39th Annual Meeting

Brian J. Ranson
 

BRIAN J. RANSON is a managing director in MKMV’s newly formed credit strategies group focused on providing thought leadership and communicating best practices to financial institutions worldwide. Before joining MKMV, he was an independent credit risk management consultant as well as an author and a former senior vice president of the Bank of Montreal. During a career of over 20 years with Bank of Montreal he was head of asset/liability management and the first head of loan portfolio management. Before his career in credit risk management he worked in the finance and treasury operations of Bank of Montreal. He was a key participant in the development of the International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers, which now represents many of the largest banks in the world. He has lectured on credit risk management in North America, Europe, the Far East, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. He is the author of many articles and a book on credit risk management and a former columnist on credit risk matters in Global Investor Magazine. He is also an emeritus member of NALMA (National Asset/Liability Management Association) and has strong credentials in the theory and practice of interest rate and liquidity risk measurement and management.