James Wiener
James Wiener is a senior Partner at Oliver Wyman and a member of the firm’s management committee. He is also the leader of the Public Policy practice in the Americas. With over fifteen years of consulting experience, he has led a wide range of client engagements for the largest and most complex US and global financial institutions. The focus of his work has been providing strategic advice on organic and inorganic growth strategies and financial and risk management issues to senior executives and Boards of Directors.
He has consulted on a wide range of issues including acquisition and post-merger integration of banking institutions, strategies for gathering retail deposits, development of business plans for mortgage and home equity lending, building of commercial and investment banking businesses and product strategy for specialty insurers.
Jim has also consulted extensively to financial institutions on managing the consequences of the credit crisis and developed remediation and recapitalization plans. More broadly, he consults on a wide range of issues with the objective of helping large organizations effectively manage their risk profile and achieve competitive differentiation via improved risk and financial management.
As a widely recognized expert on financial services, credit markets and risk management, he is frequently quoted in the press and speaks regularly on these issues at a variety of conferences and forums including the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Institute of International Bankers, BAI Forum, RMA conferences, and RISK Magazine conferences.
In addition, he advises leading regulatory bodies including the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the G30, the Basel Committee and the FDIC on their policy responses to systemic risk issues and the development of effective safety and soundness regulation.
Jim graduated in 1994 with a Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University where the focus of his work was on High Energy Physics.