Adam H. Litke

Lecturer

Main Affiliation

Economics and Business

Additional Departments/Affiliated Programs

Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership

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