Jeffrey Czajkowski
Dr. Jeffrey Czajkowski serves as the Director of the Center for Insurance Policy and Research (CIPR) for the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). The CIPR provides research and education to drive discussion and advance thought leadership as well as action on current and emerging insurance issues amongst insurance regulators, policymakers, industry, and academics. This is accomplished through CIPR’s events, research publications, newsletter and website, the Journal of Insurance Regulation, and its extensive NAIC research library holdings.
Prior to joining the CIPR, he served as the Managing Director for the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center at the University of Pennsylvania, conducting research on various economic and risk-related issues of natural disasters and resilience, as well as on issues of environmental economics. His work has been published in leading risk management, insurance, natural hazards, and environmental economics journals. A significant amount of his research involves working collaboratively in cross-disciplinary research teams and applying research findings through various interactions with top policymakers and senior executives in the insurance industry. This has included serving on two National Academy of Sciences committees, being an academic advisory board member for the World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report, a member of the Federal Alliance for Safe Homes (FLASH) Resilience Policy Council, and a fellow for the Willis Research Network.
He holds a B.S. from Carnegie Mellon University, an M.S. in environmental and urban systems from Florida International University, and a Ph.D. in economics from Florida International University.
Preceding graduate school, he worked in New York City as a research associate for Coopers & Lybrand Consulting and was a vice-president for JP Morgan. He has taught economic courses for over15 years at a number of universities and was an adjunct assistant research professor at the International Hurricane Research Center (IHRC) at FIU.