'''Therese Michele "Terri" Vaughan'''<ref name="Who's Who">{{cite book|title=Who's Who in the Midwest: A Biographical Dictionary of Noteworthy Men and Women of the Central and Midwestern States|publisher=A. N. Marquis Company|date=2005|page=603}}</ref> (born June 12, 1956)<ref name="Who's Who"/> is an American insurance academic, regulator, and advisor. She was insurance commissioner of the state of Iowa for 10 years from 1994 to 2005, and was the CEO of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) for four years from February 2009 to December 2012. She is currently executive in residence at Drake University, having previously been its Robb B. Kelley distinguished professor of insurance and actuarial science, Dean of its College of Business and Public Administration, and director of its Insurance Center.
==Early life and education== Vaughan was born in 1956 in Blair, Nebraska.<ref name="Who's Who"/> Her father was insurance scholar, academic, and author Emmett J. Vaughan (1934-2004).<ref name="Insurance Journal 2004">[https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2004/10/27/47243.htm "Iowa Insurance Educator Vaughan Dies at 69"] ''Insurance Journal'', Oct. 27, 2004.</ref>
She received a BBA in Insurance and Economics from the University of Iowa in 1979.<ref name="Drake"/><ref name="Who's Who"/> In 1985 she received a PhD in Managerial Science, Applied Economics, and Risk and Insurance from the University of Pennsylvania.<ref name="Drake"/><ref name="Who's Who"/>
She holds the professional insurance designations: Associate, Society of Actuaries (ASA); Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU); Associate, Casualty Actuarial Society (ACAS); and Member, American Academy of Actuaries (MAAA).<ref name="Drake"/><ref name="Verisk">Verisk Analytics, Inc. [https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1442145/000119312513071510/d492153dex992.htm "Verisk Analytics, Inc., Elects Therese M. Vaughan to Its Board of Directors"] February 20, 2013.</ref>
==Career== Vaughan was an adjunct assistant professor of insurance at Temple University from January 1983 to December 1985, CBPA Dean Terri Vaughan named key influencer in the insurance industry<ref name="Drake">[https://news.drake.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/TerriVaughan.pdf "Therese M. Vaughan, Ph.D, ASA, ACAS, CPCU, MAA"] News and Events, Drake University.</ref> and an assistant professor of economics and finance at Baruch College from January 1986 to May 1987.<ref name="Drake"/><ref name="Who's Who"/>
From May 1987 to July 1988 she was a consultant at the actuarial firm Tillinghast, in its risk management and casualty division.<ref name="Drake"/><ref name="Insurance Journal 2005">[https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2005/08/03/57980.htm "Endurance Specialty Holdings Names Vaughan to Board"] ''Insurance Journal'', Aug. 3, 2005.</ref><ref name="Who's Who"/>
In August 1988 she was appointed the director of The Insurance Center at Drake University,<ref name="Drake"/> a position she held through July 1994.<ref name="Drake"/> She was an assistant professor from 1988 to 1994,<ref name="Drake"/> and chair of the insurance department from 1990 to 1994.<ref name="Drake"/>
In August 1994, she was appointed Insurance Commissioner of the state of Iowa.<ref name="Drake"/><ref name="Connolly, Jim">Connolly, Jim [https://www.thinkadvisor.com/2004/12/15/iowas-terri-vaughan-10-years-a-regulator/?slreturn=20200003203649 "Iowas Terri Vaughan: 10 Years A Regulator"] ''National Underwriter Life & Health Magazine'' via Think Advisor, December 15, 2004.</ref> She was Iowa's longest-serving insurance commissioner,<ref name="Insurance Journal 2009">[https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2009/01/15/97013.htm "Former Iowa Commissioner Vaughan Named CEO of State Regulators’ NAIC"] ''Insurance Journal'', Jan. 15, 2009.