Bart Rikkert

Risk Officer Model validation at Aegon

Bart Rikkert is the responsible risk officer for modelvalidation at AEGON Group.

As part of his role he oversees and organizes all validations within Aegon globally as well as the policies and standards underlying modelvalidation within Aegon. Mr Rikkert is also responsible for the aggregated validation opinion of the Internal Solvency II Model in totality (on Group level and for local regulated entities such as Aegon NL and Aegon UK) and is currently working on validating the IFRS17 models.

Before 2012 Mr Rikkert was the head of the model validation department of SNS REAAL (at the time a Dutch Bank/insurance company) and facilitated the introduction of Basel II / III and the start of Solvency II.