Ben Morgan
Chief Actuary, LGAS at Legal & General
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Morgan is a seasoned actuary with 19 years' experience in life insurance risk, capital management and modelling, now serving as Chief Actuary at Legal & General’s LGAS business. He has led prudential risk, methodology and finance development roles across major firms including Prudential and Deloitte, delivering M&A, ALM and with-profits restructurings grounded in rigorous quantitative discipline. A Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries with a first-class Economics degree from Warwick, he blends technical actuarial expertise with strategic leadership of large-scale transformation. Unusually for a senior actuary, he also contributes to high-profile open-source engineering projects—helping improve testing and compiler support in tools like CMake and Spack—demonstrating a practical appetite for automation and reproducible builds. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, able to translate complex modelling assumptions into clear capital and business decisions.
19 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Fellow, Fellow at Institute and Faculty of ActuariesPGSBSc, Economics, 1st Class, BSc, Economics, 1st Class at University of Warwick
Github Skills (16)
c1710
unit-testing10
package-manager-tool10
build-tools10
package-manager10
cmake10
c1110
compiler-flags10
package-management10
python10
testing10
cprogramming-language9
freetype9
exp9
c-language9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Mar 2016 - Dec 2022
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:99 reviews, 23 commits, 86 PRs in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributes to the Spack package manager by implementing and refining compiler support, specifically for GCC, Clang, and Intel compilers. Their work involves adding compiler-specific flags for C++ standards (c++11, c++14, c++17) and managing compiler suffixes. They also added variants for specific packages like Xerces-c, icu4c, and fmt to manage cxxstd compilation, providing greater flexibility and ABI compatibility. Additional contributions included fixes related to the build process of third-party packages.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
Kitware/CMake
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
Mirror of CMake upstream repository
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on adding and improving the testing infrastructure within the CMake project. They implemented unit tests for FindEXPAT and FindFreetype modules, ensuring the correct functionality of imported targets and variables. This involved writing test code, verifying versions, and integrating these tests within the build process. The user also contributed to the documentation by adding notes for the FindEXPAT and FindFreetype imported targets.
cppcmakeupstream
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