How to Position Yourself for a Successful Career in Risk Management

Markus Quick is Partner in the Financial Services Advisory Service of KPMG Germany. In his client work he focuses on Risk Management for Banks with a special expertise on Non-Financial Risk, Risk Governance, and ESG Risk. Quick coordinates the global KPMG working group on “ESG Risk in Banking”.

Over nearly 25 years his career has spanned multiple roles in consulting within the Big 4 and a consulting boutique that he co-owned and co-founded. Quick holds a diploma in political economics and has been a chapter director of the GARP Chapter in Germany for more than 10 years.

Claudia Schneider was appointed to the Management Board in the role of CRO (Chief Risk Officer) at KfW IPEX in March 2017. Aside from a short period from 2006-2009 working at PMI Mortgage Insurance Co. as a Country Manager, Schneider has worked for KfW since 1997. She has held various management roles and has been General Manager of KfW IPEX-Bank since 2015.

Björn Storim is CEO at Bank of New York Mellon. A senior banking executive with more than 20 years of experience in front office and COO/CFO/CRO/corporate functions leadership roles, Storim joined BNY Mellon in 2020 as Head of Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Central & Eastern Europe.

Previously he spent 16 years at Credit Suisse, where he was responsible for global markets, international wealth management, asset management, and regulatory affairs in Germany. Storim has a degree in Economics, Banking and Finance from the University of Nuremberg and holds a TRIUM Executive Master of Business Administration from the London School of Economics, Stern School of Business at New York University and the École des Hautes Études Commmerciales de Paris. He is also certified by the Global Association of Risk Professionals as a Financial Risk Manager (FRM®) and is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

In 2012, Prof. Stieglitz was appointed Professor of Strategic Management at Frankfurt School. Three years later he became Head of the Management Department at the University of Economics and Business. In November 2017, Prof. Stieglitz was appointed Vice President Corporate Development and has since been a member of Frankfurt School's Executive Committee. From 1993 to 1999 he studied economics at the Philipps-Universität Marburg. He was a research assistant for the Chair of Organization and Human Resources at the Philipps-Universität Marburg from 2000 to 2006. He earned his PhD in 2003 and was a professor of Strategic Organizational Design in the Department of Marketing & Management at the University of Southern Denmark from 2006-2012.

His teaching focuses on strategic management and organizational design. Prof. Stieglitz conducts research on topics including strategic decision-making, entrepreneurial risk behavior, and organizational learning and has published in the Strategic Management Journal, Advances in Strategic Management, Journal of Socio-Economics, and Journal of Development Studies, among others.