Alexander Bohnert

Senior Research Fellow in the School of Business and Economics at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg

Alexander Bohnert is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Business and Economics at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany). He teaches insurance and risk management as well as risk theory, life insurance, and programming languages for insurance and finance. His research interests are focused in the areas of (enterprise) risk management, (innovative) life insurance products, (life) insurance mathematics, and digital innovation in insurance with an active research output in national and international journals.

Dr. Bohnert studied Mathematics and Economics at the University of Ulm (Germany) and at the University of West Florida (USA) and holds a doctorate from FAU. He further is a professional actuary of the German Association of Actuaries (DAV) and a board member of the AFIR-ERM Section of the International Actuarial Association (IAA), and he is also a Fellow of the Center for Digitalization in Bavaria (ZD.B) in Munich and a Fellow of the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schoeller Research Center for Business and Society.

He was a Visiting Scholar at the Aarhus University (Denmark), Florida State University (USA), University of Georgia (USA), University of New South Wales (Australia), and the Waseda University (Japan). His activities and engagement in the field of risk and insurance has been awarded and honored several times and last year, he was selected as a speaker at the 6th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on Economic Sciences.