Samantha Kappagoda, Chief Economist of Risk Economics, Inc. and Independent Director of the Credit Suisse Funds, was invited to speak at the American Bar Association SciTech Risk & Trust Management Committee webinar on May 19, 2025.
She participated on the inaugural panel titled Hot Topics in AI Governance: Legal Perspectives on Risk, Trust, and Responsibility for the Risk & Trust Management Committee, moderated by Tim Reiniger, Director of Reiniger LLC, and panelists Taa Grays, President-Elect Designee of the New York State Bar Association and Ellie Jurado-Nieves, Head of Strategic Public Policy & Assistant General Counsel, Government Affairs, Guardian Life Inc. The panel sought to discuss risk, trust, and responsibility in AI, and relevance for legal practitioners.
Samantha is an active member of the American Bar Association, serving as Vice-Chair of the Big Data Committee, the Internet-of-Things Committee, and the Risk and Trust Management Committee. She previously also served from 2019 to 2023 as Vice-Chair of the Insurance Technology and Risk Committee.
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/.
