About the Author

Philippa Girling has 18 years' experience in the global securities industry, working in the fields of operational risk, training, project management, and organizational change.

Philippa has held several operational risk leadership roles, including heading the global corporate operational risk functions at Morgan Stanley and Nomura. She is currently the business chief risk officer for Capital One's commercial bank.

She has delivered the Operational Risk Executive Education program at Columbia University, New York City, for the past four years, as well as leading operational risk education sessions for London Business School, Rutgers University, University of Connecticut, and Carnegie Mellon.

Philippa authored Operational Risk Management, a textbook for the risk and regulation examination of the Global Association of Risk Professionals in 2009.

She is a regular speaker at global conferences on the topics of Dodd-Frank, systemic risk and regulation, and the evolution of the operational risk discipline, and was selected as one of the Top Fifty Faces of Operational Risk by Operational Risk and Compliance magazine.

Philippa holds an English law degree from the University of East Anglia, England, and is a member of the New York Bar. She is a holder of the GARP Financial Risk Manager accreditation and is a doctoral candidate at Rutgers University, her area of study focusing on the development of an industry standard operational risk framework that meets global regulatory ...

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