Prof. Dr. Matthias Beenken

1987 - 1989: Training as an insurance salesman at Gothaer Rückversicherung AG and Gothaer Versicherungsbank VVaG in Cologne

1990 - 1992: Part-time distance learning course in business administration at the Hochschule für Berufstätige, Rendsburg, graduating with a degree in business administration (FH)

2005 - 2007: Part-time distance learning course in business administration at the WHL Wissenschaftliche Hochschule Lahr, graduating with a degree in business administration

2008 - 2010: Research Fellow at the Institute of Insurance Science at the University of Cologne (Prof. Dr. H. R. Schradin), external doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.) with the topic "The insurance brokerage market under changing legal conditions with special consideration of sourcing strategies of the insurance brokerage business"

1989 - 1999: Gothaer Versicherungen Cologne, Dortmund, Essen, last position: Sales Area Manager

1999 - 2001: Branch manager of Westfälische Provinzial Versicherungen, Bochum-Wattenscheid

2001 - 2004: Publishing Director MBO Verlag GmbH / LexisNexis Deutschland GmbH, Münster

since 2004: Freelance journalist and editor

2005 - 2011: Editor-in-chief of VersicherungsJournal.de

Since 2010: Professor at the Faculty of Business Studies at the Fachhochschule Dortmund, specializing in insurance economics: Insurance sales, insurance marketing, leadership and personnel management, sales regulation, sustainability, business ethics

2001 - 2011: Lecturer at the Institute of Insurance at Cologne University of Applied Sciences, teaching: Business management tasks, organization and marketing in insurance brokerage companies

since 2016: Lecturer at the Institute of Insurance at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, teaching area: Insurance Brokerage

2009 - 2017: Lecturer at the Berlin School of Economics and Law, Faculty of Business Studies/Insurance, study program: Insurance Sales

Further guest lectureships in the Bachelor's program of the German Insurance Academy (DVA) GmbH as well as in part-time Master's programs of Uni for Life GmbH at the University of Graz (MBA Insurance), JurGrad gGmbH of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (LL.M. Insurance Law) and the Technical University of Cologne (LL.M. Insurance Law).