Biography
Andres received his BSc in Actuarial Science and MSc in Finance (Hons) degrees from UNAM (Mexico).
Andres holds a PhD in Actuarial Mathematics from Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh) which was supported through a PhD scholarship from the Actuarial Research Centre (ARC) of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA), and Supervised by Andrew Cairns and Torsten Kleinow. He currently provides his services to the IFoA as an independent consultant by marking the IFoA examinations (Actuarial Statistics CS1).
Andres has also taught at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh) as an Assistant Professor (1-year contract), and he was also a Research Associate working with Dr Catherine Donnelly at Heriot-Watt University (UK). Andres is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Heriot-Watt (Dubai).
He has collaborated as a volunteer with the HMD to see how their approach can be adapted to Mexican data for producing complete life table series, which is also relevant to international reinsurance.