Managing Risk in Reinsurance
From City Fires to Global Warming
Edited by Neils Haueter and Geoffrey Jones
Author Information
Geoffrey Jones, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Harvard Business School, Neils Haueter, Head of Swiss Re's Corporate History unit, Swiss Reinsurance Company.
Geoffrey Jones is the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at the Harvard Business School. He has written extensively on the history of globalization. His recent books include Multinationals and Global Capitalism (OUP 2005) and Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry (OUP, 2010). He is co-editor of the journal Business History Review, and a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and the Royal Historical Society.
Niels Viggo Haueter is Head of Swiss Re's Corporate History unit. He serves as Deputy Chairman of the Academic Council of the European Association for Banking and Financial History in Frankfurt and is a guest lecturer at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. Together with Peter Borscheid he edited World Insurance: The Evolution of a Global Risk Network published by Oxford University Press in 2012.
Contributors:
Hans Bühlmann, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Forrest Capie, Cass Business School, City University of London
Geoffrey Clark, Potsdam State University of New York
Lorraine Daston, Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
Niels Viggo Haueter, Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd
Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School
Lawrence Kenny
Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis, University of Athens
Roman Lechner,
Martin Lengwiler, University of Basel
Robin Pearson, University of Hull
Tilmann Röder, Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law, Heidelberg
Milos Vec, University of Vienna
Welf Werner, Jacobs University, Bremen