A famous American expert on Banking Regulation and Risk Management

Professor Philippe Jorion gave a conference on Friday, April 24th , 2009 at Audencia.

Philippe Jorion is a professor at the University of California at Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business and author of the third edition of the best-selling book on risk management Value at Risk, which has been called "an industry standard for VAR." The fifth edition of the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) Handbook should be in print in June 2009, published by Wiley. The Handbook is the standard manual for GARP.

The European Financial Management 2009 Symposium was jointly organised by the EFM Association and Audencia.
The Symposium focused on a broad range of subjects in the area of risk management in financial institutions, including the latest financial crisis, bank regulation, market risk, operational risk, commodities, hedge funds and credit derivatives.

The EFM Symposium on Risk Management in Financial Institutions is registered with CFA Institute as an approved provider of continuing education programmes. Attending this symposium was worth 10.5 CE credit hours, as granted by CFA Institute

The symposium will be hosted by Christophe Villa, Associate Professor of Finance and Head of the Finance Department at Audencia. The Symposium Sponsor is Credit-Agricole SA.