Han Li

Dr. Han Li is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Actuarial Studies in the Department of Economics within the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne, a position she has held since January 2022. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy from the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University between 2013 and 2017, with a thesis titled Techniques to Analyze and Forecast Mortality. Li also holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) with a major in Actuarial Studies from the University of Melbourne, completed in 2009-2012. Her career trajectory includes serving as Senior Lecturer from 2020 to 2021 and Lecturer from 2018 to 2019 in the Department of Actuarial Studies and Business Analytics at Macquarie University. Earlier, she was a Senior Research Associate at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research at UNSW Sydney from 2016 to 2018, and held teaching associate roles in actuarial programs at Monash University from 2013 to 2016 and at the University of Melbourne from 2013.

Han Li specializes in mortality modeling, forecasting, and analysis, with applications of extreme value theory, climate change impacts on mortality and insurance, cause-of-death modeling, healthy life expectancy, and forecast reconciliation. Her research addresses mortality and longevity risk management, ageing and retirement, and the effects of climate change on the insurance industry. Notable publications include Pricing Extreme Mortality Risk in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic (Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2023, with Liu, H., Tang, Q., Yuan, Z.), Hierarchical Mortality Forecasting with EVT Tails: An Application to Solvency Capital Requirement (International Journal of Forecasting, 2022, with Chen, H.), Joint extremes in temperature and mortality: A bivariate POT approach (North American Actuarial Journal, 2022, with Tang, Q.), Assessing mortality inequality in the U.S.: What can be said about the future? (Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2021, with Hyndman, R. J.), and Healthy life expectancy in China: Modeling and implications for public and private insurance (Annals of Actuarial Science, 2021, with Hanewald, K., Wu, S.). Li has received the 2017 Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal for Thesis Excellence from Monash University and the 2023 Deans' Research Engagement and Partnership Award from the University of Melbourne. She serves as an Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research since 2018 and is a member of the COVID-19 Mortality Working Group of the Actuaries Institute since 2021. Her work has accumulated over 420 citations on Google Scholar.

Professional Email: han.li@unimelb.edu.au