Mark T. Williams

Mark Thomas Williams (born August 19, 1963) is an educator, author and risk management expert. He is a faculty member in the Finance and Economics Department at Boston University where he teaches classes in risk management and capital markets.^[1]

Career

Williams was born in Delaware. He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from the University of Delaware in 1985.^[2] He became a bank trust officer for Wilmington Trust Company (formerly Sussex Trust), joining TD Banknorth (1987) and attended the ABA National Graduate Trust School at Northwestern University (1988). In 1993 he earned a Masters of Business Administration from Boston University and joined the Federal Reserve Bank as an examiner in Boston and San Francisco.^[3] In 1996 he became a senior risk analyst for Pacific Gas & Electric. One year later he joined Citizens Power LLC, a Boston based energy trading company, and became Senior Vice President, Head of Global Risk Management. Since 2002, he has been on the faculty of Boston University where he holds the academic rank of Executive-in-Residence/Master Lecturer.^[4] He is a senior advisor at the Brattle Group and is on the board of Appleton Partners, a Boston-based private wealth management firm. In 2008 he was awarded the Beckwith Prize for Excellence in Teaching.^[5]

Williams appears in national media and is a guest columnist for Financial Times.com, Reuters.com, Forbes.com, and the Boston Globe. Williams’ book on the rise and fall of Lehman Brothers, Uncontrolled Risk, traces the root causes of the Great Crisis of 2008.^[6]

Articles

• Fool's Gold Foreign Policy - November 8, 2010
• Few Silver Linings When Gold Bubble Bursts The Financial Times - October 17, 2010
• The Major Risk Management Challenge of this Decade Global Association of Risk Professionals - October 1, 2010
• Two Years After Lehman, Risk of Financial Collapse is Still High Reuters - September 15, 2010
• Ignore the hyperbole: America is not bust The Financial Times - September 8, 2010
• The weak link in bank reform The Boston Globe - July 8, 2010
• The G-20 Superpowers Should Learn From Canada The Motley Fool - June 28, 2010
• Mark T. Williams: Finance and Economics faculty at Boston University Exchange Magazine - June 15, 2010
• Derivatives Trading Comes Clean in the Open: Mark T. Williams Bloomberg - April 16, 2010
• Big banks aren’t bad banks Reuters - February 2, 2010
• Don’t give the Fed a new job Reuters - July 16, 2009
• Don’t throw the keys to the Fed The Boston Globe - July 2, 2009
• Stress tests: The results are in, now what? Reuters - May 8, 2009
• A Breach Of Fiduciary Duty At Bank Of America? Forbes - February 26, 2009
• Is the Fed up to examining your trillion dollar bet? Reuters - January 30, 2009
• Why did the SEC fail to spot the Madoff case? Reuters - January 6, 2009
• Minimizing exposure to investment management fraud Reuters - December 15, 2008
• Subprime Market Debacle Forbes - February 26, 2008
• Learning from Wall Street’s Failures The Boston Globe - June 27, 2010
• Canadian banks tops with U.S. professor The Globe and Mail - July 4, 2010
• Learning from Lehman Brothers BU Today - June 17, 2010
• UD alum writes book on Lehman, financial crisis and important lessons learned, UDaily - June 10, 2010
• What Needs to Happen for Wall Street to Fix Compensation, The Wall Street Journal - June 9, 2010
• What the Heck Happened to the Stock Market Yesterday? Yahoo! Finance - May 7, 2010
• How Computers Have Transformed the Stock Market Yahoo! Finance - May 7, 2010
• Lehman’s Fuld Snubbed Risk Managers, Nerds Got Revenge: Books Bloomberg - April 21, 2010
• Is it time to reform Fannie, Freddie? NPR Marketplace - May 10, 2010
• Bank Earnings Soar But Another "Financial Eruption" Is Looming, Former Bank Regulator Says Yahoo! Finance - April 16, 2010

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