Krzysztof Ostaszewski
is a native of Lodz,
Poland.
He received a Master degree in mathematics from the
University of Lodz
in 1980, and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the
University of Washington
in Seattle in 1985. He is a 1991
Chartered Financial Analyst,
a 1994 Member of
the American Academy of Actuaries,
and a 1999 Fellow
of the Society of Actuaries.
He was a 1995 Fulbright
Research Fellow in Poland,
studying actuarial aspects of free market reforms, and a Fulbright Senior Specialist in 2003-2004.
He is now a Professor of Mathematics and the
Actuarial Program Director at Illinois State University.
He has authored or co-authored two research monographs in mathematics published by the
American Mathematical Society,
and four research books in actuarial science: two published by the
Society of Actuaries, one with Elsevier,
and one with
Wydawnictwa Naukowo-Techniczne in Poland; as well as
several other books, including five volumes of
poetry. His research
works in mathematics have appeared in journals such as:
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society,
Forum Mathematicum,
and Journal of Mathematical
Analysis and Applications.
His works in economics appeared in
American Economic Review
and Journal
of Business.
His poetry publications appeared in
Michigan Quarterly Review,
Poetry Australia,
Writ,
The Antigonish Review,
and many other journals and magazines, including leading publications
in Polish (e.g., Zycie Literackie, Poezja, Tworczosc, and
Kultura
in Paris). His research in actuarial science has been published in
the Journal
of Risk and Insurance,
The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, North American
Actuarial Journal,
Proceedings of the Casualty Actuarial Society,
Journal of Insurance Issues,
and other journals. He has worked in asset-liability management and
modeling, as well as investment management, at
Hartford Life,
Providian Capital Management,
and his consulting practice. He is an Associate Editor of the
Journal of Insurance Issues.
He served on the Society of Actuaries
Education and Research Council,
Social Security Committee of the
Society of Actuaries, the Social Insurance Committee of the
American Academy of Actuaries, and the Joint Committee
for Career Encouragement of the Casualty Actuarial Society
and the Society of Actuaries.
He is one of the coauthors and signatories of the
Actuarial Standard of Practice No. 32
concerning social insurance. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the
Cato Institute
Social Security Choice
project. He has also written extensively on political issues, especially
in relation to Poland,
and in the period 1987-1991 wrote a regular column "Fall in Love with Capitalism"
for Echo Polish Weekly published in Toronto, Canada. He is an expert
for the Adam Smith Research Centre,
a free market think tank in Warsaw, Poland.
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