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Dr. Robert E. Hoyt is the Dudley L. Moore, Jr. Chair and Professor of Risk Management and ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia where he teaches corporate and enterprise risk management and serves as the Department Head for ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡, Legal Studies, and Real Estate. He was Interim Dean of the Terry College in 2007 and has been on the University of Georgia faculty since 1988.

Before that, 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. He is past president of the American Risk and ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Association, past president of the Risk Theory Society, past president of the Southern Risk and ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Association, and a member of the International ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Society, the Risk and ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Management Society, the Western Risk and ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Association, and the American Finance Association. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Regulation and of the Risk Management and ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Review.

Dr. Hoyt is a recipient of the University of Georgia’s Richard B. Russell Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, the Terry College’s Outstanding Service Award, the Outstanding Teaching Award, and the Outstanding Research Award. He holds a degree in Actuarial Science from the University of Nebraska and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Risk and ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he was an S.S. Huebner Fellow. He holds the professional designations of CLU and ChFC.