Matthias Arnsdorf: Global head of Counterparty Credit Risk Quantitative Research, J.P. Morgan

Since 2012 Matthias has been heading the counterparty credit risk quantitative research team globally.

His main responsibilities include the development & support of J.P. Morgan’s suite of credit exposure models which are used for valuation and risk management as well as credit capital.

Prior to his work in credit risk, Matthias headed the market risk capital modelling effort in EMEA for two years. Matthias started his career in finance in 2002 as a credit derivatives quantitative researcher at UBS and J.P.Morgan.

Matthias holds a PhD in Quantum Gravity from Imperial College London and has spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen prior to his move to quantitative finance.

Gonzalo Garcia-Kenny: Managing Director, Head of Portfolio Optimisation Desk, Citi

Jon Gregory: Independent xVA Expert 

DR JON GREGORY is an independent expert specialising in counterparty risk and xVA related projects. He has worked on many aspects of credit risk in his career, being previously with Barclays Capital, BNP Paribas and Citigroup. He is a senior advisor for Solum Financial Derivatives Advisory and a faculty member for the Certificate of Quantitative Finance (CQF). He also serves on the Academic Advisory Board of IHS Markit and is a Managing Editor of the journal Quantitative Finance.

In addition to publishing papers on the pricing of credit risk and related topics, Jon is author of the book “Counterparty Credit Risk The New Challenge for the Global Financial Markets” published by Wiley Finance in December 2009 (now in its third edition) and “Central Counterparties: Mandatory Central Clearing and Bilateral Margin Requirements for OTC Derivatives.”

Jon has a PhD from Cambridge University.

Youssef Elouerkhaoui: Managing Director, Global Head of Markets Quantitative Analysis, Citi

Youssed Elouerkhaoui is the global Head of Credit Quantitive Analysis at Citi. His group supports all aspects of modelling and product development across desks, thais includes: Flow Credit Trading, Correlation Trading, CDOs, Exotics and Emering Markets.

He also supports CVA, Funding and Regulatory Capital for Credit Markets. Prior to this, he was a Director in the Fixed Income Derivatives Quantitative Research Group at UBS, where he was in charge of developing and implementing models for the Structured Credit Desk. Before joining UBS, Youssef was a Quantitative Research Analyst at Credit Lyonnais supporting the Interest Rates Exotics business. He has also worked as a Senior Consultant in the Risk Analytics and Research Group at Ernst & Young. He is a graduate of Ecole Centrale Paris and he holds a PhD in Mathematics from Paris-Dauphine University.

Ignacio Ruiz: Founder, MoCaX Intelligence

Ignacio Ruiz has been the Head of Counterparty Credit Risk Measurement and Analytics, Scotiabank, the head strategist for Counterparty Credit Risk, exposure measurement, for Credit Suisse, as well as the Head of Risk Methodology, equities, for BNP Paribas. In 2010, Ignacio set up iRuiz Consulting as an independent advisory business in this field. In 2014, Ignacio founded iRuiz Technologies to develop and commercialise MoCaX Intelligence.

Ignacio has several publications in the space of quantitative risk management and pricing. He has also published a comprehensive guide to the subject of XVA Desks and Risk Management.

He holds a PhD in nano-physics from Cambridge University.

Alberto Elices: Head of XVA Model Validation, Santander

Alberto Elices obtained a PhD in Power Systems Engineering at Pontificia Comillas University (Madrid, Spain) and a Masters in Financial Mathematics at the University of Chicago. He joined Santander in 2004 after spending two years in a hedge fund in New York. He has worked as Equity and FX quantitative analyst, headed Equity Model Validation and he is currently Head of XVA Model Validation within Model Risk Area at Santander in Madrid (Spain). During his professional career, he has also published a number of papers in practitioner and academic journals.

Stéphane Crépey: Professor of Mathematics at the Université de Paris, Laboratoire de Probabilités, Statistique et Modélisation (LPSM)

Stéphane Crépey is the Professor of Mathematics at the Université de Paris, Laboratoire de Probabilités, Statistique et Modélisation (LPSM). Formerly professor at the Mathematics Department of University of Evry (France), head of Probability and Mathematical Finance and head of the Engineering and Finance branch (M2IF) of the Paris-Saclay Master Program in Financial Mathematics. His research interests are financial modeling, counterparty and credit risk, numerical finance, as well as related mathematical topics in the fields of backward stochastic differential equations and partial differential equations. He is the author of numerous research papers and two books: “Financial Modeling: A Backward Stochastic Differential Equations Perspective” (S. Crépey, Springer Finance Textbook Series, 2013) and “Counterparty Risk and Funding, a Tale of Two Puzzles” (S. Crépey, T. Bielecki and D. Brigo, Chapman & Hall/CRC Financial Mathematics Series, 2014).

He is an associate editor of SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics, International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, and a member of the scientific council of the French financial markets authority (AMF). Stéphane Crépey graduated from ENSAE and he holds a PhD in applied mathematics from Ecole Polytechnique and INRIA Sophia Antipolis.

Justin Chan: Head of Product Management, Risk, FIS

Justin Chan has over 11 years of experience in financial risk management and capital markets. Mr. Chan has a deep focus on quantitative modelling in areas such as xVA, credit exposure, and collateral simulations. He is currently responsible for the Risk Quantitative Strategy and Innovation program at FIS. Prior to FIS, Mr. Chan worked at Manulife Financial as a manager in corporate risk management.

Mr. Chan studied engineering science (BASc), and theoretical physics (MSc) at University of Toronto, where he also holds a Master of Mathematical Finance (MMF) degree.

Marco Bianchetti: Head of Internal Model Market Risk, Intesa Sanpaolo

Marco Bianchetti joined the Market Risk Management area of Intesa Marco joined the Financial and Market Risk Management area of Intesa Sanpaolo in 2008. His work covers pricing and risk management of financial instruments across all asset classes, with a focus on new products development, model validation, model risk management, interest rate modelling, funding and counterparty risk, fair and prudent valuation, applications of Quasi Monte Carlo in finance. He is in charge of the global Fair Value Policy of Intesa Sanpaolo group since Nov. 2015. Previously he worked for 8 years in the front office Financial Engineering area of Banca Caboto (now Banca IMI), developing pricing models and applications for interest rate and inflation trading desks. He is adjunct professor of Interest Rate Models at University of Bologna since 2015, and a frequent speaker at international conferences and trainings in quantitative finance. He holds a M.Sc. in theoretical nuclear physics and a Ph.D. in theoretical condensed matter physics.