Leading international insurance think tank, The Geneva Association, today announced that Dr Richard Peter has won its prestigious Ernst-Meyer Prize 2013 for an outstanding doctoral thesis.

The Geneva Association awards the prestigious Ernst-Meyer Prize annually for university research work in the form of a doctoral thesis which makes a significant and original contribution to the study of risk and insurance economics.

Leading international insurance think tank, The Geneva Association has today published a series of interviews from six senior insurance industry leaders at its 30th Programme on Regulation and Supervision (PROGRES) Seminar in Geneva, Switzerland on 24 and 25 March. The seminar brought together industry leadership with leading regulators and supervisors to discuss the growing complexity and sophistication of the multiple regulatory and supervisory regimes in insurance around the globe, and asked whether we are safer as a result.

International insurance economics think tank The Geneva Association today issued an analysis of the looming crisis facing state and municipal pension systems in the U.S. The report suggests that the non-payment of annual required contributions and excessive reliance on one source of funding in pension planning are among the most significant challenges to overcome.

The Geneva Association and the International Insurance Society (IIS) have announced the 2017 recipients of their collaborative insurance research program, the Shin Research Excellence Awards .

The Geneva Association, the leasing international think tank of the insurance industry, is pleased to announce that the winner of its 2017 Research Grant is Ms Susana Vasserman for her Doctoral research proposal on Digitialisation in Insurance. Ms Vasserman is a graduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is currently a Ph.D candidate in Economics at Harvard University in the U.S..

Leading think tank of the international insurance industry, The Geneva Association has published a new report that describes how digital and other modern technologies can be harnessed by the insurance industry to narrow insurance protection gaps in mature, and especially in developing insurance markets, by enhancing the awareness, affordability and attractiveness of insurance products and solutions.

• Disaster loss events are on the rise. Of those 91% were caused by weather-related extremes (1980-2015).  These weather–related extremes caused the loss of more than 600,000 lives and more than USD 3 trillion in total economic losses
• Detailed independent analysis and research shows that countries with a robust penetration of market-based disaster insurance coverage recover faster from the financial impacts of extreme events
• (Re)insurance has become a key element of UN and governmental strategic disaster risk reduction efforts (e.g.

The leading international think tank of the insurance industry, The Geneva Association, has published a report, Ten Key Questions on Cyber Risk and Cyber Risk Insurance.

Details of the GA's 2016 Research Award - Cyber Risk transfer