PRMIA Welcome Address from Ken Radigan CEO, PRMIA

 

Ken Radigan, CEO, PRMIA

Ken Radigan is the CEO of the Professional Risk Managers' International Association (PRMIA). Ken has held high-level posts in prominent multinational insurance corporations, and acted as a risk management consultant in the financial industry. From 1988 to 2014 he held a variety of positions at AIG, ultimately serving as CRO of the Casualty and Global Risk Solutions divisions.  Ken holds a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Dayton, as well as numerous professional designations, including:  Professional Risk Manager (PRM), Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU), Associate in Risk Management (ARM), and Associate in Surplus Lines Insurance (ASLI).

New risks such as climate and COVID bring new and complex dimensions to classical financial risk management. These are examples of radical risk, the frontier of risk management today. This talk is about these differences and how they may be overcome in an enterprise risk framework.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ron Dembo, CEO & Author, Risk Thinking

Dr. Dembo has had a distinguished academic research career at Yale University and as a visiting professor at MIT. He was also the Founder and CEO of Algorithmics Incorporated, growing it organically from a start-up to the world’s largest enterprise risk management software company with offices in fifteen countries, over 70% of the world’s top 100 banks as clients, and consistent recognition as one of Canada’s 50 best managed companies. Following the sale of Algorithmics in 2005, he founded Zerofootprint, a venture focused on climate change that engaged more than 250 companies and many cities in an effort to reduce their carbon footprint. More recently, he has developed a unique algorithm for generating forward-looking scenarios and is applying it to climate change in his latest venture, riskthinking.AI.

Dr. Dembo has received many patents and awards for his research and in 2007 was honored as a Lifetime Fellow at The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences.

We consider the macro-economic outlook for 2022 and beyond, as we move into the next phase of the Corona pandemic. What are the key macro-economic risks on the horizon? What are the macrotrends to highlight (e.g. inflation, interest rates and ongoing pandemic response/relief).

Speakers

Brunello Rosa, CEO, Rosa Roubini Associates
Andrea Presbitero, Associate Fellow, SAIS Europe

Moderator: Cosimo Pacciani

We discuss the credit outlook as emergency pandemic measures are eased. How resilient are the key sectors and asset classes? - and how has our understanding of credit modelling and management evolved?

Speakers

Thomas Hermann, Global Chief Credit Risk Officer, Credit Suisse
Alfredo Saenz, Head of Credit Portfolio Management, Santander
Sunil Raja, Head of FI Credit Risk, Lloyds

Our panelists will discuss how Banks are adapting to a renewable world, whilst managing inherent climate risks, through a dialogue based on public policy and risk strategy agenda.

Speakers

David Coleman, Head of Risk, EBRD & Chairman, PRMIA 
Bruce Fletcher, CRO, Nat West
Sophie Marnhier-Foy, Global Head of Product Marketing, Adenza
Kevin O'Rourke, EMEA CRO, Mizuho

Day 2 welcome from David Coleman, Head of Risk, EBRD & Chairman, PRMIA.

 

David Coleman, Head of Risk, EBRD & Chairman, PRMIA 

David Coleman joined EBRD as Managing Director, Risk Management in January 2014, when he assumed responsibility for Credit Risk, Market Risk, Equity Investment Risk Management, Operational Risk and Recovery activities.

He is a member of the Operations Committee, Risk Committee and Asset and Liability Committee. In addition Mr Coleman has led multiyear projects across the whole Bank, including a Culture Change Programme and chaired the Implementation Steering Group of a three year broader change programme, deepening outsourcing, automation, agile working and improving efficiency.

He has a banking career stretching over 40 years in retail, wholesale and investment banking at Deutsche Bank, Bankers Trust and beginning with NatWest.
More recently, from September 2008 he was appointed as the Chief Risk Officer of the Investment Banking arm of RBS/NatWest Group, with responsibility for rebuilding the Risk Management and Compliance functions of the Division, until the decision to exit from those businesses in 2013. 

He is co-author of the risk management examination text for the global professional body PRMIA and is Chair of the PRMIA Global Board.

Description

Risk management has traditionally focused on enterprise assurance, risk reporting, and regulatory compliance. However, the prevailing market scenarios has changed the equation with changing customer behaviour, business model disruptions, and technological advances. We seek to interact with an eminent panel of CRO and Risk Leaders who are leading such transformations within their own organizations. Some key discussion points and insights that we look forward to address are as follows:

• Future of Risk Enterprise – Towards Growth and Competitive Advantage
• Changing priorities for CRO’s to deliver business outcomes
• Key challenges, success factors and suggested transformation initiatives to deliver the outcomes
• Key constructs of Future of Risk Enterprise, Capabilities, Skills and Operating Models needed – The How part and more
   

Speakers

Sundeep Bhandari, Chairman, Board Risk Committee (SMF10), Independent Non Executive Director, Ghana International Bank
Bruce Fletcher, CRO, NatWest
Sadia Ricke, CRO, Societe Generale
Bhaskar Sen, Executive VP and Group Head of Risk Management (ERM), FAB
Vijayaraghavan Venkatraman, Global Head - BFSI Risk Management & Regulatory Compliance, TCS

Description

Diversity and Inclusion provides a healthy antidote to organisations' thinking and decision biases. Experts from Financial Services Culture Board (FSCB, formerly the Banking Standards Board) will present results of their research and discuss the role of diversity and inclusion in organizational culture.

Description

The acceleration of new technologies applied to asset management is increasing. The session will explore with two thought leaders risks and challenges on tokenisation of assets and the introduction of blockchain technologies, but also the opportunities to use these technologies for better risk management. 

Speakers

Emilio Barucci, Politecnico di Milano
Claudia Biancotti, Head of the Digital Integration - International Economics Department, Banca d’Italia

Moderator

Cosimo Pacciani

Description

* Blockchain: the opportunities in application and potential disruption for risk management. * Crypto Currencies: impact on risk management frameworks and techniques.

 

Speakers

Markus Blattmann, CRO, SEBA Bank
Benedict Roth, CRO, Zodia Markets
Karl Sees, MD, Cubelogic

Moderator

Oleg