A Science Icon, Daisy McFarlane Coke is the Caribbean’s first female actuary and the first Caribbean member of the Royal Institute of Actuaries. She was born in Clarendon to a farmer and home-maker and attended Spalding Primary and later Happy Grove High School in Portland. Doing well at high school, particularly in mathematics, she was moved to Kingston to attend St. Hugh’s High School for Sixth Form. Ms. McFarlane returned to Happy Grove High as a teacher and applied for a scholarship to study at The UWI. She earned her B.Sc. in pure and applied mathematics (and Latin) and taught in the Department of Mathematics before moving on to the University of Toronto where she earned her M.Sc. in applied mathematics. On returning from Canada, Ms. McFarlane worked at the Ministry of Finance where she gained a government scholarship to study for a post-graduate certificate in statistics at Oxford University. Whilst there, she was inducted into the Institute of Actuaries, becoming the first Caribbean person to become a member. She started her actuarial career on secondment to the UK Government’s Actuary’s Department in London and later returned to Jamaica to work as an actuary for the Government of Jamaica before starting her own consultancy. She has served on several national, public and private and international boards and became the founding president of the Caribbean Association of Actuaries. Mrs. McFarlane Coke had the Order of Jamaica conferred on her in 2002 and in 2018, the Max Lander Award - a lifetime achievement award, given by the International Association of Consulting Actuaries.
Mrs Daisy McFarlane Coke
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