Richard Verrall (academic)

Professor Richard Verrall (born 1959) is Vice-President (Strategy & Planning) of City, University of London. He took up this post in 2011[1] and was previously Head of the Department of Actuarial Science, then Associate Dean (Research, Knowledge Transfer and International) of Cass Business School, City, University of London.[1][2] Professor Verrall joined City, University of London, as a lecturer in 1987.

He is an Associate Editor of the British Actuarial Journal, the North American Actuarial Journal[3] and Insurance: Mathematics and Economics,[4] and a member of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) College.[5]

Professor Verrall is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (1982), a Chartered Statistician (1993) and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (1999).[1][2][6] According to the authoritative Math Reviews catalogue of the American Mathematical Society, by 2015 he had written or co-written 16 articles in mainstream Actuarial Science journals.[7]

He received an MA in Mathematics from St John's College, Cambridge, in 1981, an MSc in Statistics from University College London in 1982 and a PhD in the field of Actuarial Science from City University London in 1989.[1]