SCOR supports actuarial science by presenting Actuarial Awards in
six countries in 2023
Press Release14 December 2023 - N° 21
SCOR supports actuarial science by
presentingActuarial Awards in six countries in
2023
Each year since 1996, SCOR has rewarded the best
research in the field of actuarial science with prizes in several
countries.
These prizes are designed to promote the
development of actuarial science, to encourage research in this
field, and to contribute to the improvement of risk knowledge and
management. The SCOR Actuarial Awards are recognized in the
insurance and reinsurance industries as a mark of excellence. The
Actuarial Awards in France are supported by the SCOR Corporate
Foundation for Science, chaired by André Lévy-Lang.
The SCOR Actuarial Awards juries are composed of
internationally recognized researchers and insurance, reinsurance
and finance professionals. The winners are selected for their
command of actuarial concepts, the quality of their analytical
methods, and the originality of their research in terms of
scientific advances and potential practical applications to the
world of risk management.
In 2023, SCOR presented Actuarial Awards in six
countries: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and
Switzerland.
If you would like to submit your research for
the 2024 Actuarial Awards, please visit
www.scor.com/en/actuarial-awards to learn more.
Thierry Léger, Chief Executive Officer
of SCOR, comments: “As the risk landscape continues to
change ever more rapidly, the ongoing development of risk knowledge
and management is crucial for the (re)insurance industry, and I
would like to thank all our winners this year for their valuable
and insightful work. These awards, which have been rewarding
actuarial research for more than 25 years, clearly demonstrate
SCOR’s long-term commitment to pushing back the frontiers of
insurability in order to contribute to the welfare and resilience
of society.”
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SCOR Actuarial Award Winners
2023
On 29 September in Zurich,
Fabian Uffer, SCOR Chief Risk Officer, presented the Actuarial
Award for Switzerland at the annual Casualty Actuaries of Europe
(CAE) conference. The prize went to Thom van Rijn
of the University of Basel, for his Master’s thesis “Pandemics,
Wars and More: How to Correct for Singular Events in Mortality
Forecasting Models”.
On 13 October in Stockholm,
Svein Børre Solvang, CEO of SCOR Sweden Re, Michael Breuer, Head of
Central Europe and Nordics at SCOR Life & Health, and Daniel
Rufelt, representing the Swedish Actuarial Association, presented
the Actuarial Award for Sweden during the annual SCOR Sweden Re
Nordic Life Insurance Conference. The 2023 prize was awarded to
Asmir Prepic of Stockholm University, for his
Master's thesis “Application and Comparison of Machine Learning and
Traditional Methods to Insurance Pricing in Scarce Data
Environments”.
On 18 October in Madrid, the
Actuarial Awards for Spain & Portugal were presented by Ignacio
Asiain, Head of Local Pricing for Iberia and Latin America at SCOR
L&H, and Miguel Alferieff, Director of SCOR SE Sucursal en
España, in conjunction with the Actuarial Institutes of Spain and
Portugal. The first prize went to Abraham
Hernández-Pacheco (ISEG & CEMAPRE, University of
Lisbon, and Vitalis), and Roberto Carcache-Flores,
(Vitalis) , for their research paper, “Mitigating Flood Risk with
CAT Bonds: A New Orleans case Study”. The second prize was awarded
to Carmen Boado-Penas (Heriot-Watt University),
Julia Eisenberg (TU Wien), Sule
Sahin (University of York) and Georges
Tzougas (Heriot-Watt University), for their research
paper, “Social Risk Management during the First stage of a
Pandemic: Application to COVID-19”.
On 4 December in Cologne, the
German Actuarial Awards jury named the winners for 2023. They are
Dr. Simon Pojer of the University of Graz
(Austria), for his doctoral dissertation “Analysis of risk models
driven by certain Poisson cluster processes”, Dr. Philipp
Aigner of the University of Mainz, for his doctoral
dissertation “Essays on the Scenario-based Measurement of Financial
Risks”, and Laura Bader of the University of Ulm,
for her Master’s thesis “Modellierung von
Übergangswahrscheinlichkeiten für Storno und Beitragsfreistellung”
(Modelling of transition probabilities for lapse and waiver of
premium). The winners will receive their awards at a ceremony due
to be held in Cologne in the first half of 2024.
On 13 December in Milan,
Manuela Colombo, P&C Market Manager and Legal Representative
for SCOR Italy, and president of the jury Professor Nino Savelli of
Milan’s Università Cattolica, presented the 2023 Actuarial Awards
for Italy. The awards went to Saverio Belvedere of
Milan’s Università Cattolica, for his Master’s thesis “Modelling
Cybersecurity Insurance”, and Valentina Caliri of
the University of Trieste, for her Master’s thesis “Modelli di
Markov per la valutazione del rischio di ondate di calore: un
case-study in condizioni di dipendenza estrema” (Markov models for
heat wave risk assessment: a case-study under extreme dependency
conditions).
On 13 December in Paris,
Thierry Léger, Chief Executive Officer of SCOR, presented the 2023
Actuarial Awards for France, in conjunction with the French
Institute of Actuaries and in the presence of its president,
Laurence Bauduin. Antoine Heranval, of Sorbonne
University, received the Prix des Jeunes Docteurs for his doctoral
dissertation “Contributions des données de l’assurance à l’étude
des risques naturels » (Contribution of insurance data to the study
of natural risks).” The Prix des Jeunes Actuaires was awarded to
Mulah Moriah of l’Euro-Institut d’Actuariat
(EURIA) for his thesis “Mesure et mitigation des biais : vers une
tarification non-vie réellement équitable” (Measuring and
mitigating bias: towards genuinely fair non-life pricing).
The winning papers can be accessed from the Actuarial Awards
page on SCOR’s website:
https://www.scor.com/en/actuarial-awards
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