Ruo (Alex) Jia is an Associate Professor of Insurance in the School of Economics, Peking University. He joined the Peking University in 2016 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2019. His research field is insurance economics, including financial institutions and regulation, fintech, information asymmetry, and public-private partnership. He has published in the Journal of Risk and Insurance, Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Economic Research Journal, among others. He is an Associate Editor of the European Journal of Finance and of Risk Management and Insurance Review, and serves in the Editorial Board of the Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance-Issues and Practice. He is a member of the Solvency Supervision Expert Committee of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, a member of the Board of Governors of the Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association, a member of the Risk Theory Society, and a co-founder of the Modern Risk Society. He obtained his Bachelor (2008) and Master (2010) degrees in Insurance from the Peking University and Ph.D. in Finance (2016) from the Institute of Insurance Economics (I.VW), University of St.Gallen (HSG) in Switzerland. He was a Casualty Underwriter in Swiss Reinsurance Company in 2013-2016 and promoted to Assistant Vice President.
