Prof. Dr. Knut Kristian Aase is a Professor Emeritus of Insurance and Finance at NHH. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) in 1979 in statistics. He came to NHH in 1982 from Telemark Regional College, was an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo 1993–1998, and Senior Researcher at the Centre of Mathematics for Applications (CMA ), University of Oslo. He has held visiting positions at UCB, University of Washington, Seattle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, and Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles. He has published more than 70 articles in journals of insurance, finance, actuarial science, operations research, mathematics, probability, and biology, and written one book in actuarial sciences. He has presented papers at numerous conferences through the years, been on the arrangement committees for several events, led the Karl Borch lecture series at NHH for 13 years and  been an editor for more than 10 years,