Ed Bosworth

Why you should lis­ten to him

Ed Bosworth is the Head of Risk Reward at West­pac, a role that over­sees pol­icy and exter­nal report­ing for the bank’s bal­ance sheet struc­ture. This includes respon­si­bil­ity for bank cap­i­tal and liq­uid­ity, top­ics whose role in con­tribut­ing to and mit­i­gat­ing the Global Finan­cial Cri­sis has been much debated.

Ed has 15 years expe­ri­ence in Aus­tralian bank­ing and has worked in sev­eral senior risk man­age­ment roles. He co-authored the first pub­lished study of Aus­tralian bank losses from defaulted cus­tomers in 1998 and devel­oped a model for mea­sur­ing liq­uid­ity risk in 2002 that has since been proven wrong in almost every respect. He holds a post­grad­u­ate degree in Sta­tis­tics and, despite being born and bred in Syd­ney, con­tin­ues to believe that Can­berra has the best qual­ity of life to be found.

Ed’s not entirely about bank­ing; he’s com­pleted sev­eral OxFam Trail­walker events in Aus­tralia, New Zealand and Hong Kong.