Welcome Address

Richard Apostolik President and Chief Executive Officer Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP)

Richard Apostolik is President and Chief Executive Officer of GARP. Previously Rich worked with Bankers Trust's (Deutsche Bank) Strategic Ventures group, where he focused on developing financial risk management initiatives designed to provide credit risk mitigation and management services to financial service companies. He also co-developed CoVar, a dynamic counterparty credit risk mitigation system, and specialized in advising clients about the broader strategic applications of the use of derivative risk management systems and financial structuring arrangements.

Apostolik was previously JP Morgan & Co.'s global head of energy brokerage activities and Chief Operating Officer of its global listed product businesses. Before joining JP Morgan, he ran his own consulting firm, providing advice on start-up operations and management issues to such major investment banks as Deutsche Bank, Fuji Bank, Discount Corporation of New York and JP Morgan. He was also responsible for the start-up of SG Warburg & Co.'s North American futures and options business.

Apostolik has a BSBA degree with a major in marketing and an MBA and Juris Doctor from the University of Dayton. He was an attorney with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, practiced law with a private law firm in Chicago, and was the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's General Counsel.

Chairman

Annetta Cortez Managing Director ACT Consulting

Annetta Cortez is Founder and Managing Director of ACT Consulting, Hong Kong, and author of 'The Complete Idiot's Guide to Risk Management' (Penguin, 2010).

Previously she was a principal at Oliver Wyman and as a senior partner at KPMG Consulting's Barents Group where she led the international practice for Risk and Performance Management and later the Asia-Pacific Enterprise Solutions and Financial Institutions practices.

An experienced thought leader in the area of risk and capital management, Cortez works closely with major banks and regulatory authorities in Australia, Asia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and throughout the Americas. She has been involved in many Basel implementations.

Cortez holds an M.B.A in Finance, Strategic Management, and International Management from the Wharton School of Business as well as a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Rochester.

 

Christopher Donohue Managing Director Research and Educational Programs Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP)

Christopher Donohue, Ph.D, heads the GARP Research Center and is a member of the FRM committee. He is responsible for managing the content development of GARP's certification and educational offerings, developing new resources for GARP including risk management courses, and conducting and supporting research in financial risk management topics.

Previously, Donohue was a Partner at a hedge fund responsible for the development of asset allocation tools for pension funds and automated trading systems. Prior to that, he was a Director in the Global Research Center at Deutsche Asset Management where he led product research and development in the areas of asset liability management, asset allocation and consumption optimization for endowments, and optimal portfolio management with transaction costs. He also worked as the Director of Optimization Technology at Alphatech, a leading-edge technology and research defense contractor, where he led algorithm development for intelligence aircraft path planning and sensor scheduling systems.

Donohue has published several articles on portfolio management and optimization. He has a BA from Hamilton College in Mathematics and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Operations Research.

Keynote Presenter

Martin Jacques Visiting Senior Fellow, London School of Economics Author, 'When China Rules the World: the Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World'

Martin Jacques, Ph.D, is Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics IDEAS, a center for the study of international affairs, diplomacy and grand strategy. He is also a columnist for The Guardian and New Statesman. His book, 'When China Rules the World: the Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World,' was published last year and has already been translated into many languages.

Jacques has been a columnist for The Times and The Sunday Times and was formerly the deputy editor of The Independent. He co-founded the U.K. think-tank Demos.

Jacques has been a visiting professor at Renmin University, Beijing; the International Centre for Chinese Studies; Aichi University; Ritsumeikan University; and a senior research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.

He has a Ph.D. in history from King's College, Cambridge University.

 

Vikram Nehru  Chief Economist  East Asia and Pacific Region World Bank

Vikram Nehru is the Chief Economist, East Asia Region of the World Bank and Sector Director of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, and Private and Financial Sector Departments in the East Asia and Pacific Region.  During the course of his almost 30 year career at the World Bank he has worked across the countries of Africa and East Asia.  

