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Ernst Csiszar to Head Up Moore's New Risk and Uncertainty Management Initiative


Csiszar_E1An internationally known insurance expert who once directed South Carolina’s Department of Insurance has joined the Moore School of Business as Special Assistant to the Dean for the school’s new Risk and Uncertainty Management Initiative.

He is Ernst N. Csiszar, who was South Carolina’s insurance regulator from 1999 to 2004 and president and CEO of Property and Casualty Insurers of America, the largest property and casualty insurance association in the United States, from 2004 to 2006.  He also served for five years as president and CEO of Seibels Bruce Group, Inc., a South Carolina-based property and casualty insurance company, and was president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners in 2004.

The new Risk and Uncertainty Management Initiative "will support our work in international business and in sustainable enterprise and development," according to Dean Hildy Teegen, who announced the appointment.  "Ernie is well known in business and policy circles in South Carolina, the United States, and beyond, and will work closely with our faculty and staff in designing a new center focused on this area, for which we will seek approval from the State Commission on Higher Education." 

Teegen added: "Given our national ranking for insurance and the importance of this industry to the Innovista research district [in downtown Columbia], we are delighted to have someone of Ernie’s stature and experience.  He will work with our students and faculty in making important linkages with this community in particular, and with an expanded set of organizations and industries concerned with issues related to risk and uncertainty management." 

Csiszar, a native of Romania, earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, where he also earned his law degree.  He practiced commercial and corporate law in Canada in the 1970s and ‘80s.  From 1979 to 1988 he was also a partner and managing co-director of Holborn Holding Corporation, based in Geneva, Switzerland, where he was responsible for merchant banking and project finance activities in the Middle East, the Far East, and North America.

Csiszar is a former doctoral student in management at the Moore School.  In addition to heading up the school’s new Risk and Uncertainty Management Initiative, he will also serve as a Clinical Professor.

Jan Collins
June 2008