Philippe Trainar is a graduate from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration. He has a twenty years’ experience of working in the insurance industry after having held various positions of responsibility at the Ministry of Finance and as economic advisor to the Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. From 2006 to 2016, he held the various functions of Group CRO of SCOR and Group Chief Economist, member of its Executive Committee. He is a member of the scientific committee of the French supervisory body, Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Régulation. Since the beginning of 2017, he is professor in charge of Insurance at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers and CEO of the SCOR Foundation for Science. He has been publishing in various scientific journals such as Economie et Statistique, the Journal of Risk and Insurance and the Geneva Papers. He has been the editor of the scientific Revue Française d’Economie, from 1995 to 2017. With David Cummins he has been awarded the 2010 prize of the Casualty Actuarial Society. He has also been awarded the 2018 prize Zerilli Marimo of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques.