Kim B. Staking, Colorado State University, USAEducation- Ph.D. Risk Management and Insurance, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- M.B.A. Finance and International Business, The Haas School, University of California at Berkeley
- B.A. Economics, Brigham Young University
ExperienceIn January 2008, Kim B. Staking joined the faculty of the College of Business at Colorado State University where he concentrates on the risks associated with investing in emerging financial markets and risk management and insurance issues. Among other responsibilities, he teaches the finance core course in the newly established Global, Social and Sustainable Enterprise Masters Program, has worked as thesis advisor for masters students and has mentored several enterprise projects. He also teaches Risk Management and Insurance and Investments and Portfolio Management at the undergraduate level. He has previously on the faculty at INSEAD (France), and visited at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), John Hopkins University, and was the instructor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Most recently he spent 16 years at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C. where he concentrated on financial sector reform, the development of financial institutions and legal/regulatory environments. During his career at the Inter-American Development Bank, he was responsible for development and administration of lending and technical assistance programs in the Andean countries, Argentina Mexico and the Caribbean. His projects included the initiation of capital market development programs, strengthening financial market oversight, mortgage markets, political risk insurance and pension reform. As Principal Financial Economist he was responsible for the preparation of Bank policies and provision of technical support in the development of financial markets, with particular concentration on non-banking markets (insurance, pensions, capital and derivative markets), information disclosure and risk management. He was involved in the creation of a political risk reinsurance facility, and was lead financial economist in the management of financial crises in numerous countries. He was also the principal author of the Financial Market Strategy for the Inter-American Development Bank and authored, edited and oversaw publication of several books and monographs on accounting/auditing standards, financial risk management, derivatives and insurance. The last two years at the Bank he serves as principal country economist for Colombia and Peru and headed a task force on the development of financial and risk management strategies to cope with the natural disaster risk. In addition, he has spent several years working overseas in international banking, served as a financial economist at the U.S. General Accounting Office overseeing a study on the role of the U.S. government as a lender of last resort and an analysis of the expanding use of financial guarantees in the insurance industry.
Fluent in Spanish and English, his academic publications have appeared in the Journal of Finance and in the Journal of Risk and Insurance. His work has also been published in Bests Review (A.M. Best) and in the Financial Institutions Review (Goldman Sachs). Much of his academic research focuses on the measurement and benefits of asset/liability management for property/casualty insurers. He is a fellow at the National Academy of Social Insurance. He has consulted on insurance and financial risk for a number of clients including, for the World Bank, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Continental Insurance and the Economist Conference Unit. |