Pascal vander Straeten

Pascal vander Straeten was born in Belgium and grew up in Antwerpen. People who know him best say that he is a risk taker with a strong passion for financial risk management, tail events, history, and geopolitics. During his global career, Pascal advanced through a number of risk management assignments, having covered institutional banking, corporate banking, project finance, public finance, commercial real estate, structured finance, and emerging markets with successful missions in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Luxembourg, and Belgium. In 2012, together with his family, Pascal moved to Australia, where he established his own company—Value4Risk—and secured talks and speaking engagements on tail risk management in an academic and professional setting with exposure to business entrepreneurs. He holds an executive MBA from the University of Washington, a postgraduate in international relations from the Université Catholique de Louvain, and a master in applied economics from the University of Antwerpen. Lastly, he has obtained a Ph.D. in economics with the School of Management at the University of Leicester.