Chief Actuary

Actuarial Advisor

Serves as the Department's principal actuarial advisor, providing expert counsel to the Assistant Secretary, Deputy Assistant Secretaries, other Departmental officials, and Congressional committees on the actuarial implications of legislative, regulatory, and policy proposals affecting the nation's pension, retirement, health, and welfare benefit systems.

Directs EBSA's actuarial research, analysis, and technical consultation functions, ensuring the technical soundness and defensibility of all actuarial products, resolving the most complex and precedent-setting actuarial issues, and reviewing the actuarial soundness of exemption applications and regulatory impact analyses.

Communicates complex actuarial and policy issues to technical and non-technical audiences at the highest levels of government and industry, preparing or directing the preparation of authoritative reports, testimony, and regulatory analyses for the Assistant Secretary, the Secretary, OMB, and Congress.

Represents the Department as the senior actuarial expert with federal agencies, professional actuarial organizations, industry and labor representatives, and academic experts, leading interagency and government-industry initiatives on national actuarial policy.

Leads development of professional actuarial standards, including accreditation, discipline, continuing education, and examination requirements for actuaries serving ERISA-covered plans.

Directs a professional staff of actuaries and support personnel, managing resource allocation, staffing, budget planning, and organizational structure to achieve program objectives.