The 3rd International Longevity Risk and Capital Market Solutions Symposium

Professor David Blake, U. K.
	Dr David Blake is Professor of Pension Economics and Director of the Pensions Institute at Cass Business School, City of London, and Chairman of Square Mile Consultants, a training and research consultancy. Formerly Director of the Securities Industry Programme at City University Business School, Research Fellow at both the London Business School and the London School of Economics and Professor of Financial Economics at Birkbeck College, University of London. Consultant to many organisations, including Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, Union Bank of Switzerland, Paribas Capital Markets, JPMorgan, McKinsey & Co., Financial Research Services Ltd, James Capel, Schroders, UNESCO, Taunton Cider Company, Hill and Knowlton, the Independent Television Companies Association, the Office of Fair Trading, the Office for National Statistics, the National Audit Office, Financial Services Authority, Association of British Insurers, the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales, the Government Actuary's Department, the Department for Work & Pensions, HM Treasury, the Bank of England, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Prime Minister's Policy Directorate.
Professor Richard MacMinn, U. S. A.
	Professor Richard D. MacMinn, BA, MA, PhD, is the first holder of the Edmondson-Miller Chair in Insurance and Financial Services at Illinois State University and was previously the first holder of the Swiss Re Chair in the Management of Risk at the University of Nottingham. He was editor of the Journal of Risk and Insurance, the lead journal in the world on insurance and risk management, published by the American Risk and Insurance Association from 1998 through 2006. He is an associate editor for the Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance, the Journal of Insurance Issues and the Quarterly Journal of Economics and Finance. Professor MacMinn served as a board member of the Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association from 2000-2003, as a board member for the American Risk and Insurance Association from 2003-2006 and is a member of the American Risk and Insurance Association, Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association, European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists, Southern Risk and Insurance Association, Western Risk and Insurance Association, American Economic Association and American Finance Association. He has published in journals including the Journal of Risk and Insurance, Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Geneva Papers, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Journal of Finance. He has thrice won the prestigious Mehr Award in addition to a number of other awards from the American Risk and Insurance Association, Casualty Actuarial Society, and General Insurance Research Organization in the United Kingdom and Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association for his publications.
Professor Jennifer Wang, Taiwan.
	Dr Jennifer Wang is the Associate Professor of Department of Risk Management and Insurance at National Cheng-Chi University. She is the associate editor of Journal of Insurance Issue published by Western Risk and Insurance Association in U.S.A. Professor Wang also serve as a board member of the Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association, as a member of Consulting Board for Bureau of Labor Insurance and for Public Service Pension Fund in Taiwan, as the Board of Governors for Pension Funds Association in Taiwan, and as a research fellow of China Center for Insurance and Social Security Research in Peking University, China. Her research interest is in pension fund management and annuity market, social Insurance, risk management and Insurance. She has published paper in many international journals including the Journal of Risk and Insurance, Geneva Papers, Journal of Actuarial Practice and Risk Management and Insurance Review, etc..

Professor David Blake, U. K.

Professor Richard MacMinn, U. S. A.

Professor Jennifer Wang, Taiwan.