Mr. Nehru was previously the Director of the World Bank's Economic Policy and Debt Department, covering macroeconomic and debt issues for developing countries.  Prior to that, he worked extensively on issues of economic growth, financial sector policy, and the implications of global trends and developments on the economic prospects of developing countries including China, Indonesia and Malaysia.  

His latest works include: When is External Debt Sustainable?; China 2020:  Development Challenges in the New Century; Indonesia: Imperative for Reform. Nehru completed his graduate and postgraduate degrees at Oxford University.

Speakers 

Kevin Chang Head of Equity Derivatives Strategy Asia-Pacific Global Banking and Markets Royal Bank of Scotland

Kevin Chang, Ph.D, is the Head of Equity Derivatives Strategy for Asia Pacific with Royal Bank of Scotland.

Prior to joining RBS in June 2009, Chang was Head of European Active Equities Strategy at Barclays Global Investors in London.  He spent 10 years with Credit Suisse in New York and London, in roles including, Global Head of Equity Derivatives Solutions, Chief Risk Officer for Equities, FX Derivatives Strategist, and Quant/Strategist in Fixed Income.

Earlier, Chang taught in the finance departments of various universities, including the University of Southern California (Marshall), New York University (Stern) and the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton). While pursuing his graduate studies, he worked at the OECD and the IMF and was a consultant to the World Bank.

He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an A.B. magna cum laude in Economics from Harvard University.

 

Johanna Chua Managing Director, Chief Asia Pacific Economist, Head of Asia Pacific Economic and Market Analysis Citigroup

Johanna Chu, Ph.D, is a Managing Director, Chief Asia Pacific Economist and Head of Asia Pacific Economic and Market Analysis at Citigroup. Based in Hong Kong since 2000, she covers both fixed-income and equity markets.  Previously, Ms. Chu was the Chief Asia Emerging Markets Trading Strategist and the Asia Sovereign Credit Analyst.     

Ms. Chu has been widely recognized in the trade press. Investors surveyed by The Asset magazine, Hong Kong, rated Chu as the top local economist four years in row, through 2009. FinanceAsia magazine also rated Ms. Chu No. 1 in sovereign credit research for nine consecutive years (2001-2009), ranked her among the "Best Analysts" across all sectors, and repeatedly recognized the Citi fixed-income team on which she was a key player.

Ms. Chu has a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and is a graduate of the University of the Philippines (summa cum laude).

 

Sherry Du Principal Consultant, Taiwan Towers Watson Risk Consulting & Software

Sherry Du is Principal Consultant of Towers Watson's Risk Consulting & Software practice for Taiwan. Since joining Towers Watson, Du has led and participated in the full range of consulting projects undertaken by the practice for life insurance companies, mainly in Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong.

She has 13 years experience in life insurance and consulting and her areas of expertise include: risk and management; financial reporting (to regulators and in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards); initial public offers; mergers and acquisitions; technology implementations; market entry; business and strategic planning; and product development.

Du graduated from the University of New South Wales, Australia with the Master degree of Commerce (Actuarial Science). She is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries. 

 

Philip Goeth GFSI Leader, Asia Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, CPD Ltd.

Philip Goeth, Ph.D, is the Global Financial Services Industry (GFSI) Leader in Asia Pacific for Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, where, as a Managing Partner, he heads several practice groups.

Based in Beijing, Goeth has over 20 years with the firm, previously as CEO of Deloitte Switzerland. Goeth has been a member of Deloitte's Global Executive Board of GFSI since 2005.  He was a member of the Board of the Central Bank of Austria from 2004 to 2009.

He has particular expertise in the areas of cross-border audits of financial conglomerates; operational risk; Basel II / III, and bank accounting under IFRS, and believes in an integrated approach to risk management and financial accounting.

Goeth is a qualified Certified Public Accountant in Switzerland, a Certified Court Expert on Banking Matters in Austria, a Certified Public Accountant in Austria, and a Certified Tax Advisor in Austria.

He is the author of several books on Austrian and European banking law as well as more than 100 articles. He holds an MBA from the University of Economics in Vienna and a Doctorate of Law from the University of Vienna.

