Prof. Dr. CARLOS VIDAL-MELIA

Dr. Carlos Vidal-Meliá is Professor (Full) of Social Security and Actuarial Science at Valencia University (Spain), and research affiliation with the Instituto Complutense de Análisis Económico (ICAE), Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), and the Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), UNSW (Australia). He also works as an independent consultant-actuary. He holds a PhD. in Economics from the University of Valencia, a degree in Actuarial Science from the Complutense University of Madrid and a degree in Business from the University of Valencia. He has worked as an adviser on company and personal pension schemes and as a financial economist for small firms. He has published several papers in refereed journals such as Mathematics, Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanj, SORT (Statistics and Operations Research Transactions), Journal of Population Ageing, Sustainability, SERIEs (Journal of the Spanish Economic Association), Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, Astin Bulletin, Applied Economics, Journal of Economic Policy Reform, Journal of Pensions Economics and Finance, International Social Security Review , Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, Fiscal Studies, or Journal of Risk and Insurance, among others.. His current research interest focus on investigating disparities in socioeconomic mortality among retired Spanish men aged 65 years and older.