PRMIA Education and Standards Committee
The following representatives from around the globe are serving as the Education and Standards Committee of PRMIA. Their charge is to help PRMIA maintain an educational focus, by setting industry standards of practice and conduct, and to develop certification programs for members that provide a benchmark of performance upon which employers and colleagues can rely:
Co-Chairs:
| Dr. Zvi Wiener | Jerusalem |
| Dr. David Rowe | Palo Alto |
| James Lam | Boston |
| Emerico Amari | Partner | MACFIN Group Management Consultants |
| Dr. Mamdouh Barakat | President and CEO | MBRM - MB Risk Management - MBRM (an FSS - Financial Systems Software company) |
| Zvi Bodie | Professor | Boston University School of Management |
| Rickard Brannvall | SVP Risk Analytics | Citigroup Japan |
| Dr. Jorge Galindo-Flores | CEO | HITO S.A.P.I de C.V |
| Paul Glasserman | Jack R. Anderson Professor of Risk Management | Columbia Business School |
| Kruskal Hewitt | Senior Advisor, Risk Management | J Power - Electric Power Development Co. Ltd |
| Markus Hirschberger | Senior Hedging Analyst | Munich Re |
| Jonathan Howitt | CRO | n/a |
| Krzysztof Jajuga | Professor | Wroclaw University of Economics |
| David Koenig | Chief Executive Officer | The Governance Fund Advisors, LLC |
| James Lam | President | James Lam & Associates, Inc. |
| Claus Madsen | Head of Research | FinE Analytics |
| Oscar McCarthy | Risk Manager | ABN Amro Bank NV |
| David Rowe | President | David M. Rowe Risk Advisory |
| Nawal Roy | Managing Partner | Shobhit Capital Group |
| Sergey Smirnov | Head of Department of Risk Management and Insurance | State University - Higher School of Economics |
| Alberto Suen | Regional Director | PRMIA Brazil Chapter |
| Kalyan Sunderam | Chief Risk Officer | First Energy Bank |
| Gustavo Torres Gomez | Vicepresident | Globex Re |
| Zvi Wiener | Head of Finance Department | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
The Education and Standards Committee is comprised of a balance between industry practitioners and academicians, with a broad geographic diversity. It has responsibility for the development of both the PRMIA Professional Risk Manager program and the PRMIA Standards of Best Practice, Conduct and Ethics.
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