SPEAKING AND TRAINING ENGAGEMENTS
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2006 SPEAKING AND TRAINING ENGAGEMENTS

Fall 2006. Dr. Blanco to speak at IECA 82nd Annual Fall Conference. Palm Springs. 2006. Topic: Advanced Analytics for Counterparty Risk Measurement.

Fall 2006. Oxford College of Energy and Petroleum Studies - Enterprise Wide Risk Management in the Oil and Derivatives Market. Dr. Carlos Blanco will present various papers on enterprise wide risk measurement and management for oil trading firms.

Fall 2006. Market Risk Measurement and Management . 5 day workshop for institutional clients of leading international bank. London.

Fall 06 - Winter 07. Dr. Blanco to teach MBA class on Financial Markets and Instrumetns at Universidad Nebrija. Madrid.

Fall 2006. Singapore. Oct 11-13. BSRA will conduct a 3 day workshop on ERM for energy and commodity firms.

Fall 2006. Market and Counterparty Risk Measurement and Management. Workshop for risk manager of leading international bank. New York.

Fall 2006. University of California, Berkeley. Risk Management Course. MBA. Dr. Carlos Blanco and leading experts Jean Hinrichs and Robert Mark will teach a course on Enterprise Risk Management.

Summer 2006. Singapore. BSRA will conduct 3-day workshop on Crisis Management and Prevention.

Summer 2006. United Kingdom. BSRA conducted workshop on derivatives pricing, hedging and risk management for one of Europe's leading energy trading firms.

Summer 2006. London. BSRA will conduct market, credit and operational risk measurement and management workshop for one of the world's top 3 leading integrated energy firms.

Summer 2006. BSRA will conduct energy derivatives pricing, hedging and risk management for leading European energy trading firm.

Spring 2006. Amsterdam. Black Swan Risk Advisors will conducted training courses on market risk measurement and management for a prominent international bank.

Spring 2006. London. BSRA conducted training on derivatives pricing, structured products and market risk management for leading international bank

Spring 2006. Singapore. BSRA conducted a workshop on ERM for energy and commodity firms.

2005 SPEAKING AND TRAINING ENGAGEMENTS

March 2005. Tel-Aviv. Dr. Carlos Blanco and Dr. Kevin Dowd will present a series of talks on advanced market risk topics to one of the leading Israeli Financial Institutions. Topics covered will include Extreme Value Theory, Copulas, Backtests, and Stress tests.

April 2005. Amsterdam. Black Swan Risk Advisors will conduct a 5-day training course on market risk measurement and management for a prominent international bank.

May 2005. "2005 ERM Symposium: Where cutting edge theory meets state of the art practice" May 1 - May 3. Chicago. Dr. Carlos Blanco will be part of an expert panel on Enterprise-Wide Risk Management in the Energy Industry.

May 2005. "New Directions in Risk Modelling and Financial Planning." May 18th. London. UNICOM. Dr. Kevin Dowd and Dr. Carlos Blanco will present the state-of-the-art methods in risk model validation in "New Developments in Backtesting."

June 2005. Oxford College of Energy and Petroleum Studies - Enterprise Wide Risk Management in the Oil and Derivatives Market. Dr. Carlos Blanco will present various papers on enterprise wide risk measurement and management for oil trading firms.

Fall 2005. University of California, Berkeley. Risk Management Course. MBA. Dr. Carlos Blanco and leading experts Jean Hinrichs and Robert Mark will teach a course on Enterprise Risk Management.

Fall 2005. Amsterdam. Black Swan Risk Advisors will conduct two training courses on market risk measurement and management for a prominent international bank.

Fall 2005. PRMIA Venezuela. PRMIA Venezuela Web-Ex event. "An Integrated ERM Framework". (Sept. 05)

Fall 2005. Amsterdam. Black Swan Risk Advisors designed and conducted a 3-day training course on Energy Risk Modeling for quantitative analysis and risk groups of leading energy firm in the Netherlands.

November 2005. Romania. Dr.Blanco designed and present a 5-day workshop on Enterprise Wide Risk Management for one of the Eastern European oil majors.

November 2005. Dr.Blanco will designed and presented a 2-day workshop on Advanced Market Risk Management for a prominent international bank.

December 2005. London. Energy derivatives & energy price risk management - a masterclass. Dr. Blanco will present session on "Modeling Energy Prices."

Prior Engagements

December 2004. Chris Mammarelli presented "New Trends in Energy Risk Management" at Hart's Energy Markets IT Forum. Houston.

Summer and Fall 2004. Dutch Central Bank. Professor Kevin Dowd to present market risk management seminar.

Academic and Profesional Presentations

• Australian Financial Treasury Association (FTA)
  
• Centre for Risk and Insurance Studies, University of Nottingham
  
• Central Bank of Holland (De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB))
  
• Energy Power and Risk Management (EPRM)
  
• Euroforum
  
• European Energy Traders Association (EMART)
  
• European Financial Management Association
  
• Financial Engineering Associates Seminars
  
• Financial Services Authority (FSA)
  
• International Business Communications (IBC)
  
• ICBI
  
• Judge Institute, University of Cambridge
  
• Professional Risk Managers International Association (PRMIA)
  
• Oxford College of Energy and Petroleum Studies
  
• Risk Conferences
  
• Smurfit Graduate School of Business, University Collage Dublin
  
• Utilicon, Australia
  
• UNICOM, UK
  
• Haas Business School, University of California, Berkeley
  
• Global Association of Risk Managers (GARP)

If you would like to know more about our training and consulting services, please contact us at services@blackswanrisk.com for more information on our in-house and public seminars.