Katrien Antonio
Katrien Antonio is associate professor in actuarial science at the Faculty of Economics and Business of KU Leuven and University of Amsterdam. Katrien’s research interests are in insurance analytics, including (but not limited to) statistical models for ratemaking, claims reserving in P&C insurance, and (Bayesian) mortality modeling. Katrien is passionate about higher education, innovations in teaching, and actuarial science master programs in particular.
Bart Baesens
Bart Baesens is professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business of KU Leuven, and a lecturer at the University of Southampton (UK). He has done extensive research on big data & analytics, credit risk analytics and fraud analytics. Prof. Baesens regularly tutors, advises and provides consulting support to international firms with respect to their big data, analytics and fraud & credit risk management strategy.
Dominique Beckers
Dominique Beckers is visiting professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business of KU Leuven and Head Pensions at NATO. He is a pensions professional and has gained multidisiciplinary experience in most relevant aspects of pensions, including actuarial principles, mathematics, legal, communication and control & authority.
Jan Beirlant
Jan Beirlant is professor at the Department of Mathematics of KU Leuven. His main research topic is on the extreme value methodology with emphasis on applications in insurance and finance. Jan is co-author of the books Statistics of Extremes: Theory and Applications and Reinsurance: Actuarial and Statistical Aspects.
Veerle Colaert
Veerle Colaert is a financial law professor at the faculty of law of KU Leuven. Her main research interests relate to investor protection (MiFID, PRIIPs, IDD), deposit insurance, “Regtech” as a compliance solution in the financial sector, cross-sectoral financial regulation, and the interplay between different pieces of financial regulation. She is a member of the ESMA Securities and Markets Stakeholders Group and an expert member of the Belgian Commission des Assurances.
Hans Degryse
Hans Degryse is professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business of KU Leuven. He is a research fellow at the CEPR, CESIfo, the European Banking Center (EBC), and TILEC.. His research focuses on financial intermediation, including theoretical and empirical banking as well as market microstructure. He co-authored, with Moshe Kim and Steven Ongena, the graduate textbook Microeconometrics of Banking: Methods, Applications and Results. He has been consultant to national and international organizations on topics related to banking, regulation, and financial stability.
Jan De Spiegeleer
Jan De Spiegeleer accumulated over 20 years of experience in the financial markets. Based both in London and Brussels, he was a managing director at KBC Financial Products. After that he became in 2007 head of risk management at Jabre Capital Partners, a Geneva-based hedge fund management company with around $2bn of assets. Since October 2015, he works for RiskConcile, a risk-management advisory boutique. Dr De Spiegeleer is a visiting professor at the Department of Mathematics of KU Leuven. His research focus is on hybrid financial securities, the liquidity of financial markets and the application of data-mining in finance.
Jan Dhaene
Jan Dhaene is professor at KU Leuven, where he currently coordinates the Research Group in Insurance at the Faculty of Economics and Business. Jan’s research puts focus on risk measures, dependencies, and health insurance. More information about Jan can be found on his website.
Daniël Linders
Daniël Linders is an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam and part-time visiting professor at KU Leuven. His research is situated at the cross-over of quantitative finance and actuarial science and includes topics such as: implied correlation, the Herd Behavior Index, risk-neutral and real-world dependence modeling, comonotonicity, risk measures and aggregating risks.
Wim Schoutens
Wim Schoutens is professor at the Department of Mathematics of KU Leuven. His research puts focus on financial engineering and data analytics (big data) for finance and insurance. He is well known for his consulting work to the banking industry and national and supra-national institutions. He is an independent expert advisor to the European Commission (DG-COMP). Wim is the author of several books on quantitative finance and is member of different editorial boards of international finance journals.
Kristien Smedts
Kristien Smedts is a professor of finance at the Faculty of Economics and Business of KU Leuven. Her research interests focus on risk in financial markets, fragility of the financial system, and regulation of financial institutions. Other research interests include behavioral finance and asset pricing. She is an academic member of the Belgian Risk Management Association and a senior staff member at CRPD – KU Leuven.
Ine Van Hoyweghen
Ine Van Hoyweghen is Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences of KU Leuven where she directs the Life Sciences & Society Lab. Her research interests are in sociology of insurance, science and technology studies (STS), and sociology of biomedicine. She is the PI of the project “Postgenomic Solidarity. European Life Insurance in the Era of Personalised Medicine”, for which she received an Odysseus grant by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). She is a member of the Young Academy (JA) of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KVAB) and the founding chair of the Belgian Science, Technology & Society (B.STS) Network.
Cynthia Van Hulle
Cynthia Van Hulle is professor of finance at the Faculty of Economics and Business of KU Leuven. Recent publications concern corporate governance, bankruptcy, the functioning of internal capital markets in business groups and the applicability of corporate finance concepts in understanding capital structure decisions and capital structure management of insurance firms. Cynthia has served on several company boards (as member or chair) and currently is still serving in several company boards in and outside the financial sector.
Karel Van Hulle
Karel Van Hulle is associate professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business of KU Leuven and honorary professor at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, where he is attached to the International Centre for Insurance Regulation (ICIR). He is Chairman of the Insurance and Reinsurance Stakeholder Group of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) and member of the Public Interest Oversight Board (PIOB). He retired from the European Commission in March 2013 as Head of Unit with subsequent responsibilities for accounting, auditing, company law, insurance and pensions.
Caroline Van Schoubroeck
Caroline Van Schoubroeck is professor at the Faculty of Law of KU Leuven. She teaches Belgian and European insurance law and occupational social security. Since 2009 she has chaired the Belgian Commission des Assurances, an advisory board that reports to the minister on insurance regulation. She is chairman of the Belgian Section of the International Insurance Law Association (AIDA). Her research focuses on insurance contract law, especially in the field of liability insurance, and on insurance law impacting on insurance technique, such as rules imposing mechanisms of solidarity or anti-discrimination.
Tim Verdonck
Tim Verdonck is a professor at University of Antwerp and part-time professor at KU Leuven. He has a degree in Mathematics and a PhD in Science: Mathematics, obtained at the University of Antwerp. During his PhD he successfully took the Master in insurance and the Master in financial and actuarial engineering, both at KU Leuven. He belongs to ROBUST@Leuven, the research group on Robust Statistics and his research focuses on the adaptation and application of robust methods for financial, actuarial and economic data sets.
Gunther Wuyts
Gunther Wuyts is professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business of KU Leuven. His main research interests are financial markets and institutions, financial infrastructure, market microstructure and design, trading, financial intermediation, regulation and policy design, risk management and financial stability. Outside KU Leuven, he serves as independent board member for a number of funds in the asset management industry, and in the boards of the Financial Forum and the Vereniging voor Economie (VVE).
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