John Pollard
DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED FINANCE AND ACTUARIAL STUDIES
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
Professor of Actuarial Studies since 1977, John Pollard is a past President of both The Institute of Actuaries of Australia and The Statistical Society of Australia. A Director of Swiss Re Australia Ltd and Swiss Re Life and Health Australia Ltd (companies belonging to the second largest reinsurance group world-wide) 1983-2001, he has also been advisor to several of the largest Australian insurance groups. He has more than 80 publications in refereed journals and has been awarded prizes in the United States of America, Belgium and Australia for his research. He is author/co-author of seven books, of which two have been translated into Chinese, another into Russian, one into Spanish and yet another into Japanese. Two have been made prescribed reading for the examinations of The Institute of Actuaries (London), The Faculty of Actuaries (Scotland) and The Casualty Actuarial Society (United States of America). His first degree was in mathematics and mathematical statistics. His PhD dissertation involved the application of mathematical models to the study of human populations. In 2001, he was awarded the Silver Medal of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia, only the third time this medal has been awarded in over 100 years.
Research Interest
• Leadership • Social Cognition • Organizational Justice
Publications
-
Fisher R, Salanova V, Witt T, Worth R, Henry T, Gross R, Oommen K, Osorio I, Nazzaro J, Labar D, Kaplitt M. Electrical stimulation of the anterior nucleus of thalamus for treatment of refractory epilepsy. Epilepsia. 2010 May 1;51(5):899-908.
-
Lenstra AK, Lenstra Jr HW, Manasse MS, Pollard JM. The number field sieve. InThe development of the number field sieve 1993 (pp. 11-42). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
-
Adams MD, Celniker SE, Holt RA, Evans CA, Gocayne JD, Amanatides PG, Scherer SE, Li PW, Hoskins RA, Galle RF, George RA. The genome sequence of Drosophila melanogaster. Science. 2000 Mar 24;287(5461):2185-95.
