James Lam

James Lam is a published author and President of James Lam & Associates. His book is "Enterprise Risk Management", and he has won many awards pertaining to risk management. He coined the term Chief Risk Officer (CRO), and subsequently became the first.

Career

After graduating from Baruch College in 1983, Lam held positions as research analyst at Paine Webber, consultant at Kaplan Smith, vice president at Glendale Federal Bank, and senior consultant at First Manhattan Consulting Group. Lam also served as Chief Risk Officer for the FGIC Capital Markets Services Division of GE Capital, where he helped create a new capital markets business.

He has also served as Chief Risk Officer for Fidelity Investments from 1995 to 1998. His work at Fidelity has been profiled in best-practice case studies published in Risk Magazine, the Economist, Price Waterhouse Review and Risk and Insurance.

Following his work at GE and Fidelity, Lam served as Director at Oliver, Wyman & Company. During his tenure at the firm, he founded ERisk, where he served as Founder and President, which was later sold to SunGard in 2005.

Since founding James Lam & Associates in 2002, Lam has served as a management consultant and board advisor to organizations in North America and Asia. [ [http://jameslam.com/about.asp "James Lam Biography"] , "James Lam & Associates", April 14, 2008.]

Publications

Lam has over fifty articles and book chapters to his credit, encompassing a wide range of financial and risk management topics. He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, American Banker, Financial Times, and CFO Magazine.

Lam’s first book, Enterprise Risk Management: From Incentives to Controls, published in 2003 by Wiley, has been ranked #1 best selling among 25,000 risk management titles on Amazon.com. It has been translated into Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese and Korean.

Industry Recognition and Awards

Lam is widely noted for coining the term, and subsequently being the first, “Chief Risk Officer”. He has been an early advocate of enterprise risk management as a consultant and practitioner.

In 1997, Lam was honored as the first person to be named Financial Risk Manager of the Year Award by the Global Association of Risk Professionals.

In 2004, he was appointed Senior Research Fellow at Beijing University.

In a 2005 Euromoney survey, Lam was nominated by clients and peers as one of the leading risk consultants in the world.

Treasury & Risk Management Magazine named Lam one of the “100 Most Influential People in Finance” in 2005 and 2006.

In 2006, he was appointed Honorary President of the Asia Association of Risk and Crisis Management.

Lam served as a member of the Blue Ribbon Panel of PRIMA, and currently serves as co-chairman of the Education and Standards Committee.

James is also co-chairman and founding member of the prestigious Risk Who’s Who – a network of top risk professionals.

References

External links

*"Enterprise Risk Management" (2003) ( [http://jameslam.com/excerpt.asp Excerpt] )
*James Lam & Associates homepage ( [http://jameslam.com/ JamesLam.com] )