Introduction to Aviation Insurance and Risk Management
Alexander T. Wells, Ed.D. is currently the academic director of the Aviation Insurance Association (AIA) Educational Institute. Starting his insurance career as an aviation underwriter with Royal-Globe Insurance Companies in 1960, he subsequently was a broker with Rollins Burdick Hunter Company in Chicago. Retiring in 1998 after a 26-year teaching career, he presently serves as an adjunct professor of aviation business administration at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Bruce D. Chadbourne, Ed.D. graduated from the University of Florida with a major in property and casualty insurance. Starting as a general agent with Aetna Life Insurance Company where he earned the Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) designation, he held a number of management positions before entering the teaching field in 1973 with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University where he is presently a professor of aviation business administration.