Hank Watkins has more than 40 years of experience in the insurance industry and has held a range of underwriting, client management and leadership positions in the US and Europe at Chubb, Johnson & Higgins, Marsh, HRH and Lloyd’s, where he was Regional Director & President of the Americas region.

Hank joined St. John’s University as Executive Director of the Greenberg School of Risk Management, Insurance and Actuarial Science and Associate Dean of Peter J. Tobin College of Business in 2024. Ranked among the top ten academic institutions serving the global insurance industry, the Greenberg School offers a variety of undergraduate and graduate degrees, internship opportunities and international study programs, executive education courses and, in the Davis Library, the world’s largest collection of risk and insurance literature, policies and related documents.

Hank graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and has completed an executive leadership program at The Wharton School. He’s a member of the Board of Overseers at the Greenberg School and Board of Governors of the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation.