Saroja Gunatilleke: Woman of Excellence in Actuarial & Insurance Leadership at GBE Awards 2026

Saroja Gunatilleke has received Woman of Excellence in Actuarial & Insurance Leadership at the Global Business Excellence Awards 2026. Organised by London Business Consultancy, London, UK, the awards recognise businesses, professionals and creative work across a broad range of fields. For Saroja Gunatilleke, the 2026 recognition places the spotlight on actuarial and insurance leadership.

A specialist professional recognition

Saroja Gunatilleke is Managing Director and Actuary at S G Actuarial Consultancy. Her firm's published profile identifies her as a Fellow of the UK's Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, with professional experience in actuarial work, risk management, regulation and insurance. These fields provide the context for her 2026 GBE recognition.

Actuarial work connects mathematical analysis with decisions about uncertainty. Insurance is one setting in which that connection matters, because decisions have to account for events and obligations that may extend far into the future. Leadership in this profession involves making specialist understanding useful to the organisations and people who depend on it.

Knowledge, communication and leadership

Gunatilleke's public professional contribution also includes actuarial training and writing about the profession. That educational dimension is a useful part of the story: a technical discipline develops through the people who practise it and through the ability to explain its value to others entering or working alongside the field.

Woman of Excellence in Actuarial & Insurance Leadership is Saroja Gunatilleke's honour at the Global Business Excellence Awards 2026. It marks an individual milestone in a specialist profession and brings women's leadership in actuarial and insurance work into the wider programme. The award celebrates a field where analysis, judgement and the communication of complex ideas have an important relationship.