he 3rd China International Conference on Insurance and Risk Management will be held from July 18 (Wednesday) to July 21 (Saturday), 2012 at the Copthorne Hotel Qingdao in China's Shandong 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 School of Economics of Qingdao University is the joint-organizer.

The 2012 CICIRM follows upon the successful 2nd annual conference held in Beijing (July 2011), and offers a Chinese 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, present recent academic and practical research in concurrent sessions, and exchange ideas with leading international researchers.

The theme for this year's conference is “Risk, Insurance and the Future Society”.