Risk Management in an Era of Compounding Shocks

Roundtable Luncheon with Lorraine Audsley, James Partridge and Steven Richards. 

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Lorraine Audsley, President and CEO, Canada Enterprise Emergency Funding Corp.

Ms. Audsley is a seasoned executive with over three decades of experience in financial services, specializing in structured finance, international trade, risk management, and sustainability. She has a strong record of building high-performing teams and delivering purposeful mandates.
She is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of a Federal Crown Corporation, the Canada Enterprise Emergency Funding Corporation (CEEFC).
Prior to joining CEEFC, Lorraine held several senior leadership roles at Export Development Canada and Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, including Chief Risk Officer, Chief Credit Officer, and Chief Sustainability Officer. In these positions, she led financial underwriting, credit adjudication, special loans, portfolio oversight, enterprise risk management, as well as climate risk management and human rights policy oversight.
She has also served as a Senior Advisor with Ernst & Young Canada’s Financial Services Sustainability practice and operated an independent consulting practice focused on climate risk, international trade, structured finance, and enterprise risk management.
Ms. Audsley serves on the Boards of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute Foundation and the Ottawa Humane Society, is a member of the Equality Fund Investment Committee, and a Women in Nature Ambassador with Nature Canada.
Ms. Audsley holds a Master of Science in Finance from Henley Business School (University of Reading), a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance and International Business from the University of Ottawa and is a graduate of INSEAD’s Advanced Management Programme.

James Partridge, Senior Director, Head of Americas Industry Practices, Moody's

James leads Moody’s Industry Practices group in the Americas, a broad team of industry experts covering banking, asset managers, insurance, corporations and governments who specialize in disciplines relevant to Moody’s solutions for analyzing and assessing risk.

His team is responsible for solutions that relate to customer targeting and onboarding, risk assessment, portfolio management and stress testing, compliance and third-party risk management, and data analytics in the Americas. His personal expertise is in credit and climate risk analytics. James regularly contributes thought leadership in a variety of media including white papers, webinars and podcasts. James earned a PhD in Economics from the University of Western Ontario.

Steven Richards, Senior Vice President and Chief Risk Officer, Export Development Canada

Steven Richards was appointed as EDC’s Chief Risk Officer in November 2024.
In this role, Steven manages the financial, operational and strategic risks of the Corporation, including the Compliance & Ethics, Risk Quantification, Enterprise Risk Management, Credit Adjudication and Portfolio Oversight functions.
Prior to joining EDC, Steven served as Managing Director, Head of Enterprise Risk & Analytics, and Deputy to Chief Risk Officer at CPP Investments. While there for more than a decade, he led the development of risk policies and frameworks spanning investment risk, model risk, sustainability risk and operational risk. He also held senior positions in strategy, business planning and internal audit. Before this, Steven worked in risk management at Manulife Financial.
At the start of his career, Steven spent over seven years in Asia and Europe working in infrastructure and telecommunications. He holds an MBA from the University of Toronto, and a BSc in Engineering from Queen's University. He is also proficient in French and Japanese.