</ref> serving through both Democratic and Republican state administrations,<ref>Cummins, J. D.; Doherty, Neil; Ray, Gerald; Vaughan, Terri [https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P3-1253586661/the-insurance-brokerage-industry-post-october-2004 "The Insurance Brokerage Industry Post-October 2004"] ''Risk Management and Insurance Review'', Vol. 9, No. 2, Fall 2006.</ref> resigning in December 2004 after 10 years.<ref>Tuckey, Steve [https://www.propertycasualty360.com/2004/03/24/susan-voss-named-iowa-insurance-commissioner/?slreturn=20200203213140 "Susan Voss Named Iowa Insurance Commissioner"] ''PropertyCasualty360''. Mar. 24, 2004.</ref>
She also served as president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) for the year 2002,<ref name="Insurance Journal 2005"/><ref name="Insurance Journal 2002">[https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2002/12/18/24977.htm "Wisconsin’s Deputy Insurance Commissioner Wins National Outstanding Achievement Award"] ''Insurance Journal'', Dec. 18, 2002.</ref> having been its secretary-treasurer and its vice president in previous years and serving as chair of several NAIC committees.<ref name="Insurance Journal 2000">[https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2002/12/18/24977.htm "Sebelius Elected NAIC President for 2001; Vaughan, Pickens Selected as Officers"] ''Insurance Journal'', Dec. 5, 2000.</ref><ref>Kelly, Dennis [http://news.ambest.com/articlecontent.aspx?pc=1009&AltSrc=108&refnum=11220 "Briefing: Texas Commissioner's Bid For NAIC Presidency Fails"] ''Best's Review'', Jan. 2001.</ref><ref name="IIHoF">[http://www.iihof.org/Objects/Profiles/03_Vaughan.pdf Therese M. Vaughan 2003"] Iowa Insurance Hall of Fame, 2003.</ref> As president, she led a number of key initiatives, including the development of the NAIC's response to the 9/11 attacks,<ref>[https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2002/12/10/24835.htm "AAI Pleased With Early Action by Treasury, NAIC on Terrorism Insurance"] ''Insurance Journal'', Dec. 10, 2002.</ref> and the creation of an interstate compact for the filing of life insurance and annuity products.<ref name="Connolly, Jim"/><ref>[https://www.naic.org/documents/testimony_0206_vaughan.pdf "Testimony of Terri Vaughan, President National Association of Insurance Commissioners"] Committee on Financial Services United States House of Representatives, June 18, 2002.</ref><ref name="www3.ambest.com">Saucer, Caroline [http://www3.ambest.com/bestweekpdfs/bw507453102175full.pdf "Regulators Recall Sept. 11, See Progress in Modernization"] ''Best Week'', A. M. Best Company Inc., June 17, 2002, p. 9.</ref><ref>Calvo, Cheye [https://www.ncsl.org/research/financial-services-and-commerce/march-2003-state-legislatures-magazine-insurance.aspx "Insurance Regulation: A Time for Change"] National Conference of State Legislatures, 2003.</ref>
In January 2005 Vaughan re-joined the faculty of Drake University, as the Robb B. Kelley distinguished professor of insurance and actuarial science.<ref>[https://www.insurancejournal.com/magazines/mag-people/2004/12/20/50613.htm "People & Places"] ''Insurance Journal'', Dec. 20, 2004.</ref>
She was president of the American Risk and Insurance Association 2008–2009,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131230232248/http://aria.org/meetings/2013_Annual_Meeting_docs/ARIA_Program_2013.pdf "NAIC CEO to Depart November 30"] National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Nov. 16, 2012.</ref> having previously been vice president and program chair, and having been on its board of directors since 2003.<ref name="Drake"/>
In February 2009, leaving academia again, she was appointed CEO of the NAIC, a post she held through November 2012.<ref>[https://www.floridapeninsula.com/uploads/11-16-12%20NAIC%20release.pdf "NAIC CEO to Depart November 30"] NAIC, ''Florida Peninsula'', Nov. 16, 2012.</ref> She pushed for state regulators' rights in the face of the federal government's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Dodd-Frank Act.<ref name="PC360">[https://www.propertycasualty360.com/2012/06/25/top-25-living-legends-of-insurance-slideshow "Top 25 Living Legends of Insurance"] ''PropertyCasualty360''. June 25, 2012.</ref><ref name="Insurance Journal 2012"/> She worked both nationally and internationally, and focused particularly on financial and solvency matters.<ref>Sinder, Scott [https://www.leadersedge.com/industry/oxymoron "Progress and the NAIC in the same breath? Say it ain’t so! Think small (very small) progress."] ''Leader's Edge'', Oct. 11, 2012.</ref>
In 2016 ''Best's Review'' credited her with having "helped steer the organization through the recovery years after the Great Recession, helping identify, develop, prioritize, and achieve regulatory modernization and other key initiatives" during her tenure as CEO.<ref name="Best's Review">[http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4200a36d#/4200a36d/53 "Briefing: Texas Commissioner's Bid For NAIC Presidency Fails"] "Best's Review", July 2016, p. 51.</ref><ref name="Drake Dean">[https://news.drake.edu/2016/07/22/cbpa-dean-terri-vaughan-named-key-influencer-in-the-insurance-industry/ "CBPA Dean Terri Vaughan named key influencer in the insurance industry"] News and Events, Drake University.</ref>
She also served as a member of the executive committee of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors.<ref>[https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2012/08/13/259076.htm "NAIC CEO Vaughan to Step Down in 2013"] ''Insurance Journal'', Aug. 13, 2012.</ref> In 2012 she was chair of the Joint Forum, the international forum of banking, insurance, and securities regulators.<ref>[https://www.bis.org/bcbs/jointforum.htm "Joint Forum"] Bank for International Settlements.</ref><ref name="Best's Review"/><ref name="Drake Dean"/>
In June 2014 she returned to academia, as Dean of Drake University's College of Business and Public Administration through June 2017.<ref>[https://www.westbankstrong.com/about_us/news/article/71 "Therese M. Vaughan joins West Bank Board of Directors"] West Bank. Accessed March 7, 2020.</ref> She was subsequently appointed Robb B. Kelley visiting distinguished professor of insurance and actuarial science at Drake.<ref>[https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190401005479/en/AIG-Announces-New-Nominees-Board-Directors "AIG Announces Three New Nominees to Its Board of Directors"] American International Group, Inc., ''Businesswire'', Apr. 1, 2019,</ref><ref>[https://sec.report/Document/0001144204-19-017752/ "Schedule 14A"] AIG, Securities and Exchange Commission, April 2, 2019.</ref><ref>[https://annual.aig.com/ui/2018/docs/AIG-2019-Proxy-Statement.pdf "AIG 100"] American International Group, Inc., Apr. 2, 2019.</ref> and in 2019 she was made Executive in Residence at the university.<ref>[https://businessrecord.com/Content/News-By-Industry/Lift-IOWA/Article/Vaughan-joins-West-Bank-West-Bancorporation-boards-/176/1015/87199 "Vaughan joins West Bank, West Bancorporation boards"] ''Business Records'', July 3, 2019.</ref>
