The opportunity came up for me to teach a workshop on Interactive Teaching in Actuarial Science to university Lecturers in Indonesia through the READI project. (READI stands for Risk management, Economic sustainability, and Actuarial science Development in Indonesia and is a joint venture with the Indonesian and Canadian governments to build needed actuarial expertise and capacity.)
I was invited by the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto to deliver a workshop on mental health innovation as a part of their 2019 Pushing the Paradigm conference series.
Interdisciplinary students and professionals were gathered in teams of 4-5 to define a problem that was achievable given...
