Ayse ARIK is a PhD
student and research assistant in Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. Her thesis is on pricing of pension bulk annuity deals. She is particularly
interested in modelling and pricing of longevity, investment and credit risks
under this context.
Séverine
ARNOLD is Assistant Professor in Actuarial
Science at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland
. Besides a PhD in Actuarial
Science, she has a Certificate in Population Study from the University of
Geneva, Switzerland. Her research focuses on longevity risk and mortality
modeling, looking for more efficient models in mortality projections. In a six
and another two months research visits at the University of New South Wales in
Sydney, Australia, in 2009 and 2012 respectively, she has been investigating
various causes of death across countries. Together with Corina Constantinescu
(University of Liverpool, UK), she gives yearly short courses in actuarial
science at the University of Sfax (Tunisia) and has recently organized the
second edition of an International Winter School for young actuarial
researchers, to be held every other year. In addition to teaching and research,
she was involved in social security projects with the International Labour
Organization, is a member of the International Actuarial Association Mortality
Working Group and of the Social Security Sub-Committee of the AAE (Actuarial
Association of Europe).
Steven BAXTER leads the longevity research program at Hymans Robertson LLP, with particular focus on analysing later life mortality and longevity trends using Club Vita’s dataset of 1 in 7 of all UK pensioners. Steven works closely with a wide range of clients helping them to manage longevity risk, including insurers, banks and pension schemes. He was the lead longevity risk consultant for the Aviva Staff Pension Scheme on their £5bn indemnity swap, and was deeply involved in the development of the Deutsche-Börse Xpect_ClubVita indices.
Steven is proud to have co-authored a number of papers on longevity including “Longevity Basis Risk: A methodology for assessing basis risk”, “Grieving widows: Exploring excess mortality following bereavement” and “What longevity predictors should be allowed for when valuing pension scheme liabilities?”. His interests span all areas of mortality, morbidity and longevity – and their implications on both financial institutions and social policy.
Jorge Miguel BRAVO is Professor of Economics and Finance at Nova University of Lisbon - Information Management School (NOVAIMS) and invited Professor at Université Paris IX Dauphine in Paris. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Évora and a MSc in Monetary and Financial Economics from ISEG - Technical University of Lisbon. His research focuses on longevity risk and mortality modelling and applications within the life insurance and pension fund industry, looking for appropriate models in mortality projections for large and small populations. He coordinates ORBio, Observatory of Biometrical risks of the Portuguese Insured Population at the Portuguese Insurers Association and is a member of the BBVA Pensions Institute in Madrid. In addition to teaching and research, he has been involved with the Portuguese Social Security and Finance Ministries in preparing long-term projections on the sustainability of Portuguese public pension schemes, with Statistics Portugal in preparing period/cohort life tables for national and sub-national levels and population projections (as part of EUROPOP exercises). He is a member of the International Actuarial Association Mortality Working Group, of the International Actuarial Association and of the Portuguese Institute of Actuaries.
Sandy BRUSZAS is a doctoral student at the Chair of Investment, Portfolio Management, and Pension Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. In addition, she works as an actuary in a strategic unit at R+V Life Insurance. After finishing her diploma in Mathematics at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern with focus on Financial Mathematics (2011), she qualified as a member in the German Actuarial Society, DAV (2014). She has also been a visiting student at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) majoring Actuarial Sciences. Her research interest focuses on longevity, financial and regulatory risks in the context of life insurance companies and policyholders.
Guillaume BIESSY graduated from the
French engineering school Telecom Bretagne and actuarial school the EURIA i n
2013. Since then, he has been working as a PhD student at SCOR Global Life. His
research is about developing new mathematical models for Long-Term Care Insurance,
under the supervision of Vincent Lepez, chief pricing actuary at SCOR Global
Life, and Catherine Matias, research director at the CNRS.
Alexandre BOUMEZOUED is Phd student at Paris 6 University,
in the Probability and Random Models Laboratory, supervised by Prof. Nicole El
Karoui (Paris 6 Univ.) and co-supervised by Prof. Stéphane Loisel (Lyon 1
Univ.). Alexandre's research interests cover stochastic population
dynamics and its use for pension and longevity risk purposes, including age
pyramid dynamics and the impact of mortality heterogeneity. Alexandre is member
of the French ANR project Dynamic models for longevity with
lifestyle adjustments, Lolita (ANR-13-BS01-0011) and the French-Swiss
"Germaine de Staël" project Modelling population
dynamics with causes-of-death mortality (Gds 2014-14). Alexandre graduated from the French engineering school Ecole
Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and holds an MSc degree in
Probability Theory from Paris 6 University. Alexandre has also worked as
a consultant in life and non-life insurance for Milliman France.
