Phelim P. Boyle, a distinguished professor and actuary, is a professor of finance in the Laurier School of Business & Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada and is a pioneer of quantitative finance.

Until June 2006, he held the J. Page R. Wadsworth Chair at the University of Waterloo where he helped establish the University’s computational finance program and served as its first director. He graduated from Queens University Belfast and holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin.  Professor Boyle is a Fellow of the UK Institute  of Actuaries and the Canadian Institute of Actuaries.

Professor Boyle has won several awards for the contributions his research has made in finance and actuarial science, particularly his work on applications of the Monte Carlo method to finance problems. His papers have appeared in the leading journals in finance and actuarial science and he has been a visiting professor at several universities. Dr. Boyle has lectured extensively on risk management topics to practitioner audiences around the world as well as consulted financial institutions in the United States and Canada.

Dr. Boyle was named IAFE/SunGard Financial Engineer of the Year in 2005.