Edward Wilson is an expert in derivatives, capital and liquidity oversight, and prime services. He has served as Chief Risk Officer and Managing Director at leading global financial institutions, with responsibility for firmwide risk frameworks, balance sheet strategy, clearing and margin methodologies, and complex trading platforms. Edward has traded complex derivatives products across all asset classes.
Mr. Wilson most recently served as Managing Director and Chief Risk Officer at Global Atlantic Financial Group, a leading US life insurance and annuity provider. As a member of the Management Committee, he was responsible for firmwide risk governance across assets, liabilities, asset-liability management and liquidity, capital, and operational risk. He oversaw a team of approximately 50 professionals and chaired the Risk Committee, reporting to the Board Risk Committee. During his tenure, assets under management increased from approximately $65 billion to $175 billion, supported by enhanced risk limits, stress testing, liquidity frameworks, and capital oversight.
Prior to joining Global Atlantic, Mr. Wilson spent 27 years at Goldman Sachs, where he held multiple Managing Director roles. As Global Head of Prime Services Risk, he oversaw risk management for the firm’s prime brokerage, futures, and listed options clearing businesses, managing a global team across the United States, Europe, and Asia and overseeing a balance sheet of approximately $300 billion. He chaired the Clearinghouse Risk Committee and played a key role in margin methodology, financing frameworks, and derivatives risk governance.
Earlier, as Head of Global Liquidity Products, he centralized funding and liquidity risk management across the firm, designed secured and unsecured funding strategies, implemented contingent and intraday liquidity frameworks, and chaired the Asset-Liability Committee. He also served in senior Securities Division Risk roles, overseeing derivatives, equities, and principal strategies businesses, including during the 2008 financial crisis, with responsibility for balance sheet reduction and capital allocation.
Mr. Wilson began his career in FX and interest rate derivatives trading in London, New York, and Hong Kong, managing complex options books and emerging markets exposures through periods of market stress, including the ERM crisis, Asian financial crisis, and Latin American currency devaluations.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Cambridge University and is fluent in French and German.
EXPERTISE
Enterprise Risk Governance
Capital, Funding and Liquidity Risk
Asset-Liability Management
Derivatives and Structured Products
Prime Brokerage and Clearing Risk
EDUCATION
Cambridge University
B.A. Modern and Medieval Languages
WORK HISTORY
SEDA Experts
Managing Director
2026-Current
Global Atlantic Financial Group
Managing Director, Chief Risk Officer
2019-2024
Goldman Sachs & Co., New York
Managing Director, Global Head of Prime Services Risk
2016-2019
Managing Director, Head of Global Liquidity Products
2009-2016
Managing Director, Securities Division Risk
2005-2009
Vice President, Head of US Equities Structured Products Trading
2002-2005
Vice President, Interest Rate Products Trading
1999-2002
Goldman Sachs International and J. Aron & Co., Hong Kong
Executive Director, Emerging Markets FX Options Trading
1997-1999
Goldman Sachs and J. Aron & Co., New York
Vice President, FX Options Trading
1995-1997
Goldman Sachs and J. Aron & Co., London
Analyst/Associate, FX Options Trading
1992-1994
Risk Management and Derivatives Trading Expert Witness
Contact
Edward Wilson
1185 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
+1 646-626-4555


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