Risk Live Europe Agenda

Niko Herrala works as a Head of Division in the Market Operations Department at the Bank of Finland. He is also a member of ESCB's Working Group on Monetary Policy Implementation.

Jérôme Henry is the principal adviser in the European Central Bank (ECB) macroprudential policy and financial stability division. His responsibilities cover financial stability assessments and the related infrastructure requirements. Henry has led ECB teams for quality assurance of the single supervisory mechanism stress tests and was involved in country crisis management. He also worked at the Bank for International Settlements as a Financial Stability Institute fellow. Prior to this, Henry was a long-standing Eurosystem forecast co-ordinator. He started his time at the ECB leading the macromodelling team. Prior to his central bank career, Henry conducted research at the French Economic Observatory and the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. He is a founding member of the Centre for Economic Policy Research Euro Area Business Cycle Network. An Ensae Paris graduate, Henry holds a PhD in Economics and a bachelors degree in History from Paris Sorbonne.

Christian Kjær is Senior Vice President and ATP’s Head of Liquid Markets, an in-house risk-balanced multi-asset investment team with overall responsibility for the liquid part of ATP’s investment portfolio. He is a member of the investment committee, the committee for social responsibility and the corporate governance forum within ATP. Christian has previously held responsibility for global equities, inflation and volatility in ATP which he joined in 2015 as Portfolio Manager.

Prior to joining ATP Christian was Head of Inflation Trading in Nordea Markets. Before that he held positions in the Insurance and Pension Solutions Group at Credit Suisse, the Institutional Solutions group at Nordea Markets and Mckinsey & Company

Christian holds a M.Sc in Economics and a Ph.D in Economics (Game Theory) from the University of Aarhus, Denmark

In his spare time, Christian enjoys hanging out with his family and loves taking his race bike for a spin in the countryside

Pascal Traccucci is global head of risk at La Francaise Asset Management. He was previously responsible for enterprise risk management at Allianz Asset Management, hoPimco and Allianz Global Investors, and was global head of investment risk at Invesco. After starting his career at JP Morgan's capital markets research team, he held various positions in portfolio and product management with Invesco. He graduated in business and mathematics from Lyon and Frankfurt universities.