Wolfgang Baumann, Towers Watson
Prof Dr Hubert Bornhorn, FH Dortmund
Hubert Borthorn is a Professor for mathematics and statistics at the Faculty of Business at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts. He is a member of the German Actuarial Association (DAV). Hubert studied mathematics in Münster and Oxford and holds a Ph.D. and a master’s degree in mathematics from WWU Münster. Hubert’s areas of expertise include Financial Risk Management, Asset Management for insurance companies and Actuarial Mathematics. Before attaining his current position he worked almost 10 years for a life insurance company.
Jörg Dittrich, Munich Re
Jörg Dittrich, studied mathematics and economics in Duisburg majoring in stochastics und actuarial sciences. He is fellow of the German Actuarial Association (DAV) and Certified Enterprise Risk Actuary (CERA). Jörg Dittrich is Senior Controller Gatekeeper in the Divisional Unit Reinsurance Controlling at Munich Re involved in the reconciliation of interest within business steering and controlling. Prior to this he was project leader within the Solvency Consulting unit of Munich Re assigned to the open source project PillarOne and responsible for the development of risk management tools and the linked consulting services. In diverse functions Jörg Dittrich participated in the development, implementation and operation of the internal model of Munich Re. He is familiar with the reinsurance business from his previous Underwriter function. Jörg Dittrich is a founding member of the DAV working group on internal models and DAA lecturer for the CERA training.
Fabian Hupe, Hannover Re
Fabian Hupe is a Senior Actuary at Hannover Re’s Insurance-Linked Securities division since 2008. His responsibilities include risk assessment and risk reporting for all non-life activities of the department. In particular, he is responsible for the valuation of individual cat bonds as well as the portfolio steering and optimization for Hannover Re’s ILS investment activities. Fabian has studied Financial Econometrics at Maastricht University (The Netherlands) and joined Hannover Re in 2005 where he initially worked in the risk management division on non-life reserving. He is a qualified actuary (DAV) since 2011 and a CFA charterholder since 2014. Furthermore, Fabian is a member of the investment committee for Leine Investment SICAV-SIF, an ILS investment vehicle based in Luxembourg.
Michael Klüttgens, Towers Watson
Michael is a Director at Towers Watson and leading its risk management activities in Germany. Michael is a member of the German Actuarial Association (DAV) and a member of the Pillar I Life working group of the Group consultatif. Michael holds a master’s degree in mathematics from RWTH Aachen. He attained the CERA credential in 2013. Michael’s areas of expertise include Risk Management, Financial Reporting, M&A and Value-Based Management. He has led many QIS related projects in Europe, including the QIS3/4 Benchmarking study for the CRO Forum, and also worked several years in the Towers Watson team at the CEA in Brussels. He has worked on group wide risk management function/ORSA implementation assignments. Michael has worked on several internal model review and implementation projects. He holds the Appointed Actuary Function for a Swiss client Michael performed multiple M&A assignments in the Nordics and CEE.
Dr Ingo Kraus, ERGO
Ingo is Head of ALM / Quantitative Methods and Models at ERGO Insurance Group, Germany. In particular, he and his team are giving quantitative support for ALM / strategic asset allocation and are in charge of many aspects of asset modeling with respect to valuation and risk management. Ingo is a member of the German Actuarial Association (DAV) and CFA chartholder. He holds a PhD in mathematics from Albert Ludwigs Universität Freiburg. Ingo’s areas of expertise include Value-Based Management, Risk Management and particularly Asset Liability Management. He worked for many years in actuarial teams (product development, valuation, actuarial steering) and later in strategic asset allocation functions.