KEY SPEAKER HIGHLIGHTS
To examine key advances in derivatives and risk management Risk has compiled an expert speaker faculty featuring eminent regional and global practitioners and academics.

Keynote speaker:

Les Hosking,
Australian Centre for Global Finance
Les Hosking has made a significant contribution to the development of the Australian futures industry for over thirty years. Primarily as Chief Executive of the Sydney Futures Exchange, where he guided the Exchange to become the largest financial futures exchange in the Asia-Pacific. In January 2000 Mr Hosking took up his current appointment as Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Centre for Global Finance. The Centre has been established by the Australian Government to develop and implement a campaign to enhance Australia’s position as a global financial service centre.

Colleen Cassidy,
Manager of Capital & Risk Analysis,
Australian Prudential Regulation Authority
Colleen Cassidy has worked with APRA for the past six years. She has held roles in Bank Supervision Research and on the Market Risk On-Site Review Team and is currently a Manager within APRA’s Capital and Risk Analysis policy group. Her primary role is to provide technical assistance in the formulation of APRA’s capital adequacy arrangements.

Professor Jin-Chaun Duan,
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Jin-Chuan Duan is Professor of Finance and Senior Wei Lun Fellow at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1996. Duan has a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests cover pricing of derivative securities, time-series econometrics and banking. Paul Smetanin, ANZ Bank Paul has worked in the field of market risk management and measurement for the past 13 years. He is currently the Global Head of Market Risk, Group Risk Management at the ANZ Bank with the responsibility of overseeing all the traded and non traded market risks of the bank. Prior to joining ANZ Paul was a KPMG Director with the responsibility of building KPMG’s Treasury and Financial Risk Management Group in Sydney, a Senior Manager Risk Management at IBJ, a risk consultant for PwC and an options trader at BNZ Norths.