W. James (Jim) MacGinnitie retired in 2017 as Senior Property/Casualty Fellow at the American Academy of Actuaries where he served as the actuarial profession’s chief public policy liaison on property and casualty insurance issues.
Mr. MacGinnitie has over 60 years of experience in casualty actuarial and financial issues. Prior to joining the Academy, he served on the boards of directors, and chair of the audit committee, of several insurance companies and as an independent arbitrator and consultant. Previously, he served as senior vice president and chief financial officer of CNA Financial, and partner and director of actuarial services at Ernst & Young. Mr. MacGinnitie founded the casualty actuarial practice of Tillinghast and served as its managing principal both before and after its merger with Towers Perrin (now Willis Towers Watson). He was also professor of actuarial science at the University of Michigan.
Mr. MacGinnitie is a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries (1965) and a fellow of both the Casualty Actuarial Society (1963) and the Society of Actuaries (1967). He is a past president of the Academy (1989), the Casualty Actuarial Society (1979), the Society of Actuaries (2002), and the International Actuarial Association (2003). He received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Northwestern University.
His community activities include board chairmanship of Reach for Excellence, a program for underserved middle school students, a program of the Society of Mary, located at Marist School in Atlanta.
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