ICIR - Key Persons


Bettina Mathis-Kupczyk

Job Titles:
  • Secretary, Chair for Insurance, Insurance Supervision and Insurance Regulation, Sponsored by the German Insurance Association ( GDV )

Christoph Bohn

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • CEO, Alte Leipziger Holding AG

Dr. Christian Kubitza

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant and Doctoral Student

Dr. Elia Berdin

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant and Doctoral Student

Dr. Fabian Regele

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant and Doctoral Student

Dr. Franca Glenzer

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant and Doctoral Student

Dr. Irina Gemmo

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant and Doctoral Student

Dr. Jan-Hendrik Weinert

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant and Doctoral Student

Dr. Michael Menhart

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Deputy Chair of the ICIR Advisory Board ) Head of Economics, Sustainability and Public Affairs & Global Chief Economist, Munich Re

Dr. Monica Mächler

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Chairman of the ICIR Advisory Board ) Member of the Board of Directors of Zurich Insurance Group Ltd., Switzerland

Dr. Norbert Rollinger

Job Titles:
  • CEO, R V Versicherung AG

Dr. Rayna Stoyanova

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant and Doctoral Student

Gerrit Lüders


Isabella Pfaller

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • CFO, Athora Deutschland Holding GmbH & Co. KG

Julia Wiens

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Executive Director Insurance and Pension Fund Supervision, BaFin

Jörg Asmussen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • CEO, Gesamtverband Der Deutschen Versicherungswirtschaft E.V. ( German Insurance Association )

Kar Man Tan

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant and Doctoral Student

Marcel Beyer

Job Titles:
  • Scientific Coordinator

Max Schuhmacher

Job Titles:
  • Student Assistent

Michael Sattler

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Board Member and CRO, Viridium Group GmbH & Co. KG

Nicolaus Grochola

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant and Doctoral Student

Nikolas Hilger

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant and Doctoral Student

Petra Hielkema

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Chairman, European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority ( EIOPA )

Prof. Dr. Alexander Ludwig

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Board
  • Director ICIR, Chair of Public Finance and Macroeconomic Dynamics
  • Executive Board
  • Professor, Chair of Public Finance and Macroeconomic Dynamics

Prof. Dr. Christian Schlag

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Dean, Faculty of Economics and Business, Goethe University Frankfurt

Prof. Dr. Christian Thimann

Job Titles:
  • Honorary Professor at Goethe University

Prof. Dr. Daniela Grunow

Job Titles:
  • Fellow

Prof. Dr. Dirk Krüger

Job Titles:
  • Fellow

Prof. Dr. Hartmut Nickel-Waninger

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Board Member Bayerische Beamten - Versicherungen, München / Former Executive Board Member Gothaer Versicherungen, Köln ( until 9 / 2016 ) ICIR Advisory Board Member ( until 2020 )

Prof. Dr. Helmut Gründl

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Executive Board
  • Executive Board
  • Professor - Chair for Insurance, Insurance Supervision and Insurance Regulation, Sponsored by the German Insurance Association ( GDV )
After his postdoctoral lecture qualification ("Habilitation") at the University of Passau, Prof. Gründl was Professor at Humboldt University Berlin from 1999 until 2010, before he moved to Goethe University Frankfurt in 2010 where he holds the Chair of Insurance and Regulation and serves as Managing Director of the International Center for Insurance Regulation (ICIR). Prof. Gründl's main research interests lie in the area of insurance, insurance regulation and risk management. He has worked on the question of policyholders' demand behavior under the possible risk of forgoing insurance benefits and on the resulting consequences for the regulation of insurance companies. Presently his research focuses on insurance regulation in order to strengthen the scientific basis for regulatory decisions. In his quantitatively oriented lectures he covers corporate finance, insurance economics, and the asset and liability management of insurance companies.

Prof. Dr. Manfred Wandt - Founder, Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Founding Director
  • Managing Director
  • Member of the Executive Board
  • Advisory Board
  • Executive Board
  • Managing Director of the Institute for Insurance Law ( IVersR ) Founding Director
Prof. Dr. Manfred Wandt Managing Director of the Institute for Insurance Law Founding Director of the ICIR wandt@jur.uni-frankfurt.de Professor Wandt has been Professor of Civil Law, Commercial and Insurance Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law at Goethe University Frankfurt since 1995, where he heads the Institute of Insurance Law (IVersR) and further is a board member of the Institute for Law and Finance (ILF) and the International Center for Insurance Regulation (ICIR). His research focuses on national and international contract, liability and recourse law as well as on the entire field of insurance law. After studying law at the Universities of Mannheim, Paris and Strasbourg (state examinations in Baden-Württemberg in 1981 and 1984), he wrote his doctoral dissertation on "Geschäftsführung ohne Auftrag im Internationalen Privatrecht" and his post-doctoral thesis on International Product Liability (both awarded the Dr. Kurt Hamann Foundation Prize, 1988 and 1993). He was appointed to the University of Hanover in 1994 with the venia legendi for the subjects Civil Law, Private Insurance Law, Private International Law, European Law and Comparative Law.

Prof. Dr. Michael Huth

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Vice President, Goethe University Frankfurt

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Schlütter

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant and Doctoral Student

Prof. Dr. Stefan Kadelbach

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Dean, Faculty of Law, Goethe University Frankfurt
Prof. Dr. Wolfram Wrabetz Honorary Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt and Representative of the Federal State of Hesse for the Insurance Sector

Prof. Dr. Wolfram Wrabetz

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Representative
  • Honorary Professor

Prof. Karel van Hulle

Job Titles:
  • Associate ProfessorKU Leuven / Honorary Professor at Goethe University / Former ICIR Executive Board Member ( until 09 / 2020 )

Tillmann Lukosch

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Board Member of R V Versicherung AG, Central Information Systems / Digital Transformation / Overall Risk Management