Prof. Dr. Petra Steinorth
Chair in Risk Management and Insurance,Hamburg Business School
Prof. Dr. Petra Steinorth has been holding the chair in Risk Management and Insurance at the Hamburg Business School since February 2018. Before joining the University of Hamburg, she had been Assistant Professor (09/2011-08/2016) and then Associate Professor (09/2016-01/2018) at the School of Risk Management (St. John’s University, New York). Her research in the field of risk management and insurance, risk preferences, and employee benefits has received national and international awards, industry grants, as well as media attention. Petra’s interdisciplinary research is published in top tier journals in risk and insurance (Journal of Risk and Insurance), actuarial sciences (Insurance: Mathematics and Economics), health economics (Journal of Health Economics and Health Economics), and public economics (Journal of Public Economics). Petra has been featured in the Retirement Income Journal and Ignites and her work is cited in the Handbook of Insurance. Petra serves as an associate editor for the Risk Management and Insurance Review and the Journal of Insurance Issues. She is a regular reviewer for various journals including the Journal of Risk and Insurance, the Journal of Health Economics, and Insurance: Mathematics and Economics. She is a longstanding member of the American Risk and Insurance Association where she has chaired and served on several committees. Petra has been a member of the highly selective Risk Theory Society since her admission during her graduate studies. She is a core member of the Hamburg Center of Health Economics and an associate member of the Munich Risk and Insurance Center at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen.
Petra holds a combined Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Hamburg, a Master of Business Research and a PhD with a focus on Risk Management and Insurance from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen. Among other prices, Petra’s doctoral thesis was awarded with the prestigious Ernst-Meyer-Price of the Geneva Association for the significant and original contribution to the study of risk and insurance economics.