Short Biography

Professional qualifications

FIAA – Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia
CERA – Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary
GAICD – Graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company directors
Actuary SAA – Fully Qualified Actuary with the Swiss Association of Actuaries

[2020 - ] – Professor (Full) of Actuarial Studies, Centre for Actuarial Studies, Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne, Australia
[2015 - 2020] – Associate Professor of Actuarial Studies, School of Risk and Actuarial Studies, UNSW Australia Business School, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia
[2015 - 2018] – Professeur associé en actuariat¹, Département de Mathématiques et de Statistique, Faculté des Arts et des Sciences, Université de Montréal (UdeM), Canada
[2013 - 2015] – Professeur agrégé en actuariat², Département de Mathématiques et de Statistique, Faculté des Arts et des Sciences, Université de Montréal (UdeM), Canada
[2013 - 2015] – Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Risk and Actuarial Studies, UNSW Australia Business School, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia
[2010 - 2013] – Senior Lecturer of Actuarial Studies, School of Risk and Actuarial Studies, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, Australia
[2008 - 2010] – Lecturer of Actuarial Studies, School of Actuarial Studies, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, Australia
[2005 - 2008] – Various casual lecturer positions, University of Lausanne & Bordeaux Business School
[2003 - 2008] – Teaching and Research assistant, University of Lausanne

[2023 – 2026] – Non-Executive Director, Management Board of the Theatre Royal (Hobart, Tasmania). Member (Chair from 2025) of the Finance, Audit, and Risk Committee (FRAC).
[2021 – 2022] – Elected Councillor, Caulfield Junior College. Convenor, Policy Review and Development Subcommittee
[2020 – 2022] – Elected Board Member, École Française Melbourne (EFM) Vice-President since 2021
[2018 – 2019] – Non-Executive Director, Lycee Condorcet the International French School of Sydney
[2014 – 2015] – Actuarial consulting, Service de consultation en actuariat (Université de Montréal)
[2008 – 2012] – Non-Executive Director, Fondation Comoedia, Switzerland (group insurance)
[2007 – 2008] – Founder, Executive Director, Fondation Comoedia, Switzerland (group insurance)
[2006 – 2008] – Executive Director, Chair, Fondation de prévoyance Artes et Comoedia, Switzerland (pension fund, 200 employers, 2000 insured)
[2004 – 2004] – Consultant, La Suisse Assurances (actuarial department for group life), Lausanne, Switzerland

2008: PhD – University of Lausanne, Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC Lausanne), Actuarial Science (supervisor: Prof. Hans U. Gerber)
2005: Lic Oec – University of Lausanne, Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC Lausanne), Business, major in Actuarial Science

2023: Hachemeister Prize, awarded by the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) for the paper Ensemble distributional forecasting for insurance loss reserving which was presented at the 2022 ASTIN Colloquium
2022: Highly Commended Paper Prize, awarded by United Kingdom Institute and Faculty of Actuaries for the paper SPLICE: A Synthetic Paid Loss and Incurred Cost Experience Simulator (published in the Annals of Actuarial Science)
2018: Taylor Fry General Insurance Seminar Silver Prize, awarded by an independent panel for the paper How to proxy the unmodellable: Analysing granular insurance claims in the prescence of unobservable or complex drivers (Australian Actuaries Institute General Insurance Seminar, November 2018)
2017: Hachemeister Prize, awarded by the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) for the paper Correlations between insurance lines of business: An illusion or a real phenomenon? Some methodological considerations (2016, ASTIN Bulletin, 46:2)

2024: Prize for Exceptional Distinction in Research: Research Excellence (Level D-E) category, The University of Melbourne Faculty of Business and Economics and Melbourne Business School Deans’ Excellence Awards.
2018: The Dean’s Distinguished Leadership Award in recognition of exceptional and sustained contributions to the achievement of the goals of the UNSW School of Business and Strategy 2025.
2011: Australian School of Business Teaching Excellence Award: for “Outstanding Technology-Enabled Teaching Innovation Business School Deans’ Excellence Awards.