Zeinab Amin
- Position: Associate Provost for Assessment and Accreditation and Professor, Mathematics and Actuarial Science
- Department: Department of Mathematics and Actuarial Science
- Email: [email protected]
Zeinab Amin is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Actuarial Science and the associate provost for assessment and accreditation. Amin holds a PhD in statistics, is an associate of the American Society of Actuaries (SOA) and a certified actuarial expert at the Egyptian Financial Supervisory Authority (EFSA). Amin is a member of the International Statistical Institute, a peer evaluator for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) and the National Authority for Quality Assurance and Accreditation of Education (NAQAAE).
Amin is the recipient of the 2016 Excellence in Academic Service Award and the 2009 Excellence in Teaching Award from AUC.
Amin has designed and taught a wide range of courses in statistics, applied probability, life contingencies, construction and evaluation of actuarial models and enterprise risk management.
Amin’s current area of research focuses primarily on quantitative risk assessment, highlighting the power of developing an effective enterprise risk management framework in an organization, a framework that overcomes the challenges that prevent traditional risk programs from achieving their full potential. Amin emphasizes the importance of adopting new methodology for operational risk assessment, methodology that allows for better understanding of the shock resistance of the company to its key risks, developing an appropriate risk management environment, making better risk-adjusted decisions and ensuring appropriate actions are implemented to better manage enterprise risk exposure to be within its risk appetite.
- MACT 1221 Statistical Reasoning
- MACT 3211 Applied Probability
- MACT 3223 Statistical Inference
- MACT 3224 Probability and Statistics
- MACT 4331 Insurance Loss Models I
- MACT 4332 Insurance Loss Models II
- MACT 4930 Selected Topics in Math
- MACT 4910 Guided Studies in Mathematics
- MACT 4321 Life Contingencies I
- MACT 4322 Life Contingencies II
- MACT 4990 Enterprise Risk Management