Conference hostsAndrew Cairns
Dr Andrew Cairns is Professor of Financial Mathematics at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
He is well known both in the UK and internationally for his research in financial risk management for pension plans and life insurers, with particular focus on asset-liability modelling and long-term interest-rate risk management. More recently he has been working on the modelling of longevity risk: how this can be modelled, measured and priced, and how it can be transferred to the financial markets. Amongst his work in this field, he has developed a number of new and innovative stochastic mortality models: work that has established him as one of the world's leading experts on the modelling of longevity risk.
He is an active member of the UK and international actuarial profession in both research and education: he qualified as a Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries in 1993; since 1996 he has been editor of the leading international actuarial journal ASTIN Bulletin; and in 2005 he was elected as a corresponding member of the Swiss Association of Actuaries.
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