2009 Actuarial Research Event at Illinois State University

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The 2009 Actuarial Research Event at Illinois State University will be held on Friday, April 17, 2009 at 5 p.m. in the College of Business room 357. The event will be this special lecture:

Dr. Keith Holler, FCAS, ASA, ARM, Vice President of Travelers Insurance will speak on Predictive Modeling in Property/Casualty Insurance.

Dr. Holler works in Travelers National Programs with responsibility for managing the actuarial pricing and reserving functions. Prior to joining National Programs, Dr. Holler led the Personal Insurance Research and Development team at Travelers, which was instrumental in the development of the Quantum Auto and Quantum Home products. Before re-joining Travelers, Dr. Holler worked at the Hartford in their Personal Lines Research and Development team and their Claims Research and Development team. In the period from 1993 to 1998, he was a consultant with Tillinghast. Dr. Holler started his career with Travelers. Dr. Holler holds a Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Statistics from the University of Connecticut, and M.A. and B.S. degrees from the University of Buffalo. He is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (FCAS), an Associate of the Society of Actuaries (ASA), and an Associate in Risk Management (ARM). Dr. Holler has written about a dozen papers and articles in various insurance and actuarial publications, and has given many presentations at various conferences including the most recent Casualty Actuarial Society Predictive Modeling Conference.

Dr. Holler is a member of the Advisory Board of the Actuarial Program at Illinois State University.

For more information, please see:
http://www.math.ilstu.edu/actuary/events.html