Paul Sweeting is President of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. He is also a director of Tawuniya Insurance, the Middle East's largest insurance company.  Until recently, he was a senior advisor at the Hassana Investment Company, having previously been its Chief Risk Officer.

Before this, Paul had a wide-ranging career in pensions, life insurance, investment and academia. He is an Honorary Professor of Actuarial Science at the University of Kent and a Visiting Professor at Heriot-Watt University Dubai. He is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, for whom he has acted as a volunteer for many years. He also helped design and write the textbook for the profession’s Enterprise Risk Management subject. He has chaired a number of actuarial boards, committees and working parties, and served as Honorary Secretary for the Institute of Actuaries prior to its merger with the Faculty of Actuaries.

He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment, the Royal Statistical Society and the Royal Society of Arts. In addition, he is a Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary and a CFA Charterholder. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Bristol.