by Pietro Parodi (Author)
Pricing in General Insurance, Second Edition presents pricing as a formalised process that starts with collecting information about a particular policyholder or risk and ends with a commercially informed rate.
Author Biography
Pietro Parodi has worked in general insurance pricing since 2005. He is currently Head of Methods and Tools for SCOR Specialty Insurance, and since 2012 a part-time lecturer at Bayes (formerly Cass) Business School. He has previously worked at Willis, Aon Benfield and Swiss Re. He is a fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries in the UK.
In his previous professional incarnations, he was a network administrator/IT project manager and a research scientist in the fields of artificial intelligence and neuroscience. He has a MSc and a PhD in Physics from the University of Genoa, Italy. Prior to university, he studied as an electronics technician at St John Bosco's secondary school in Genoa, where he could have developed some serious practical skills had his attention not been hijacked by the maths around Laplace transforms.
In 2012 he received the Brian Hey Award for his paper Triangle-free reserving, which he presented at GIRO.
He lives in East London with his wife and his four children.