Christie Ritten Jeopardy Profile: Age, Job, Family, Stats

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Christie Ritten is an American actuary from La Grange Park, Illinois, who has built her career in the Chicago area and currently works for Aon. Her professional credentials are FSA (Fellow of the Society of Actuaries) and EA (Enrolled Actuary), indicating advanced actuarial qualification as well as federal credentialing for work involving retirement plans. Her LinkedIn profile places her in Chicago, Illinois, identifies Aon as her employer and records her education at the University of Notre Dame from 2006 to 2010. She became a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries in July 2021 and obtained her Enrolled Actuary credential from the Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries in April 2024.

Ritten appears to have shown a strong aptitude for mathematics well before entering the actuarial profession. In 2005, while a junior at Fenwick High School, she was a member of Fenwick’s Junior-Senior Math Relay Team that placed first at the Illinois State Math Contest Finals. The broader Fenwick math team placed third overall and earned second-place finishes in several categories, including geometry, pre-calculus, calculator team and junior-senior team competitions. Given that Ritten was explicitly identified as a high-school junior in spring 2005, this also provides a reasonably strong basis for estimating that she was born around 1987–1988, putting her at approximately 38–39 years old in 2026, although I found no authoritative source giving her exact date of birth.

After high school, Ritten attended the University of Notre Dame from 2006 through 2010. The publicly indexed portion of her LinkedIn profile does not expose her degree or major, but her subsequent actuarial career and participation in Society of Actuaries professional work are consistent with a quantitatively oriented education. Her actuarial training continued well beyond university: archived Society of Actuaries Final Assessment discussions from 2013 show Christie Ritten actively completing advanced actuarial coursework and discussing enterprise risk management, sensitivity testing, profitability modelling, risk metrics such as VaR and CTE, data quality, fuel-price assumptions and other quantitative problems with fellow actuarial candidates.

Her eventual FSA designation in July 2021 represents one of the Society of Actuaries’ highest professional credentials. Ritten subsequently became an Enrolled Actuary in April 2024. The EA credential is particularly relevant to pension and employee-benefit work, which fits her publicly documented work at Aon.

Ritten has also contributed to Aon’s published research concerning retirement readiness and employee benefits. In 2020, she and Grace Lattyak co-authored Aon material examining how the COVID-19 pandemic affected retirement readiness. Their analysis considered how unemployment, reduced wages, interruptions to retirement saving, withdrawals and market losses could affect employees differently, particularly workers approaching retirement. The work used modelling to examine potential effects on retirement account balances and discussed steps employers could take to improve employee financial wellbeing and retirement outcomes.

There are also indications of charitable and professional-community involvement. The Actuarial Foundation’s 2018 Annual Report lists Christie Ritten among its supporters, and a Jesuit Volunteer Corps annual report lists her among its supporters as well. These records fit the broader professional profile, although a donor-list appearance alone provides little additional biographical information.

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