 

Stuart Grant EMEA Business Development Manager, Financial Services Sybase

Stuart Grant is the EMEA Business Development Manager for Sybase. He has over 10 years experience within the Market Data industry working in product management and business development providing market data and data feed solutions to buy-side and sell-side organizations that support business critical investment processes including quantitative, risk and performance analytics.

Grant is responsible for working to enable firms to create a holistic data management platform to improve the execution and development of critical functions. He focuses on platforms requiring more sophisticated analytics and data retrieval in a real-time environment that has to deal with ever increasing volumes of multi-frequency data, particularly around trading, quant and risk related services.

Grant was previously with Thomson Reuters.

 

Zhang Haiyun Director, Financial Markets Institute Co-Director GARP Chapter, University of International Business and Economics (UIBE)

Professor Zhang Haiyun, Ph.D., is Director of the Financial Markets Institute (FMI) and a co-Director of the GARP University Chapter at the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), China. He is also the Chairman of ValueOptima Research, a financial advisory firm.

Previous industry roles were as a Principal at Bank of America, where he grew its China investment business in Beijing, after heading a credit-trading analysis team in New York. He also was Director of Credit Derivatives at TD Securities, and head of risk management support in Global Foreign Exchange at Merrill Lynch. He also served as a senior consultant with Capco, advising global companies on risk management.

Professor Zhang holds a PhD in physics from Carnegie Mellon University, USA, and a BS in physics from Peking University, China.

An FRM holder since 1998, he is a frequent conference speaker and an author in leading academic and industry journals.

 

Jimmy Hew General Manager OCBC Securities (Hong Kong) Limited

Jimmy Hew is General Manager of OCBC Securities, Hong Kong.

Prior to joining OCBC, Hew, who has 18 years of experience in financial services, worked in various roles, including, risk and credit control functions at various banks. These include DBS Bank, DBS Vickers Securities, Nomura Securities, Paribas Private Banking Asia/Paribas Asset Management, and American Express Bank.

Hew also has extensive skills in project management, having successfully implemented end-to-end Algorithmics' risk and credit systems in different countries.

Hew read Accountancy and Computer Science at Monash University, Australia, and is a Fellow Member of the Australian CPA, as well as an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators, and the Malaysian Institute of Accountants.

 

Aaron Hou Vice President, Market Risk Management & Analysis Goldman Sachs & Co.

Aaron Hou, CFA, FRM, is a Vice President at the Market Risk Management & Analysis Group at Goldman Sachs & Co.

Prior to Goldman, Hou was the Chief Risk Officer at Jamaica Money Market Brokers, LTD (JMMB) and an Adjunct Professor at Baruch College.

He founded GARP's Caribbean Chapter in 2005 and he currently serves as the Co-Regional Director of GARP's New York Chapter.

Hou received his MBA from the University of Rochester, Simon Business School, and an MS from Baruch College, CUNY.

 

Mac Kalyan Chairman Haystack Capital Management

Mac Kalyan is the chairman of Haystack Capital Management, a hedge fund based in Barbados and a managing partner in Black Ice Partners, a risk advisory firm with offices worldwide.

An industry veteran with a career spanning three decades in capital markets, finance and risk management, Mr. Kalyan has been involved in eight Basel rollouts in North America and Asia, most recently at Islamic banks in Malaysia. He is a frequent advisor to Asian central banks and regulatory agencies.

Having started out as a fixed-income trader, followed by executive positions within hedge funds, Mr. Kalyan went on to found two firms: Haystack Capital Management, in the early 'nineties, followed by Black Ice Partners, a firm that does not provide software, but advises banks on optimal implementations from a risk and capital perspective.

Kaylan holds a degree in economics from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia and a Masters in behavioral economics from Stanford University, California.

 

Craig Kersey Founder and Managing Director Guildhall Limited

Craig Kersey is the Founder and Managing Director of Guildhall Limited, a UK-based firm operating internationally and providing thought leadership and advice on strategy, risk and dispute resolution. A practicing expert witness, mediator, and arbitrator, Kersey has a longstanding interest in legal risk and the impacts of disputes. His assignments and research include several subject areas pertinent to the recent crisis including OTC derivatives clearing, counterparty risk and board qualifications.

