Annette L. Hofmann is the Great American Insurance Group Endowed Chair and Academic Director of the Lindner Center for Insurance and Risk Management at the University of Cincinnati’s Lindner College of Business. A recognized thought leader in insurance economics, behavioral risk management, and catastrophe risk financing, she also serves as Editor-in-Chief of Risk Management and Insurance Review and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Risk and Insurance. She has held endowed professorships at St. John’s University’s Greenberg School of Risk Management in New York and full professorships in Hamburg, Germany, where she designed the country’s first MBA and BBA programs in Risk Management. Her research explores behavioral and regulatory aspects of insurance decision-making, interdependent risks, and innovations in risk transfer, with publications in leading journals.