DrEnrico Biffis
Professor of Actuarial Finance
Department of Finance - Business School
- Professor of Actuarial FinanceDepartment of Finance - Business School
- 020 7594 9767 (Work)
- 4.04, 53 Prince's Gate, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom
BIO
Enrico Biffis is Professor of Actuarial Finance at Imperial Business School and Academic Director of its Centre for Climate Finance and Investment. His expertise spans risk analysis and asset–liability management for insurance and investment management, as well as climate risk analytics and data-driven tools for measuring and managing risk across asset classes. He has collaborated with major financial institutions, regulators, and international organisations, and has received multiple grants and awards for research on modelling and managing complex risks. Prior academic experience includes work as tenured faculty at the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University and as an editor of ASTIN Bulletin – The Journal of the International Actuarial Association. He also served as Associate Director for Development Finance at the Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis and co-director of the Sustainable Tech Lab at Imperial-X. His work on parametric insurance and financial inclusion was awarded the 2023 SCOR/EGRIE Best Paper Award and the 2022 FT Responsible Business Education Research Award.
RECENT WORK
A financial framework for nature must that recognise that ecosystems have local temporal and spatial dynamics (with Will Pearse, Franklin Allen, Simone Cenci, Hao Liang, Olivia Morris, Nell Pates, Eleanor Slade, Lucy Somekh)
Pricing Biodiversity-related Impacts for Business and Investment Decisions (with Hao Liang, Patrick Bolton, Eleanor Slade)
Drift admissibility via optimal transport (with A. Langbridge, R.N. Shorten, J. Marecek)
Corporate emission targets and abatement mechanisms in high-emitting sectors (with S. Cenci)
https://ssrn.com/abstract=5574870
High risk aversion Merton's problem without transversality conditions (with C. Di Girolami, S.Federico, F. Gozzi)
https://ssrn.com/abstract=5378787
Short-lived Gases, Carbon Markets and Climate Risk Mitigation (with S. Biagini and K. Nobari)
https://ssrn.com/abstract=4997380
EVENTS
Risk Sciences Annual Conference, Imperial South Kensington Campus, Sep 1-2 2026
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/business-school/events/risk-science-conference-2026/
FACULTY
- Business School
POSITION NAME
- Professor of Actuarial Finance