About me:

David R. Koenig is the Chief Executive Officer of The Governance Fund Advisors, LLC.

Mr. Koenig’s work has included the active management of complex portfolios over $50 billion in notional exposures, risk oversight of public equity and fixed-income mutual fund portfolios and capital markets trading portfolios and trading of fixed income securities, equities, currencies, commodities, options, over-the-counter and exchange-traded derivatives.

In 2010, he was chosen as a winner in the inaugural M-Prize competition for management innovation - Reinventing Leadership for his idea: Risk Capital as Commons - Distributive and Networked Governance. In 2008, he was chosen as the recipient of Professional Risk Managers' International Association’s (PRMIA) top honor, the Higher Standard Award and in 2007, he was named by his industry peers as one of the first 100 members of the Risk Who’s Who international honorary society.

Mr. Koenig served as the Chair of the Board of Directors of PRMIA from 2002 to 2005 and was the Executive Director of PRMIA and President of the PRMIA Institute from their inception until September, 2007.

Mr. Koenig’s managerial and front-line experience in the financial markets includes the development of three corporate risk management programs. Prior to his time with PRMIA, he served as the Head of Market and Institutional Credit Risk Management for US Bancorp Piper Jaffray and has held lead risk management roles with GMAC/RFC and Principal Residential Mortgage, Inc. (a member of the Principal Financial Group). He began his career in 1986 with the First National Bank of Chicago.

Mr. Koenig is an Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Services Sciences (IJSSc) and the Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions (JRMFI). He was the the Special Editor of “The Blind Spots of Risk Management” in the JRFMI. In addition, he has been a featured industry speaker at over 60 risk management and finance events on four continents.