Oliver is a Fellow of the Institute & Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) and the Chartered Insurance Institute. He has worked for over 25 years in the London insurance market and is the Senior Pricing Actuary for a division of a global reinsurance company. For over a decade he has had a strong interest in climate change, economics and the limits to growth and has spoken at numerous venues on these subjects. From 2013 to 2015 he was the inaugural chair of the IFoA’s Resource and Environment Board, one of the IFoA’s seven practice area boards. He currently serves on the IFoA’s Research and Thought Leadership Board which oversees their research programme. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee for the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP).