Alexander Petrov

Executive Advisor, Risk Models at Nordea

Speaker

Alexander Petrov, PhD, Executive Advisor, Risk Models, Nordea group, is leading and responsible for different risk models development and implementation projects in the Nordea group.

Petrov has a broad experience in the mathematical modelling with a special interest in risk management and banking/insurance applications, having several publications in international journals and 18+ years experience in the risk models development.

Previously Petrov managed several overall implementation of the Basel II IRB approach projects in the banks on emerging markets as well as in the Swedbank Group Risk Control Department, he was responsible for all modelling/quantitative issues, as well as for implementation of Swedbank group risk management standards in the local BUs in the emerging markets.

Petrov obtained his PhD in theoretical physics from Uppsala University, Sweden.