Robert P. Hartwig

ROBERT P. HARTWIG, PhD, CPCU is Senior Vice President and Chief
Economist for the Insurance Information Institute. Dr. Hartwig
previously served as Director of Economic Research and Senior Economist
with the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) in Boca
Raton, Florida, where he performed rate of return and cost of capital
modeling and testified at workers’ compensation rate hearings in many
states. He has also worked as Senior Economist for the Swiss Reinsurance
Group in New York and as Senior Statistician for the United States
Consumer Product Safety Commission in Washington, DC. He is a member of
the American Economic Association, the American Risk and Insurance
Association, the National Association of Business Economics and the CPCU
Society. Dr. Hartwig received his PhD and Master of Science degrees in
economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also
received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics cum laude from the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has served as an instructor
at the University of Illinois and at Florida Atlantic University. Dr.
Hartwig also holds the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU)
credential. Dr. Hartwig has authored and co-authored papers that have
appeared in numerous publications, including the Journal of Health
Economics, the Proceedings of the Casualty Actuarial Society, the John
Liner Review (where he also serves on the editorial board), Dossiers et
Etudes (Geneva Association), the Journal of Workers’ Compensation,
Global Reinsurance, Risk & Insurance, Insurance Day, Compensation and
Benefits Review, and is a regular contributor to National Underwriter
and many other industry trade publications. Dr. Hartwig also makes
frequent presentations to industry associations, company management,
industry executives and analysts and speaks internationally on a wide
range of insurance issues. He has testified before numerous regulatory
and legislative bodies, including the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee
and the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets,
Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises. Dr. Hartwig serves as a
media spokesperson for the property-casualty insurance industry, and is
quoted frequently in leading publications such as The Wall Street
Journal, New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times,
The Financial Times, Business Week, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report,
CFO, Fortune, Forbes, The Economist and many others throughout the
world. Dr. Hartwig also appears regularly on television, including
appearances on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, CNBC, Fox and PBS.