PhD in Statistics on the joint modeling of health insurance September 26, 2017: Xavier Piulachs Lozada-Benavente defended his thesis. Jury members were Drs. Jordi Ocaña (president), Lupe Gómez-Melis (Universitata Politècnica de Catalunya) and Cécile Proust-Lima (Université de Bordeaux,). Dr. Piulachs is now moving forward to a post-doc position at the Université Catholique de
Quantification of risk, industrial PhD Sept 7, 2017: Alemar E. Padilla-Barreto is interviewed in the YouTube channel of the Industrial PhD program. Together with the Chief Pricing Officer of Zurich Insurance in Spain (Mr. Jordi Margarit) and the two supervisors, they describe the main challenges in the completition of an industrial PhD thesis. The video
PhD in Business on the heterogeneity of mortality and its impact on welfare July 21, 2017: Estefania Alaminos Aguilera presented her thesis. Jury members were Drs. Catalina Bolancé (president), Francisco Escribano (University of Castilla-La Mancha) and Elisa Chuliá (University of Valencia). Dr. Alaminos is now working at the International Labor Organization in
Zurich funded chair at UB for research, actuarial education and innovation Jul 18 2017: The Rector of the University of Barcelona, Prof. Joan Elias, and the CEO of Zurich Spain, Mr. Vicente Cancio signed the extension of the Chair that the insurance company has with the research group Riskcenter of the UB. The objective
Miguel Santolino participates in the conference ‘Challenges of the actuarial profession qualification’ organized by the Catalan Actuarial Association Session outline May 17, 2017. Antonio Ferreiro (Deloitte Canada) and Miguel Santolino (Riskcenter-UB) spoke about the challenges of the insurance sector in next years and how the actuarial profession should face these challenges. They pointed out that
Big data Telematics towards Usage based Insurance This workshop (May 4 2017) is a meeting to discuss innovation in telematics from the perspective of insurers and manufacturers, as well as the design of public policies aimed to reduce accidents on the road. For more information, see the preliminary programme. Link to the
Tim gave a seminar on "Modeling and forecasting mortality with economic growth: a multi-population approach". He reviewed the existing literature on mortality modeling of multiple populations, which focuses mainly on extrapolating the past mortality trends and summarizes these trends by one or more common latent factors. In his paper, they propose a multi-population stochastic mortality
Session outline The event was opened by Mercedes Sanz, chair of Insurance and Pensions in Fundacion Mapfre. After, Gregorio Gil de Rozas, president of the Institute of Spanish Actuaries-IAE, spoke about the legal protection of the actuarial profession in Spain. Then, Eduardo Sánchez, general assistant director of actuarial function in Mapfre, spoke about the opportunities
Nov. 16 2016: SCOR Iberian award to "The telematics revolution. How to price automobile insurance per kilometre driven?" by Jean-Philippe Boucher, Steven Coté (both from UQÀM, Québec) and Montserrat Guillen, Ana M. Pérez-Marin (UB Riskcenter) . The prize was given by the jury to the contribution to the innovation in risk and insurance products in a new digital
Oct. 6 2016: The Spanish Association of Risk Managers hold a workshop at UB on "Post Brexit forum: what the risks?" with participants from over 30 uinternational companies based in Barcelona. The speakers were D. José Mª Areliza, Profess and Chairholder of the Jean Monnet Chair – ESADE and D. Francesc Granell Trías, Emeritus Professor of International
