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2021 | Annual Actuarial Awards

Each year, the SCOR Foundation holds the French Actuarial Awards in Paris in partnership with the French Institute of Actuaries

Actuarial Prize 2021

The Foundation places great importance on the development of actuarial science and risk management, and each year rewards the best actuarial diploma dissertation submitted by a French, Belgian or Swiss institution (Prix des Jeunes Actuaires) as well as the best doctoral thesis on topics relating to an economic, financial or insurance issue linked to risk management (Prix des Jeunes Docteurs).

Denis Kessler, Chairman of SCOR, presented the 2021 Actuarial Awards for France during a conference held on December 9, 2021, in conjunction with the French Institute of Actuaries.

Dominique Abgrall, of the Université de Bretagne occidentale, received the Prix des Jeunes Docteurs for his thesis “Studies of change-point detection: on-line scheme for discrete Poisson models and off-line test for parametric mixtures. Application to insurance problems.” 

The Prix des Jeunes Actuaires was awarded to Silvia Bucci of the Ecole nationale de la Statistique et de l’administration économique (ENSAE) for her dissertation “Étude et implémentation de techniques d’analyse de sensibilité dans les modèles de tarification Non-Vie. Application à la tarification à l’adresse” (Study and implementation of sensitivity analysis techniques in Non-Life pricing models. Application to address home pricing).

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To consult all of the award-winning dissertations and theses, go to the dedicated Actuarial Awards page here.