The 11th China International Conference on Insurance and Risk Management (CICIRM 2020/2021) will be held on July 14-17, 2021 at Heilongjiang Sun Island Garden Hotel (also called ACFTU Model Worker Harbin Center for Skills Exchange) in Harbin, capital of northeast China’s Heilongjiang province.

Given the ongoing uncertainty presented by the COVID-19 epidemic situation, the CICIRM 2020/2021 will be held both online and offline. Contributions are welcome！

The conference is jointly organized by Tsinghua University’s China Center for Insurance and Risk Management (CCIRM) and the Cass Business School of City University, London, and hosted by Northeast Agricultural University College of Economics and Management. Following successful meetings in Xining (2010), Beijing (2011), Qingdao (2012), Kunming (2013), Shenzhen (2014), Hangzhou (2015), Xi’an (2016), Guilin (2017), Baoding (2018) and Chengdu (2019), this year’s CICIRM will again provide China’s premier annual forum for international communication and cooperation in the studies of insurance, risk management, and actuarial science.

CICIRM attendees will have the opportunity to hear from distinguished speakers, exchange ideas with leading international researchers, present recent academic and practical research in parallel sessions, and discuss the latest academic and practical research on current importance within the field of insurance, risk management, and actuarial science. Over the past ten years, numerous distinguished researchers have served as keynote speakers, including: Howard Kunreuther (University of Pennsylvania), Sharon Tennyson (Cornell University), Gene Lai (Washington State University), Christopher Parsons (City University, London), Patrick Brockett (University of Texas-Austin), Richard MacMinn (Illinois State University), David Cummins (Temple University), Mary Weiss (Temple University), Jan Dhaene (KU Leuven), Georges Dionne (HEC Montréal), Christian Gollier (Toulouse School of Economics), Mark Browne (St. John’s University), David Babbel (University of Pennsylvania), Andreas Richter (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München), Patricia Born (Florida State University), Olivia Mitchell (University of Pennsylvania), Paul Embrechts (ETH Zurich) , David Blake (City University London) , Shaun Shuxun Wang (Nanyang Technological University), Richard D. MacMinn (University of Texas), ZHUO Zhi (Southwestern University of Finance and Economic), Phelim P. Boyle (Wilfrid Laurier University) and Mary Hardy (University of Waterloo).

The CICIRM’s conference proceedings have been accepted for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) since 2011. The proceedings of CICIRM 2020/2021 will continue to be published by Tsinghua University Press and submitted for indexing CNKI and evaluation and potential indexing by CPCI.