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About

Gail the Actuary’s real name is Gail Tverberg. She has an M. S. from the University of Illinois, Chicago in Mathematics, and is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries.

Gail is involved with oil and other limits in several different ways:
1.As a researcher. Gail regularly goes back to data from government and other web sites, and creates her own graphs and does her own analysis. She also follows the work of others doing research.
2.As an actuary. Gail is interested in what the implications of reduced oil supply are for the economy and for financial institutions.
3.As an educator. Gail is interested in bringing the message about what is happening to as broad an audience as possible.

Gail became aware of the impact oil shortages could have on insurance companies back in the 1973 – 1974 period, when oil shortages were first a problem. In 2005, she began reading books on the subject, including Jeremy Leggett’s The Empty Tank.

Gail did further research about the situation, and wrote her first article about the potential impact on the property-casualty insurance industry in early 2006. This article was called Oil Shortages: The Next Katrinna? Since then, she has written a number of other articles from an insurance or actuarial perspective. Several of these are listed in the sidebar.

In early 2007, Gail decided to devote full-time to issues related to oil shortages, and other shortages, and their impact on the economy. She initially wrote primarily on this blog, but eventually devoted more and more of her time to TheOilDrum.com first as a contributor, and later as an editor. Because of recent changes at The Oil Drum, she has more time available, and has come back to writing on this blog.

Many of the articles on this site have been published by the The Oil Drum. Quite a few have also appeared in EnergyBulletin.net. This a link to a list of her posts on Energy Bulletin.