The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) has appointed Chitra Jayasimha as the Chairperson of the Board of National Pension System (NPS) Trust w.e.f. October 17.
Jayasimha has been the Trustee of the NPS Trust Board since December 2020.
Jayasimha has an experience of over 17 years in various functions at senior levels in The Life Insurance Corporation of India. She had brought out a detailed research report on NPS Superannuation in August 2017 and has written multiple white papers on NPS and other retirement benefits.
Chitra Jayasimha is a qualified Actuary, and a fellow member of the Institute of Actuaries of India, Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, UK, and the Insurance Institute of India.
She is a gold medalist in B.Sc Statistics from Madras University. She has over 34 years of extensive experience in diverse fields of Life Insurance, General Insurance, Reinsurance, Employee benefits, and the Pension sector.
Previously, she has also been the Chairperson of the Advisory Group on Pension, Employee Benefits, and Social Security Schemes of the Institute of Actuaries of India for over 9 years.
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She is also a Founder Director and Consulting Actuary at the Universal Actuaries and Benefit Consultants and an Appointed Actuary of Sanima Reliance Life (Nepal), GIC Reinsurance Company Limited (Bhutan), Nepal Reinsurance and an IBNR Actuary of Maldives Reinsurance.
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