The International Congress on Insurance Mathematics and Economics (IME) is one of the major international conferences in actuarial science. The first congress was held in 1997 at Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Since then, the congress has been held annually. The Sixteenth International Congress on Insurance: Mathematics and Economics will be held at the University of Hong Kong in 2012. It is the second time that the congress is to be held outside Europe and North America. The congress is associated with the leading actuarial science journal, Insurance: Mathematics and Economics. The journal editors and most of the researchers in actuarial science will attend and give talks during the congress.

On this special occasion of The University of Hong Kong centenary, we wish to dedicate this major international congress as one of the celebration events.