World Insurance The Evolution of a Global Risk Network

Edited by Peter Borscheid, Professor Emeritus of Economic and Social History at the Philipps-University of Marburg, and Niels Viggo Haueter, Corporate History, Swiss Re

Peter Borscheid is Professor Emeritus of Economic and Social History at the University of Marburg. He has published numerous monographs on the history of science and technology, the history of the textile industry, the standard of living, the history of old age, and old-age pension, the cultural history of acceleration. He led several projects and international working groups on insurance history. He also served as a member of the German government commission "The situation of the older generation in the Federal Republic of Germany".

Niels Viggo Haueter is Head of Swiss Reinsurance Company's Corporate History team and the company's historical archives. He serves as an academic advisor on insurance and reinsurance history to the European Association for Banking and Financial History in Frankfurt.

Contributors: 
Gustavo A. Del Angel, Professor of Financial History at CIDE (Center for Economics Research and Teaching), Mexico City. 
G. Balachandran, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. 
Yolanda Blasco Martel, Professor, the University of Barcelona.
Peter Borscheid, Professor Emeritus of Economic and Social History, the University of Marburg. 
James Darroch, Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Director of the Financial Services Program at the Schulich School of Business, York University. 
David Faure, Wei Lun Professor of History, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. 
Niels Viggo Haueter, Head of Corporate History, Swiss Re
Frauke Heard-Bey, Historian and Political Scientist
Myung Hwi Lee, Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, the Ewha Womans University. 
Dr Monica Keneley, Associate Professor in Finance, the School of Accounting Economics and Finance, Deakin University Victoria, Australia. 
Duol Kim, Fellow, Korea Development Institute, and Adjunct Professor, KDI School of Public Policy and Management. 
Matthias Kipping, Professor of Policy and Chair in Business History, the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada. 
Christopher Kobrak, Professor of Finance, ESCP Europe, and an International Fellow at the Centre for Corporate Reputation, Oxford University. 
Elisabeth Köll, Associate Professor, the Harvard Business School.
Martin Lengwiler, Professor for Modern History, the University of Basle.
Marcelo de Paiva Abreu, Professor of Economics, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. 
Robin Pearson, Professor of Economic History, the University of Hull, UK. 
Yuri A. Petrov, Director of the Institute of Russian History, RAN, Moscow.
Giandomenico Piluso, Lecturer of Economic History, the University of Siena and Adjunct Professor of Business History, Bocconi University, Milan.
Jerònia Pons, Senior Lecturer in Economic History, the University of Seville, Spain. 
Rodrigo Rabetino, Assistant Professor, the Department of Management, the University of Vaasa, Finland. 
Samir Saul, Professor of History, the Université de Montréal. 
André Straus, Directeur de recherches, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. 
Felipe Tâmega Fernandes, Chief-Economist, Banco Modal, and at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.
Grietjie Verhoef, Professor in Accounting and Economic History, the Department of Accountancy, the University of Johannesburg. 
Takau Yoneyama, Professor at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo.