Alejandro Latorre is a senior risk specialist for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in the Bank Supervision Group. He began his career at the Federal Reserve as an Assistant Economist in the Research and Market Analysis Group focusing on capital markets research on numerous topics including value-at-risk, derivatives valuation and market microstructure dynamics. Currently, his main area of focus is to devise and implement supervisory approaches for evaluating the risk measurement practices of Federal Reserve regulated entities in the second district in areas such as value-at-risk, derivatives valuation, economic capital and specific risk.