Anne-Marie Vanier
Vice Chair of the Board
Anne-Marie is an independent director with broad general insurance experience as a Senior Executive and Chief Actuary. More recently she served Executive Director and Chief Actuary of Aviva Canada and as the Chief Property and Casualty Actuary for RBC Insurance. She is a strategic thinker with expertise in risk management, capital modeling, financial reporting and regulatory issues.
Anne-Marie has board experience and serves as an independent director for Gore Mutual Insurance, Beneva, Arch Insurance Canada and as a Departmental audit committee member for Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada.
She is passionate about community service, diversity and inclusion and mentoring of emerging leaders. In 2013, she received a Professional Leadership Award (Out on Bay Street) recognizing her as an experienced senior professional who has shown exceptional ability, has a strong track record of leadership and professional excellence, and is publicly recognized as a role-model by LGBTQ community. In 2020, she was recognized as a Leader of Change by Insurance Business Canada – a trailblazer promoting inclusion through action and driving change in the insurance industry.
Anne-Marie is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries and of the Casualty Actuarial Society and holds a Chartered Director designation from the Directors College. She graduated from Laval University with a Bachelor of Actuarial Science and received an MBA from the Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario.