The ARC was initially established in 2012 to support the next generation of actuarial researchers through the sponsorship of PhD studentships that consider current challenges faced by industry.
To support the quality of the research delivered through the ARC, the IFoA has appointed three world-leading actuarial experts and senior academics to fulfil the roles of ARC Director and ARC Associate Directors to provide academic oversight. The Directors will oversee the IFoA’s cutting edge research programme to further actuarial science worldwide.
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Professor Andrew Cairns (Heriot-Watt University) – has been appointed ARC Director
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Professor Steve Haberman (Cass Business School, City University London)– has been appointed as ARC Associate Director, with a focus on Europe and North America.
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Professor Shaun Wang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) – has been appointed ARC Associate Director, with a focus on the Asia Pacific.
Fiona Morrison, President of the IFoA, comments: “The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries is delighted to be expanding the Actuarial Research Centre into a leading international centre of excellence that builds on its previous outstanding work providing valuable research for the actuarial profession and the industries in which actuaries work. The new ARC Directors form an authoritative team to take this work forward and direct a world-class research programme.”
Professor Mark Cross, Chair of the IFoA’s Research and Thought Leadership Committee, comments: “The Actuarial Research Centre offers an exciting opportunity for the IFoA to deliver research that combines the power of leading researchers, practitioners and the actuarial profession. We are very much looking forward to working with these three world leading actuarial academics as the new panel of ARC Directors to help support the new ARC. They bring with them many decades of research experience that will benefit the actuarial community around the world through supporting the delivery of a high quality research agenda.”
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