The Liquidity Risk Management Guide

GUDNI ADALSTEINSSON is the manager for Asset Liability and Management at one of the Irish banks in the UK, responsible for overall balance sheet management. His experience ranges from running the group treasury for a European bank during the credit crunch, working for the Financial Services Authority, to providing liquidity advice to UK banks. Adalsteinsson was a group treasurer for an Icelandic bank during the unprecedented liquidity shocks of 2008, which offered him first-hand experience of liquidity risk management under severe crisis. Between the years of 1998 and 2005, he was an executive director at Lehman Brothers and Credit Suisse in London and Frankfurt, advising German banks on their liquidity and structured credit investments. He has been a board member of banks in the UK and Denmark. Adalsteinsson holds an MBA degree from the University of Cambridge and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Iceland.