Frank van BERKUM is a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam at the department of Actuarial Science. His research is on mortality modelling and his current project is on modelling portfolio specific mortality. Besides his research, Frank also works as an actuarial consultant for PwC. Experiences gained at PwC are used in his research to ensure practical relevance.
Andrew
CAIRNS is Professor of Financial Mathematics at Heriot-Watt University,
Edinburgh, and Director of the Actuarial Research Centre supported by the
Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.
He
is well known both in the UK and internationally for his research in financial
risk management for pension plans and life insurers. His research interests
have centred around the development of new models for long-term risks including
yield curve modelling and pricing of long-term interest-rate derivatives. More
recently he has been working on the modelling of longevity risk: how this can
be modelled, measured and priced, and how it can be transferred to the
financial markets. Amongst his work in this field, he has developed a number of
new and innovative stochastic mortality models.
He
is an active member of the UK and international actuarial profession:he
qualified as a Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries in 1993; since 1996 he has
been editor of the leading international actuarial journal ASTIN Bulletin - The
Journal of the International Actuarial Association and has been editor-in-chief
since 2005; and in 2005 he was elected as a corresponding member of the Swiss
Association of Actuaries.
In 2008 he was awarded the Halmstad Prize for his paper Pricing Death: Frameworks for the Valuation and Securitization of Mortality Risk co-authored with David Blake and Kevin Dowd.
Najat EL MEKKAOUI is a senior economist and professor in economics at the University Paris Dauphine (France). Her research focuses on the economics of aging, savings and households insurance in developed and developing countries. In 2011, she was nominated at the National Council of Human Rights in Morocco where she is on charge on the rights and social protection for older persons. She is distinguished visiting research fellow at Oxford University (Smith school) and research fellow at the Economic Research Forum and NETSPAR. She collaborated with the World Bank concerning a project on the systems of retirement in Morocco and in the MENA region. She published and took part in the publication of several works, chapters or papers in her research fields, in particular social protection, retirement, pension and saving. Each year she also coordinates an International Workshop on Pension, Insurance and Saving which takes place at Paris Dauphine University. The 13th edition was organized in partnership with Harvard University
Farid FLICI is
a Researcher in the Centre of Research in Applied Economics for Development in
Algiers (Algeria) since April 2012. He works as a demographer and Actuary in
the Division of Human Development and Social Economics. He studied Statistics
at the National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics
(Algiers)/specialty: Finance and Actuarial sciences and actually he is
preparing his Ph.D thesis at the same institute on the theme “Optimization of a
prospective mortality model for life-annuities reserving in Algeria”. His research is
principally focused on the Algerian population and the Algerian life-insurance
market. The topics which he is working in are : mortality and longevity
modeling, mortality forecasting, old-age mortality, closing-out the life tables
and the construction of prospective life-tables and life annuities reserving. Until now, he
has some Working papers : “analysis of half-century of mortality changes in
Algeria : 1962-2012” presented in MEEA 2014, “Estimation of the missing data in
the Algerian mortality surface by using Lee-Carter model” presented in SMTDA
2014, “Life-annuities calculation in Algeria: continuous time approach”
presented in RCEF 2014, “Using specific life-table for life annuities
calculations: the case of Algeria” presented in the EAJ 2014, “Longevity and
life annuities reserving in Algeria: the use of Lee-Carter model” presented in
EAAC 2014 and “Mortality forecasting for the Algerian population with
considering cohort effect” presented in IAAC-2015.
Martin
GENZ is a Ph.D. student at the Institute for Insurance Science at Ulm University (http://www.uni-ulm.de/en/mawi/institute-of-insurance-science.html). His research is on mortality modeling with a focus on the development of old age mortality. His latest research was on classification of observed
mortality evolutions. Since 2013, Martin also works as a consultant at the Institute for Finance and Actuarial Sciences in Ulm, Germany (www.ifa-ulm.de). The focus of his consulting work is on the development and implementation of innovative life insurance products and on actuarial biometric models.
He holds a Master of Science degree from Ulm University and is a junior member of the German Society for Actuarial and Financial Mathematics.
Caroline HILLAIRET worked for 10 years as assistant professor at Ecole polytechnique, in the financial group of the CMAP (Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées). She is a member of the ANR Lolita (Dynamic models for human Longevity with Lifestyle Adjustments) http://lolita.isfa.fr/. She is interested in the financial issues of longevity risk, such as long term interest rate risk and intergenerational risk. Since September 2015 she is Professor at ENSAE, in charge of the actuarial science program.
