Prof. Dr. Petra Steinorth is Professor of Risk Management and Insurance at the Hamburg Business School. Before joining the University of Hamburg, she had been Associate Professor) at the School of Risk Management (St. John’s University, New York). Petra Steinorth currently serves as president of the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists and the Risk Theory Society. She has been a board member of the American Risk and Insurance Association since 2021. She is associate editor at Geneva Risk and Insurance Review as well as the Risk Management and Insurance Review. Her research in the field of risk management and insurance, risk preferences, employee benefits and health insurance 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 Steinorth is a core member of the Hamburg Center for Health Economics (HCHE), one of the principal investigators at the DFG research training group “Managerial and economic dimensions of health care quality“ and an associated member of the Munich Risk and Insurance Center (MRIC).
Petra Steinorth 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 in public economics from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Among other prizes, her PhD thesis was awarded the prestigious Ernst-Meyer-Price of the Geneva Association for significant and original contribution to the study of risk and insurance economics.