Professor Gerry Dickinson

Emeritus Professor of International Insurance

Bayes Business School, Faculty of Actuarial Science and Insurance

Contact

Postal address

City, University of London
Northampton Square
London
EC1V 0HB
United Kingdom

About

Overview

Having worked as an investment analyst, Professor Dickinson became ABI Research Fellow in Insurance at the University of Sussex and later Associate Professor of Finance at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He has been AIG Visiting Professor of Insurance at the Graduate School of International Business, Thunderbird Campus, Arizona. He is the author of three books and is a regular contributor to the insurance, risk management and investment literature. He is Honorary Vice Secretary General of the Geneva Association, serves on the Council of the Insurance Ombudsman Bureau and is advisor on insurance industry issues to the OECD, Paris, and the European Commission, Brussels.

Qualifications

BA Econ (Manchester) and DPhil (Sussex).

Publications

Book

  1. Dickinson, and Winter, L. (2001). Global Marine Review 2001: Forecasting the Size and Growth of the Global Marine Insurance Market. WIS Research Ltd. ISBN 978-0-9540111-0-9.

Chapters (2)

  1. Dickinson, (2002). The development of China’s insurance industry. China in the World Economy The Domestic Policy Challenges (pp. 269–269). Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD). ISBN 978-92-64-19707-7.
  2. Dickinson, (2001). Insurance finds a Blend of Innovation and Tradition. Mastering Risk Concepts (pp. 195–200). Financial Times/ Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-273-65379-0.

Conference paper/proceedings

  1. Dickinson, G. (1999). The changing focus in the supervision of insurance company investment.

Journal articles (14)

  1. Zheng, W., Liu, Y. and Dickinson, G. (2008). The Chinese Insurance Market: Estimating its Long-Term Growth and Size. The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, 33(3), pp. 489–506. doi:10.1057/gpp.2008.19.

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  2. Dickinson, (2005). Enterprise Risk Management: The Reasons Behind its Recent Development. Journal of Risk Management and Insurance, 10.
  3. Dickinson, G. and Liedtke, P.M. (2004). Impact of a Fair Value Financial Reporting System on Insurance Companies: A Survey. The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, 29(3), pp. 540–581. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0440.2004.00302.x.

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  4. Dickinson, (2003). An international accounting standard for insurance: the current challenge. Journal of Insurance Research and Practice -, 18(2), pp. 50–60.
  5. Dickinson, G. (2003). The Search for an International Accounting Standard for Insurance: Report to the Accountancy Task Force of the Geneva Association. The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, 28(2), pp. 151–175. doi:10.1111/1468-0440.00215.

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  6. Atchinson, B.K., Cronin, K.T., Cisiszar, E.M., Dickinson, G., Gibbons, R.J. and Nolle, D.E. (2002). Comments on the 25th Annual Lecture. The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, 27(1), pp. 29–45. doi:10.1111/1468-0440.00150.

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  7. Dickinson, G. (2001). Enterprise Risk Management: Its Origins and Conceptual Foundation. The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, 26(3), pp. 360–366. doi:10.1111/1468-0440.00121.

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  8. Dickinson, , Desiata, A., Fitzpatrick, J.H. and Hohlfeld, K. (2001). Comments on Stephen Ross's Paper on "Financial Regulation for the New Millennium". Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, 26(1), pp. 27–30. doi:10.2307/41954371.
  9. Dickinson, , Dinenis, E. and Siokis, V. (2001). Rethinking the solvency margin system in Europe. Journal of Insurance Research and Practice, 16(1), pp. 36–46.
  10. Dickinson, G. (2000). The Implications of Lower Interest Rates for Insurers: A Comment. The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, 25(1), pp. 59–62. doi:10.1111/1468-0440.00048.

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  11. Dickinson, G. (1998). The Economic Role of the Insurance Sector in the Risk Transfer - Capital Market Nexus. The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, 23(4), pp. 519–529. doi:10.1057/gpp.1998.45.

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  12. Beenstock, M., Dickinson, G. and Khajuria, S. (1988). The Relationship between Property-Liability Insurance Premiums and Income: An International Analysis. The Journal of Risk and Insurance, 55(2), pp. 259–259. doi:10.2307/253327.

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  13. Beenstock, M., Dickinson, G. and Khajuria, S. (1986). The determination of life premiums: An international cross-section analysis 1970–1981. Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 5(4), pp. 261–270. doi:10.1016/0167-6687(86)90020-x.

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  14. DICKINSON, G. (1984). THE INVISIBLE BANKERS - TOBIAS,A. WORLD ECONOMY, 7(1), pp. 120–121.

Professional activities

Media appearances (8)

  1. New money could fund a state bank. (2012) Financial Times (newspaper).
  2. New money could fund a state bank. (2012) www.ft.com (website).
  3. New money could fund a state bank. (2012) www.ft.com (website).
  4. Banks need more stable leaderships. (2010) Financial Times (newspaper).
  5. Accounting moves towards a new global standard. (2010) Financial Times (newspaper).
  6. IASB could be taking a step too far. (2010) Financial Times (newspaper).
  7. UK insurers seen as targets for Ping An. (2008) Daily Telegraph (newspaper).
  8. UK insurers seen as targets for Ping An. (2008) www.telegraph.co.ukwww.telegraph.co.uk (website).