Professor Robert W. Batten, MA, FSA, retired in 1997 as Professor of Actuarial Science and Director of the Actuarial Science Program at Georgia State University (GSU). He received an M.A in mathematics from Duke University in 1964, and he became a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries in 1969. He is a past president of the Southeastern Actuaries Club and the Atlanta Actuarial Club.
Professor Batten was responsible for the overall actuarial science program at GSU for over 25 years, having joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 1966. He was selected Outstanding Teacher in the College of Business Administration at Georgia State (more than 200 full-time faculty members) twice prior to his retirement. A $1 million Chair in Actuarial Science was established at GSU upon his retirement, named the Robert W. Batten Chair in Actuarial Science.
Prior to his university career, he was an actuarial associate with the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company.
Professor Batten was the director and lead instructor for the on-campus actuarial science seminar program at GSU. He has taught thousands of students preparing for CAS and SOA examinations on actuarial mathematics, interest theory, and many other subjects for several actuarial organizations, as well as for Georgia State University.
Professor Batten's Textbook, Mortality Table Construction (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1977), was required reading on the SOA syllabus for over a decade. In 1990, he published a study manual to assist students preparing for the SOA Course 150 examination: Life Contingencies: A Guide for the Actuarial Student (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1990). In 1997, the second edition of the manual was published, incorporating the revised content of Actuarial Mathematics (Winstead, CT: Actex Publications, 1997). His current study manual for the Exam MLC syllabus, Life Contingencies: A
Logical Approach to Actuarial Mathematics, (2005), covers the entire syllabus
for that examination and is also published by ACTEX.
In addition to having served on committees of the Society of Actuaries and other actuarial organizations, Professor Batten was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Teachers Retirement System of the State of Georgia, and he was also a member of its Investments Committee.
Mr. Kellison is a retired Senior Vice President from the Institutional Services Division of American General Retirement Services in Houston, Texas. Mr Kellison has had extensive teaching experience and currently focuses on actuarial consulting. He currently is serving as a Visiting Professor in Actuarial Science at the University of Central Florida. During his career he has also been Director of the Actuarial Science Program at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, and Chair of the Department of Risk Management and Insurance at Georgia State University. He has taught actuarial seminars for over ten years. He also is the author of The Theory of Interest, a well-known reference covering material on the current syllabus for SOA/CAS Course FM/2. He is currently a Past President of the Society of Actuaries and is a past Executive Director of the American Academy of Actuaries.
NOTABLE PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
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- - Past President of the Society of Actuaries
- - Fellow of Society of Actuaries
- - Member of the American Academy of Actuaries
- - Enrolled Actuary under ERISA (EA)
- - Past Executive Director of the American Academy of Actuaries
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