Allan M. Malz has been chief risk officer at several multi-strategy hedge fund management firms. He worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as a researcher and foreign exchange trader, and helped implement the Fed's emergency liquidity programs addressing the global financial crisis.
Malz is an investment consultant and adjunct professor at Columbia University, and the author of Financial Risk Management: Models, History, and Institutions. His work on predicting financial crises and on risk measurement for options has been published in industry and academic journals. He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia and a Diplom from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.