Highlights on Reinsurance History

André Straus is Directeur de Recherche Émérite at CNRS and Professor at the University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. He specializes in financial and monetary history, and his recent research concerned is with the history of insurance and reinsurance. He was the editor of the "Insurance and the World", special issue of Entreprises et Histoire No. 72, for which he wrote an article on France: "La concentration des entreprises d´assurances en France depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale: réalités et limites".
Leonardo Caruana de las Cagigas is a Tenured Lecturer at the University of Granada. He co-authored Insurance History of Spain with Gabriel Tortella. His recent publications include "The Demutualization Process develops in Spain with Mapfre" in Corporate Forms and Organizational Choice in International Insurance (Robin Pearson and Takau Yoneyama, eds., 2015) and "The Financing of Insurance Companies in Recent Years", which he contributed to Entreprises et Histoire No. 72.