This month, we have the pleasure of interviewing Jacek Skwierczynski of Poland. Jacek is president of the Polish Institute of Actuaries, Chief Risk Officer of Open Life in Poland, and loves bowties. He holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Warsaw Technical University and started his career as a…

Probability and Statistics: A Problem Solving Text, New 2nd Edition

Mark Maxwell, ASA, PhD, is a co-author of Probability and Statistics with Applications: A Problem Solving Text, (ACTEX, 2015). To celebrate the release of the text's 2nd Edition, this month ACTEX sat down with the authors and discussed their approach to developing this textbook, among other things!…

This month we have the pleasure of interviewing Rodrigo Silva from Colombia. Rodrigo Silva is a Principal at Mercer. Rodrigo currently serves approximately 110 clients in Colombia in the areas of local actuarial valuations, implementing international financial standards (US-GAAP / IFRS) and the…

Q & A with ACTEX author Jeff Blacker on his forthcoming book, Actuaries in Microinsurance: Managing Risk for the Underserved (ACTEX, 2015)

Born in 1978 in Antakya, Taylan Matkap graduated from Ankara University, Department of Statistics and completed his master's degree in the Department of Actuarial Sciences and Finance at Boston University. He is currently pursuing his doctorate studies at Istanbul University, Department of Labor…

Slagjana Mailjkovikj, Ph.D. works as an actuary in the Insurance Supervision Agency of the Republic of Macedonia (Wikipedia link) since 2010. After earning a bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics - Mathematical Programming in 2007, she continued her education on the field of Applied Mathematics…