After the Lord Mayor’s briefing a number of Masters, including myself, made our way to Staple Inn Hall, the home of the actuarial profession, for the Worshipful Company of Actuaries annual lecture and supper.
Over 50 Livery Company Masters attended and we were seated at round tables in the magnificent hall. How fortunate that our speaker at the Myddelton Lunch this year, Michael Mainelli, the Master World Trader, was seated next to me! We were all thoroughly entertained by a talk from Sir David Spiegelhalter who is Professor for the Understanding of Risk at the University of Cambridge. His speech was entitled “Dodgy data in the news: how to spot it and how to stop it”. Injecting much humour, he showed many examples of how the press mis-use statistics from research. A thoroughly interesting and amusing talk.
The Lecture was followed by an excellent supper in fantastic surroundings with great company.
The photo below, taken after the supper, is of Michael Mainelli, myself, and Cloe Andrews-Jones, the Master Fueller, who happened to “pop-up”!
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