Barry Schachter is Director of Quantitative Resources at Moore Capital Management, a hedge fund.  Previously he was Chief Risk Officer of Balyasny Asset Management, a hedge fund.  He has held similar positions at SAC Capital Advisors and Caxton Associates.  He has also worked on risk issues from the sell-side at Chase Manhattan Bank.  Prior to Chase, he was a financial economist for both the CFTC and the Comptroller of the Currency.  He spent the early part of his career in academia, most of that time on the faculties at Simon Fraser University and Tulane University.  Barry is on the advisory board of the IAFE, co-chair of the IAFE Education Committee, and was a member of the former blue ribbon panel of PRMIA.  He is a Fellow of the program in mathematics in finance at the Courant Institute of NYU.  He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Risk. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Derivatives and other academic journals. He recently edited “Intelligent Hedge Fund Investing,” which was published by Risk Books, and he was a contributor to the PRMIA Risk Manager's Handbook.  He regularly writes and speaks on risk management topics.  He also created and maintains GloriaMundi.org, a website for risk managers.  Barry received his PhD from Cornell University.