How do you experience the collaboration between academia and industry in actuarial science? What works well and where might there be room for improvement?
“That's a very interesting question, and one that is particularly relevant for the kind of work or research that I do. Working on actuarial data science, that has been a very important driver and a very important stimulus of some of my research contributions. Our collaborations with insurance companies, or pension funds, allowed us or stimulated us to work on a question or challenge that they were confronted with in their daily activities. They were also able to give us access to work on their data and on the specific problems that they were facing. So that really was a driver for some of the recent contributions that we worked on – either in pricing or in reserving or in mortality modelling with data science tools, so I'm really grateful. For me, it's very inspiring to work and be able to collaborate with insurance companies on their problems, using their data sets.
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