David Millar

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The Professional Risk Managers International
Association

• David Millar
• Chief Operating Officer, PRMIA
• david.millar_at_prmia.org

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PRMIA The Global Organisation

• The Professional Risk Managers International
  Association (PRMIA) is the worlds leading
  professional association for risk managers in
  financial services.
• It offers established standards accreditation
  meetings events training - networking
  website research for its members.
• 45,000 risk professionals from all segments of
  the financial services industry
• 200 free open meetings annually such as this
  one today.
• 60 chapters with members in 180 countries.
• 2,300 PRM exam candidates in 94 countries
• A member-led, grass-roots, not for profit
  organisation, with its own Code of Risk Ethics,
  owned and governed by its members .

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PRMIA the past 12 months

• New chapters in Tokyo, Bangalore, Hyderabad,
  Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Vienna, San Francisco,
  Kolkata, Beijing and South Africa.
• First one day PRMIA conference given in NY in
  February, two more already held and another two
  planned for 2007
• A quarterly PRMIA journal for Sustaining Members
  white papers released in November. Also PRMIA
  monthly newsletter
• Toronto University starts running PRM courses in
  China, NUS starts in Singapore.
• PRM approved by regulators in Singapore and
  Bahrain
• Bangalore chapter initiates research program
• Corporate membership services launched
• Website rebuilt
• PRMIA expand support team to take on marketing,
  sales and conference/event support staff

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PRMIA the next 12 months

• New chapters in Los Angeles, Delhi, Brussels,
  Miami, West Indies, Turkey, Bermuda, Dublin,
  Pune, Romania, Chennai and revitalisation of
  Madrid, Bangkok, Taiwan, Dusseldorf amongst
  others.
• Global Event Series Credit Risk in February,
  ERM in April, Operational Risk in September,
  Valuation and Liquidity Risk in November. Each
  month to include 3-4 one day events in major
  centres.
• Handbook to be updated, reformatted and released
  to public sale through bookshops under the
  management of McGraw Hill
• Opening up the PRM exam to offer a
  non-quantitative, entry-level exam.
• A quarterly PRMIA journal for Sustaining Members
  the Journal of Risk Management in Financial
  Institutions released this month. Free to full
  Sustaining Members. Also PRMIA monthly newsletter

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PRM Academic Partners
"A leading group of academics in renowned
universities across the world have joined forces
with PRMIA to organise and deliver essential
training for those wishing to achieve
professional qualifications. We have played an
active role in the development of the PRM
examination syllabus and we fully support this
qualification. Prof. Carol Alexander, Chair of
the Risk Management Department and Head of
Research, ICMA Centre, University of Reading
"When a professional industry organization gets
the leading universities from 6 countries to join
in an educational partnership, you are witnessing
an event of galactic proportions. PRMIA has, in
this fashion, defined the new paradigm for
professional education and risk management
practices for the 21st century. Prof. Luis Seco,
Director of the Risk Lab at the University of
Toronto
Also Columbia University Business School, Hong
Kong University of Science and Technology,
Macquarie University Applied Finance Center,
National University of Singapore Centre for
Financial Engineering, Technical University of
Munich HVB Institute for Mathematical Finance,
University of Michigan College of Engineering,
and a consortium of faculty in Paris representing
ESCP-EAP, HEC, Ecole Polytechnique, Sorbonne and
Université Paris Dauphine
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PRMIA our objectives

• Strengthen our position as the leading global
  risk management association
• Have an active chapter in every major financial
  centre
• Build Islamic Banking and Energy Risk offerings.
• Consolidate our position in USA, India and Europe
  build our growing strength in China
• Continue to create further value for Sustaining
  Members but keep the association attractive to
  Free Members
• Build links with corporate clients which feed
  member benefits to their risk employees
• Grow the successful university connections the
  PRMIA Institute to be able to provide PRM-based
  risk management education globally

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To Join www.PRMIA.org Member Support
support_at_prmia.org The PRM program
certification_at_prmia.org