Jerry HUANG (Hong-Chih Huang) is the professor
of Risk Management and Insurance at the National Chengchi University in Taiwan.
He is the director of Risk and Insurance Research Center at the National Chengchi
University. He received his Ph.D. in actuarial mathematics at Heriot-Watt
University in U.K. and his master degree in actuarial science at University of
Iowa in the U.S. His research interests cover asset liability management, asset
allocation, pricing and risk management for insurance and pension, mortality
modeling, and longevity risk. His research appears in Insurance Mathematics and
Economics, Journal of Risk and Insurance, Scandinavian Actuarial Journa and The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance. In addition to academic experience, Dr.
Huang shares his knowledge with many actuarial practices, the reviewer of life insurance
products for Taiwan Insurance Bureau of Financial Supervisory Commission; the Risk
Management Committee member of Taiwan Post Office Company; the Consultant
Member of Management Bord for Taiwan Public Service Pension Fund.
Andrew HUNT has recently completed a
PhD in longevity modelling, projection and risk management at Cass Business
School in London. He qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in
2009 and has focused on the development of stochastic mortality models and
their application to longevity risk management and securitisation. Prior to
this, Andrew has worked for five years as a pension consultant, helping to
advise a number of companies on their funding and risk strategy regarding
legacy defined benefit obligations and including assisting on the modelling of
a large longevity swap transaction. He also has a Masters in Mathematics from
the University of Cambridge, specialising in theoretical physics.
Min JI is an Assistant Professor in the department of Mathematics at Towson University. She holds a Ph.D. degree in
Actuarial Science in July 2011 from the University of Waterloo and is a Fellow of the Faculty and Institute of Actuaries and the Society of Actuaries. Her current research is in mortality and longevity risk models for insurance and financial products, especially annuities and reverse mortgages. She has published articles in North American Actuarial Journal and Annals of Actuarial Science.
Yung-Tsung LEE is
an Assistant Professor in the Department of Banking and Finance, National Chiayi University. Professor Lee
earned his PhD degree from the Department of Risk Management and Insurance at
National Chengchi University. Professor Lee’s research
interests include asset liability
management, actuarial science and pension.
Hong LI is an assistant professor in School of Finance at Nankai University, China. Hong received his PhD 
inEconometrics and Operations Research from Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Hong’s research focuses on mortality modeling and longevity risk management, including the pricing and hedging of annuities and longevity-linked derivative products.
Yjia LIN is an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. She earned BA degree in insurance and MA 
degree in finance and insurance both at Beijing Technology and Business University. Dr. Lin earned her Ph.D. in Risk Management and Insurance at Georgia State University. She is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®) Charterholder. Dr. Lin’s research interests are in insurance securitization, enterprise risk management and actuarial science.She has published papers in the Journal of Risk and Insurance, the North American Actuarial Journal, the Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, the Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, the Variance and others. She is also an Associate Editor of the Journal of Risk and Insurance and the North American Actuarial Journal. Dr. Lin won the Harold D. Skipper Best Paper Award from the Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association in 2006, the Ernst Meyer Prize for University Research Work from the Geneva Association in 2007, the Annual Prize for the Best Paper Published in 2007 from the North American Actuarial Journal in 2009, the Brockett-Shapiro Actuarial Journal Award from the American Risk and Insurance Association in 2014, and the Robert I. Mehr Award from the American Risk and Insurance Association in 2015.
I-Chien LIU is an Assistant Professor of
the Department of Insurance and Finance at National Taichung University of
Science and Technology in Taiwan. He received his PhD at the Department of Risk
Management and Insurance at National Chengchi University in Taiwan.
His research areas cover
embedded option for insurance products, reverse mortgage, mortality modelling
and longevity risk. He has published
articles in the Journal of Risk and Insurance, the Geneva Papers on Risk and
Insurance-Issues and Practice.
Yanxin LIU is currently a Ph.D. candidate in
Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo. He received his Master of
Mathematics degree from the University of Waterloo. His research interests
include mortality modeling and mortality/longevity risk pricing and hedging.
