David Belmont

Adjunct Professor at Yale School of Management

Schools

  • Yale School of Management

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Biography

Yale School of Management

David Belmont has firm-wide oversight and responsibility for all aspects of risk management. Prior to joining Commonfund in 2011, David was Global Head of Hedge Fund Credit for UBS Investment Bank where he led a global team of 45 risk managers and analysts responsible for the risk management of hedge fund and managed fund exposures in the Investment Bank globally. In addition, he was the Head of Risk Management for UBS Prime Services where he led a team of eight risk managers responsible for the market, credit and operational risk of the Prime Brokerage in the Americas.  He was a member of the UBS Prime Brokerage Executive Committee, the Exchange Traded Derivatives Risk Committee, the Prime Services Risk Committee and Prime Services Risk Board. Prior to UBS, David spent 10 years in Asia, 6 of which were in Singapore with Temasek Holdings, Singapore’s $100 billion sovereign wealth fund, most recently as its Chief Risk Officer from 2004 - 2007. In addition, he was a Director with Anderson LLP and founded their Asia Financial and Commodity Risk Consulting practice in Singapore, managing a team of 17 professionals across Asia. He was also a Regional Risk Manager with Black River Asset Management, a multi-strategy hedge fund, and was a sovereign risk underwriter with Citicorp. David is a Chartered Financial Analyst and the author of the books Managing Hedge Fund Risk and Financing published by John Wiley and Sons (2011) and of Value Added Risk Management in Financial Institutions (John Wiley and Sons, 2004).

## Education

  • MBA Yale University - Yale School of Management (1989 — 1992)
  • MSC Yale University (1989 — 1992)
  • BA Bowdoin College (1984 — 1988)
  • Master of Science - MS Yale University (1989.09 — 1992.05)

Companies

  • Global Head of Alternatives - Risk and Quantitative Analysis BlackRock (2015)
  • Adjunct Professor Of Finance Yale University - Yale School of Management (2015)
  • Chief Risk Officer Commonfund (2011 — 2015)
  • Global Head of Hedge Fund Credit UBS Investment Bank (2010 — 2011)
  • Head of Risk Management Americas, Managing Director, Prime Brokerage UBS Investment Bank (2007 — 2010)
  • Chief Risk Officer Temasek Holdings PTE LTD. (2004 — 2006)
  • Co-Chief Risk Officer NEXGEN Financial Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (2002 — 2004)

Skills

  • Fixed Income
  • Investment Management
  • Risk Management

Other

Financial Risk, Investment Banking, Private Equity, Equities, Derivatives, Hedge Funds

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