Risk Management, PRMIA

December 12, 2007

About NS Venkatesh, FRM, PRM

I work in the Financial Risk Management practice of KPMG in Bahrain. Our consulting work is focused on four broad themes: Risk Governance, Risk Quantification, Risk Infrastructure and Risk Intelligence. Much of our work currently is related to Basel II.

Earlier, I was with the Central Bank of Bahrain with the responsibility of evaluating macro prudential risks from a financial stability perspective. Bahrain is the fourth largest offshore centre in the world and is host to more than 110 banks. The CBB pioneered financial stability analysis and reporting in this part of the world. I was privileged to be part of the team which conceived, developed and implemented financial stability analysis.

Prior to this, I was with Standard & Poors' Indian subsidiary (local name: Crisil) for little more than a decade. I worked in both the ratings and the advisory business.

I am an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India. I have completed the requirements for the Professional Risk Manager (PRM) certification from PRMIA. In addition, I have also completed the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) certification from GARP.

I get quite a few mails from risk aspirants from developing countries on how to pass these exams. I have uploaded a presentation here which I normally make to my students at BIBF. This presentation introduces the PRM exam, the exam content, the benefits of passing this exam and the reference books.

My areas of interest include regulation, Basel (as applied in emerging markets), and risk modeling. On the weekends, I like to teach as this gives me an opportunity to get back to books. One key reason for wanting to write on risk management is to provide beginners a non technical understanding of contextual issues in risk management. Some of my recent articles can be accessed here.

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