Yang LU is a researcher at Scor, the global
reinsurer. Starting this fall he will be a postdoctoral fellow at Aix-Marseille
School of Economics. Yang completed his PhD in Statistics in June 2015 from
CREST (Center of Research in Economics and Statistics) and Paris-Dauphine University,
supervised by Christian Gourieroux (CREST and University of Toronto). His
research interests are multivariate survival analysis motivated by insurance
applications including joint annuities, long-term care, longevity etc. He has published
in Insurance: Mathematics and Economics. Yang is an associate of the French
Institute of Actuaries and has been working part-time at Scor during his PhD
studies. Before that, he graduated from Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris in
2012, with a Master in Statistics. More details can be found on his homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/luyangensae/home
Anthony MEDFORD has over 8 years experience in actuarial roles such as pensions
valuation and life retrocession pricing and
most recently worked in insurance regulation. He holds an MSc in Statistics
from the University of Warwick and is
currently engaged in doctoral research at the Max Planck Odense Centre on the
Biodemography of Aging at the University
of Southern Denmark. His research interests include mortality modelling and
forecasting, particularly at
the highest ages and applications of extreme value theory to the study of longevity.
Pietro MILLOSSOVICH is a
Senior Lecturer in Actuarial Science at the Faculty of Actuarial Science and
Insurance, Cass Business School, City University London since January 2012.
Previously he has been a Lecturer at the University of Trieste, Italy. Pietro holds a B.Sc. in
Statistics and Actuarial Science from the University of Trieste, a D.E.A.
(Master) in Probability and Finance from the University of Paris VI and a Ph.D.
in Mathematics Applied to Decisions in Economics and Finance from the
University of Trieste. Pietro's research includes
the modelling and forecasting of mortality, the valuation of guarantees in life
insurance, the sensitivity of risk measures and optimal insurance.
Marius PASCARIU is a Ph.D. candidate at University of Southern Denmark (SDU) with particular interests in life expectancy forecasting, mortality modeling and actuarial science. Prior to enrolling at SDU, he participated in the European Doctoral School of Demography programme and was affiliated with Max-Planck Institute for Demographic Research. He worked for 5 years as a Life Actuary for companies like Allianz and Generali. He holds a master’s degree in cybernetics and quantitative economics from Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies.
Radosław PIETRZYK an Assistant Professor at Wroclaw University of Economics, Department of Financial Investments and Risk Management. In 2000 he graduated from Wroclaw Academy of Economics with a master degree. His master thesis addressed the problem of empirical verification of popular option pricing models. The subject of his doctoral thesis, defended in 2007, was extreme value theory and its applications in financial risk analysis. His main areas of interest are risk management, portfolio management and portfolio performance evaluation. Currently, his interest is focused on life-cycle-spanning integrated model of household risk. Within the research he develops the building blocks of the model that are connected with household financial goals and their financing, investment portfolio of the household, its performance evaluation and risk control in the financial plan.
Luca REGIS is Assistant Professor at IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca. He holds a M.A. in Finance and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Torino. His research interests lie at the interplay between finance and insurance, focusing on longevity risk modelling and hedging, insurance risk management and individuals’ investment and retirement decisions under life-time uncertainty.
Jimmy RISK is a PhD candidate at University of California Santa Barbara
studying longevity risk and stochastic mortality modelling under Michael
Ludkovski. Specific interests as of late include applying statistical
emulators to life insurance problems, and also forward mortality models.
He has a masters degree in statistics from Michigan State University.
Paweł ROKITA is an Assistant Professor at Wroclaw University of Economics, Department of Financial Investments and Risk Management. In 1999 he graduated from Wroclaw Academy of Economics with a master degree. His master thesis addressed the problem of stock market efficiency. In 2004 he defended his doctoral thesis on Value at Risk models in banking. For several years his research was focused on the area of market risk measurement and dependence measurement, including dependence between extreme values. Currently his scientific interests encompass stability of financial system, systemic approach to financial markets and personal finance. In the field of personal finance he is a member of a research team developing a life-cycle-spanning integrated model of household risk. Within the project he is responsible for risk identification and measurement with regard to various types of risk faced by households, as well as integrating results of the research in this field with a model of household life-long financial plan
Johannes SCHUPP (M.Sc.) is a consultant at the Institut für Finanz- und Aktuarwissenschaften (ifa), an actuarial consulting firm based in Ulm, Germany (www.ifa-ulm.de). The focus of his consulting work is on the development and implementation of innovative life insurance products and actuarial biometric models. Johannes is a Ph.D. student in actuarial science at the institute of insurance science at Ulm University (http://www.uni-ulm.de/en/mawi/institute-of-insurance-science.html). His research topics focus on mortality modeling and the identification of long-term mortality trends. He holds a Master of Science degree from Ulm University and is a junior member of the German Society of Actuarial and Financial Mathematics (DGVFM).
Adam SHAO is a Research Fellow at ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) UNSW node. He holds a PhD degree from the school of Risk and Actuarial Studies, UNSW. Adam’s research interests include idiosyncratic house price modelling, longevity risk, solvency capital requirements, and pricing and risk analysis of post retirement financing products such as equity release products and long-term care insurance. More recently, Adam has been investigating the dynamics of population health and their impact on the demand for post-retirement financing products under a life-cycle model framework.
