AUTHOR

David R. Koenig

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David R. Koenig’s work over the past four decades has been focused on helping organizations to be more successful in achieving their goals. He’s served on multiple for-profit and nonprofit boards and works daily with board members and executives around the world. His executive leadership roles have included the creation and development of corporate risk management programs at three different companies, the management of complex portfolios in excess of tens of billions of dollars in size, the risk oversight of a complete suite of public mutual funds for one of the largest banks in the U.S., and the development of the first firmwide risk management program in the mortgage banking business. Many of David’s initiatives have begun with ideas about things that didn’t yet exist, then working to make them a reality. Because of his innovative concepts and initiatives, David has been invited to present his ideas at nearly 200 events on five continents, and his travels have taken him to almost 40 countries. In 2010, one of his visionary governance concepts was honored with an inaugural M-prize for management innovation in the category of Reinventing Leadership. In 2008, he was honored as the recipient of the PRMIA Higher Standard Award — the top recognition bestowed on any member of the Professional Risk Managers International Association. He was awarded the Qualified Risk Director® designation in 2021. David is the award-winning author of the books Governance Reimagined: Organizational Design, Risk, and Value Creation and The Board Member's Guide to Risk - both translated into multiple languages - and his latest book, God's Portfolio: An Examination of the I, the We, the All (and then some). He has been quoted in the Financial Times, on Bloomberg, in Time Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and other leading publications. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions, where he has been an invited Special Editor of three issues. David earned his M.A. in economics from Northwestern University, B.A. degrees in mathematics and economics, and his MMBA from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.