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Pascal vander straeten

Chief Executive Officer

Pascal vander Straeten founded Value4Risk in 2012 in Australia, and then moved in 2015 to the U.S.A. Prior to that, he worked for 25 years as a senior risk management executive in the financial services industry.

People who know him best say that he is a risk taker with a strong passion for financial risk, tail events, and geopolitics. During his global career, Pascal advanced through a number of risk-management assignments, having covered institutional banking, corporate banking, project finance, public finance, commercial real estate, structured finance, and emerging markets with successful missions in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Luxembourg, and Belgium. In 2012, together with his family, he moved to Australia, where he established his own company — Value4Risk — and secured talks and speaking engagements on tail risk management in an academic and professional setting with exposure to business entrepreneurs. Today, he is also present in the United States, pursuing the same activities. He holds an executive MBA from the University of Washington, a postgraduate in international relations from the Université Catholique de Louvain, and a master in applied economics from the University of Antwerpen. He also completed a PhD in Economics with the University of Leicester (UK); the dissertation thesis revolved around Tail Risk Management.

Mr. vander Straeten also spends his time volunteering with organizations providing mentoring to a number of business owners as well as with charity organizations aimed at helping the less fortunates ones in our communities. He is keen to meet talented professionals.