Assistant Professor of Risk and Insurance

The Department of Risk and Insurance at the Wisconsin School of Business invites applications at all ranks (Assistant, Associate, Full Professors) for a position to start August 18, 2025.

This position is part of the Wisconsin Research, Innovation and Scholarly Excellence (RISE)-Environment: Adaptation, Resilience, Technology, and Humanity (EARTH) cluster hire initiative (https://rise.wisc.edu/rise-earth/). The candidate's tenure home will be in the Risk and Insurance department at the Wisconsin School of Business, and the candidate will participate in interdisciplinary and collaborative efforts with other departments, schools, and colleges. The Risk and Insurance Department is excited to add a thought leader who expands our expertise on topics at the intersection of sustainability and risk management, with potential examples including the impacts of climate change on the insurance sector, physical and transition climate risk, disaster recovery and insurance policy, decision-making and perceptions around climate risk, and the impacts of environmental risks on health and economic outcomes.

The Risk and Insurance Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is one of the oldest such programs in the country, dating back to the 1930s. Our faculty comes from a range of fields, including economics, risk management and insurance, actuarial science, and statistics. While we are united by interests related to the management of risk and insurance, the umbrella of our research scope is broad. You do not need to be an "insurance scholar" to fit in our department. We offer undergraduate majors in actuarial science and risk management and insurance, which are both consistently ranked among the best in the world. We also offer a PhD program in Insurance Economics & Actuarial Analytics as well as a Capstone Certificate in Actuarial Science. Our faculty also teach and play important roles in the school's business analytics programs, including the Masters of Science in Business Analytics program, a new online Masters of Science in Data, Insights, and Analytics, as well as the school's Full-time and Professional MBA programs. We are also proud to be part of a great university with excellent resources available to both faculty and students. Our faculty in particular have strong connections and collaborations with faculty throughout campus in departments such as economics, engineering, public policy, population health and statistics.

The Wisconsin School of Business is growing and thriving and we offer highly competitive salaries. Madison, Wisconsin is a lively and wonderful place to live with a beautiful university campus on the shores of Lake Mendota. Come and join us!