Imir Arifi manages three operating units within Group Compliance at UBS spanning centralized AI development activities in US model development activities in the Americas and Global Model Governance (vendor model) activities.

Prior to joining UBS he served in various leadership roles in model development & validation covering credit risk market risk operational risk PPNR and compliance modelling. Over the last five years he has focused on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning executing use cases for banks insurance companies and institutional grade hedge funds. He holds a PhD from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago where his research fused financial engineering with operations research covering Credit Risk management and predicting CDS spreads.