Tail Risk Management: Building A Resilient Financial Business In A Volatile World

Pascal M. vander Straeten spent twenty-five years in the financial services industry, specializing in the field of financial risk management. Many of these years were spent overseas as an international senior executive, in cities such as New York, London, Rome, Madrid, Luxembourg, Munich, Brussels, and Paris. In 2012, vander Straeten founded Value4Risk, a research and consulting firm, which expanded from its Canberra location into Dallas in 2015. Value4Risk provides training in extreme risk management within the modern realm of financial risk management and geopolitics. Originally from Belgium, vander Straeten holds a master’s degree in applied economics from the University of Antwerp and an executive MBA from the University of Washington. He also holds a postgraduate degree in international relations from the University of Louvain. Fluent in five languages (Dutch, French, English, German, and Italian), he lives in Texas with his wife, Barbara.