Turkish Actuarial Society and Institute of Applied Mathematics at Middle East Technical University are jointly organizing 4th National Insurance and Actuarial Science Congress (USAK) on 24-25th of June 2019 in Ankara, Turkey. This fourth biennial congress is the only and most prominent nationwide meeting whose the first event has been initiated by the encouragement of T.R. Undersecretariat Treasury in 2013. The need to bring practitioners, insurance companies, regulator and academia to the same arena has been carried by USAK meetings successfully since then.

This Congress will be the first one which is acknowledged by international arena, such as International Actuaries Association and the Actuarial Association of Europe. The Congress will host experts from Turkish insurance sector, regulators and academia as well as international associations and universities as well as Prof.Dr. Jan Dhane and Prof. Dr. Burak Saltoğlu as invited speakers. We also aim to encourage university students to show their research interests and talents through a “Best Poster Award”.

Additionally, the Congress offers opportunity that full texts to be published in a Special Issue. Internationally indexed Istatistik:Journal of the Turkish Statistical Association will publish the peer reviewed papers presented in the Congress.

We cordially invite you and thank all participants and sponsors for their support. Let us meet you on June 24-25, 2019 in Ankara, Turkey.

A. Sevtap Selçuk-Kestel Middle East Technical University

Taylan Matkap Turkish Actuarial Society