Lawrence Powell
Director
Alabama Center for Insurance Information and Research
Lawrence “Lars” Powell is director of the Alabama Center for Insurance Information and Research at the University of Alabama and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
His research focuses on risk and insurance markets, including loss mitigation, insurer capitalization, insurance fraud, and the effects of regulation on insurance-market performance.
Powell previously served as the Whitbeck-Beyer Professor of Insurance and Financial Services at the University of Arkansas–Little Rock. He has also worked as a consultant and principal at Powell & Associates and served as secretary-treasurer and a board member of Arkansas Mutual Insurance Company. Earlier in his career, he worked in the insurance industry as an agent.
He has served as editor of the Journal of Insurance Regulation and as president of the Risk Theory Society and the Southern Risk and Insurance Association. His distinctions include the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies Service Award.
He earned a Ph.D. in risk management and insurance from the University of Georgia and a bachelor’s from the University of South Carolina.
