Samantha Kappagoda, Chief Economist of Risk Economics, and Independent Director of the Credit Suisse Funds was a speaker on governance of AI in the boardroom at the Corporate Board Member Boardroom Summit and Board Committee Peer Exchange, held in Washington DC on September 18 and 19, 2025.
Samantha participated in the plenary panel titled AI in the Boardroom: Defining Oversight, Accountability and Strategic Value, with fellow panelists Keith Enright, Senior Partner at Gibson Dunn and Board Member, ZoomInfo, and Dottie Schindlinger, Executive Director of Diligent Institute. The panel covered a range of topics including the following:
- Integrating AI oversight across board committees
- Considering broader risk and regulatory issues, and ethics
Samantha was previously invited to speak at the CBM Directors Forum conference in Dallas in March 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/.