Vaughan is on the board of directors of Verisk Analytics,<ref>[https://investor.verisk.com/corporate-governance/officers-directors/default.aspx "Corporate Management Team"] Verisk. Accessed Mar. 7, 2020.</ref> is chair of its nominating and corporate governance committee, and is also on its compensation committee and executive committee.<ref>[https://investor.verisk.com/corporate-governance/committee-composition/default.aspx "Committee Composition"] Verisk. Accessed Mar. 7, 2020.</ref> She is also on the boards of directors of Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield,<ref>[https://www.wellmark.com/about/company-information/board " The Board of Directors"] Wellmark, Mar. 2020.</ref> AIG,<ref>[https://www.aig.com/about-us/corporategovernance/board-of-directors "Board of Directors"] American International Group, Inc. (AIG), March 2020.</ref> and West Bancorporation.<ref>[https://www.snl.com/IRW/OD/1021570 " Officers & Directors"] West Bank, March 2020.</ref>
==Books== Vaughan co-authored, with her father Emmett J. Vaughan, the college textbook ''Essentials of Insurance'' (1995),<ref>Hashmi, Sajjad A. [https://go.gale.com/ps/anonymous?id=GALE%7CA21166764 "Essentials of Insurance: A Risk Management Perspective"] ''Journal of Risk and Insurance'', vol. 65, no. 2, June 1998, p. 349. Accessed 2 Mar. 2020.</ref><ref>Vaughan, Emmett J., Vaughan, Therese M. [https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780471107583/ "Essentials of Insurance: A Risk Management Perspective"] 1995. {{ISBN|9780471107583}}</ref> and since his 2004 death she has continued to revise, expand, and update his college textbook ''Fundamentals of Risk and Insurance''.<ref name="www3.ambest.com"/><ref>[https://issuu.com/drakeuniversity/docs/blue_su08/9 Drake Blue Magazine] Dec. 4, 2008, p. 9.</ref><ref name="Insurance Journal 2012">Lehman, Ray [https://www.insurancejournal.com/blogs/right-street/2012/08/14/259344.htm "Will the NAIC’s CIPR Survive Terri Vaughan’s Departure?"] ''Insurance Journal'', Aug. 14, 2012.</ref>
==Recognition== In 1996 Vaughan received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Iowa.<ref>[https://www.foriowa.org/daa/daa-profile.php?namer=true&profileid=61 "Distinguished Alumni Awards Winner Therese Vaughan"] The University of Iowa, 1996.</ref> In 2003 she was inducted into the Iowa Insurance Hall of Fame.<ref name="IIHoF"/> In 2011 she was ranked #10 in the ''Modern Healthcare'' list of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare.<ref>[https://www.modernhealthcare.com/awards/100-most-influential-people-healthcare-2011 "100 Most Influential People in Healthcare – 2011"] ''Modern Healthcare'', 2011.</ref> In 2012 she was listed in ''National Underwriter'' magazine's Top 25 Living Legends of Insurance.<ref name="PC360"/> In 2013 she was named a Distinguished Fellow of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors.<ref>[https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/global/Documents/Financial-Services/gx-fsi-us-IAISUpdate2013AnnualMeeting-2013-11.pdf "IAIS Update"] Deloitte, 2013.</ref>
She was among the Top 50 Women in the Insurance Industry in a 2014 listing by ''Reactions'' magazine,<ref>Hamrick, Erin [https://www.sterlingjames.com/news/erin-hamrick-reactions-magazine-top-50-women/ "Reactions Magazine Top 50 Women"], Sterling James, Jan. 6, 2014.</ref> and in 2014 she was also named Insurance Woman of the Year by the Association of Professional Insurance Women (APIW).<ref>[https://www.apiw.org/cpages/past-recipients "Insurance Woman of the Year – Past Recipients"] Association of Professional Insurance Women. Accessed Mar. 8, 2020.</ref><ref>[https://insurancenewsnet.com/oarticle/APIW-to-Recognize-Vaughan-PhD-as-APIW-Insurance-Woman-of-the-Year-a-472152 "APIW to Recognize Vaughan, Ph.D. as APIW Insurance Woman of the Year"] Association of Professional Insurance Women, Mar. 11, 2014.</ref> In 2016 she was named one of 24 Key Influencers in the insurance industry by Best's Review.<ref>[https://www.casact.org/press/index.cfm?fa=viewArticle&articleID=3353 "CAS Members Recognized as Key “Industry Influencers” by A.M. Best"] Casualty Actuarial Society, Aug. 8, 2016.</ref><ref name="Drake Dean"/><ref name="Best's Review"/>
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