Dorothea Papastamou
London
Summary
Dynamic and resourceful professional with a strong foundation in numeracy and problem-solving. Demonstrates leadership and multilingual capabilities, complemented by extensive systems knowledge including Bloomberg, Riskmetrics, BarraOne, Factset, Fincad, and Rizklab. Committed to leveraging these skills to drive innovative solutind Rizklabons in aenvironments.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
21
21
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Head of Investment Risk
Amundi UK Ltd
London
2015.08 - Current
- Lead and manage the global risk oversight of actively managed open-ended funds and mandates, implementing robust risk framework across Fixed Income, Equity and Multi-Asset portfolios on Global Fixed Income and EM space.
- Develop independent risk assessment strategies in collaboration with CIO/Heads of Investment teams to identify and mitigate risk and enhance risk-adjusted performance, while ensuring regulatory compliance.
- Engage with portfolio managers to raise risk awareness and accountability across investment strategies and establish strategic partnership between Risk and Investments.
- Collaborate with Legal, Compliance and Audit teams on various transversal topics to remediate non-compliance or other regulatory findings that led to enhance current governance risk and control processes in place.
- Enhance risk transparency by fostering a collaborative culture between data management, Investment and risk teams, reinforcing accountability and ownership of risk decisions and delivering high quality reporting and monitoring services.
- Lead and motivate a team focused on risk oversight, ad-hoc and regular reporting and risk advisory, ensuring high level of engagement and contribution to the business.
- Successfully engage with Clients and other stakeholders to present the risk function and risk monitoring capabilities and promote risk services to existing and prospective clients. Contributed to an increase in sales by more than 10%.
Investment Risk Manager
Threadneedle Investments
London
2014.03 - 2015.07
- Developed and assisted risk strategy implementation and delivery across all enterprise levels with a focus on Commodities, Money Market and Treasury strategies.
- Responsible for oversight of long-only and sophisticated funds and risk oversight of risk budget, payoffs and investment guidelines.
- Proactively conducted in-depth financial analysis for reducing potential risks to the business by modelling new instruments and investment strategies.
- Prepared detailed reports on potential threats, informing corporate decision-making processes effectively.
- Liaised with stakeholders from Investments, Distribution, Product, IT and Client Servicing to improve governance of new instrument setup and managed timely information flow across teams.
- Actively participated on a Strategic Risk project to onboard risk analytics in a new platform, modelling instruments with various payoffs and risk profiles and creating dedicated monitoring reports.
Senior Investment Risk Manager
ING Investment Management
The Hague, Netherlands
2012.03 - 2014.02
- Co-managed a team of Investment risk managers, establishing and leading the development and implementation of investment risk framework.
- Streamlined internal procedures with development of robust risk controls, through dedicated stress tests and scenarios modelling.
- Collaborated with key stakeholders with an emphasis on change management, overseeing proposals for strategic change and fund launches, determining appropriate risk appetite and liaising with Investments to define the investment strategy and with Credit Risk team to enhance the oversight of Credit and Counterparty risk.
- Directed implementation and roll-out of dedicated Liquidity Risk framework for Fixed Income and Money Market portfolios, guaranteeing model scalability at position level while proposing risk budgets and tailored stress scenarios to deliver a comprehensive Liquidity risk model that meets Regulatory and internal risk monitoring requirements.
- Strengthened risk measurement and reporting by enhancing risk methodologies, safeguarding Regulatory compliance aligned with best practices.
- Participated in High Impact Training organised by ING together with selected colleagues across the business.
SENIOR RISK MANAGER
NBG ASSET MANAGEMENT, MFMC
Athens, Greece
2003.11 - 2012.02
- Organised from scratch the risk management department by developing company policies, setting procedures and controls in place and motivate colleagues in order to deliver a robust risk framework aligned with best practices and industry standards.
- Elevated organisational reputation within the industry by maintaining low-risk profiles despite fluctuating markets conditions.
- Optimized resource allocation strategies, enhancing efficiency whilst reducing vulnerability to external shocks.
- Fostered a culture of risk awareness through regular staff training sessions, resulting in increased vigilance across all departments. Developed a team of risk experts.
- Facilitated cross-departmental collaborations on complex projects, leading to successful identification and addressing of project-specific risks.
- Improved portfolio risk assessment through stress testing and scenario analysis to help identify vulnerabilities under extreme market conditions.
Education
Master of Science - Investment Management
Cass Business School
London 2000.09 - 2001.09
Bachelor of Business Administration - BA
University of Piraeus
Athens, Greece 1996.09 - 2000.09
FRM Level 1 - Financial Risk Management
GARP
London 2001.04 - 2016.11
Skills
- Numerate
- Problem-solving
- Leadership
- Resourcefulness
- Multilingual
- Systems Knowledge (Bloomberg, Riskmetrics, BarraOne, Factset, Fincad, Rizklab
Timeline
Head of Investment Risk
Amundi UK Ltd
2015.08 - Current
Investment Risk Manager
Threadneedle Investments
2014.03 - 2015.07
Senior Investment Risk Manager
ING Investment Management
2012.03 - 2014.02
SENIOR RISK MANAGER
NBG ASSET MANAGEMENT, MFMC
2003.11 - 2012.02
FRM Level 1 - Financial Risk Management
GARP
2001.04 - 2016.11
Master of Science - Investment Management
Cass Business School
2000.09 - 2001.09
Bachelor of Business Administration - BA
University of Piraeus
1996.09 - 2000.09