Credit Risk Evaluation Designed for Institutional Targeting in finance

Dependence Modelling for Credit Portfolios

Ugur Koyluoglu
Ugur Koyluoglu is a Director in Mercer Oliver Wyman's Finance & Risk Practice. His responsibilities include development and implementation of quantitative and qualitative tools for better management of credit, market, insurance and operating risks, capital and value. He has worked with numerous banks and insurers in North America, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia.
During his tenure at Mercer Oliver Wyman since 1997, Dr. Koyluoglu has worked on a wide range of issues. These issues include the design of analytical models and tools to support corporate decisions about capital adequacy and business line performance for banks and financial conglomerates, the implementation of rating and credit risk portfolio models for commercial banks and insurers, and the development of a reinsurance optimization tool for a multi-line insurer.
Dr. Koyluoglu has also contributed significantly to the development of Mercer Oliver Wyman's intellectual capital, and published several articles and working papers. His most cited articles on credit risk portfolio modeling are:

1. "Reconcilable Differences", Risk, October 1998
2. "Devil in the Parameters", Risk, March, 2002

Prior to joining Mercer Oliver Wyman, Dr. Koyluoglu taught applied mathematics and engineering at Princeton University and Koc University in Turkey. Dr. Koyluoglu holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and Operations Research from Princeton University, and B.S. in Civil Engineering from Bogazici University.