Rudy Yaksick

Principal, Financial Engineering and Risk Management; Concord, Mass. Rudy Yaksick is the Founder and Principal of Financial Engineering and Risk Management, a research and consulting firm. He was formerly a senior consultant to the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, where he designed and implemented the Kingdom’s first investment-management accreditation program, and has worked at Chase Manhattan Bank, Boston University, and Clark University. Yaksick has a B.A. in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh and an M.A. in Economics from Boston College. He is completing his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania on the economics of uncertainty. Yaksick has several academic and professional publications in the area of financial engineering, and has delivered papers at many international finance conferences.