Samantha Kappagoda, Chief Economist of Risk Economics, Inc. and Independent Director of the Credit Suisse Funds, was invited to speak at the NYU Law PCCE Conference Managing Effective Ethics and Compliance Programs in a Changing Regulatory Landscape on April 11, 2025.
Samantha participated in a panel titled Practical Risk Management Steps in the Development and Use of AI, which was moderated by Joseph Facciponti, Executive Director of PCCE. Samantha’s fellow panelists were the following:
- Matt Galvin, Former Counsel, Compliance and Data Analytics, DOJ Criminal Fraud Section and former Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer of AB InBev; Professor, Sorbonne Law School, Co-Founder Integrity Distributed
- Lynn Haaland, General Counsel, CLEAR
- Carl Hahn, former Vice President, Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, Northrup Grumman
Samantha previously participated in the NYU Law PCCE Directors’ Academy in 2024 and 2023, speaking on the panel AI: Opportunities and Potential Risks.
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/.
