Associate Professor, Risk Management and Insurance Program
Dr. Ragin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Insurance, Legal Studies, and Real Estate (ILSRE) in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. His research interests include behavioral insurance, catastrophe risk, insurer operations, and insurance market economics. He has published research in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Risk and Insurance, the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, and the North American Actuarial Journal.
Before joining the faculty at UGA, Dr. Ragin was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Risk, Insurance, and Healthcare Management at Temple University in Philadelphia. He completed his doctoral work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, focusing on Actuarial Science, Risk Management, and Insurance.
Prior to entering academia, Dr. Ragin worked as a broker for Lockton in Atlanta for three years. He specialized in executive risk lines of insurance – Directors and Officers Liability, Employment Practices Liability, Fiduciary Liability, Crime (Employee Theft), Kidnap/Ransom, and Errors and Omissions. He also worked in the Risk Management department at Amazon.com in Seattle.
Research interests: catastrophe insurance, behavioral insurance, insurance market economics, financial markets, insurer operations and strategy