Ken Seng Tan, ASA, CERA, is President's Chair in Actuarial Risk Management, Professor of Actuarial Science and Deputy Division Head (Actuarial Science) in the Division of Banking and Finance, Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He is also the Director of Insurance Risk and Finance Research Centre (www.irfrc.com). Formerly he held the Canada Research Chair Professor in Quantitative Risk Management in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Canada, and the Associate Director of the Waterloo Research institute in Insurance, Securities and Quantitative finance (WatRISQ). He was affiliated with the Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China, as the Hon. Director of China Institute for Actuarial Science, a key research institute as designated by the Ministry of Education, China.

Professor Tan is very active in conducting research, reforming education and strengthening the profession, including serving as the member of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Grant’s Mathematics and Statistics Evaluation Group, elected council member for the Society of Actuaries (SOA)’s International Section, Joint Risk Management Section, and Investment Section, member of the Research Council Committee, member of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries' task force on Liaison with Banks and Trusts, and the Chief Actuarial Advisor for “Risk Management, Economic Sustainability, and Actuarial Science Development in Indonesia (READI),” a government-to-government development project between Canada and Indonesia.

Professor Tan is the co-editor of North American Actuarial Journal (NAAJ) and the Associate Editor of the Annals of Actuarial Science and Agricultural Finance Review. He publishes in top-tier actuarial, insurance and finance journals including Journal of Risk and Insurance, Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, NAAJ, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Management Science.