Andrew Kuritzkes
Managing Director
Mercer Oliver Wyman

Andrew Kuritzkes is a Managing Director of Mercer Oliver Wyman. He joined Oliver, Wyman & Company in 1988, was a Managing Director in the firm’s London office from 1993 to 1997, and served as Vice Chairman of Oliver, Wyman & Company globally from 2000 until the firm’s acquisition by Mercer, Inc. (a division of Marsh & McLennan Companies) in 2003.

Mr. Kuritzkes has consulted on a broad range of strategy, risk management, regulatory, and organizational issues for financial institutions and regulators in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, and Singapore. In particular, he has spearheaded the development of strategies for transforming corporate banking businesses in response to fundamental market changes. He has worked extensively with organizations, at the Board and senior executive levels, on a number of issues relating to corporate banking strategy and finance and risk management, including the link between risk measurement and strategy, the impact of regulation, active portfolio management, and the evolution of wholesale lending.

Mr. Kuritzkes has written and spoken widely on a broad range of risk, financial structuring, and regulatory topics. His articles have appeared in Strategic Finance, Risk, Die Bank, Banking Strategies, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Journal of Risk Finance, and the Brookings-Wharton Papers on Financial Services.

Before joining Oliver, Wyman & Company, Mr. Kuritzkes worked as an economist and lawyer for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 1986 to 1988. He holds a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School, an M. Phil. degree in economics from Cambridge University, and a B.A. degree from Yale College.