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).

President of the jury Professor Stéphane Loisel of CNAM presented the 2025 Actuarial Awards for France in December 2025, following the annual actuarial conference organized in conjunction with the French Institute of Actuaries. Also present at the ceremony were SCOR CEO Thierry Léger, SCOR Foundation Director Philippe Trainar, and Second Vice President of the Institute of Actuaries, David Dubois. 

Samuel Stocksieker, of Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, received the Prix des Jeunes Docteurs for his doctoral thesis “Contribution of Machine Learning in Modeling Rare Values and Imbalanced Data.” The jury also gave an honorable mention to Hervé Andres of École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, for his doctoral thesis “Modélisation et validation des scénarios économiques monde-réel en assurance: prise en compte des propriétés trajectorielles” (Modeling and validation of real-world scenarios in insurance: taking pathwise properties into account). The Prix des Jeunes Actuaires was awarded to Pauline Chauveau of Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, for her actuarial thesis “Impact de la conjoncture économique sur l’activité d’un assureur-crédit” (Impact of the economic environment on the activity of a credit insurer).

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