Honorary Doctorate for Paul Embrechts
Cass Business School of the City, University of London has awarded Professor Paul Embrechts with the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science.
Paul Embrechts has received the Honorary Doctorate "in recognition of his outstanding leadership, pioneering research in the field of actuarial mathematics and quantitative risk management and his contribution to higher education."
This is already the fourth Honorary Doctorate for the mathematician. He also received this title from the University of Waterloo, the Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, and the Université Catholique de Louvain.
Paul Embrechts is a full professor at the Department of Mathematics, external pageSenior SFI Professor and director of the external pageRiskLab Switzerland, an interdisciplinary research centre focusing on statistical modelling and quantitative risk management in insurance and finance.