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A Message from ARIA
ARIA Planning for World Congress in `05
by James Carson, Ph.D., CPCU, CLU, ARM, Florida State University Midyette Eminent Scholar of Risk and Insurance and Editor, Journal of Insurance IssuesAs the 60th president of the American Risk and Insurance Association, I'm very happy and honored to have this opportunity to share a few thoughts with you, the esteemed members of the Casualty Actuarial Society. I will highlight just a couple aspects of ARIA that I believe may be of interest to many of you.
Although ARIA began primarily as a U.S. organization, we now have a significant international component—roughly one-quarter of ARIA's membership is from outside the U.S., composed of 135 members from 29 countries. Because our international growth is something that we should value and encourage, we are joining forces with several other prominent organizations to host the first World Risk and Insurance Economics Congress next year (August 7-11, 2005) in Salt Lake City, Utah. The primary organizations involved in planning the event include ARIA, APRIA(Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association), EGRIE (European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists), and GA (The Geneva Association). This event will be a unique and great opportunity to host a gathering of academic, regulatory, and professional leaders from around the world—we hope that many of you are able to join us, especially since the CAS is sponsoring the meeting and is awarding a prize for the best non-life insurance paper at the conference!
The host hotel for the 2005 WRIEC is the Sheraton City Centre, located in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City. We invite your participation to present research on any topic related to risk management, insurance, and actuarial science. The deadline for WRIEC proposal submissions is January 5, 2005. For more information on the meeting, see the Web site at www.wriec.org.
In addition to ARIA's two academic journals (Journal of Risk and Insurance and Risk Management and Insurance Review), another important part of ARIA is the Risk Theory Society. The Society is a self-administered organization within ARIA whose purpose is to foster research into topics in risk theory and risk management. The main function of the Society is an annual meeting where papers that have been distributed to members in advance of the meeting are presented and discussed critically. The Society's membership is small (fewer than 100 members) but diverse. Membership includes nine actuaries, and members come from at least six countries: Belgium, Canada, France, Israel, Switzerland, and the United States.
For information on ARIA, WRIEC, or the Risk Theory Society, please see the ARIA Web Site at www.aria.org. I hope to see you in Utah next summer and I look forward to continuing to strengthen the relationship between ARIA and the CAS.
