The Handbook of Insurance-Linked Securities

Dr PAULINE BARRIEU is a Reader (associate professor) at the London School of Economics. She has two PhDs in Mathematics and in Finance. Her research interests are mainly on the study of problems at the interface between finance and insurance, in particular ILS. She also works on quantitative methods for risk measurement and robust decision taking, with applications in finance and environmental economics.

LUCA ALBERTINI is Chief Executive Officer of Leadenhall Capital Partners, an asset management company dedicated to insurance linked investments strategies. Luca has over 16 year’s securitisation experience, having worked at Citibank, GE Capital, Credit Suisse First Boston and at Swiss Re, where he became responsible for the European Insurance Linked Securities team.