Dr. Patricia Born

Dr. Patricia Born received her Ph.D. in Economics from Duke University and is currently the Midyette Eminent Scholar of Insurance in the Department of Risk Management/Insurance, Real Estate and Legal Studies at Florida State University. She is a research associate in the Florida Catastrophic Storm Risk Management Center and the Director of the Risk Management PhD program in the College of Business. Her research interests include insurance regulation, medical malpractice, retirement planning, health insurance, tort reform, and catastrophe modeling. She has published in leading insurance academic journals including Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Journal of Risk and Insurance, Journal of Regulatory Economics, Columbia Business Law Review, and the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. She is Editor of Risk Management and Insurance Review.

Dr. Born has served as President of the American Risk and Insurance Association and the Risk Theory Society.She serves as the Insurance Finance Expert on the Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology. She also serves as a Long Term Care Ombudsman for the State of Florida Department of Elder Affairs.