2009 DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES

In conjunction with the RMI Research Seminars, the Distinguished Lecturer Series invites highly renowned scholars to address topics of importance related to the modeling and management of risk.

This year's series features Georges Dionne, the Canada Research Chair in Risk Management at HEC Montréal. He is an expert and avid researcher on the topics of management of private and social risks, microeconomic theory on risk and uncertainty (financial contracts, insurance contracts), insurance and portfolio choices, problems with information asymmetry (moral hazard and adverse selection), applied econometrics, and the economics of transportation and the environment. He has published more than 150 articles in prestigious scientific journals such as Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, International Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, The Journal of Risk and Insurance, Journal of Econometrics, and Management Science.

In addition to publishing a dozen book chapters, Professor Dionne has authored five books, two of which — Contributions to Insurance Economics and Foundations of Insurance Economics: Readings in Economics and Finance — are heavily used worldwide in doctoral insurance programs.  His reference book, the Handbook of Insurance (Kluwer, 2000), contains contributions from the top 40 researchers in the field and is now the dominant required textbook in every Ph.D.-level insurance economics seminar taught worldwide.  In 2002, the book received the prestigious Kulp Wright Award given by the American Risk and Insurance Association. 

Professor Dionne is the current editor of the Journal of Risk and Insurance and has served as president of the Risk Theory Society. He was elected as a member of the Royal Society of Canada in 2000.  In 2008, Professor Dionne was honored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada for his 30 years of cultivating excellence in research.

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