Jan Blomerus

Jan Blomerus is an experienced actuary and academic leader specialising in actuarial science, financial modelling, and machine learning. He became a Fellow of the Actuarial Society of South Africa and of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries in 2007 and earned an MSc in Actuarial Science in 2015. His research focuses on the application of deep neural networks to life insurance valuations, with a PhD thesis submitted in 2025. Before entering academia in 2014, he held senior actuarial roles, including leadership in valuations at major South African insurers and consulting positions. Jan combines hands-on technical expertise (including Julia, Prophet, Risk Agility, SQL, and many others) with a passion for building transparent and efficient automation frameworks for improving actuarial valuation workflows.