Jens Perch Nielsen

Actuary from Copenhagen and statistician from UC-Berkeley. Worked as appointed actuary in his young days and led various product development departments before specialising in research and development. He became research director of RSA with responsibilities in life as well as non-life in 1999. From 2006 until 2012 he worked as an entreprenuer and he is still co-owner and board member of Copenhagen based ScienceFirstand Cyprus based Emergent. He is co-author of more than 100 scientific papers in reviewed journals of actuarial science, economics, econometrics and statistics and also one book on quantitative operational risk modelling and associate editor of a number of journals.

Memberships of professional organisations

• Associated member, Institute of Actuaries, London, Jun 2014 – present
• Fellow, Royal Society of Statistics, London, Aug 2013 – present
• Full qualified member. Former member of board., Danish Institute of Actuarial Science, Jan 1993 – present

Award

University of Copenhagen (2006) Honory Professor (Adjungated professor)

Languages

Danish