Full Committee Hearing

Risk Management and its Implications for Systemic Risk

Date:   Thursday, June 19, 2008 Time:   02:30 PM

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Topic

The witnesses on Panel I will be The Honorable Donald Kohn, Vice Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Dr. Erik Sirri, Director of Division of Trading and Markets, U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission; and Mr. Scott M. Polakoff, Deputy Director, Office of Thrift Supervision. The witnesses on Panel II will be Mr. Richard Bookstaber, Senior Research Associate, Bridgewater Associates; Professor Richard Herring, Jacob Safra Professor of International Banking and Co-Director of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; and Mr. Kevin Blakely, President and Chief Executive Officer, Risk Management Association.

Witnesses

Witness Panel 1

  1. Mr. Kevin Blakely
    President and Chief Executive Officer
    Risk Management Association.
  2. Mr. Richard Bookstaber
    Financial Author
  3. Dr. Richard Herring
    Jacob Safra Professor of International Banking
    The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
  4. Honorable Donald Kohn
    Vice Chairman
    Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System
  5. Mr. Scott M. Polakoff
    Deputy Director
    Office of Thrift Supervision
  6. Dr. Erik Sirri
    Director
    Division of Trading and Markets, U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission