Andrew Kurtizkes
Senior Advisor

Andrew Kuritzkes is a Partner of Oliver Wyman and currently heads the firm’s Public Policy practice in North America. He joined Oliver, Wyman & Company in 1988, was a Managing Director in the firm’s London office from 1993 to 1997, and served as Vice Chairman of Oliver, Wyman & Company globally from 2000 until the firm’s acquisition by MMC in 2003.

Mr. Kuritzkes has consulted on a broad range of strategy, risk management, regulatory, governance and organizational issues for financial institutions, industry associations, and regulators in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, and Singapore. He has worked extensively with organizations, at the Board and senior executive levels, on developments in finance and risk management, including the link between risk measurement and strategy, risk governance and organization, the impact of regulation and public policy, Basel II implementation, and active balance sheet and capital management.

Mr. Kuritzkes has written and spoken widely on risk, financial structuring, and regulatory topics. His articles have appeared in Strategic Finance, Risk, Die Bank, Banking Strategies, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Journal of Risk Finance, Journal of Financial Services Research, and the Brookings-Wharton Papers on Financial Services. He serves as a Senior Advisor to the U.S. Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, and was the primary author of the Sarbanes-Oxley section of the Committee’s 2006 Report on U.S. Financial Market Competitiveness. Mr. Kuritzkes is also a member of the Financial Advisory Roundtable of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Before joining Oliver, Wyman & Company, Mr. Kuritzkes worked as an economist and lawyer for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 1986 to 1988. He holds a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School, an M. Phil. degree in economics from Cambridge University, and a B.A. degree from Yale College.