HAROLD D. SKIPPER JR., PhD Professor Emeritus of Risk Management and Insurance hskipper@mindspring.com 770-434-1513

Harold Skipper is Professor Emeritus of Risk Management and Insurance and former Chairman of the Department of Risk Management and Insurance in The Robinson College of Business where he also held the C.V. Starr Chair of International Insurance. He retired from Georgia State University in 2005.

His academic focus has been on insurance-related public policy issues, particularly those relating to supervision and international insurance trade. His 1997 monograph, Foreign Insurers in Emerging Markets: Issues and Concerns, is said to have played an important role in advancing the insurance-related negotiations under the WTO’s General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). Other areas of research that have had impact include studies on how best to tax insurers and insurance products, issues associated with harmonized supervision worldwide, and deficiencies within the GATS related to insurance. Besides several dozen articles, his publications include the four books: Privacy and the Insurance Industry, International Risk and Insurance: An Environmental/Managerial Approach, Life and Health Insurance (with Kenneth Black, Jr., 13 th ed.), and, in 2007, Risk Management and Insurance: Perspectives in a Global Economy (with W. Jean Kwon).

Dr. Skipper has been a visiting professor at the University of Paris and at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. In addition, he serves as a Research Fellow with the Chinese Center for Social Security and Insurance Research at Peking University and as a member of the Advisory Board to the Center for Insurance Research at the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore. A non-profit educational foundation named in his honor is being established in India in recognition of his contributions.

His non-academic experience includes a three-year appointment, while on leave of absence from GSU, as an Economics Affairs Officer with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva, where he worked with developing countries to address their insurance regulatory and tax issues. He has worked closely for the past several years with the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) for which he has prepared policy monographs and given lectures on insurance policy and trade issues. He also has worked with the World Bank, the U.S. Department of Commerce, state and international insurance supervisors, the NAIC, as well as several major corporations and law firms.

He is past President of the American Risk and Insurance Association and past Vice President of the International Insurance Society. He was the moving force in 1996-97 in the creation of the Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association for which its Board of Governors awarded lifetime membership to him and, more recently, named a research award in his honor.

His bachelor’s degree is from Georgia State University and his masters and Ph.D. degrees are from the University of Pennsylvania where he was a Huebner Fellow in the Wharton School.