cash-flow testing, and forecasting projects. He has prior experience in both the MoSes and TAS modeling platforms.

He is an active member of the American Academy of Actuaries Variable Annuity Practice Note working group, and helped to develop the latest Actuarial Guideline 43 / C-3 Phase II practice note and Addendum for industry practitioners. He is also a frequent speaker at Society of Actuaries meetings.

His paper "A discussion of Actuarial Guideline 43 for variable annuities" was selected as a study note for the SOA exam syllabus.

Zohair has 11 years of experience in the life insurance industry.
 

Presentations and publications

  • "Implications of Actuarial Guideline 43 for variable annuity product design and risk management," September 2010
  • "A discussion of Actuarial Guideline 43 for variable annuities," April 2009
 

Education

  • MS, Actuarial Science and Finance, University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • BSc (Honors), Applied Mathematics and Statistics, University of Western Australia
 
CONTACT INFORMATION
Zohair  Motiwalla 

Office: Seattle, Wash.

Phone: +1 206.504.5918