Arthur Charpentier, is an actuary (member of the International Actuarial Association), holds an MSc from ENSAE (Ecole Nationale de la Statistique, Paris, France) and a PhD in applied mathematics from KU Leuven (Belgium). After having been a professor in various institutions (mainly in France, ENSAE, Ecole Polytechnique, University of Rennes), he is now a professor at UQAM, Montreal. He has published several books in actuarial science and insurance modeling (including Mathematics of Non-Life Insurance, Computational Actuarial Science with R and more recently a Handbook of Insurance in French), as well as research and popularization articles, and is on the editorial board of some actuarial journals (ASTIN Bulletin, Risks, and the Journal of Risk and Insurance).