Actuarial Research Event April 19

Date: 4/3/07
Contact: Kathy Beal

Richard MacMinn, the Edmondston-Miller Chair in Insurance and Financial Services at Illinois State University, will present “Catastrophic Risk Management” at 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 19, in the auditorium of the Chateau hotel as part of the 2007 Actuarial Research Event. His presentation is free and open to the public, but the event organizers are asking for RSVPs to be sent by e-mail to actuary@IllinoisState.edu or by phone to Susan Mitchell at (309) 438-7797 or by fax to (309) 438-5866.

MacMinn is one of most prominent researchers in risk and insurance in the world. He was an editor of the Journal of Risk and Insurance, the leading journal in the world on insurance and risk management, published by the American Risk and Insurance Association, from 1998 through 2006. He is an associate editor for the Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance, the Journal of Insurance Issues and the Quarterly Journal of Economics and Finance.

MacMinn served as a board member of the Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association and for the American Risk and Insurance Association and is a member of the American Risk and Insurance Association, Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association, European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists, Southern Risk and Insurance Association, Western Risk and Insurance Association, American Economic Association and American Finance Association.

MacMinn has published in journals including the Journal of Risk and Insurance, Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Geneva Papers, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics and Journal of Finance. He has won the prestigious Mehr Award three times as well as a number of other awards from the American Risk and Insurance Association, Casualty Actuarial Society, and General Insurance Research Organization in the United Kingdom and Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association for his publications.