Instructor

Jorge A. Martínez-Gonzalez

Practical Experience:

Mr. Martínez is currently Chief Risk Officer and Head of Economic Analysis, Legal and Quality Departments for Banorte-Generali, a subsidiary of Grupo Financiero Banorte with 5 billion USD under management. Previously he was Senior Economist in the group of Global Economic Analysis in CEMEX Corporate Planning from May 2000 to 2004. His functions were the macroeconomic and political analysis of countries in the Latin-American region and Northern Africa-Middle East Region and he was head of the Business Risk Management initiative in the Balanced Score Card corporate tool. He was the liaison between Corporate Planning and the Finance Department for the development of models directed at measuring and managing earnings at risk for the company.

Previous to his appointment at Cemex, Mr. Martínez held tenure for 8 years as an Associate Professor of Economics and Finance both at the Economics Faculty in undergraduate level and the Business School of Monterrey Tech, EGADE where he still teaches International Macroeconomics, Financial Engineering, Financial Strategy, and Derivatives. He is the founder and Director of the firm RISC Consulting Associates, a financial and risk management boutique that serves the banking and financial community in Mexico and Latin America. He was founder of the first Mexican Chapter of the Financial Management Association, FMA at Monterrey Tech. He is also Honorary Faculty Member at The Texas Institute for Latin American Research in Finance, UT Austin.

Areas of Expertise:

Risk Management (Market, Credit, Liquidity, Business and Strategic)

Derivatives and Exotics

Economic Analysis, Statistics and Econometrics

Financial Analysis and Financial Planning

Education:

Mr. Martínez holds a BA in Economics from Monterrey Tech, a MBA in the same Institution and a Master of Applied Economics in a joint program between the University of Pennsylvania and Monterrey Tech. He holds a Charter as a Chartered Financial Analyst, CFA and has participated in several advanced educational summer programs at renowned Institutions

Licenses:

CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst)

Mexican Derivatives Market (MexDer) License for Risk Manager

Mexican Private Pension Fund System, License for Portfolio Manager

Mexican Securities and Exchange Commission, Investment Strategist Certificate

Publication(s):

Mr. Martinez has written more than 30 published papers in non-academic journals. Five published papers and working papers in international academic paper journals with arbitration, covering a wide spectrum of topics including Risk Management, Financial Strategy, Global Economical Analysis, the Economics of Education, Investments in Emerging Markets

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