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                   David Koenig, Former Chair and executive Director, 
                    PRMIA, Founder, Ductilibility 
                    Enterprise Risk management: Current Topics Gaining the 
                    Attention of Regulators, Boards and Risk Managers 
                    
                  Mr. Koenig will discuss three areas of Enterprise Risk Management 
                    that are receiving substantial attention today: The role of 
                    the Board in Risk Oversight, Aligning Compensation Systems 
                    with Risk Management Objectives and the impact of the choice 
                    between strategic and control-focused approaches to ERM. 
                    
                  In a recent report that Mr. Koenig and Michael Keehner of 
                    Columbia Business School authored, 65 leading firms discussed 
                    how their Boards relate to their risk management infrastructure. 
                    Mr. Koenig will present some of the key findings from this 
                    private study. In late February, Fed Governor Randall Kroszner 
                    called on financial service firms to align their compensation 
                    systems with risk management principles and to better match 
                    pay with the risk created. In 2006, Mr. Koenig authored a 
                    chapter on this subject for Michael Ong's Risk Management: 
                    A Modern Perspective. He'll discuss some of the key elements 
                    of such an alignment. Finally, developments in finance, psychology 
                    and other fields like complexity theory may radically change 
                    how risk managers pursue their work. Is control having a risk-amplifying 
                    impact. What other elements of our current approaches to risk 
                    management might be open to question and rethinking?  
                    
                  Bio: 
                    David R. Koenig is the past Chair of the Board of Directors 
                    of the Professional Risk Managers' International Association 
                    (PRMIA). He served as Executive Director of PRMIA and President 
                    of the PRMIA Institute until the end of September 2007. 
                    
                  David has more than twenty years of managerial and front-line 
                    experience in the financial markets. He led the development 
                    of three risk management programs and served as the Head of 
                    Market and Institutional Credit Risk Management for US Bancorp 
                    Piper Jaffray prior to his work with PRMIA. David held lead 
                    risk management roles for GMAC/RFC and Principal Residential 
                    Mortgage, Inc. (Principal Financial Group), and has held research, 
                    trading and risk management roles involving the management 
                    of over $50 billion in nominal exposures. 
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