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Karim Barigou

Professeur

SSH/LSM Louvain School of Management (LSM)

SSH/IDAM Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modeling in economics and statistics (LIDAM)

SSH/IDAM/ISBA Institut de Statistique, Biostatistique et Sciences Actuarielles (ISBA)

  • Expertise :
  • Actuarial science
  • Risk management
  • Quantitative finance

Karim Barigou is Professor of Actuarial Sciences at UCLouvain. His research lies at the intersection of life insurance and quantitative finance, with a focus on developing resilient actuarial models that incorporate emerging risks such as pandemics and climate change. His recent work includes mortality modeling under epidemic and climate shocks, online longevity risk detection, and the use of statistical learning for pricing and hedging life insurance liabilities. Prior to joining UCLouvain, he was a professor at Université Laval and a postdoctoral researcher at ISFA, University Lyon 1, where he worked on longevity risk detection and model selection. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Economics from KU Leuven, where he explored hybrid valuation frameworks for life insurance under the supervision of Jan Dhaene.