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Martin Grace joined the University in the fall. He is the Clement T. and Sylvia Hanson Family Chair as well as the Faculty Director of the Vaughan Institute at the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business. Martin’s research expertise covers a wide range of risk management and insurance topics, including the impact of catastrophic events on insurance companies and thinking about new ways of insuring for catastrophes that provides customers with the coverage they need while protecting the financial viability of insurers. He also studies the intersection of law and risk management and insurance, and has testified before Congress and several state legislatures. He is also a former president of the American Risk & Insurance Association and the Risk Theory Society.