IACA: Climate Change or Not: What Is the Role of Actuaries in Addressing Concerns About the Climate?

A Climate Change Series by the IACA Section - Part 2

Climate Change or Not: What is the Role of Actuaries in Addressing Concerns About Climate Change?

This presentation asks a thought-provoking question:
Should the actuarial profession be making pronouncements about Climate Change when it manifestly lacks the necessary expertise on the topic?

Join us for a rousing, informative presentation on a controversial and timely topic that delves into whether actuaries should engage in the political discourse on Climate Change—and whether doing so strengthens or undermines the profession.

Ira Robbin | Speaker 
Dr. Ira L. Robbin Dr. Ira L. Robbin, ACAS, is now semi-retired and living in Florida, working on remote reinsurance pricing and modeling jobs and providing advice on underwriting and reserving. Before that he was an Assistant Professor teaching Math and Statistics at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, Connecticut. This academic tour followed a long actuarial career working in pricing, reserving, and capital modeling positions for several large insurers and reinsurers. He has written papers and made numerous presentations on a range of conceptual and technical topics including catastrophe pricing, capital modeling, profitability, reserving, credibility, reserve risk, and climate change. He has an undergraduate degree in Math from Michigan State and a PhD in Math from Rutgers.