Prof. dr. Roger J. A. Laeven has been a Full Professor, holding the Chair of Mathematics and Economics of Risk, at the Department of Quantitative Economics of the University of Amsterdam since 2011. Furthermore, he has been a Visiting Research Professor at Princeton University, Bendheim Center for Finance, since 2007. He serves as Editor of Insurance: Mathematics and Economics. He is the Director and Co-Founder of the Amsterdam Center of Excellence in Risk, Resilience and Regulation (AC3R).

Prof. Laeven's research spans the fields of Actuarial Science, Mathematical Finance, Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics, Financial Econometrics, Operations Research, and (Micro) Economic Theory, and has appeared in the top academic journals in all these fields (Ann. Stat.; Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré Probab. Stat.; Bernoulli; Financ. Stoch.; Insurance Math. Econom.; J. Amer. Statist. Assoc.; J. Bus. Econ. Stat.; J. Econometrics; J. Econ. Theory; J. Financ. Econ.; J. Financ. Quant. Anal.; Manage Sci.; Math. Oper. Res.; Oper. Res.). For more information about professor Roger J. A. Laeven, please visit here.

Mario Wüthrich is Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Director of Actuarial Studies at ETH Zurich. He holds a PhD (doctorate) in Mathematics from ETH Zurich (1999). From 2000 to 2005, he held an actuarial position at Winterthur Insurance, Switzerland. He is Actuary SAA (2004), served on the board of the Swiss Association of Actuaries (2006-2018), he is Editor-in-Chief of the ASTIN Bulletin (since 2018), and he is Senior Scientific Advisor of InsureAI (since 2025). For more information about professor Wüthrich, please visit here.

Dacheng Xiu specializes in developing statistical methodologies and their applications to financial data to investigate economic implications. His earlier research involved risk measurement and portfolio management with high-frequency data and econometric modeling of derivatives. Currently, he focuses on developing machine learning solutions for big-data problems in empirical asset pricing. His research has appeared in Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of the American Statistical Association, and Annals of Statistics. For more information about professor Xiu, please visit here.

Justin Sydnor is the American Family Insurance Distinguished Chair in Risk Management and Insurance. He currently serves as the department chair for the Risk and Insurance Department.

Sydnor earned his B.A. in economics and German from UW-Madison and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also a member of the Penn Roybal Center Advisory Committee for the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics and a member of the Risk Theory Society.

His research interests are in the areas of behavioral economics, applied microeconomics, insurance markets, and decision making under risk and uncertainty. His work has been published in a range of leading journals in economics and business, including the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Review of Economics and Statistics, Management Science, among others. For more information about professor Justin Sydnor, please visit here.