Academy Officers and Regular Directors Begin Terms.

* The American Academy of Actuaries is pleased to announce that, in addition to Maryellen Coggins taking office today as 2021-22 Academy president, five officers and three regular directors began their terms on its Board of Directors at the conclusion of the Academy's Annual Meeting of Members.

Kenneth A. Kent of Mclean, Va., who previously served different terms as the Academy's vice president of pension and vice president of professionalism and has had many other volunteer roles at the Academy, began his term as Academy president-elect. Kent said: "I have had the privilege of working with and learning from many of the Academy's leadership over the past 20 years and endeavor to continue their legacy of maintaining and advancing the Academy's position as the national association for all U.S. actuaries." He will become Academy president at the conclusion of the Academy's 2022 Annual Meeting of Members next fall.

Catherine Murphy-Barron of New York, N.Y., began a third and final one-year term as Academy secretary-treasurer.

Three Academy members began two-year terms as vice presidents: Seong-min Eom of Trenton, N.J., vice president, risk management and financial reporting; Benjamin Slutsker of Brooklyn, N.Y., vice president, life; and Sherry Chan of New York, N.Y., vice president, pension. Eom has served on the Academy's Risk Management and Financial Reporting Council and is a past recipient of the Academy's Outstanding Volunteerism Award. Slutsker has been a member of the Life Practice Council and is the current chairperson of the Annuity Reserves & Capital Work Group. Chan has...