Pascal vander Straeten has extensive experience in risk management across institutional and corporate banking, project finance, commercial real estate, and emerging markets, working successfully in the US, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Luxembourg, and Belgium. In 2012, he founded Value4Risk in Australia, consulting on geofinance, tail risk management, and business resilience. He holds an executive MBA from the University of Washington, a postgraduate degree in international relations from Université Catholique de Louvain, bachelor's and master's degrees in applied economics from the University of Antwerpen, and a PhD in economics from the University of Leicester's School of Management.