Samantha Kappagoda, Chief Economist of Risk Economics, Inc. and Independent Director of the Credit Suisse Funds, was invited to speak at the Institute of Directors UK (IoD) / Diligent webinar on Artificial Intelligence on May 20, 2025. She participated on a panel titled Generative AI Governance: A Guide for UK SMEs, moderated by Dr. Roger Barker, Director of Corporate Governance Policy for IoD. Samantha’s fellow panelists were Dottie Schindlinger, Executive Director of Diligent Institute and Dr. Erin Young, Director of Innovation and Technology Policy for IoD.
Samantha is frequently invited to speak on governance topics at conferences and events for corporate and fund board directors, and recently also participated as a panelist at the Diligent AI Innovations Visionary Forum earlier this month in New York, as well as the Diligent AI Virtual Summit in April 2025.
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/.
