The 9th China International Conference on Insurance and Risk Management (CICIRM) will be held on July 18-21, 2018 at Power Valley International Hotel in Baoding, Hebei province. 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 the School of Economics, Hebei University. Following successful meetings in Xining (2010), Beijing (2011), Qingdao (2012), Kunming (2013), Shenzhen (2014), Hangzhou (2015), Xi’an (2016), and Guilin (2017), 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 eight 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), and Paul Embrechts (ETH Zurich).

The CICIRM’s conference proceedings have been accepted for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) since 2011. The proceedings of CICIRM 2018 will continue to be published by Tsinghua University Press and submitted for indexing by CPCI.