Wenan Fei, who received his doctoral degree in economics in May from the University of Alabama, received the prestigious 2007 Ernst Meyer Prize from the Geneva Association for the best dissertation in risk management and insurance.
Past winners include Christian Gollier, professor of economics at the University of Toulouse, and Amy Finkelstein, associate professor of economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Left to right: Patrick Liedtke (Head of the Geneva Association that sponsors the award), Wenan Fei (Award winner, PhD 2006), Harris Schlesinger (University of Alabama Finance Professor), at the annual conference of the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists, in Cologne, Germany, September 18, 2007

The Geneva Association was established to promote economic research in the sector of risk and insurance. The prize is presented for research work, usually in the form of a doctoral thesis, which makes a significant and original contribution to the study of risk and insurance economics.