PRMIA Global Risk Conference
May 14 - 16, 2012
New York


MAY 14, 2012
8:00 - 8:45 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:45 - 10:15 Seminars - Session A
1A.
Navigating the Dynamic Financial Landscape: Regulatory Capital, Basel II and Basel III
Peter O. Davis
Principal - Financial Services, Ernst & Young LLP
Robert J. Wyle
Senior Director, Product Management, Moody’s Analytics
2A.Identifying Emerging Risks & Opportunities: Outlook for Recovery
Christopher Mayer
Paul Milstein Professor of Real Estate, Co-Director, Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy, Columbia Business School
Daniel Rodriguez
Chief Risk Officer, Global Arbitrage Trading and the Americas Equity Division, Credit Suisse
3A.Managing Through Crises: Risk Capacity Versus Risk
Appetite
Jonathan Howitt
Former Chief Risk Officer, Evolution Group
Walter Smiechewicz
Chief Risk Officer, First Niagara Financial Group
4A.Counterparty Credit Risk, Credit Valuation Modeling, and Central Counterparties: Counterparty Exposures Modeling, Pricing and Hedging
Eduardo Canabarro
Global Head of Quantitative Risk Groups, Morgan Stanley
Michael Pykhtin
Senior Economist, The Federal Reserve Board
 
10:15 - 10:45 Refreshment Break
10:45 - 12:15 Seminars - Session B
1B.Navigating the Dynamic Financial Landscape: Systemic
Risk
John Hele
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Risk Officer, Arch Capital Group Ltd
William Mason
Head of Risk, Central Bank of Ireland
2B.Identifying Emerging Risks & Opportunities: Advances in Portfolio Risk Management
Attilio Meucci
Chief Risk Officer, Kepos Capital
Steve Wiggins
Senior Director, Credit Risk Specialist, Moody’s Analytics
3B.Managing Through Crises: Implementing a Robust Risk Culture
Bruce Fletcher
Chief Risk Officer, HSBC Europe
Nawal Roy
Associate Principal, McKinsey & Company
Navin Sharma
Risk Management, Western Asset Management
4B.Counterparty Credit Risk, Credit Valuation Modeling, and Central Counterparties: Computation, Stress Testing, and Modeling Wrong Way Risk
Eduardo Canabarro
Global Head of Quantitative Risk Groups, Morgan Stanley
Dan Rosen
President, R2 Financial Technologies
 
12:15 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 3:00 Seminars - Session C
1C.Navigating the Dynamic Financial Landscape: OTC Clearing, Volcker Rule and Transaction Strategy
Kim Olson
Principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Larry Tabb
Chief Executive Officer, Tabb Group
John Wilson
Former Managing Director & Global Head of OTC Clearing, The Royal Bank of Scotland
2C.Identifying Emerging Risks & Opportunities: Structural Issues in Predictive Analysis
Andrew Jennings
Chief Analytics Officer and Head of FICO Labs, FICO
David M. Rowe, PhD
Former PRMIA Board Member and Senior Advisor Kamakura Corporation
Sergey Smirnov
Higher School of Economics, Financial Engineering and Risk Management Lab, Chair of Risk Management and Insurance, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
3C.Managing Through Crises: Risk Governance and Decision-Making
Philip M. Halperin
Chief Risk Officer, Alfa Bank Russia and Member of Supervisory Board of Alfa Bank Belarus and Alfa Bank Kazakhstan
Clifford Rossi, PhD
Executive-in-Residence and Tyser Teaching Fellow, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
4C.
Counterparty Credit Risk, Credit Valuation Modeling,and Central Counterparties: Economic and Regulatory CCR Capital and Global Counterparty Risk Mitigation
Allan Grody
President, Financial InterGroup
David Saunders
Associate Professor, University of Waterloo
 
3:00 - 3:30 Refreshment Break
3:30 - 4:30 Commentary and Debate on Seminar Topics
3:30 - 5:00 Association Meeting for PRMIA Board and Leadership Group
5:00 - 6:30 Networking Reception with Exhibits Open




MAY 15, 2012
8:30 - 9:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast with Exhibits Open
9:30 - 9:35 Welcome
Ruth M. Whaley
Conference Chair and Principal, Barset Consulting LLC
9:35 - 9:50 Opening Remarks
Professor Carol Alexander
Chair of Financial Risk Management, ICMA Centre, Henley Business School at Reading and Chair, PRMIA Board of Directors
 
