Yehuda Kahane

Who is Yehuda Kahane?

Yehuda Kahane is the 2011 recipient of the highly prestigious award in the insurance and risk management for his pioneering and lasting contribution to both the theory, practice and education in insurance..

Kahane is active in both the academic and business areas.

He is a professor of insurance and finance, Faculty of Management, and Head of the Akirov Institute f

or Business and the Environment, Tel-Aviv University. He founded and served as the Dean of the first academic school of insurance in Israel. At Tel Aviv University he directed the Erhard Insurance Center, the Actuarial studies program, and coordinated the Executives Development Programs. He is a life and non-life actuary.

Since 1966, Kahane has taught at universities around the Globe, including, among others, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Texas at Austin, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Florida, and the University of Toronto. He has founded, and directed the Israel CLU Program. He organized and lectured in hundreds of seminars and conferences.