Director
Nowell Seaman is manager of Risk Management and Insurance Services for the University of Saskatchewan, a major Canadian medical-doctoral university renowned for biotechnology, agriculture, engineering, health sciences, the Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Organization (VIDO) and the Canadian Light Source, one of Canada’s largest scientific research facilities. His responsibilities include risk management, corporate insurance, emergency measures planning and crisis response, and the university’s enterprise risk management (ERM) program.
Prior to joining U of S in 1995, Mr. Seaman was a partner and director in a private corporation that operated insurance brokerage, real estate and property management businesses in Saskatoon SK.
Mr. Seaman holds the Chartered Insurance Professional (CIP) and Canadian Risk Management (CRM) designations. He has instructed many Insurance Institute of Canada (IIC) courses, speaks regularly at conferences and seminars, and has written articles on risk management for University Manager magazine published by the Canadian Association of University Business Officers (CAUBO). In 1995, he was a member of a team of Canada/US representatives that presented seminars to industry and state regulators in Moscow, Russia on a project funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).
Nowell’s RIMS involvement has included:
- Chair, RIMS Canada Council, 2003 - 2005
- Chair, Canadian Risk Management Conference, 2002
- Director, Saskatchewan Chapter of RIMS, 1997 – 2007
- RIMS Board of Directors, 2007 to present
From 2000 to 2002, he chaired the secretariat that resulted in creation of the McGannon Foundation, a charitable trust that supports post-secondary education and research in risk management in Canada through the provision of scholarships and grants. He has served on the McGannon Foundation board of directors.
In 2007, Nowell was honored to receive the Donald M. Stuart Award, the highest recognition for outstanding contribution to the profession of risk management in Canada.