Ty Leverty is the Gerald D. Stephens CPCU Distinguished Chair in Risk Management and Insurance and an Associate Professor in the Department of Risk and Insurance at the Wisconsin School of Business. Leverty earned his B.A. in economics and history from the University of Washington and his Ph.D. in risk management and insurance from Georgia State University. Leverty was the 2019 Gen Re Visiting Professor at the University of Cologne. He was also a visiting professor at the Central University of Finance and Economics and the Univerity of Munich. Before joining the faculty at UW-Madison, Leverty was an Associate Professor of Finance and the TRISTAR Risk Management Research Fellow at the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business. His research interests are in the economics of insurance markets, insurance company operations, and public policy issues in insurance. He has received awards for his research including the State Farm Companies Doctoral Dissertation Award and the Casualty Actuarial Society Best Paper Award. Ty Leverty is the Past President of the American Risk and Insurance Association and the Past President of the Risk Theory Society.