The RiskChina Research Center is an institution affiliated with RiskLab from University of Toronto and jointly sponsored by Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. In addition to the RiskChina Research Center, the PRMIA Institute – China will work with the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the International School of Software Engineering Wuhan University and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.
“We are thrilled to see the growth of the PRMIA Institute partnerships to mainland China and are especially pleased that Prof. Dash Wu will bring his leadership and academic expertise to the PRMIA Institute – China,” said David R. Koenig, President of the PRMIA Institute. “There is a vast demand for professional development programs for risk managers and the PRMIA Institute – China looks forward to serving the local needs.”
“There is no security on this earth, only opportunity,” said Prof. Dash Wu, Director of RiskChina Research Center and Adjunct Professor of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics “Joining the PRMIA Institute partnership, we are winning these opportunities.”
The PRMIA Institute is an international cooperative effort between the Professional Risk Managers’ International Association and leading university programs around the world. Current partners include the Columbia Business School, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Business School, the National University of Singapore Centre for Financial Engineering, the University of Toronto Risk Lab, the University of Reading ICMA Centre, Technical University of Munich - HVB-Institute for Mathematical Finance, the Macquarie University Applied Finance Center, Groupe HEC Business School, George Washington University’s MS in Finance program, the University of Michigan College of Engineering, the University of Cyprus Center for Banking and Financial Research. In addition, of the Masters in Financial Engineering Program, Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley is represented by Dr. Linda Kreitzmann, its Director.
About PRMIA and the PRMIA Institute
PRMIA is the Professional Risk Managers’ International Association. Formed in January of 2002, PRMIA is a higher standard for risk professionals with more than 60 chapters around the world and over 35,000 members from more than 170 countries. A Section 501(c)(6) non-profit, member-led association of professionals, PRMIA is dedicated to advancing the standards of the profession worldwide through the free exchange of ideas. PRMIA offers the only globally endorsed Professional Risk Manager (PRM) certification program, pursued by over 1,900 active candidates from more than 90 countries.
The PRMIA Institute is setting a higher standard in risk education. It is a non-profit Section 501(c)(3) corporation formed to serve the academic, scientific and charitable mission of PRMIA. The PRMIA Institute partners with leading university programs around the world to develop best-practice curricula for graduate studies in risk management and financial mathematics / engineering, provides classroom and online educational programs for working professionals, financial support of scholarly work, publications like the Professional Risk Managers' Handbook and scholarships to support the study of risk management among lower-income individuals.
You can learn more about both at www.prmia.org.
About the RiskChina Research Center
The RiskChina Research Center(RCRC, Chinese Domain: www.riskchina.org) at University of Toronto is an institution affiliated with RiskLab Toronto (part of the international network of RiskLabs sponsored by Algorithmics) which was founded in 1996 to conduct activities in financial risk management, often times in collaboration with industrial partners. RCRC aims to promote collaboration toward understanding greater China based on in-depth research and experience. The Center draws much if its expertise from the universities around the world, working collaboratively across institutions and jointly with the public and private sectors. The universities currently represented are University of Toronto, University of Chicago, University of Nebraska Lincoln (USA), Ryerson University (Toronto), Munich Institute of Technology (Germany), Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain), the International Management Center in Nicosia (Cyprus), the Universidad del Pacifico in Lima (Peru) and many others in South America.
The researchers of the Center study various aspects of Chinese financial and enterprise risks and the economic and business environment. Our goal via the Center is to make our knowledge and expertise available to a wide variety of constituents beyond our academic community, as well as to enhance our academic work via cross-disciplinary and institutional collaboration.
To date the Center has sponsored and co-sponsored many events. We have organized major business and academic conferences such as ICMI, edit special issues for various journals such as IJTM, IJVCM, IJENM, IJECRM, and participate in on-going workshops, panels and presentations aimed at disseminating insights and information about developments in contemporary China. The Center publishes an online bulletin with research articles, current events and information about study, business training programs. We also publish a calendar of China related events, and supply information via resource links on the Center’s website.
The Center also sponsors the referred journal:
International Journal of Services Sciences (IJSSci)
International Journal of Chinese Culture and Management (IJCCM)
