"Permacrisis. noun. ‘an extended period of instability and insecurity, especially one resulting from a series of catastrophic events’. 

The Collins Dictionary 2022 Word of the Year perfectly captures the multiple crises of the last few years, from the war in Ukraine, significant global economic and political turmoil, and the resulting cost-of-living crisis to increasingly regular extreme weather events and growing social inequality, to name but a few. This panel will bring together experts from different fields to give their views on the many threats facing society and how the profession is rising to the challenge to tackle the numerous issues at hand. How can actuaries continue to step up and steer their organisations through these choppy waters? What are the threats and opportunities facing the profession in doing so? And is it all doom and gloom or is there light at the end of the tunnel? 

Speakers: Greg Thwaites, Research Director at the Resolution Foundation; Baroness Camilla Cavendish, former Head of the No 10 Policy Unit."