David SMITH is a Senior
Lecturer in Actuarial Science at the Faculty of Actuarial Science and
Insurance, Cass Business School, City University London as well as being a
co-course director for the BSc (Hons) Actuarial Science degree. David has
worked with Professor Les Mayhew in developing new methods of projecting
populations as well as investigating new ways that the increasing costs of
pensions and long-term care in the UK could be funded.
Federica TEPPA is a researcher at the Economics and Research Division of the Dutch central bank. She is affiliated to the Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement (Nestpar). She is part of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Network at European Central Bank. She earned her PhD in Economics at Tilburg University and worked at the University of Turin and Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her research interests include longevity and pensions, individual financial decision making, household finance.
Julien TOMAS holds a Ph.D in Business Economics
from the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands). He also holds a master degree
in Econometrics from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a Masters
in Health Economics from the Faculty of Medicine Paris XI. He is currently a
postdoctoral fellow at the laboratory of Financial and Actuarial Sciences, ISFA
- University of Lyon 1.
Pierre VALADE has been a senior reinsurance broker for Aon Benfield since June
2015. His expertise is on Life 
Reinsurance. Pierre has been working as an
actuary for 14 years, and recent previous positions include Head of Studies and
Analysis of Insurance Market for ACPR (French supervisor) and Head of Risk
Policy and Business Monitoring for BNP Paribas Cardif. He is and Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary since 2010 and his expertise
include : ORSA, Risk Analysis, Risk Strategy setting …
Andrés VILLEGAS is a researcher in the Faculty of Actuarial Science and Insurance at Cass Business School focusing on the modelling and projection of mortality. He carried out his doctoral studies at Cass, holds an MSc degree in Industrial Engineering from Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia) and worked previously as a risk analyst at one of the biggest Colombian life insurance companies. Andrés research interests include mortality modelling, longevity risk management and the application of optimisation techniques in actuarial science and finance.
Hsin-Chung
WANG had 8 years work experience at Cathay Life Insurance Co. in Taiwan. He received
his Ph.D. degree from National Chengchi University in Taiwan, He accepted an offer from
Department of Finance and Actuarial Science, Aletheia
University, as an assistant professor and now also serve as director in Chung Hua Senior High School. His major research fields are
statistics and actuarial science.
Sharon YANG is a professor of department
of Finance at the National Central University in Taiwan. She received her Ph.D.
in actuarial mathematics at Heriot-Watt University in U.K. and her master
degree in actuarial science at University of Iowa in the U.S. Her research
interests cover pricing and financial risk management for insurance and pension,
mortality modeling, hedging longevity risk. Her research appears in Insurance
Mathematics and Economics, Journal of Risk and Insurance, Austin Bulletin, The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance and
Quantitative Finance. Dr. Yang’s research has examined issues including pricing
embedded guarantees with variable annuities and pension planes, pricing and
risk management for reverse mortgages, pricing survivor derivatives and securitization,
mortality modeling and longevity risk management. In
addition to academic experience, Dr. Yang shares her knowledge with many actuarial
practices, solvency committee of Taiwan Insurance Guarantee Fund, a reviewer of
life insurance products for Insurance Bureau of Financial Supervisory Commission,
a reviewer of structure notes issued with insurance products for Taiwan Financial
Service Roundtable and a member of the discipline committee for Actuarial Institute
of Republic of China.
Ching-Syang Jack YUE is a consultant and actuary, as
well as a professor
of Statistics Department at College of Commerce, National Chengchi University. In 1997, Jack formed the Statistical
Consulting Center at College of Commerce, National Chengchi University. He served as the Chair of Statistics
Department in 2003-05 and the director of Survey Center in 2008-10, at the
College of Commerce, National Chengchi University. Jack has been a consultant
and advisor in life table construction for the Taiwan government (Ministry of
Interior) and Taiwan Insurance Institute.
He was also a reviewer of the Review Committee of Life
insurance Products of Financial Supervisory Commission, Taiwan government. Right now, Jack focuses his
research on the longevity study, especially on the mortality models and its
impact on retirements.
Kenneth Q. ZHOU is a graduate student in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo under the supervision of Professor Johnny Li. He also received his Bachelor of Mathematics in Ac-
tuarial Science from the University of Waterloo. His research interests focus on longevity risk management and stochastic mortality modelling. Kenneth is a Society of Actuaries' (SOA) James C. Hickman Scholar and a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarships in Science and Technology (QEII-GSST).