9:50 - 10:35 Plenary Address - Global Macro Risks
Kenneth Rogoff
Professor of Economics, Harvard University and author of "This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly"
 
10:35 - 11:05 Refreshment Break with Exhibits Open
 
11:05 - 12:05 Keynote Panel - A Global Perspective
Craig Broderick
Chief Risk Officer, Goldman Sachs
Charles Calomiris
Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions, Columbia Business School and member of the Shadow Open Market Committee
Bennett W. Golub
CRO, BlackRock
Kenneth Rogoff
Professor of Economics, Harvard University and author of "This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly"
Moderator: Hank Prybylski
Partner - Global Financial Services Risk Management Practice Leader, Ernst & Young LLP
 
12:05 - 1:35 Luncheon with Plenary Address - The Dangers in Using Models
Emanuel Derman (12:45 - 1:30 pm)
Professor, Columbia University, Head of Risk, Prisma Capital Partners and author of "Models.Behaving.Badly: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life"
 
1:35 - 2:35 Keynote Panel - Macro-Prudential Risks, Government and Regulatory Actions
Allan M. Malz
Vice President, Markets Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and author of "Financial Risk Management: Models, History, and Institutions"
James Rickards
Partner, JAC Advisors and author of the bestseller, "Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis"
Mrs. Usha Thorat
Director, Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning (CAFRAL) and former Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India
Moderator: Dr. Colin Lawrence
Director, Risk Specialists Division, Prudential Business Unit, Financial Services Authority, United Kingdom and Vice Chairman, PRMIA Board of Directors
 
2:40 - 3:40 Keynote Panel - Restructuring Financial Services in Volatile Markets
Tom Daula
Head of Global Research and Analytics, formerly Investment Bank COO and CRO, UBS
Mark W. Olson
Co-Chair of Treliant Risk Advisors, Former Chair of the PCAOB and Former Federal Reserve Board Governor
James Sweeney
Managing Director, Global Strategy, Credit Suisse
Stefan Walter
Principal and Global Bank Supervisory and Regulatory Policy Leader, New York, Ernst & Young LLP and former Secretary General of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, on Restructuring Financial Services in Volatile Markets
Moderator: Marc Groz
Managing Director, Head of Corporate Development, SPM LLC
 
3:40 - 4:10 Refreshment Break with Exhibits Open
 
4:10 - 5:10 Concurrent Session - Session A
1A. Can Risk Management in Financial Markets be a Science?
Paul Davidson
Editor, The Journal of Post Keynesian Economics and author of “The Keynes Solution: The Path to Global Economic Prosperity"
2A.Getting ETFs Back on Track: A New Approach to Tracking Error in Levered and Inverse ETFs
Elliot Noma, PhD
Managing Director, Garrett Asset Management, LLC
3A. Corporate Restructuring and Turnarounds
Andrew B. Dietderich
Head of the Restructuring and Bankruptcy Group at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Brad Geer
Managing Director, Houlihan Lokey
Thomas Moloney
Partner at Cleary Gotlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Moderator: David Pauker
Executive Managing Director, Goldin Associates, LLC and former Chief Restructuring Officer of Refco Inc.
4A.LIBOR Versus OIS: The Derivatives Discounting
Dilemma
John C. Hull
Maple Financial Professor of Derivatives and Risk Management in the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto
 
5:20 - 6:20 Concurrent Sessions - Session B
1B.Mapping Financial Landscapes: Network Visualization, Mechanics, and Human Dynamics
Kimmo Soramaki
Founder, Financial Network Analytics
2B.Liquidity Risk in the Wake of New Regulations; Can Innovative Electronic Auctions Come to the Rescue?
Kevin Callahan
Founder and CEO, The AX Trading Network (The AX) and former Head of Sales & Strategy at JonesTrading
3B.Tail Wagging the World: Systemic Crisis, New Regulation and Effective Tail Risk Management
Dr. Evgueni Ivantsov
Head of Portfolio Risk & Strategy, HSBC and Chair of the European Risk Management Council
4B.Credit Rating Alternatives and Their Impact on Credit Markets
Dov Haselkorn
Partner, Oliver Wyman
 
