Gary G. Venter, FCAS, MAAA is Managing Director of Guy Carpenter, in the Instrat group. He joined Instrat in 1994 after twenty years in the insurance and reinsurance industry, directly from the Workers Compensation Reinsurance Bureau, where he served as President. He has held actuarial positions at Firemans Fund, Prudential Reinsurance, and the National Council on Compensation Insurance. Gary has an undergraduate degree in mathematics and philosophy from UC Berkeley and a Masters in mathematics from Stanford University. He has served on numerous committees of the Casualty Actuarial Society and American Acad-emy of Actuaries, including Chairmanships of the International Research Committee, the Committee on Theory of Risk and the Advisory Committee on Asset/Liability Management and Investment Policy.

Gary is well known in the actuarial field as author of research articles, some of them prize winners, and as a frequent speaker at actuarial seminars, including international forums such as the East Asia Actuarial Conference and the ASTIN Colloquium. He teaches a course on actuarial statistics at Columbia University and has taught actuarial science training programs worldwide, including UK, Brazil, Portugal, Paris, and China. His research focus is on apply-ing advanced actuarial methods to practical business problems, particularly those involving risk transfer and capital management.

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