Gareth W. Peters
Gareth W. Peters is an Australian professor who specializes in actuarial science. He holds an endowed chair at the University of California, Santa Barbara and is an honorary professor of statistics at University College London. As of 2024, he also serves on the international advisory board of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics.
Education and early work: He earned a Bachelor of Engineering and a Bachelor of Science with first-class honors from the University of Melbourne, a Master of Science from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of New South Wales. His PhD thesis was Advances in approximate Bayesian computation and trans-dimensional sampling methodology.
Career path: Peters has taught at Heriot-Watt University, University College London, and the University of New South Wales before joining UCSB.
Research and publications: He has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles on risk and insurance modelling and authored two textbooks on Operational Risk and Insurance. He has also edited or contributed to three edited volumes on Monte Carlo methods and spatial statistics. His work has been cited by the Swiss Association of Actuaries and has informed central bank discussions around the world.
Main areas of interest: Actuarial Science; Statistics for Risk and Insurance; Time Series Econometrics.
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