Oliver Wyman Presents at RiskMinds Americas

Mr. Elliott is a Partner at Oliver Wyman in New York, in the Finance & Risk/Public Policy practice. He focuses on public policy and its implications for the financial sector. He has written and spoken extensively on the impact of recent political developments on financial institutions, including writing “Financial Institutions in an Age of Populism” and “Implications of the Trump Administration for Financial Regulation”. In 2016, Douglas was the lead author of a 150-page study analyzing the impacts of the Basel reforms, building on a similar paper from several years earlier for the IMF. Prior to joining the firm, he was a Fellow in Economic Studies at The Brookings Institution, the world’s leading think tank. At Brookings, he wrote and spoke extensively on financial regulation and its international coordination. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the International Monetary Fund, as well as a consultant for the IMF, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank. He frequently appears on panels or as a speaker for the Basel Committee, FSB, Fed, IMF, World Bank, Bank of England, ECB, ESRB, Bundesbank, European Commission, JFSA, Asian Development Bank, US Treasury, OCC, and other official bodies, as well as at trade group and industry functions. Prior to Brookings, he was a financial institutions investment banker for two decades, principally at J.P. Morgan. He worked across the range of financial institutions clients, including banks, insurers, and asset managers. He was primarily an M&A investment banker, but also worked as an equities analyst and in capital markets. He has testified multiple times before both houses of Congress and participated in numerous speaking engagements, as well as appearing widely in the major media outlets. The New York Times has described his analyses as “refreshingly understandable” and “without a hint of dogma or advocacy”. Mr. Elliott graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude with an A.B. in Sociology in 1981. In 1984, he graduated from Duke University with an M.A. in Computer Science.

Evan G. Sekeris is a Partner in the Financial Services practice of Oliver Wyman, based in Washington, D.C.. His areas of focus are operational risk, cyber risk, stress testing and model risk management. Evan’s background is in the measurement and quantification of Non-Financial Risks. His primary focus is currently on supporting institutions in enhancing their operational risk management frameworks, developing their risk identification process and developing their cyber risk quantification methodology. Prior to joining Oliver Wyman, Evan was the Head of Risk Consulting for Financial Institutions at Aon in charge of building Aon’s risk consulting practice for financial institutions in North America and Europe. Previously, Evan was an Assistant Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, where he created the center of excellence for operational risk which served the System needs for operational risk related matters. The team was in charge of the supervision of all AMA and CCAR banks in the US and developed the Fed’s CCAR model for operational risk. Evan earned a B.A. and M.A. in Economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. He received an additional M.A. as well as his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles.