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Department of Statistics & Actuarial ScienceThe University of Hong Kong 統� 計� 及� 精� 算� 學� 系

by Professor Jan Dhaene Actuarial Research Group Department of Accountancy, Finance & Insurance (AFI) Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Closing Remarksby Mr. Simon Walpole

President-elect, Actuarial Society of Hong Kong Principal, Deloitte Actuarial & Insurance Solutions (HK) Ltd.

Date : April 7, 2009 (Tuesday) Time : 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.Venue : Rayson Huang Theatre, HKU Tea Reception : 5:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

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About Professor Jan DhaeneJan Dhaene is a Professor in the Actuarial Research Group of the Department Accoun-tancy, Finance & Insurance (AFI) of K.U.Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium). His main research interests are in computation of aggregate claims distributions, modeling dependencies in insurance portfolios and incorporating stochastic financial aspects in actuarial models. He has published over 80 scientific papers in refereed journals. Together with R. Kaas, M. Goovaerts and M. Denuit, he is a co-author of the books “Modern Actu-arial Risk Theory”, Kluwer, 2001, “Actuarial Theory for Dependent Risks”, Wiley, 2005 and “Modern Actuarial Risk Theory, using R”, Springer, 2008. He is an Associate Editor of ‘Insur-ance: Mathematics & Economics’, member of the Editorial Board of ASTIN Bulletin and Advisory Editor of Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. He is a member of the K.V.B.A. (Royal Society of Belgian Actuaries) and I.A.A. (International Actuarial Associa-tion). He is a co-founder of consulting firm VACS, a spin-off of K.U.Leuven.

About Mr. Simon WalpoleSimon joined Deloitte in September 1992 and was based in Europe until he came to Asia in 2002. Simon has extensive experience in assisting Asian and European clients in embedded and appraisal valuations, including numerous merger and acquisition assignments, prod-uct development, business planning, and assessing business and strategic options. He is a member of the council of the Actuarial Society of Hong Kong and in 2009 became Vice-President and President-elect of the society.

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