Niels Van der Laan
Niels Van der Laan is a principal and consulting actuary in the Amsterdam office of Milliman. He joined the firm in 2011. Niels carries out consulting assignments in the field of property & casualty and disability in the Netherlands and Belgium. Before joining Milliman, Niels worked at Towers and Watson and predecessors for five years.
Experience
Niels has more than 15 years of consulting experience in the field of property & casualty and disability. He has also worked on several projects in the fields of health and life insurance.
Niels has performed a wide range of actuarial consulting assignments for a variety of clients, mainly European insurers. He is specialised in non-life and covers all areas, including reserving, pricing, product development, valuation, capital modelling, Solvency II, IFRS, and M&As.
Niels is a frequent speaker at professional seminars and has been teaching at the University of Amsterdam, where he has given courses on pricing and disability insurance.
Professional Designations
- Fellow, Actuarieel Genootschap (Dutch Society of Actuaries)
Education
- Post Master to Actuary AG, Dutch Actuarial Institute
- Master’s degree, Econometrics and Operational Science, VU Amsterdam
- Master’s degree, Actuarial Science, University of Amsterdam
- Niels is an active member of the Dutch Actuarial Association. Over the years, he has participated in several working groups and commissions, and was a member of the Insurance Committee of the Dutch Actuarial Association.
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