• Francisco Villavicencio CHAIR
  (Universitat de Barcelona)
• Eva Boj del Val
  (Universitat de Barcelona)
• Teresa Costa Cor
  (Universitat de Barcelona)
• Laura Gónzalez-Vila Puchades
  (Universitat de Barcelona)
• Maite Mármol Jiménez
  (Universitat de Barcelona)
• Merche Galisteo Rodríguez
  (Universitat de Barcelona)
• Oriol Roch Casellas
  (Universitat de Barcelona)
• Sara Solanilla Blanco
  (Universitat de Barcelona)
• Xavier Varea Soler
  (Universitat de Barcelona)

Professor in the Department of Actuarial Science

HEC Lausanne-Université de Lausanne

Séverine Arnold is 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/mortality modeling, with a particular interest in cause-specific mortality rates, and on social security financial systems and inclusive insurance.

With the University of York and Liverpool, she is currently building a Consortium of Excellence for the 17 Goals (C-17), that will serve as the premier hub for Academia, Industry, NGOs and Governments from all over the world to promote and achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Drawing its strength from Actuarial Science and related disciplines, the Consortium will become an international driver of transformative research, of research-infused innovative learning and training as well as of modern policy, aimed to facilitate the UN’s 2030 Agenda for a better world.

In addition to teaching and research, she was involved in social security projects with the International Labour Organization, is the Chair of the International Actuarial Association (IAA) Life Section Research Committee, a member of the IAA Mortality Virtual Forum and a member of the Social Security Sub-Committee of the AAE (Actuarial Association of Europe). She also represents the Confederation in the Swiss Occupational Pension Supervisory Commission. More recently, she started to collaborate with the International Labour Organization on projects related to inclusive insurance.

Professor in the Department of Economics and Business Administration

Director of the Department of Economics and Business Administration University of Alcalá

Full Professor of Finance at the University of Alcalá (Spain). He holds a PhD in Economics and has developed an extensive academic career focused on the valuation of financial derivatives and risk management.

His research covers several key areas, including equity and commodity derivatives, longevity risk management—particularly reverse mortgages—and advanced financial modeling using GARCH-type approaches with higher-order moments. His work on commodity derivatives has been especially notable for incorporating stochastic seasonal effects into pricing models.

He has published widely in leading international journals across finance and economics and has presented his research at major conferences such as the European Financial Management meetings and the Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Actuarial Sciences and Finance (MAF) conference.
Beyond academia, his research has had practical impact through collaborations with institutions such as Iberdrola and ICEA, as well as through executive training in derivatives valuation and financial risk management. He has also supervised several doctoral theses and contributed as an evaluator for national research agencies, supporting the development of research in finance and actuarial science.

Professor in the Department of Insurance

Faculty of Economics and Finance Wroclaw University of Economics and Business

Patrycja Kowalczyk-Rólczyńska, PhD, DSc, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Insurance at the Wroclaw University of Economics and Business in Poland. She also holds a master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Wroclaw, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science.

Her research focuses on equity release, household finance (especially older people), insurance, and pension systems. She is also an editor of the Financial Science journal. Furthermore, she is an individual member of the Classification and Data Analysis Group of the Polish Statistical Association and the International Network for Pension Research.

She has participated in numerous national and international scientific conferences and teaching internships. Since 2017, she has served as a court expert in accounting and finance/economics, specialising in the settlement of credit and leasing agreements, the valuation of life annuities and the evaluation of the effectiveness of investment products (including pension security).