Randy E. Dumm

Professor in the Department of Risk, Insurance, & Healthcare Management
Temple University

Randy E. Dumm is a Professor in the Department of Risk, Insurance, & Healthcare Management at Temple University where he supports the program’s research and expansion efforts and teaches courses in insurer operations and international risk management. Prior to joining the faculty at Temple, he was the Hold Professor of Risk Management and Insurance at Florida State University where he taught in both the undergraduate and graduate risk management and insurance programs. He received his doctorate from The University of Georgia and joined the risk management and insurance faculty at Florida State University in August of 1997. He is a member of the Risk Theory Society and has been a visiting professor at Ludwigs Maximilian University, Hannover-Leibnitz University, Fudan University, Krems University of Applied Science, and he taught at the Vienna University of Economics and Business in 2004 as a Fulbright Scholar. He has been an invited speaker at the China International Conference on Insurance and Risk Management and the International Symposium on Sino-American Risk Management and Insurance.

Dr. Dumm’s areas of research interest include catastrophic risk, insurer capital structure, insurer distribution channels, demand for insurance, and insurance product performance. He has published in the Journal of Risk and Insurance, Geneva Papers- Risk and Insurance Review, Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance- Issues and Practices, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal of Real Estate Research, Risk Management and Insurance Review, Journal of Insurance Issues, Journal of Insurance Regulation, Journal of Real Estate Literature, and the Transportation Research Record and was a recipient of the Shin Excellence in Research Award in 2014.

Dr. Dumm serves on the board of the American Risk and Insurance Association and is a Past-President of the Southern Risk and Insurance Association and the Western Risk and Insurance Association and he is a past board member of the Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association. He was a member and past Chair of the Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology and he was a member of the State of Florida’s Task Force on Long-Term Solutions for Florida’s Hurricane Insurance Market. He is a past Chair of the Research Academy Board for the National Alliance for Insurance Education and Research