AIRROC and AIRROC’s NextGen Council honored the 2025 Trish Getty Scholarship recipient, Samit Alam, during the awards ceremony at the October Legacy Transactions & Networking Forum in Jersey City, NJ. Since 2012, the $5,000 Trish Getty Scholarship has been awarded to an exceptional undergraduate student studying insurance, risk management, or actuarial science. The scholarship is named for Trish Getty, the first Executive Director of AIRROC. Students across the country apply for the scholarship by submitting their resume and an essay, and a subcommittee of NextGen members and AIRROC board members review the applications.
The NextGen Council continued its work to expand the geographic outreach of the scholarship applicants and to widen the applicant pool. In its 13th year, the scholarship committee reviewed 56 applications, which broke last year’s record of 35 applications.
Samit is a senior at St. John’s University pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Risk Management with a concentration in Quantitative Risk, expecting to graduate in May 2026. He is an international student from Bangladesh with an impressive personal background and resume. He comes from a family of insurance professionals who encouraged him to pursue a degree in higher education, and his academic excellence is reflected in his place on the Dean’s List and his participation in the Thomas J. Cox Honors program. Samit has received multiple scholarships, including the GSRM Holborn Scholarship and the QBE Insurance Scholarship for Diversity and Inclusion. He supplements his education by attending various conferences, such as the RIMS Riskworld Conference, CPCU In2Risk Conference, and the University Risk Management and Insurance Association (URMIA) Annual Conference.
At St. John’s, Samit is a member of Gamma Iota Sigma, the business fraternity for insurance, risk management, and actuarial students and has served as its Director of External Relations for the St. John’s chapter. He is a Resident Assistant on campus as well as a committee chair for the International Student Council assisting other international students acclimate to campus life. Samit’s work experience includes an actuarial internship at MetLife and professional lines underwriter at USLI.
In accepting the award, Samit expressed his gratitude to AIRROC for selecting him as this year’s recipient and told a heartwarming anecdote about how he shared the news with his family. With future plans to pursue a master’s degree in Enterprise Risk Management and consideration for a PhD in Risk Management, we know Samit will go far with his ambitions.
AIRROC and the NextGen Council look forward to working with Samit and seeing what the future holds for him.
