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Paul Embrechts is Professor of Mathematics at the ETH Zurich specialising in actuarial mathematics and quantitative risk management.
Previous academic positions include the Universities of Leuven, Limburg and London (Imperial College). Dr. Embrechts has held visiting appointments at the University of Strasbourg, ESSEC Paris, the Scuola Normale in Pisa and the London School of Economics (Centennial Professor of Finance). He is an Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, and the Faculty of Actuaries, Corresponding Member of the Italian Institute of Actuaries and is on the editorial board of numerous scientific journals. He belongs to various national and international research and academic advisory committees. He has given numerous special invited and named lectures at international conferences and academic institutions.
He co-authored the influential books "Modelling of Extremal Events for Insurance and Finance", Springer, 1997 and "Quantitative Risk Management: Concepts, Techniques and Tools", Princeton UP, 2005 and is author of over a 100 scientific publications. He is a co-founder and current director of RiskLab at the ETH Zurich. Among the numerous prizes and rewards, he is the recipient of the prestigious 2004-INA International Prize in Mathematics and Insurance by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome.
Dr. Embrechts consults for a number of leading financial institutions and regulators, and is a member of the Board of Directors of companies in insurance and banking. | 