Director of Insurance Data Analytics
Stephen J. Mildenhall
Director of Insurance Data Analytics
Stephen Mildenhall is Assistant Professor of Risk Management and Insurance and Director of Insurance Data Analytics at the School of Risk Management in the Tobin College of Business at St. John’s University. Steve has twenty five years experience in the insurance industry. Prior to joining St. John's in 2016 he was Global CEO of Analytics for Aon plc, based in Singapore, and head of Aon Benfield Analytics. He helped found and establish Aon’s Singapore Center for Innovation and Analytics. The Center is a cross-functional group of insurance and HR analytics professionals serving all of Aon’s businesses. As head of Aon Benfield Analytics he led a team of over 500 professionals in actuarial science, catastrophe modeling, accounting and financial modeling and worked extensively with reinsurance clients on risk assessment and mitigation, ERM, economic capital modeling and other risk related questions. He joined Aon in 2003. Previously he was Vice President of Actuarial Pricing for Kemper Insurance. He began his career at CNA in 1992 and held positions there as the specialty lines actuary with CNA Re Facultative and as a pricing and special projects actuary with CNA Personal Lines. Steve is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society, an Associate of the Society of Actuaries, a Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst, and a CAS Institute Certified Specialist in Predictive Analytics. He is a member of the American Risk and Insurance Association and the Risk Theory Society. He served on the ARIA Board of Directors from 2013-2016. He earned his Masters and PhD degrees in Mathematics from the University of Chicago, and a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Warwick in England. He is also a member of the CAS Committee on the Theory of Risk and was its chairman from 2008-2010. Steve is a frequent speaker at professional meetings and industry events. He is also the author of a number of published papers in risk theory, the intersection of insurance and finance, and applications of probability and statistics to reserving and rate making problems. His research has appeared in the Proceedings of the Casualty Actuarial Society, the North American Actuarial Journal and the Duke Math Journal.