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Craig A. Sloss, PhD, FCAS, FCIA (he/him/his)

Technical Consultant and Lead Data Scientist
Definity Financial Corporation

Craig Sloss is a Technical Consultant and Lead Data Scientist at Definity Financial Corporation, the sixth-largest Property-Casualty insurer in Canada, headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario. Craig obtained his PhD in Combinatorics and Optimization from the University of Waterloo in 2011, and is a Fellow of both the Casualty Actuarial Society and the Canadian Institute of Actuaries. He worked as a lecturer in mathematics at Wilfrid Laurier University prior to joining Definity's predecessor company, Economical Insurance, in 2014. He still occasionally teaches a course in predictive analytics at the University of Waterloo. As a member of Definity's Advanced Analytics team, he provides technical guidance and support to team members working on using predictive models to find solutions to business problems for functions such as claims management, underwriting, and fraud detection. He also coordinates Definity's "Bias and Fairness Working Group," a group consisting of representatives from departments having an analytics component, including Pricing, Corporate Actuarial, Customer Insights and Advanced Analytics. This group's mandate is to facilitate the adoption, across the various analytics teams, of techniques to measure bias and assess fairness of customer-impacting models. This is done through a combination of operationalizing external research, such as the CAS Research Paper Series on Race and Insurance Pricing, and developing internal best practices and procedures for performing bias and fairness assessments. Outside of work, Craig is active in local politics, with a focus on advocating for better use of data by municipal governments. In his spare time, you can usually find Craig at a local cultural event, and he's a big fan of the music scene in the Kitchener-Waterloo area.

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