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Risk Management and Financial Innovation Conference

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Global Risk Institute is a Conference Sponsor for this Event.


The Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University are hosting a conference on Risk Management and Financial Innovation on March 8-10, 2019. The conference is in memory of Professor Peter Christoffersen, who passed away in June 2018. Peter held the TMX Chair in Capital Markets and a Bank of Canada Fellowship and was a widely respected member of the Rotman School since 2010. Prior to 2010 Peter was a valued member of the Desautels Faculty of Management. He published in top finance and econometrics journals, and served as an associate editor at Journal of Derivatives, Review of Finance, Journal of Financial Econometrics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Risk, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, and Journal of Forecasting.

Paper Presenters:
Brian J. Henderson
, George Washington University
Bryan Kelly, Yale University
Donghwa Shin, Princeton University
Emilio Bisetti, HKUST
Evgeny Lyandres, Boston University
Harjoat S. Bhamra, Imperial College London
Jun Yang, Indiana University
Kairong Xiao, Columbia University
Mathias S. Kruttli, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Oleg Bondarenko, University of Illinois at Chicago
Yoontae Jeon, Ryerson University
Yufeng Wu, Gies College of Business 

Dinner Speaker:
Lawrence Schembri
, Deputy Governor, Bank of Canada

For more information and the full agenda of the weekend check out the Rotman website.

GRI Members pay $475 +HST for the full weekend. You can register here