Consultants and Actuaries

Sheri Christensen is a Senior Consultant in GRS’ Minnesota office. She has more than 25 years of actuarial and consulting experience. Sheri has served clients in Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

During Sheri’s career, she has worked with statewide and municipal retirement systems, church plans, not-for-profit organizations, and corporate plans. Sheri’s areas of expertise include traditional and hybrid defined benefit pension plans and retiree health care benefits. Her work covers valuations, actuarial audits, cost analyses for proposed plan and/or assumption changes, experience studies, funding projections, and service purchase calculations.

Professional Designations

• Fellow, Society of Actuaries
• Enrolled Actuary, ERISA
• Fellow, Conference of Consulting Actuaries
• Member, American Academy of Actuaries

Professional Activities

Sheri regularly attends national and regional conferences held by associations serving public employee retirement systems and church plans. She also provides educational sessions to clients covering actuarial valuation fundamentals.

Education

Bachelors of Science, Mathematics (emphasis on actuarial science) and minor in Statistics, University of Minnesota, Institute of Technology