Louise Pryor is a British actuary with a focus on sustainability, and is chair of the Ecology Building Society.
Pryor has an MA in Mathematics (1981) from Newnham College, Cambridge and a PhD in computer science (1993) from Northwestern University.
[4] Pryor has been described as a "pioneer in modelling the financial and economic impacts of climate change in insurance",[5] and has worked in various roles and consultancies in the field of actuarial work and climate change.
She is co-chair of Actuaries' Carbon Collaboration, which is a working group of the IFoA and is "working towards a coherent understanding of the issues around carbon emissions and offsets by considering them in an actuarial context".
[2] In 2024 she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Science by Anglia Ruskin University.