Jan Dhaene is a full professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) at KU Leuven, Belgium. He leads the Insurance Research Group and holds roles as coordinator of the group and head of the Division of Actuarial Applications for Insurance Companies and Pension Fund Management. His research focuses on actuarial sciences, financial mathematics, fair valuation, comonotonicity, and risk-sharing mechanisms. He actively participates in institutional governance through roles like member of the Faculty Council and Programme Committee for the Master in Actuarial and Financial Sciences. Recent projects include exploring competitive equilibrium in insurance markets, peer-to-peer insurance risk pooling, and causal machine learning applications in finance. He has published extensively on topics such as quantile risk-sharing rules, collaborative insurance models, and herd behavior in stock markets. His work bridges theoretical actuarial science with practical insurance market challenges, emphasizing fairness, systemic risk analysis, and innovative risk-sharing frameworks. Notable contributions include developing the herd behavior index (HBI) to measure co-movement in financial markets and advancing methodologies for fair valuation of insurance liabilities. He collaborates internationally and serves as promotor/co-promotor in multiple research projects funded by national and institutional grants.





