Adam H. Litke
Lecturer
Building
North Academic Center
Office
4/114D
Adam H. Litke
Profile
Adam Litke is a Lecturer in Economics and Finance at the Department of Economics CCNY. He currently teaches finance and accounting courses.
Adam has four decades of experience in finance, most recently as the Chief Financial Officer of FutureProof and the Chief Risk Officer of Bridger Insurance. Prior to this he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Pillar Life Insurance. He has also served as the President of Bridger Insurance Technology and Head of Enterprise Risk Services for Bloomberg. His risk management and technology experience including serving as head of Market, Counterparty, Country and Model Risk, and risk Modelling for Wachovia and Wells Fargo. Before that Adam worked for Barclays Bank, PLC as the head of Market Risk in the Americas and head of Market Risk for Global Financing. Adam also served as the Global Head of Market Risk for Swiss Re Financial Products, and spent several years in various management roles with BNP Paribas.
Adam is a former trustee of the Georgia State University Risk Management Foundation and is a current member of the Maurice R. Greenberg School of Risk Science Board of Advisors. He is also a past chairman of the Market Risk Program Committee for the New York Chapter of PRMIA and a past member of the Employer’s Advisory Council of the Society of Actuaries.
Education
Adam holds a Masters Degree in Mathematics from Columbia University and a Bachelors Degree in Mathematics from Harvard College
Publications
A Style Based Market Risk Model for Hedge Fund Portfolios, Journal of Portfolio Management: Summer 2010, X. Zhou, A. Litke, and M. McLaughlin
Risk Appetite and Stress Testing, Intelligent Risk: August 2014
The Four Pillars of Risk Culture, Intelligent Risk: June 2016
The Regulation Risks of Crypto Currencies, Intelligent Risk: December 2017