The IRSG advisory body is made up of directors of European insurers, representatives of consumer organisations, and independent scientific experts from Europe. Members of the IRSG provide solicited and unsolicited recommendations to EIOPA in all areas falling under EIOPA’s mandate. Roger Laeven will be inaugurated in April 2016 in Frankfurt and will serve for a period of two-and-a-half years.
About
Roger Laeven (1979) is Full Professor (Chair of Risk and Insurance) at the Department of Quantitative Economics, University of Amsterdam. Roger holds an MSc (Fields: Actuarial Science and Econometrics, With highest honors) and a PhD (Fields: Actuarial Science and Econometrics, With highest honors), both from the University of Amsterdam. In 2004, he was a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics, Department of Statistics, and from 2007-date he is a visiting research fellow at Princeton University, Bendheim Center for Finance. From 2001-2005, he was a part-time consultant for Mercer Oliver Wyman, and from 2007-2011, he was a tenured Associate Professor at Tilburg University.
Roger’s PhD thesis was awarded the Christiaan Huygens Prize 2007 by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). In 2006, Roger was awarded a Veni grant by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for his research project ‘Measurement of Multivariate Risk in Insurance and Finance’, and in 2009 he was awarded a Vidi grant by NWO for his research project ‘Econometrics of Contagion in Insurance and Finance’. Roger teaches the core course ‘Asset Pricing’ at TI.