Dr. Petra Steinorth was awarded her doctoral degree in public
economics with a concentration in risk management and insurance
from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Germany in November
2010. Dr. Steinorth received her undergraduate degree in
mathematics and economics at the University of Hamburg, Germany,
and she holds a Master in Business Research also from the
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Germany. Her doctoral
thesis has won several awards including the national prize for the
best insurance economics dissertation from the Hamburg center for
insurance sciences and an outstanding dissertation award from
Munich School of Management.
In the field of research, Dr. Steinorth focuses on topics on
health and retirement insurance. She has recently published an
article about health savings accounts in the Journal of Health
Economics and won a research grant from the TIAA-CREF Institute for
a project on Variable Annuities. She has served as a referee to
European Economic Review, Journal of Health Economics, Insurance:
Mathematics and Economics and the Risk Management and Insurance
Review. During the spring semester 2010, was appointed a visiting
scholar at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She has
presented on many major academic insurance and health economics
conferences including the Risk Theory Society Seminar, the annual
meeting of the American Risk and Insurance Association, the World
Risk and Insurance Economics Congress and the World Congress on
Health Economics.
Dr. Steinorth was able to build a wide teaching portfolio at St.
John’s University and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, including
undergraduate, graduate and executive courses. She has taught the
following courses at St. John’s University:
RM 601 Management of Risk
RM 3360 Coporate Risk Management