He has also served in senior trading and risk positions at the London operations of the Continental Illinois, Bank of America, SG Warburg, Mitsubishi Bank, and Gulf International Bank groups.

Kersey is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is accredited as a commercial mediator (QDR) by The Academy of Experts.  Other professional accreditations include the Institute of Directors Diploma in Company Direction and Chartered Fellowship of the CISI.  He also holds university degrees in mathematics, statistics, and international commercial arbitration.

  

Kate Kwan Director, Loan Syndication & Sales Syndication & Acquisition Finance Group Citigroup Global Markets Asia

Kate Kwan, DBA, MFIN, CPA(US), FRM, is a Director of the Loan Syndicate & Sales of Citigroup Global Markets Asia Limited.  She is responsible for the loan syndicate and sales business in Asia-Pacific. 

Kwan is a Financial Risk Manager and a Certified Public Accountant (US). Prior to Citi, she worked for HSBC and Societe Generale Asia Limited.  Kwan was the founding President of The BBA Alumni Association of CUHK and is currently the Vice Chairlady of HKU's Economic and Finance Postgraduates Association. She is a Board Director of the Asia Pacific Loan Market Association and is the Chairlady for the Women of APLMA Committee.

Kwan holds a Master of Finance degree from the University of Hong Kong and a Doctor of Business Administration degree from the University of Newcastle.

 

Wilkie Lai Chief Risk Officer TriBridge Investment Partners Limited

Wilkie Lai is Chief Risk Officer of TriBridge Investment Partners Limited, an asset management and investment advisory firm.

His earlier positions in Hong Kong included working on market risk for Bank of China and Banca Intesa S.p.A., where he covered all aspects of market risk.

During 13 years in the risk management industry, Lai spent six years with Reuters, advising its financial institution clients across Asia on treasury and middle-office solutions. He also worked for Accenture (Andersen Consulting) in process reengineering for financial institutions.

Lai received his Juris Doctor degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He holds an M.Sc. degree in Information Management from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and a B.A. degree in Computer Science from the University of California.

 

Mikkel Larsen Regional Chief Financial Officer, Asia Pacific and Australia UBS AG

Mikkel Larsen is the Regional Chief Financial Officer for UBS in Asia Pacific. Before this, he was UBS's Regional Accounting Policy manager in Asia Pacific, covering all accounting-related issues under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in the US and Switzerland, UBS's home country.

Prior to joining UBS, Larsen worked in Citigroup in London, leading its global implementation of IFRS. He also advised third parties dealing with Citigroup on the correct accounting treatment of complex financial products under IFRS and GAAP.

Before this, Larsen was a Senior Manager in KPMG, London, and in his native Denmark. In London, he was part of KPMG's Global Technical Support Group.

He is the author of many articles relating to IFRS.

 

Frederic Lau Executive Director Dah Sing Bank, Ltd.

Frederic Lau is Executive Director of Dah Sing Bank and Dah Sing Banking Group, which he joined in 2004, after two decades as a bank regulator and central banker in the United States and Hong Kong. 

He joined the Hong Kong Monetary Authority in 1994 to build and lead the central bank's derivatives team. In 1999 he was appointed Head of Banking Policy Division. He was Chief Representative of the HKMA's New York Office from 2000 to 2002, before returning to Hong Kong as a division head of the Banking Supervision Department of the HKMA, supervising foreign and local banks.

Prior to joining the HKMA, Lau was a senior examiner at the Office of Thrift Supervision, in the United States. Before that, he was with Mitsubishi Bank of California.

His book 'Derivatives in Plain Words,' published by the HKMA in 1997, has been translated into other languages. Lau has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of South Australia.  He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.

