Chris Falkous

Chris Falkous

FIA

Vice President
Senior Biometric Insights Actuary
Global Biometric Research

Chris Falkous is Vice President, Senior Biometric Insights Actuary, Global Biometric Research. His particular focus is on global mortality trends, and recent projects include developing data-driven insights on COVID-19, the mortality impacts of climate change, multistate modeling of mortality and morbidity incorporating expert judgment, and assessing mortality trends in extreme scenarios. 

Prior to joining RGA in 2015, Chris was a senior consultant at Towers Watson, providing advice to the trustees and sponsoring employers of large defined-benefit pension schemes. He was a Scheme Actuary and a member of the pensions practice’s specialist mortality group, leading the group’s work on future mortality improvements and disease-based modeling. 

Chris received a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics from the University of Oxford, and Master of Science (MSc) in operations research from George Washington University. He is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (FIA) in the U.K.