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Lauren Bloom is an attorney, interfaith minister and award-winning author of the forthcoming book, Art of the Apology: How, When and Why to Give and Accept Apologies. She has appeared on The Today Show, The CBS Evening News, ESPN, Fox Business News, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Sky News London, BBC World Radio, the Dinae Rheam Show, and has been widely quoted in the international press. Beginning in 1992, Lauren spent more than fourteen years as General Counsel of the American Academy of Actuaries, where her practice focused on teaching professionals how to incorporate high ethical standards and principles of good governance into their professional activities. Lauren played a pivotal role in the development and enforcement of the U.S. actuarial profession's code of conduct and standards of qualification and practice. She also consulted with the International Actuarial Association on its project to develop the first international standards of practice for actuaries. She is widely published in the actuarial profession's publications, including the Proceedings of the 2006 International Actuarial Congress in Paris, France. Lauren continues to consult and speak to actuarial firms and association meetings around the United States.