Gordon Willmot is Munich Re Professor in Insurance in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo. He is a Fellow of both the Society of Actuaries and the Canadian Institute of Actuaries. His research interests are in insurance risk and ruin theory, and he is author or co-author of over fifty papers in leading actuarial and applied probability journals. He won the 1987 ASTIN Competition for Young Researchers and the 1992 Everett Curtis Huntington Prize.

He was an associate editor for the North American Actuarial Journal from 1997-2003, and currently serves in the same capacity for the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics. He is also co-author of 'Lundberg Approximations for Compound Distributions with Insurance Applications' (Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001), 'Loss Models - From Data to Decisions' (John Wiley, New York, 1998), and 'Insurance Risk Models' (Society of Actuaries, Schaumburg, 1992).

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