Pauline Barrieu is a French financial statistician, probability theorist, and expert on financial risk assessment, risk transfer, and uncertainty quantification.
She is a professor of statistics in the London School of Economics.
Barrieu earned an MBA at the ESSEC Business School in 1997, a DEA in probability theory at Pierre and Marie Curie University in 1998, and a PhD in 2002, simultaneously in finance at HEC Paris and in applied mathematics at Pierre and Marie Curie University, supervised by Marc Chesney [fr] at HEC Paris and by Nicole El Karoui at Pierre and Marie Curie University.
[1] In 2003, Barrieu was one of the winners of the Prix de l'Actuariat, an annual international award for top doctoral dissertations in actuarial science.
The award cited her work on "how we address model risk, uncertainty, and risk sharing under uncertainty".