The University Of Mississippi School Of Business Administration announced that it would host its annual Insurance Symposium this month.
The University of Mississippi has one of the oldest risk management and insurance (RMI) programs in the country, founded in 1947.
The symposium will be held over two days, March 23 and 24, and will see approximately 200 industry professionals as participants. Attendees will be given the rare opportunity to learn from insurance experts in a variety of topics such as health care, technology, emerging risks, legislative issues and leadership.
“We are thrilled to host over 200 industry guests on our beautiful campus and to showcase our nationally ranked program and, more generally, our exceptional university and town,” said University of Mississippi Gwenette P. and Jack W. Robertson Chair of Insurance and associate professor of finance Andre Liebenberg. “In addition to being our largest fundraiser, the symposium provides us an opportunity to serve the industry by providing continuing education.”
About a hundred of the university’s students can attend the event free of charge, Liebenberg said. The associate professor also noted that the symposium coincides with the university’s two annual career fairs and summer internship program.
“The symposium is an event for learning and utilizing, on a local level, the latest trends and changes in the insurance industry,” said Mississippi insurance commissioner Mike Chaney.
“We are very excited about this year’s symposium,” remarked FCCI Insurance Group state director and the symposium’s program chair Tiffany Hawkins, who also happens to be a graduate of the university’s RMI program in 1999.