 

George Siu-Kay Leung Advisor, Strategy and Economics, Asia Pacific The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC)

George S.K. Leung is full-time Advisor of The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, covering the bank's overall business strategy development and economic affairs in Asia Pacific. Prior to this appointment, he was Chief Economist for the Greater China region. Leung joined HSBC as senior economist in 1994.

Leung is a renowned business economist and an influential public policy commentator in the region. He also has a long record of public service, including as: Chairman of the Economic Policy Committee of The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce; member of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (HK Committee); Greater Pearl River Delta Business Council, The Hong Kong Association of Banks; and the Government Statistics Advisory Board, among others. He is an honorary advisor to several public institutions and universities.

Leung holds a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Toronto.

 

Teresa Lin Senior Advisor, Institutional Banking Group and China DBS Bank (HK) Limited Vice Chairman, DBS Bank (China) Limited

Teresa Lin is Senior Advisor of Institutional Banking Group and China DBS Bank (HK) Limited, and Vice Chairman of DBS Bank (China) Limited. She served as CEO of DBS (China) Ltd. from 2007-2009 and has been a member of DBS Group Holdings Management Committee since 2005. As Head of Enterprise Banking in Hong Kong, Lin led the growth of the small and medium enterprise portfolio with customer-focused trade, factoring and equipment finance services.  Under her leadership, enterprise banking business experienced significant growth in Greater China. 

Lin has extensive experience in banking and financial services in the region.  Prior to joining DBS Bank, she held senior positions at Dao Heng Bank, Dah Sing Bank, Citibank and HSBC.

Lin has held executive positions in numerous advisory and consultative committees in Hong Kong, including: The Finance Houses of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Equipment Leasing Association; member of the SMEC of the Trade and Industry Department of the Hong Kong SAR Government from 2003-2008; Advisor to the SME Sub-committee of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Hong Kong; and as a member of the Banking Industry Training Advisory Committee (ITAC) of the Education and Manpower Bureau of the HKSAR Government in 2006.

In China, she was nominated to the Singapore-Jiangsu Collaboration Council and the Singapore-Guangdong Collaboration Council; she served as Vice Chairman of the Foreign Bank Sub-committee of the China Banking Association; and was a Founding member of The Business Conference Board China.

 

Shahriar Mofakhami Director Lodestone Capital Management and Member of Expert Panel to the Australian Governments Board of Taxation

Shahriar Mofakhami is a director of Lodestone Capital Management, a Shariah-compliant financial arranger and asset manager.  Based in Australia, Mr. Mofakhami is also a consultant to Melbourne boutique financial services law firm, Greenfields, and a member of the Expert Panel to the Australian Government's Board of Taxation.

As governmental advisor, he is responsible for reviewing the taxation of Islamic finance arrangements in Australia. Mr. Mofakhami's general area of specialisation is in structuring financial products and cross-border taxation.

He previously worked for Australian law firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques and Maddocks. 

He established the first dedicated Islamic finance legal practice in Australia and has extensive experience in advising on Australian Shariah-compliant financing. Mr. Mofakhami is recognized in several legal Who's Who guides from London publishers Chambers & Partners, including the 2010 guides to the world's leading lawyers and the 'Asia Pacific Legal 500'.

 

Frank Morisano Managing Director Ma Lee Advisory Ltd.

Frank Morisano is a partner and Managing Director in Ma Lee Associates, a boutique Hong Kong advisory firm working with banks, insurance firms, central banks and regulators.  He has more than 25 years of international financial services experience and 10 years working in Asia.

Morisano spent many years with Price Waterhouse Coopers, co-founding PwC's strategic analytics and risk services practice in New York, in the mid-1990s. He later established PwC's Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) risk practice out of Paris, then its Greater China advisory business in Beijing.

He has significant practical experience working as a banker, having worked in the commercial, and wealth management business of a JPMorganChase subsidiary; in retail banking with Bank of America; at GMAC Financial Services, overseeing, amongst other things, its billion-dollar investment portfolio; and as the Chief Strategic Officer of Qatar National Bank, one of the top three banks in the GCC countries.

Morisano is an expert advisor, author and teacher on risk, strategy, liquidity, treasury management, and Islamic finance.

