Madelyn Antoncic is a Managing Director, a member of Lehman Brothers Management Committee and is the Firm’s Global Head of Financial Market Policy Relations. In this role, she leverages her broad experience—gained through a career as a chief risk officer, an international bank treasurer, a securitized products trader and a Federal Reserve economist—to connect with key sovereign and financial officials on policy issues as they impact both Lehman Brothers and, more broadly, the markets. She is a member of several Firm committees including the Firm’s Management; Investments; New Products; Operating Exposures; and Strategic Acquisitions Committees. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Lehman Brothers OTC Derivatives, Inc.

Prior to taking on this newly created role of Policy Relations, effective the 2008 fiscal year, Madelyn was the Firm’s Chief Risk Officer responsible for risk management policies and procedures; determining the overall risk appetite of the firm; setting credit, country and trading limits; evaluation and approval of new products and trading strategies; risk analytics and metrics; and model validation and testing of all pricing models. She was a member of several Firm committees including the Firm’s Management; Risk; Commitments; Investments; Bridge Loan; New Products; Operating Exposures; and Strategic Acquisitions Committees and was an integral member of the senior group tasked with engaging with regulators, rating agencies, equity analysts, investors, liquidity providers and the Board of Directors. She joined Lehman in 1999.

She began her career at the Federal Reserve Bank of N.Y. as an economist. She spent the next 12 years at Goldman Sachs where she ran market risk management, was special assistant to that firm’s co-vice Chairmen and spent eight years trading mortgage-backed structured products. That was followed by a 2 year stint at Barclays Capital where she built a market risk function for the America’s and was the America’s Treasurer as well as Treasurer for Barclays Bank PLC, the N.Y. Branch. She was a member of the Board of Directors of Barclays Capital, Inc. and of the Executive Committee of the Board.

Dr. Antoncic holds a Ph.D. in economics and finance from The Stern School of New York University, was an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Doctoral Fellow and has taught economics and international finance as a member of the adjunct faculty at both the graduate and undergraduate schools of The Stern School of New York University.

She is a member of the Institute of International Finance, Committee on Market Best Practices. She is also a member of the Board of Overseers of the Weill Cornell Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University; a member of the Finance Committee of the Board of WCMC; a member of the WCMC Physicians Organization Committee; a member of the Intellectual Property Committee of Cornell University; a member of the Internal Advisory Board of the WCMC/NYPH Cancer Center; is a Centennial Associate of New York University; was a member of the Board of Directors of the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York and was a founding member of the Lehman’s women’s network.

Dr. Antoncic received the “2005 Risk Manager of the Year” award from Risk; received the “Stern Women in Business, 2006 Distinguished Alumna” award from New York University Stern School of Business; received the “2006 National Partnership for Women and Children Award" for leadership; was named among the 2006 “100 Most Influential People in Finance” by Treasury and Risk Management; was a recipient of the “2007 Girl Scouts Annual Tribute Dinner Award;” has been named a Charter Member in “Risk Who’s Who”, 2008.