Professor W. Jean Kwon, Ph.D., CPCU, has been with the Greenberg School of Risk Management (GSRM, formerly The College of Insurance), St. John’s University, New York, since his return to then the College of Insurance (TCI) in 2002 until his retirement in 2025. He has authored several books, including a "Kulp-Wright Award-winning “Risk Management and Insurance: Perspectives in a Global Economy, jointly with a good ol' friend, Skip (the late Harold Skipper, Jr.), which has been in use across continents, and "Technical Reinsurance Accounts for Professionals: Conceptually and Practically," published in 2025. He has made available dozens of academic and policy-related papers, including "Global Surveys of Collegiate Risk Management and Insurance Education" (2014 and 2024). He has spoken for academic, private, and public sector audiences and visited universities and research institutions globally.
He has helped with the establishment and operation of the Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association (APRIA, 1997), the World Risk and Insurance Economics Congress (WRIEC, 2005), the Research Network of the International Insurance Society (2016), and GSRM’s Center for the Study of Insurance Regulation (CSIR, 2013), for for scholars, industry experts, and policymakers. His contribution includes his editorship service to the Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance and associate editorship to several other journals.
Previously, he was with, among others, Georgia State University (US), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and the Institutes (US). He has had working relationships with, among others, the Geneva Association, Singapore College of Insurance, Lloyd's, the OECD, the International Insurance Society, Financial Accreditation Agency (Malaysia), Networks Financial Institute (US), Singapore Economic Forum, and Shanghai Forum.
He retired in 2025 but remains keen on promoting education as a means to lower protection gaps and the risk and insurance profession, so as to make society better protected and the economy more efficient.
