Christian Lee

Christian has 25 years of risk management expertise in a variety of financial and derivatives products.

Before joining Catalyst Christian ran the risk management of LCH Clearnet’s Rates and Equities products including SwapClear, the premier global clearing service for interest rate swaps, and has unparalleled experience of all elements of CCP risk and operations. In 2008 he successfully managed Lehmans US$ trillion interest rate swap default by implementing SwapClear’s unique default management process. Latterly he helped design and implement the SwapClear client clearing solution.

Prior to this Christian had 20 years of risk management experience specialising in Treasury, market and credit risk including management of middle office, design and implementation of market (VaR) and economic risk  models.