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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

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Edward Wilson

1185 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036

+1 646-626-4555

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