6:20 - 6:50 Networking Reception with Exhibits Open
6:50 - 9:20 Gala Dinner




MAY 16, 2012
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast with Discussion - What's Next in Europe?
Bart Oosterveld (8:15 - 8:45 a.m.)
Managing Director, Moody’s Investors Service
9:10 - 9:20 Welcome
Ruth M. Whaley
Conference Chair and Principal, Barset Consulting LLC
9:20 - 10:05 Plenary Address - How Does Systemic Risk Look Today?
Robert F. Engle
Director of The Volatility Institute, Professor of Finance, NYU Stern School of Business and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics
 
10:05 - 10:35 Refreshment Break with Exhibits Open
10:35 - 11:35 Keynote Panel - Emerging Risks - Current Developments in Quantitative Analytics
Professor Carol Alexander
Chair of Financial Risk Management, ICMA Centre, Henley Business School at Reading and Chair, PRMIA Board of Directors
Aaron C. Brown
Risk Manager, AQR Capital Management
Ron D'Vari
CEO and Co-Founder, NewOak Capital
David X. Li
Managing Director, AIG Asset Management and former CRO, China International Capital Corporation
Moderator: Barry Schachter
CRO, Woodbine Capital
 
11:40 - 12:55 Keynote Panel - Crisis Management: Navigating Non-Market Risks
James C. Allison
Manager, Global Risk, ConocoPhillips
Robert E. Bostrom
Co-Chair Global Financial Institutions and Funds sector, SNR Denton and former EVP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Freddie Mac, on Navigating Non-Market Risks
Kevin Brock
Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton, former Principal Deputy Director, National Counterterrorism Center and former Assistant Director, FBI, Directorate of Intelligence
Harlan Loeb
Global Practice Chair - Crisis & Risk Management, Edelman and Professor of Crisis Litigation and the Court of Public Opinion, Northwestern University Law School
Leo M. Tilman
President, L.M. Tilman & Co. and author of "Financial Darwinism"
Moderator: Jon Lukomnik
Managing Partner, Sinclair Capital L.L.C. and Executive Director of the IRRC Institute
 
1:00 - 2:15 Luncheon with Plenary Address - Recent Advances in How Behavioral Finance Impacts the Practice of Risk Management
Hersh Shefrin (1:30 - 2:15pm)
Mario L. Belotti Professor of Finance, Santa Clara University and author of "Ending the Management Illusion: How to Drive Business Results Using the Principles of Behavioral Finance"
 
2:25 - 3:25 Concurrent Sessions - Session C
1C. A Fire-Side Chat with Hedge Fund CROs
Attilio Meucci
CRO, Kepos Capital
Barry Schachter
CRO, Woodbine Capital
Hilmar Schaumann
Chief Risk Officer, Fortress Investment Group
Moderator: Timothy Wilson
Managing Director, Global Risk Management Advisors, Inc.
2C.Modeling Black Swans: Correlation, Contagion and Endogenous Risks
Rama Cont
Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
3C.From Macro to Micro Testing: What Can We Learn About Systemic Symptoms?
Dr. Colin Lawrence
Director, Risk Specialists Division, Prudential Business Unit, Financial Services Authority, United Kingdom and Vice Chairman, PRMIA Board of Directors
4C.The Evolution of Economic Theory and Some Implications for Risk Management
Dr. Patrick Spread
Economic Consultant and author of "Support-Bargaining: The Mechanics of Democracy Revealed"
3:25 - 3:55 Refreshment Break with Exhibits Open
3:55 - 4:55 Concurrent Sessions - Session D
1D. Sovereign Risk in Europe
Bruce Fletcher
Chief Risk Officer, HSBC Europe
Jonathan Howitt
Former Chief Risk Officer, Evolution Group
Duncan Martin
Partner, Boston Consulting Group
2D.Adaptive Stress Testing: Harnessing Network Intelligence in Stress Testing and Reverse Stress Testing
Alan Laubsch
Principal, Winhall LLC
3D. Leading in Crisis
Kevin Brock
Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton, former Principal Deputy Director, National Counterterrorism Center and former Assistant Director, FBI, Directorate of Intelligence
Erika James
Professor, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia
4D. A Practical Guide to Fair Value and Regulatory CVA
Dr. Alexander Sokol
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5:00 - 5:15 Closing Remarks
Dr. Colin Lawrence
Director, Risk Specialists Division, Prudential Business Unit, Financial Services Authority, United Kingdom and Vice Chairman, PRMIA Board of Directors