Quantification of risk, industrial PhD

Quantification of risk, industrial PhD

Sept 7, 2017: Alemar E. Padilla-Barreto is interviewed in the YouTube channel of the Industrial PhD program. Together with the Chief Pricing Officer of Zurich Insurance in Spain (Mr. Jordi Margarit) and the two supervisors, they describe the main challenges in the completition of an industrial PhD thesis. The video was released as an example of innovation in companies that do not ncessarily produce patents, as a clear bnchmark for industrial PhDs in Statistics, Economics and the Social Sciences, in general.

The thesis analyses the quantification of risk for insurance customers, from a comprehensive perspective and is expected to be defended by 2018.

Link to the video (bilingual, in Spanish and Catalan):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XtbaQQRv1Rg

Link to the project:
http://doctoratsindustrials.gencat.cat/files/file/attachment/2638/005_DI_ZURICH_UPC.pdf

Link to the UB Zurich Chair in Insurance and Finance
https://www.ub.edu/riskcenter/ubzurich/