Risk Management Programme

Risk Management is a research programme set up by the Geneva Association, also known as the International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics. The focus of this programme is manifold and address the following issues: fostering the use of the tools of risk assessment and risk management in new fields of application such as policy making; providing a platform between the insurance community, the engineering and academic communities and policy makers to discuss risk issues; promoting the concept of the insurability of risks as the natural borderline between State legislation and the market economy; identifying new opportunities for insurers in the emerging sustainability concept in order to enlarge the field of insurable risks.

Selected Key Issues

• What are the vulnerabilities in our industrial and services value-added processes?
• Where are the mechanisms for understanding, managing and mitigating these risks?
• How can insurance cope with a more complex and demanding risk scenario?
• What is the new risk environment that has been created in recent years?
• What about technologies being a new source of vulnerability?

Publications

• Risk Management, Geneva Association Information Newsletter, The Geneva Association

• Etudes et Dossiers, Working Paper Series, The Geneva Association

• The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, formerly The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory (until March 2005), The Geneva Association & Springer

External Links

• The Geneva Association website (known as the International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics)