Dr. Frank De Jonghe

Financial Services Quantitative & Analytics Services Leader at EY

Speaker

Frank is a Consulting Quantitative & Analytics Services Leader for Financial Services at EY and also leads the Trusted AI initiative across industries.

He has worked in Consulting for the past 20 years, focusing on risk management in financial institutions and quantitative modelling. His major focus is the transformation of financial services modelling teams into well-oiled modelling factories, building a synthesis of data, algorithms, processes and technology in support of value adding business decisions. More recently, he has led several engagements looking at the robustness of AI governance and the risks and guardrails of individual AI use cases. Consequently, Frank brings the lessons learned on algorithm governance and data-driven risk management to other industries.

Frank is a Professor at the University of Gent, Belgium, lecturing on financial risk management and derivative pricing since 2004.

He obtained a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at the Catholic University of Leuven in 1994. He also holds a diploma in Higher Education and a degree in Financial Analysis from ABAF/BVFA (EFFAS certified).