Robert E. Hoyt, Ph.D.
Moore Chair and Professor of Risk Management and Insurance
Department Head, Insurance, Legal Studies, & Real Estate
Terry College of Business
University of Georgia Georgia
Rob Hoyt is the Dudley L. Moore, Jr. Chair and Professor of Risk Management and Insurance in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. He teaches corporate risk management and enterprise risk management and has served as the Department Head for Insurance, Legal Studies, and Real Estate for 21 years. He was Interim Dean of the Terry College in 2007 and has been on the UGA faculty since 1988. He has received several teaching awards from the Terry College and the University and research awards from the Terry College and the American Risk and Insurance Association. The program he leads is the largest Risk Management and Insurance (“RMI”) program in the U.S. and is currently ranked #1 by U.S. News.
Dr. Hoyt holds a degree in math and economics from the University of Nebraska and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in risk and insurance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where he was an S.S. Huebner Fellow. He was a Fulbright Visiting Professor of Risk Management at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, a Swiss Re Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Munich, and a Gen Re Visiting Scholar at the University of Cologne.
His research interests are focused in the areas of corporate hedging, enterprise risk management, catastrophe risk management, insurer operations, economics of insurance fraud, and insurer insolvency. Dr. Hoyt’s research has appeared in various scholarly journals and business publications. He serves on the board of a property-casualty insurer, on the board of a captive insurer, and was Chair of the Board of Athens Regional Medical Center. He is a frequent speaker on the subject of risk management, the principles of insurance, and insurer operations to a number of industry and governmental groups ranging from insurers and risk managers to reinsurers and insurance legislators.
Dr. Hoyt is Past President of the American Risk and Insurance Association, Past President of the Risk Theory Society, Past President of the Southern Risk and Insurance Association, and was a Vice President of the International Insurance Society.