Clifford Rossi, PhD

Clifford Rossi, PhD, is Professor-of-the Practice and Executive-in-Residence at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He has nearly 25 years of federal regulatory and industry experience in risk management at some of the largest financial services companies. His last role before entering academia was Chief Risk Officer for Citigroup’s consumer lending division, responsible for overseeing the risk of a $300 billion global portfolio of consumer loan products with 700 employees under his direction. He is a well-established expert in risk management, with interests in financial risk management, climate risk, supply chain, and health and safety risk issues. Clifford has conducted extensive research on risk management in banking and the pharmaceutical industry and wrote a practitioner and graduate textbook, A Risk Professional’s Survival Guide, published by Wiley Fi-nance in 2014. He received his MS and PhD in applied financial economics from Cornell University.