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Kelly Adams is a Principal, Reviewing Actuary and leader of the Public Sector Retirement (PSR) specialty practice with Buck. She has over 25 years of actuarial consulting experience for defined benefit and other postemployment benefit plans and is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, Enrolled Actuary, Member of the American Academy of Actuaries, Fellow of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries and holds a B.S. Mathematical Sciences – Actuarial Science from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Kelly has consulted clients in areas such as funding, accounting, experience studies, DROP benefits, plan design changes, plan benchmarking, and many other aspects related to retirement benefits. She has focused the second half of her career almost exclusively serving public sector clients and currently leads Buck’s Public Sector Retirement practice. In her leadership role she oversees both growth and operations specifically related to actuarial services for public sector defined benefit plans. She also serves as the national public sector reviewing actuary providing independent reviews of Buck’s public sector retirement reports and communications for clients across the nation. Kelly ensures work completed by Buck actuaries is of high quality, complies with Buck’s standards, Actuarial Standards of Practice (ASOP), any applicable laws and Governmental Accounting Standards. Her role allows her to see and understand a vast degree of differences and similarities among public sector retirement programs across the U.S. She assisted auditors in understanding GASB 43 / 45 when first implemented and then GASB 67 / 68 and GASB 74 / 75. Kelly has served clients in 25 different States. She has also authored a paper on Variable Benefits specifically for one of Buck’s public sector clients.