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 Seventeenth International Congress on Insurance: Mathematics and Economics will be held at the University of Copenhagen in 2013. 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.