Marjorie Ngwenya

Marjorie Ngwenya is a British-born, Zimbabwean-raised actuary. In June 2016, she was appointed president-elect of UK’s Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA). She was the first black African, the youngest (under 40) and third woman to hold this position. She was also known to be the first leader based outside the United Kingdom.

Early years Ngwenya was born in the United Kingdom but was raised in Zimbabwe.

She is currently an independent non-executive director at Tangerine Life in Nigeria and its holding company Tangerine Financial, registered in the United Kingdom.

She has held various global leadership positions. In her earlier years she worked with Deloitte as a tax advisor and actuarial manager, Swiss Re in London as a Senior Risk Actuary, Mazars in London as a director, as editor of the Actuary magazine, as Chief Risk Officer of Old Mutual Africa in Johannesburg and as Group Strategy Executive at Liberty in South Africa. In June 2016, she was elected president of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries by the IFoA Council.

In addition to being a board member for several financial services and not-for-profit institutions, she is a leadership and life purpose coach, an author and a motivational speaker.