Richard Harmon

Richard Harmon

VP & Global Head of Financial Services

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Dr Harmon has over 30 years of experience in Financial Services and leads Red Hat’s Financial Services business globally. His areas of specialisation are in Risk Management, Advance Analytics, Fixed Income Research and Simulation Analysis. He has an extensive publication record, an invited speaker at numerous Global FSI conferences, sits on several AI advisory boards and is on the Governing Board of OS-Climate, a Linux Foundation program, that is developing a common global platform to accelerate the analysis of measuring critical risks related to climate change mitigation and resilience.

Dr. Harmon started his career as a Research Economist at the US Federal Reserve followed by senior positions at Citibank, Bankers Trust, JP Morgan, BlackRock, First American CoreLogic, Bank of America/Countrywide, SAP and Cloudera. He holds a PhD with distinction in Economics with a specialisation in Econometrics from Georgetown University, Washington, DC.