Maria Heep-Altiner

After graduating from the Prince Johann Ludwig School  in Hadamar in 1978, Heep-Altiner studied mathematics and economics at the University of Bonn. In 1989 she earned her doctorate in mathematics on the Number theory topic "Period relations for ${\displaystyle GL_{2}(f)}$" under Günter Harder and Michael Rapoport.[2]

She then worked as an actuary for Gerling, before she moved companies in 1994 to Allgemeine Versicherungs-AG. There she became the actuarial manager for property insurance. In 2006, she moved to Talanx, where she was responsible for setting up an internal holding model.[1]

In 2008, Heep-Altiner returned to academia as a professor at the Institute of Insurance at Cologne university of applied sciences.[3] There she is responsible for the area of financing in the insurance company.

She is a member of the German Actuarial Society executive board.

In addition, she has co-published various publications on various actuarial topics, in particular on the Solvency II Directive 2009.

For the following books Heep-Altiner was the main author or significant part of the writing team:

• With Norbert Heinen u. a .: Collective personal insurance in Europe . 1995. ISBN 3-88487-493-4
• With Monika Klemstein: Actuarial applications in practice . 2001. ISBN 978-3-88487-902-3
• Internal models according to Solvency II (2010)
• Internal holding model according to Solvency II. Publishing house for insurance industry 2011. ISBN 978-3-89952-632-5