Summary - Personal Data
Anne Drouin is working as ILO's Social Security Specialist advising ILO's constituents in East Asia since September 1999. Before she worked as a social security actuary with the branch of the ILO Social Security Department dealing with Finance, Actuarial and Statistical Activities working closely with a number of countries in Eastern Europe, the Caribbean, Central America as well as in Thailand and Mongolia. Prior to joining the ILO, she worked for three years as an actuary with the Canada Life Assurance Company in Toronto, Canada. Since 1999, she received the Fellowship accreditation from the Society of Actuaries (USA) and the Canadian Institute of Actuaries. She completed a graduate Diploma (MSc) in International Development Studies at the University of Ottawa in 1992 and a Bachelor of Sciences with the Actuarial programme of the Mathematics Department of the Université Laval in 1985. She participated to the publication of different papers and ILO reports on social security, pensions and other actuarial topics, including the co-authoring of ILO's forthcoming publication on Actuarial Practice in Social Security.

Degrees and accreditations

Fellowship of the Society of Actuaries, USA, 1999
Fellowship of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries, Canada, 1999
Diplôme d=études supérieures (M.Sc. equivalent), Développement international, Université d=Ottawa, 1992
B.Sc., Sciences actuarielles, Département des Mathématiques, Université Laval, Canada, 1988

Employment

1999-2000 Social Security Specialist, ILO, East Asia Multidisciplinary Advisory Team, Bangkok
Technical assistance to governments, employers' organisations and trade unions of South East Asia for strengthening and extending the coverage of social protection systems, including reviews and capacity-building programmes for social partners and researc.

1994-1999 Actuary, ILO, Social Security Department, Geneva
Technical assistance providing policy advice to ILO member states, notably on: the financial and quantitative aspects of social security systems using ILO modeling tools; research into the financial, actuarial and quantitative economic aspects of social security schemes; technical and administrative backstopping for branch activities in Latin America (Central and Andean region) and the Caribbean; coordination of training and internship activities; forthcoming ILO publication on actuarial practice in social security; support for developing ILO's training strategy for the quantitative governance of social security schemes; technical cooperation projects such as in Cuba (practical training and delivery of ILO projection models), in the Caribbean ( regional project for the joint delivery of actuarial reviews and workshop on social security financing for workers representatives), in Panama (Valuación financiera y actuarial integral de la Caja de Seguro Social y elaboración de un modelo de cuentas sociales),St. Lucia (Sixth actuarial review of the National Insurance Board as of 30 June 1996 and Supplement on the study of reform measures), in Bulgaria (short-term institutional budget model for the National Institute of Social Security during Bulgaria=s economic crisis of 1996-97), in Turkey (social security project with the World Bank for the reform of the 3 national social security schemes - private sector workers, civil servants and self-employed persons, including the actuarial modeling of 5 reform scenarios ranging from adjustments to the present defined benefit scheme to a full conversion to a defined contribution scheme), miscellaneous technical assistance such as training on ILO quantitative social security models in Cuba, Panama, Bulgaria and Turkey and for Governing Body members in Bulgaria.

1992-1994 Actuarial consultant, Social Security Department, ILO, Geneva
Technical cooperation projects:

• Mongolia (actuarial and quantitative support to ILO social security reform project)
• Slovakia (actuarial review of pension reform proposals in the context of the transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy)
• Thailand (actuarial study in the context of ILO technical assistance to the Government of Thailand on the introduction of a public pension system)
• Others (actuarial assistance to ILO actuaries for projects in Burundi, Cyprus, Kuwait, Nigeria and Romania)

1988-1991 Actuarial assistant, Canada Life Assurance Co., Toronto
Actuarial assistant working in: Corporate Planning and Development Division; Individual Pension and Life Insurance Division: pricing and fund management; and Group Life and Health Insurance Division.

Publications

Actuarial practice in social security, ILO (co-author, forthcoming 2000).
Drouin, A. and J. Woodall (1999): Pensionable ages in Asian countries: an ILO perspective, International Social Security Association, Regional Meeting of Directors of Social Security, Kuala Lumpur.
Scholz, W. and A. Drouin (1998): Regular adjustment of financial parameters of social protection systems in volatile inflationary environments, International Social Security Review, Vol. 51, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford.
Drouin, A. and G. Ferrara (1996): Observations on actuarial concepts used in a [World Bank] simplified pension model, in Social Security Financing: Issues and Perspectives, International Social Security Association, ISSA Publications, Geneva.
Various ILO reports and internal technical papers on regional social security systems, ageing, pensionable ages, the impact of inflation on social protection systems, and unemployment insurance.