 

Joanne Murphy Marketing Director, Asia-Pacific Triple A Partners

Joanne (Jo) Murphy is Marketing Director for Asia Pacific with Triple A partners, where she has been since 2008.

Murphy has been in Asia since 1997 and has been closely involved with the development of the alternative investment sector. Prior to joining Triple A Partners, she was Commercial Director for Fortis Bank's Alternative Servicing Group; Director and Head of Distribution at Deutsche Bank's Asia-Pacific Asset Management business for its HF and FoHF products, and was Head of Sales and Marketing with HSBC Alternative Fund Services (formerly Bank of Bermuda). Additionally, Murphy worked for Morgan Stanley in a number of senior sales, marketing and client servicing positions, initially in London and then, from 1997 on in Hong Kong.

She is a member of the Alternative Investment Management Association's (AIMA) Hong Kong Executive Committee.

 

Bart Piron Principal Consultant Algorithmics

Bart Piron is the Principal Consultant, Asia Pacific, for Algorithmics. He has been involved in the implementation of credit risk solutions at major banks, including Nordic Investment Bank, HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank, where simulation of credit risk was a major component and where both the regulatory and internal aspects were covered.

Piron has worked for a range of consulting and software organisations, including Dun & Bradstreet and Oracle.

Piron studied economics at the University of Antwerp (Belgium), attended INSEAD (France), and has a CFA from the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands).

 

Diane Reynolds Senior Director, Economic Capital Solutions Algorithmics

Diane Reynolds is a Senior Director, Economic Capital Solutions, where she heads the Algorithmics new Client Advisor initiative. Since 1997, Reynolds has worked in numerous areas of Algorithmics, including professional services, development, product management, research, and marketing, which spans market, credit, and operational risks.

Previously, Reynolds worked for various firms, including a large pension fund and a financial software provider. She has authored several papers in the areas of credit risk, economic capital, scenario generation, and operational risk.

Reynolds holds two degrees from the University of Waterloo, with a MMath in Statistics-Finance and a BMath in Computer and Actuarial Sciences.

 

Charles A. Richard Senior Vice President Quantitative Risk Management, Inc.

Charles Richard is a Senior Vice President of Quantitative Risk Management, Inc. He has over 25 years of experience in the field of enterprise risk management, balance sheet management and mortgage banking secondary marketing. During his tenure at QRM, Richard has consulted with hundreds of financial institutions around the world and helped QRM build an international client base that now lists over 250 long-term engagements.

Richard is frequently called on to share his experience at conferences and seminars around the world, covering topics such as enterprise risk management, asset liability management, credit risk management and regulatory capital.

 

Liu Ruixia Head of Risk Management Department Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC)

Liu Ruixia is Head of the Risk Management Department of ICBC. During her tenure with ICBC she has held various positions, including Head of General Affairs Division of Policy Research Office, the Head of Accounting Division of Fund Custody Department and the Deputy Head of the Credit Evaluation Department.

Liu has been in charge of ICBC's internal rating, market risk and credit risk management, enterprise-wide risk management, BASEL II implementation and promotion since 2000. In 2003, she briefly worked in a Canadian bank.

Liu studied at the University of Canada. She is also a part-time professor of the two research institutes of ICBC. 

 

Heleodoro Ruiz Head, Credit & Operational Risk Management Banorte

Heleodoro Ruiz is Head of Credit & Operational Risk Management with Banorte, a role to which he brings more than 20 years of banking experience with a strong emphasis on risk management. Ruiz also serves as a director on several company boards: the Inter National Bank in Texas; Dun & Bradstreet; and Transunion de México.

He is an ITESM professor at Global MBA, and has authored a number of articles on banking, finance and risk management in different publications.

Ruiz is a frequent conference speaker for universities and banking associations in America, Europe and Asia, on topics such as banking, finance, and enterprise risk management.

He holds and MBA from the Instituto Panamericano Direccion Empresas (IPADE) and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM).

