Cross-Disciplinary Impacts on Insurance Law: Esg Concerns, Financial and Technological Innovation

Prof. Margarida Lima Rego is full professor and dean of NOVA School of Law, NOVA University, Lisbon, where she has lectured regularly since 2005. She is the holder of the Jean Monnet Module in EU Insurance Law: Challenges in the SDG Era. Margarida’s main areas of research and practice are civil and commercial law, with a special focus on insurance law. She has been a member of the Board of Appeal of the European Supervisory Authorities since December 2021. Margarida is an active researcher at CEDIS, the School’s R&D Unit, where she founded and coordinates the NOVA Knowledge Centre for Data-Driven Law. Current positions include: President of AIDA Portugal; member of the Executive Committee and Scientific Committee of AIDA Europe; of the Scientific Committee of CILA; and of the Presidential Council of AIDA World.
Prof. Simon Grima is the the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Management and Accountancy, and the Head of the Department of Insurance and Risk Management. Simon is also a Professor at the University of Latvia, Faculty of Business, Management and Economics and a visiting Professor at UNICATT Milan. Moreover, he is the chairman of the Scientific Education Committee of the Public Risk Management Organization (PRIMO) and the Federation of European Risk Managers (FERMA) and has been awarded outstanding reviewer for Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance in the 2017 and 2022 Emerald Literati Awards.