Michael L. Smith (Ph.D., Graduate School of Business, University of Minnesota), is an Associate Professor in Risk Management and Insurance in the Max M. Fisher College of Business at the Ohio STate University, Columbus. Dr. Smith is a treasurer of the Risk Theory Society and trustee of the Griffith Foundation for Insurance Education. He served as a member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Risk and Insurance from 1977 to 1992 and as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Risk and Insurance Association from 1984 to 1987.
Dr. Smith's areas of research include risk management and insurance economics, and he has published extensively in both areas. On two occasions Dr. Smith's published work won the Journal of Risk and Insurance research award for a feature article and on one occasion it won the Alpha Kappi Psi Foundation Spangler Award.