Leo Tilman

Leo M. Tilman is a widely recognized authority on financial markets and risk management and the President of L.M. Tilman & Co., a strategic advisory firm that serves governments, financial institutions, corporations, and institutional investors worldwide. Prior to founding the firm, Mr. Tilman held senior positions with BlackRock as well as Bear Stearns, where he was Chief Institutional Strategist and Senior Managing Director. Mr. Tilman teaches finance at Columbia University and is the author of Financial Darwinism: Create Value or Self-Destruct in a World of Risk, co-author of The Risk Paradigm (forthcoming 2009), co-author of Risk Management, and editor of Asset/Liability Management of Financial Institutions. For more, please visit his profile page at Monitor Talent.