Eric Cope

Director within the Operational Risk Management group at Credit Suisse, A UBS Group Company

Speaker

Eric Cope has been a Director within the Operational Risk Management group at Credit Suisse since 2016, where his primary focus was capital modeling and stress testing, and he how leads the NFR capital models and global scenarios team at UBS. Prior to this role, he was the modeling lead for operational risk capital at Bank of America. He also worked on quantitative methods for operational risk at IBM Research, where he served as the Analytic Agent for the Operational Riskdata eXchange (ORX) consortium, developing tools and methods for integrating external loss data within the AMA capital framework. He has written several academic articles on a variety of topics including AMA modelling challenges, operational loss econometrics, and capital estimation methodology. He currently chairs the ORX Analytics Working Group. Dr. Cope holds a Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering, a M.S. in Statistics, and a M.S. in Engineering-Economic Systems and Operations Research from Stanford University.