Samantha Kappagoda, Chief Economist of Risk Economics, Inc. and Independent Director of the Credit Suisse Funds, was invited to speak at the WCD Webinar on GenAI/Technology Risk & Audit Committee Oversight, on March 18, 2025.
The panel sought to provide an in-depth overview of board and audit committee oversight of technology risk, and was moderated by Allison Downey, Partner at KPMG. Samantha’s fellow panelists were Sonita Lontoh, Director of Sunrun Inc., TrueBlue Inc., Sway Ventures; and Swami Chandrasekeran, Principal, Head of AI & Data Labs, KPMG.
Women Corporate Directors (WCD) is a 501(c)(3) organization, and is the largest membership organization of women corporate board directors serving on over 8,500 public and private boards globally.
Samantha Kappagoda serves as an Independent Director / Trustee, Nominating Committee Chair, and Audit Committee Member of Credit Suisse Funds, which are comprised of closed-end funds (NYSE: DHY and CIK) and open-end funds investing in commodity, high yield and credit strategies. She is also Chief Economist and Co-Founder of Risk Economics®, Visiting Scholar at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences NYU, advising research activities at RiskEcon® Lab for Decision Metrics @ Courant Institute, and a Member of the Business Board of the Governing Council at the University of Toronto.
About Risk Economics, Inc.
Risk Economics® specializes in economic analysis of risk and liability. It provides advisory services at the intersection of commercial business-process engineering and risk engineering with a particular focus on coupling commercial reinsurance and financial technology, through the rigorous application of agent-based, demographic, and statistical methodologies to microeconomic and macroeconomic analysis. The RiskEcon® client roster is diverse and includes governmental and quasi-governmental agencies, global insurance and reinsurance firms, leading law firms, technology firms, global banking institutions, asset management firms, multinational corporations with interests in natural resources, commodities, and energy, as well as government agencies and regulators. For additional information, please visit https://riskeconomicsinc.com/.
