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Prof. Dr. Mirko Kraft

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Teaching and research areas
Functions
Projects
Short vita
Memberships
Publications

Teaching and research areas

  • Controlling and risk management (in insurance companies)
  • Insurance supervision (Solvency II)
  • Cost accounting and cost management
  • Artificial intelligence (AI), digitalization and telematics
  • Health promotion and insurance
  • Sustainability

Functions

Within the university

  • Chairman of the Standing Selection Committee for Research Professorships
  • Member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics
  • Head of the Bachelor's degree program in Insurance Management, part-time
  • Contact person specializing in insurance management in the Master's degree program in Business Administration
  • Spokesperson for the "Further development of the sustainability strategy" project group
  • Member of the Coburg University Research Center for Responsible Artificial Intelligence (CRAI)
  • Member of the Ethics Committee

Outside the university

  • Participation in Forum V – North Bavarian Institute for Insurance Science and Economics at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
  • Member of the BayWISS Steering Committee of the Joint Academic Partnership "Economics and Business"
  • Contact person European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) University Partnership Program

Projects

An overview of projects can be found here.

Short vita

  • since 07/2024: Member of the EIOPA Insurance and Reinsurance Stakeholder Group (IRSG)
  • 09/2019 – 09/2021: Member of the EIOPA expert group "Digital Ethics"
  • since 08/2015: Head of the part-time Bachelor of Insurance Management program
  • since 02/2012: Professor of Insurance Management and Basic Economics at the Faculty of Economics at Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts
  • 08/2006 – 02/2012: Consultant in the Risk Management Department of the German Insurance Association (GDV), Berlin
    in between: 02/2008 – 06/2009: Secondment to the GDV European Office, Brussels
  • 10/2001- 06/2006: Research assistant and doctorate at the Chair of Business Administration, in particular Controlling (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Berens) at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster
  • 10/1996 – 09/2001: Diploma studies in mathematics at the Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf

Memberships

  • Gesellschaft für Betriebswirtschaft e. V. (GfB), Chairman
  • Hochschullehrerbund (hlb), spokesperson for the Coburg local group
  • forum 1.5 Bamberg-Coburg, Member of the Executive Board
  • Association for the Promotion of the Research Center for Insurance – University of Münster e. V.
  • German Association for Insurance Science (DVfVW)
  • Adult Education Center (EEB) Upper Franconia West, Assessor
  • Europa-Union / KV Coburg, Assessor
  • THESIS e. V. – Interdisciplinary network for doctoral candidates and postgraduates
  • Asean-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association (APRIA), Board of Governors (BOG)
  • European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists (EGRIE)
  • Eastern Europe Risk and Insurance Association (EERIA)
  • Western Risk and Insurance Association (WRIA)

Publications