Contact
Prof. Dr. Mirko Kraft
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)



