Kristen Ann Walters
Columbia University · American Language Program
Active 1993–2026
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About
Kristen Ann Walters is a recognized expert in risk management with extensive experience across the financial services sector, including buy-side firms such as asset managers, hedge funds, and asset owners, as well as large trading and commercial banks. She has held leadership positions at prominent institutions including BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, a top 10 global pension fund, and a large, global bank-owned asset manager. Her expertise encompasses investment and enterprise risk management, technology, regulatory compliance, policy, investment strategy, and operational platforms. Kristen is known for her ability to develop 'de novo' risk functions, build high-performing teams, and integrate risk management into investment and trading strategies to leverage growth. She has managed risk through multiple business cycles and financial crises, and has worked closely with industry leaders and regulators on systemic, market, credit, liquidity, derivatives, operational, and sustainability risks, contributing to regulatory policies and thought leadership in the field. Kristen has engaged directly with boards of major investment firms, including her roles as CRO for Canada Pension Plan Investments and Natixis Investment Managers, where she enhanced risk governance and reporting. With 35 years of experience, she has also advised the CFTC and worked at firms such as PIMCO, Barclays Capital, and KPMG, starting her career in supervision and regulation at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.…
Research topics
- Sociology
- Psychology
- Medicine
- Social psychology
- Political Science
- Gender studies
- Social Science
- Psychotherapist
- Virology
- Law
Selected publications
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research · 2018-01-01 · 19 citations
articleOpen accessCardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death among American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN). Utilizing narratives from members of a Pacific Northwest tribe, this paper explores perceptions about behaviors affecting cardiovascular health through tribal members' lived experiences related to place-based environmental historical trauma. Findings from narrative analysis indicate that ambivalence is an effect of historical trauma and complicates the adoption of protective cardiovascular…
Oxford University Press eBooks · 2022-05-19 · 7 citations
book-chapterActive social work leadership is necessary to achieve national goals of health equity. Indeed, the nation’s health depends on the development of this next wave of interprofessional and transdisciplinary collaboration (McGovern, Miller, & Hughes-Cromwick, 2014). This chapter describes a “geography of science” approach that draws upon diverse disciplines, community leaders, and theoretical and community-center perspectives. Social work, must train professionals in how improve availability and…
“Being on the walk put it somewhere in my body”: The meaning of place in health for Indigenous women
Routledge eBooks · 2021 · 4 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingRelationship to place is integral to Indigenous health. A qualitative, secondary phenomenological analysis of in-depth interviews with four non-Choctaw Indigenous women participating in an outdoor, experiential tribally specific Choctaw health leadership study uncovered culturally grounded narratives using thematic analysis as an analytic approach. Results revealed that physically being in historical trauma sites of other Indigenous groups involved a multi-faceted process that facilitated embodi…
Oxford University Press eBooks · 2018-01-18 · 3 citations
bookMore than 60 million Americans experience devastating one-two punches to their health -- they have inadequate access to basic health care while also enduring the effects of discrimination, poverty, and dangerous environments that accelerate higher rates of illness. Innovative and evidence-based social strategies can improve health care and lead to broad gains in the health of our entire society.
Indigenous Health Equity and Wellness
2021-12-15 · 1 citations
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Recent grants
Yappalli Choctaw Road To Health
NIH · $3.2M · 2014–2022
The ITZA Program: Indigenous HIV/AIDS Research Training 3 (IHART3) Program
NIH · $3.5M · 2009–2027
NIH · $948k · 2017
Frequent coauthors
- 49 shared
Jane M. Simoni
University of Washington
- 18 shared
Teresa Evans‐Campbell
- 12 shared
David H. Chae
Tulane University
- 11 shared
Ramona Beltrán
University of Denver
- 11 shared
Bonnie Duran
- 11 shared
Cynthia Pearson
University of Washington
- 9 shared
Keren Lehavot
University of Washington
- 9 shared
Tessa Evans-Campbell
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