Prof. Dr. Petra Steinorth holds the professorship in Risk Management and Insurance and has been appointed Vice Dean at the Faculty of Business Administration (Hamburg Business School).
Before joining the University of Hamburg, she had been Associate Professor at the Maurice Greenberg School of Risk Management, St. John’s University, New York.
Petra Steinorth engages in several leadership roles in the academic community, currently serving as the President of the Risk Theory Society, the President of the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists, and board member of the American Risk and Insurance Association.
Additionally, she contributes her expertise as an associate editor of the Geneva Risk and Insurance Review and Risk Management and Insurance Review.
Her research in the field of risk management and insurance, risk preferences, employee benefits and health insurance has been 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).
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 and has been the recipient of the Journal of Risk and Insurance excellence in reviewing award.
Petra Steinorth is a core member of the Hamburg Center for Health Economics (HCHE) and a principal investigator in the DFG research training group “Managerial and Economic Dimensions of Quality of Care”.
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. Notably, her PhD thesis was awarded the esteemed Ernst-Meyer-Price by the Geneva Association for its significant and original contribution to the study of risk and insurance economics.