 

Urban Wilde Chief Risk Officer, Asia Pacific Barclays Wealth

Urban Wilde is Managing Director, Chief Risk Officer, Asia Pacific, at Barclays Wealth, the private banking and wealth advisory division of Barclays PLC.  He is responsible for managing the coverage of risk issues across Asia Pacific, including providing independent oversight and assessment of the risk framework design, implementation and effectiveness.  He oversees the Operational Risk and Credit Risk teams across the region, and is a member of the Barclays Wealth Asia Pacific Management Committee.

Based in Singapore, Wilde joined Barclays Wealth in August 2010.  He was previously with UBS, where he had spent more than 20 years in Basel, Geneva, New York, Singapore and Zurich, gaining significant experience in Credit Risk functions within Wealth Management in the Americas, Asia-Pacific and internationally. His previous position at UBS was Managing Director, Strategic Projects in Risk Control, Global Wealth Management, based in Zurich. 

Wilde holds a degree in law (LLB, University of Basel).

 

Samuel Po-Shing Wong Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Statistics Chinese University of Hong Kong Chief Consultant, Risk Man Limited

Samuel Po-Shing Wong, Ph.D, is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and has been teaching the master course in Credit Risk Modeling there for the last four years. Prior to his return to Hong Kong he taught at the University of California at Davis. Wong is the Chief Consultant of RiskMan Limited, offering financial risk management consulting and training to financial institutions in Greater China.     

Wong obtained his Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford University. He has been a GARP FRM examination reviewer since 2006.

 

Kayoko Yamanishi Senior Vice President DBS Bank

Kayoko Yamanishi is Senior Vice President, responsible for counterparty exposure measurement, at DBS Bank. Based in Singapore, Yamanishi is involved in economic capital initiatives at the bank.

Prior to joining to DBS in 2010, she worked at global financial institutions, including Credit Suisse, JPMorgan Chase, and a Japanese bank. 

Her extensive experience in the  credit portfolio management space, including counterparty exposure management, collateral risk management, credit transfer pricing and risk mitigation/hedging strategies, as well as in the derivatives markets, bring a deep understanding of credit risk and capital market products and their inter-relationships. She has a successful track record of enhancing the risk framework and culture of organizations operating in a competitive environment and multi-cultural settings.

Yamanishi has an MBA from Fuqua Business School, Duke University. 

 

Yue Yi Executive Vice President Bank of China

Yue Yi is Executive Vice President of Bank of China and a member of BOC's group executive committee.

He has held many positions within BOC, which he joined in February 1980. His previous role was as Global Head of Personal Banking, before which he was Global Head of the Financial Market Business.

Yue has also served as General Manager of the Personal Banking Department of BOC. He previously held various positions in the Retail Banking Department, the Seoul Branch and the Beijing Branch of BOC.

He received his Master's degree in Finance from Wuhan University in 1999 and is a senior economist.

 

Wang Zheng Head of Risk Management Guotai Jun'An Securities

Wang Zheng, Ph.D., is the Head of Risk Management at Guotai Jun'An Securities, one of the largest investment banks in China. He is responsible for firm-wide risk management and all initiatives to create effective fiscal control.

His last role was as Chief Risk Officer of Xiangcai Securities Co., Ltd., a mid-sized investment bank, based in Changsha City, China.

Wang previously spent years working in the United States, for example, in mortgage securitization with Deutsche Bank, and at J. P. Morgan Chase. He started his Wall Street career in 1999, trading mortgage- and asset-backed securities for both The Midway Group and Luminent Mortgage Capital Inc., and managing their MBS and ABS portfolios.

Wang obtained his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and initially taught statistics and financial engineering at Baruch College, and the City University of New York.

 

 

We are always pleased to hear from senior risk professionals interested in speaking at our conferences.  If you have in-depth knowledge of your subject, we would be pleased to hear from you.  Please send your most recent biography, together with full contact details and copies of any relevant white papers or published material in support of your application to Orla O'Sullivan, Events Program Director, at orla.osullivan@garp.com.  Our conference team will only respond to suitable applicants.