Alan Laubsch

Alan Laubsch has nearly 20 years of risk management experience and has advised major global banks, asset managers and sovereign institutions on enterprise risk systems implementations.

One of the co-founders of the RiskMetrics Group, until June 2010 Mr. Laubsch was head of the RiskMetrics Labs division in Asia, where he focused on developing next generation risk management practices, including methodologies for early warning, stress testing, systemic risk and a framework for integrated risk management.

Previously, Mr. Laubsch was a vice president at JPMorgan's Risk Advisory Group, where he helped financial institutions implement enterprise risk management in Latin America, Middle East and Asia. Mr. Laubsch joined JPMorgan in New York in 1993 after receiving a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University. As a researcher in the Corporate Risk Management Group, Mr. Laubsch worked on hedge fund risk analysis, default risk modeling, economic capital allocation and market and credit risk integration.

Mr. Laubsch authored "Risk Management: A Practical Guide" and research at RiskMetrics. Mr. Laubsch has also published articles in the Asia Wall Street Journal and other financial media.

Dr. Austin Gerig

Dr Austin Gerig is a senior research fellow in the CABDyN Complexity Centre at Oxford University. He received his PhD in Physics and MSc in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before moving to Oxford, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Santa Fe Institute and then as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Finance and Economics at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Dr Gerig uses techniques and methods from the natural sciences to analyze social and economic systems. He is currently researching the nature and cause of extreme price movements in financial markets (such as stock market crashes) and also the origin of statistical arbitrage and high frequency trading in electronic markets. In addition, he is interested in finding ways to monitor and mitigate systemic risk in the financial sector.

Aleksandr Karminskiy

Graduated from the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov.

Doctor of Engineering Sciences, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and Academy of Technology of the Russian Federation.

Professor of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University) and Moscow State Technical University named after N.E. Bauman.

Has over 15 years track record in the Gazprombank. Author of 200+ books, including 20 of them on rating systems, banking, controlling, modeling, and IT.

Fabrizio Lillo

Fabrizio Lillo is Professor of Quantitative Finance at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (Italy), Assistant Professor of Physics at Palermo University, and, since 2009, Professor at the Santa Fe Institute (United States). He is author of more than 60 referred scientific papers. His research is focused on the application of methods and tools of statistical physics to economic, financial, and complex biological systems.

Mikhail Rogov

Mikhail Rogov currently works as an Internal Control and Risk Management Advisor to CEO of RusHydro. He is also a Vice President of PRMIA-Russia, Expert group on risk management in regulation systems, United Nations, Economic Commission (GRM UNECE) , Vice-President of PRMIA Russia.

Dozens of publications on risk management, including monograph Risk Management (Moscow, Finance and Statistics, 2001) officially recommended by the FCSM Russia for examinations on the certificate of financial consultant.

Olga Stepanova

Olga Stepanova graduated from Economic Faculty of the Moscow State University in 2002 with a degree at General Economics. In 2004 she received M.S. in Mathematical Methods of Analysis in Economics from the Economic Faculty of the Moscow State University. Olga Stepanova worked in Market Risks Department of Russian Agricultural Bank for six years (since 2007 – as a head of the department). She has been working as a head of market risk department in NOMOS-BANK since 2011.

Alexey Lobanov

Alexey Lobanov is a Deputy Head of Bank Regulations Department at Bank of Russia. Alexey Lobanov graduated from the National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET) and received Ph.D. in Economics, FRM, from the Institute of Economics at the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has been working in investments since 1997, and in finance risk management since 1998. Alexey received a 1.0. Qualification Certificate of Member of Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) from the Russian Federal Service for Financial Markets in 1999. He has been a member of the board of the Russian Operations of PRMIA since 2002. He is also a member of expert advisory board of Bank Institute at Higher School of Economics.

Lobanov is the author of more than 20 publications on financial markets and risk management analysis. As a professional, he is interested in market risk management, bank risk regulation, risk management in sovereign institutions, and investment project risk analysis.

Vladimir Filimonov

Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics, Fellow at ETH, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich, Switzerland).

Author of more than 35 papers in magazines and collected books.

Svetlana Malykhina

Deputy Chief of the Prudential Supervision Methodology Department, Banking Supervision Directorate at the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus). Master of Economic Sciences, Assistant Professor of the Department of Banking of the Belarus State Economic University. Lecturer on «Banks and Risk Management Analysis». Author of more than 30 papers on risk management in magazines and collected books. Member of the Committee on risk management of the Association of the Belarusian Banks.

Anton Eremenko

He graduated cum laude from the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics. PhD in Physics and Mathematics. He was working in Moscow office of McKinsey&Co, international consulting company, where he was involved in projects on risk management in Russia and other countries of the world. Today, Anton heads the Risk Analytics and Reporting Department at NOMOS-BANK.