Niklas Anders, University of Cologne
Niklas Anders is a doctoral researcher at the Seminar for General Business Administration, Risk Management and Insurance at the University of Cologne. His research focuses on the insurability of cyber risks and the development of risk transfer mechanisms in the context of digitalization
Martin Boyer, HEC Montréal
Professor M. Martin Boyer, Ph.D., was until recently a professor of finance and insurance at HEC Montréal (Université de Montréal) and the former chairman of its Finance Department. He is currently on leave at the University of North Carolina, where he is visiting the Institute for Risk Management and Insurance Innovation. Martin Boyer holds a Ph.D. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He was a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia, University of New South Wales, University of Toronto, Cornell University, and Universität St. Gallen. He has written close to 100 published articles and has held the Power Corporation of Canada Research Chair in Insurance and Pension Plans at HEC Montréal. He is a past president of the American Risk and Insurance Association and of the Northern Finance Association. Professor Boyer is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Risk and Insurance and the immediate past president of the Faculty Senate at HEC Montréal. In his spare time, Martin enjoys playing ice hockey and the company of his seven sons.
Anna Cartwright, Independent Researcher
Dr. Anna Cartwright is an expert in the economics of cybersecurity, particularly, in terms of ransomware and quantification of cyber risk. She served as a Fellow and then Senior Fellow of the Research Institute of Sociotechnical Cyber Security (RISCS) on the theme of Quantification and Cyber Risk. She has recently led on quantification of cyber risk project that was funded by the NCSC and the Cabinet Office. The project delivered a state-of-the-art oversight of cyber risk quantification in organisations to inform government. She has extensive experience of working with a range of stakeholders, including central government (the Home Office, DCMS, the Cabinet Office, NCSC), law enforcement (Kent Police, Leicestershire Police), businesses and charities. She has also engaged over many years with the Regional Organised Crime Units, the Cyber Resilience Centres and Cyber Protect network.
Martin Eling, University of St. Gallen, and Guest Editor, The Geneva Papers
Martin Eling is Professor of Insurance Management and Director of the Institute of Insurance Economics at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. His research focuses on risk management and insurance, in particular cyber risk, emerging risks and the economics of insurance markets. He serves as co-editor of the North American Actuarial Journal and as department editor for insurance at the Journal of Business Economics, and he co-edited several special issues of The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance on cyber risk and microinsurance.
Daniel W. Woods, University of Edinburgh, Guest Editor, The Geneva Papers
Daniel Woods is a Lecturer in Cyber Security at the University of Edinburgh, and Head of Emerging Risks at Coalition. He researches the economics of security and privacy focusing on cyber insurance, risk quantification, incident response, and cybersecurity law. He received his PhD titled “The Economics of Cyber Risk Transfer” in 2019 from the University of Oxford.
WU Wanggefei, Elizabethtown College
Wanggefei Wu is an Assistant Professor of Actuarial Science at Elizabethtown College. She holds a Ph.D. in Risk Management and Insurance from Georgia State University. She is an Associate of the Society of Actuaries and a Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst. Her research interests include cybersecurity risk and other emerging risks, and the application of textual analysis to risk management and finance.
