Evan Picoult is a Managing Director and head of the Risk Methods and Analytics Unit within the Risk Architecture Department of Citigroup. Risk Architecture has global responsibility for establishing the risk infrastructure of Citigroup across all of its businesses around the world. The primary function of the Risk Methods and Analytics unit is the development and enhancement of methods for measuring and analyzing the risks of the firm, including economic capital.

Dr. Picoult joined Citibank in 1980 in systems development, transferred to a trading desk in 1986 and has worked in internal risk management since 1988. In the past he advised Citibank’s Market Policy Committee and its Credit Risk Policy Committee on risk issues. He is frequently invited to lecture on risk topics at professional conferences and at universities. Dr. Picoult is the North American co-chair of ISDA’s Risk Management Committee. Over the years he has actively participated on several ISDA task forces which were set up to respond to regulatory proposals regarding risk based capital. Dr. Picoult is also on the Advisory Board of Carnegie-Mellon University’s Master of Science in Quantitative Finance program.

Dr. Picoult has a Ph.D. in experimental particle physics from Columbia University and an MBA from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.