Professor Jan Dhaene is a Full Professor in the Actuarial Research Group of the Department of Accountancy, Finance and Insurance at the Faculty of Business and Economics, KU Leuven. He serves as head of the Research Centre Insurance (Actuarial Research Group), program director of the Master of Science in Financial and Actuarial Engineering, and head of the division ‘Actuariële Toepassingen voor Verzekerings-ondernemingen en Pensioenfondsbeheer’, KU Leuven Research and Development (LRD).

His current research interests include modeling dependencies in insurance portfolios, risk management for financial institutions, integrating financial and actuarial models, and decentralized risk sharing. He has published more than 145 scientific papers in refereed journals and has received more than 12,000 citations on Google Scholar. He is a coauthor of the books: (i) Modern Actuarial Risk Theory; (ii) Actuarial Theory for Dependent Risks: Measures, Orders and Models; and (iii) Modern Actuarial Risk Theory: Using R. 

He currently serves as an Associate Editor for Insurance: Mathematics & Economics (since 2000),  North American Actuarial Journal (since 2019), Istatistik, Journal of the Turkish Statistical Association (since 2012), and Journal of the Iranian Statistical Society (since 2018). He is also a member of the Editorial Board of ASTIN Bulletin (since 2007) and an Advisory Editor of Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (since 2008).