Michael Roland Powers | |
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| Born | November 19, 1959 |
| Education | Yale University Harvard University |
| Occupation(s) | Professor, Statistician, Author |
| Known for | Zurich Insurance Group Chair Professor of Finance at Tsinghua University |
Michael Roland Powers (Chinese: 包迈高; pinyin: Bāo Màigāo; born November 19, 1959) is an American academic who is the Chair Professor of Finance at Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management (SEM) in China. Since 2014, he has held a dual appointment as professor at Tsinghua's Schwarzman College. An internationally recognized risk and insurance expert, he was a 2011 recipient of China’s Thousand Talents Plan award. In 2013, he won the Kulp-Wright Book Award for Acts of God and Man: Ruminations on Risk and Insurance (2012, Columbia University Press).[1]