Montserrat Guillen was born in Barcelona. She is Chair Professor of the Department of Econometrics at the University of Barcelona. She is currently Honorary Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Actuarial Science and Insurance at City University London. She was Visiting Research faculty at the University of Texas at Austin (USA) and Visiting Professor of Insurance Econometrics at the University of Paris II. She was awarded the ICREA Academia distinction.
She is associate editor for the Journal of Risk and Insurance - the official journal of the American Risk and Insurance Association, a senior editor of Astin Bulletin - the official journal of the International Actuarial Association, co-editor for the North American Actuarial Journal and was chief editor until 2014 (now associate editor) of SORT-Statistics and Operations Research Transactions. She was awarded by the Casualty Actuarial Society and received the International Insurance Prize. She is a highly cited academic in the field of actuarial science, risk management and insurance. She was President of the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists, the Geneva Association, in 2011. She has served in boards as well as scientific groups, international programs and steering committees and she has also conducted R&D joint programmes with many companies. She is member of the European Royal Academy of Doctors and Academician of the Real Academia de Ciencias Económicas y Financieras.
