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Ian Duncan, Santa Barbara Actuaries

Dr. Duncan is Adjunct Professor of Actuarial Statistics at the University of California Santa Barbara and president of Santa Barbara Actuaries Inc., a provider of healthcare predictive modeling and actuarial services. Dr. Duncan holds a graduate degree in economics from Balliol College, Oxford and is a PhD from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland. He is a fellow of the Society of Actuaries, the Institute of Actuaries (London), the Conference of Consulting Actuaries and the Canadian Institute of Actuaries, a Certified Specialist in Predictive Analytics (CAS) and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries. He is active in public policy and healthcare reform and served on the board of directors of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Health Insurance Connector Authority from 2007-2014. He was also a member of the board of the Society of Actuaries (2012-5) and currently chairs the SOA’s Research Executive Committee. He is the author of over 70 peer-reviewed papers, and several books and book chapters. His latest book, a second edition of “Healthcare Risk Adjustment and Predictive Modeling” (Actex Publications) was published in May 2018.