AAMGA Endows $1M Chair at Georgia State University

The wholesale insurance industry association, American Association of Managing General Agents, has created a Distinguished Chair in Risk Management and Insurance at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University.

The chair is being funded by a $1 million gift from AAMGA members that is believed to be the largest of its kind involving a business school and an insurance trade association.

Through the AAMGA collaboration with Georgia State, its 400 member companies and their employees will have access to research in risk management and insurance, access to Robinson College executive education offerings, the opportunity to recruit Robinson graduates on the campus, and the ability to leverage the latest in educational technology.

According to Wes Duesenberg, Jr., president of Southern Insurance Underwriters, Inc. and chair of AAMGA’s development committee, the move should help AAMGA members to prepare for the future.

Richard D. Phillips, chair of Robinson’s RMI Department, called the association “groundbreaking.”

The search for the individual who will hold the new AAMGA chair will be launched in March and officials hope to name the new chair holder later this spring.