Sridhar Manyem Email Address

Adjunct Professor Finance

A.M. Best is a U.S.-based rating agency headquartered in Oldwick, New Jersey, that focuses on the insurance industry.

Sridhar Manyem leads the industry research team at A.M. Best covering insurance issues and analytics for P/C, Life/Health, and reinsurance sectors. Sridhar moved to A M Best from The World Bank where he was a Senior Credit Risk Officer responsible for implementing reinsurance credit risk framework at MIGA (Multilateral Investment Guarantee Association) Prior to the World Bank, Sridhar was a Director at Standard & Poor's responsible for credit risk analysis of a portfolio of insurers in addition to his role as a lead ERM specialist reviewing ERM and ECM frameworks for a portfolio of (re)insurers and multi-line insurers. He has published widely read research on issues related to Property/Casualty, life, and reinsurance sectors and on topical issues including Catastrophe modeling, Terrorism insurance, Cyber risk, Enterprise Risk Management, and Regulations. Before S&P, Sridhar worked at Nationwide Insurance's ERM function where his areas of responsibilities included strategic asset allocation, Asset/Liability management, and risk modeling. He has taught basic economics and finance courses at the graduate level and undergraduate level at the Ohio Dominican University. Sridhar graduated with an MBA from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and has an undergraduate in Computer Science & Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.