Richard Berner

Company Name
Co-Director, NYU Volatility and Risk Institute,
Position
Emeritus Clinical Professor of Management Practice in the Department of Finance & Co-Director of the Volatility and Risk Institute
Biography
Richard Berner is Emeritus Clinical Professor of Management Practice in the Department of Finance, and, with Professor Robert Engle, is Co-Director of the Volatility and Risk Institute at the NYU Stern School of Business. Professor Berner served as the first director of the Office of Financial Research (OFR) from 2013 until 2017. He was counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury from April 2011 to 2013. He served as chief or senior economist at Morgan Stanley, Mellon Bank, Salomon Brothers, Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He received his BA from Harvard College and his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Berner is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee; the FINRA FinTech Industry Committee, and the Milken Fintech Advisory Committee. He is a member of the Brookings Task Force on Reducing the Impact of Extreme Weather on Insurance Costs & Availability. He is an advisor to Credit Benchmark, FinRegLab, and MacroPolicy Perspectives; and a member of the Advisory Committees of the Financial Technology Association and of the Alliance for Innovative Regulation. He served as a member of the Market Risk Advisory Committee at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Economic Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Panel of Economic Advisers of the Congressional Budget Office, and the Executive Committee and Board of Directors, National Bureau of Economic Research.

Speaker on

Building Liquidity Resilience Amid Funding and Market Pressures

Panel discussion ALM / Liquidity Risk
09/24/2026 | 11:00 - 11:40 | Hart Room