Patrick Brockett

Biography

Patrick L. Brockett PhD (Mathematics) holds the Gus Wortham Chair in Risk Management and Insurance in the University of Texas-Austin’s McCombs School of Business. He holds joint Professor appointments in the departments of Finance, Mathematics, and Information, Risk and Operations Management. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, of the American Statistical Association, of the Royal Statistical Society, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of the Institute for Risk Management. He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He served as editor of The Journal of Risk and Insurance for 9 years, and has served on the Board of Director and as President of the American Risk and Insurance Association. Currently he is Editor of the North American Actuarial Journal. His articles have won awards from the American Risk and Insurance Association, the American Statistical Association, the Society of Actuaries, the International Insurance Society, the Casualty Actuarial Society, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, as well as from the Faculty of Actuaries of Scotland and Institute of Actuaries in England. His most recent research awards are the 2017 Spencer L. Kimball Prize from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, and the 2019 Best North American Actuarial Journal Article Award from the Society of Actuaries. Dr. Brockett has served on three National Academy of Sciences research committees of the National Research Council concerning the National Flood Insurance Program, and as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Board on Mathematical Sciences and their Applications, National Research Council of The National Academies of Science. He has directed PhD students in Finance, Mathematics, and Risk Management and Insurance.

Dr. Brockett has interests and many publications in mathematical and statistical modeling in business and the social sciences. Particular research interests of his are health insurance modeling, property and casualty insurance models, risk management, probability and statistics, and financial mathematics.

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