Mark R. Shapland - Consulting Actuary
 FCAS, ASA, MAAA

Professional designations

  • Fellow, Casualty Actuarial Society
  • Associate, Society of Actuaries
  • Member, American Academy of Actuaries

Current responsibility

Mark is a consultant with the PCIS group in the Atlanta office of Milliman. He joined the firm in 2003, after 24 years of experience at insurance companies and other consulting firms.
 

Experience

Mark's area of expertise is property and casualty insurance, particularly pricing (personal and commercial lines), reserving (including reserve variability and asbestos liabilities), individual risk and association-type dividend plans and premium rates for large accounts, reinsurance, data management, and dynamic risk modeling. Mark has international experience, having worked in Europe for four years, as well as shorter assignments in many other countries. He has significant management experience as chief actuary for two different insurance companies. He also created and conducted training seminars on reserving and pricing topics for executives worldwide and was a key member of a team that created an executive training program based on computer simulations.
 

Affiliations

  • Chair of the CAS Committee on Reserves
  • Co-chair of the Loss Simulation Model Working Party
  • Co-chair of the CAS Tail Factor Working Party
  • Member of the CAS Professional Education Policy Committee
  • Served on the CAS Examination Committee; DFA Task Force on Variables, Valuation & Financial Analysis Committee; Working Party on Quantifying Variability in Reserve Estimates; Dynamic Risk Modeling Handbook Working Party; and as chair of the Dynamic Financial Analysis Committee and the Dynamic Risk Modeling Committee
 

Presentations and publications

  • As a speaker, Mark has addressed numerous meetings of the Casualty Actuarial Society and other actuarial societies around the world. He is also a co-presenter for the CAS Limited Attendance Seminar on Reserve Variability and the Stochastic Reserving Seminar in the United Kingdom. Recent publications include:
  • "Bootstrap Modeling: Beyond the Basics," CAS eForum, Fall 2010, with Jessica Leong
  • "Are We Fixated on the Past or Looking to the Future?" The Actuarial Review, Vol. 34, No. 2, May 2007
  • "Loss Reserve Estimates: A Statistical Approach for Determining 'Reasonableness,'" Variance: Advancing the Science of Risk, June 2007, Vol. 1, No. 1.
  • "Risk Management Frontiers: The Quest for More Reserve Information," Risk Management Magazine, June 2007
 

Education

  • BS, Integrated Studies (Actuarial Science), University of Nebraska-Lincoln
 
CONTACT INFORMATION
Mark  R.  Shapland 

Office: Atlanta, Ga.

Phone: +1 636.273.6428