Speaker Profile
FRED VACELET
Fred Vacelet, MBA, FRM/PRM, CTM, IFQ, is an international Financial Risk Management Consultant with an expertise in Risk Management methodological frameworks. His experience spans some 25 years, advising international banks and software houses on risk management. Fred holds various degrees, including from London Business School, England, with post-graduate studies at the Technische (then West)-Berlin, Germany, and Keio, Japan, universities. His client list includes ABN Amro, Barclays, Credit Suisse, National Bank of Egypt. He is a published author on risk management and Basel Accords, and a regular speaker at international conferences. Fred writes and presents training courses and workshops on risk management and the Basel Accords.

Risk Control and Risk Management
Ignoring the difference between risk control and management is akin to, on the road, mixing upside barriers and the steering wheel: the former aims at keeping the car on the path whatever comes, whilst the latter helps to keep the car at the optimal place on the road at all times. Such confusion inevitably leads to using soothing risk management patches rather than fully understood solutions, to ..