Julien Wallen

Julien Wallen is a Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting, where he leads the Financial Services Corporate Finance practice in Europe, Middle East and Africa (“EMEA”). Based in Zurich, Mr. Wallen has 25 years of consultancy and financial services experience, with a strong track record of advising leading financial institutions on their most complex situations.

Mr. Wallen has worked extensively with banks, sovereign wealth funds, central banks and asset managers on balance sheet, risk and regulatory, financial policy, restructuring and transactions topics.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Wallen was a Managing Director at BlackRock for more than a decade, where he held several senior leadership positions, including heading the EMEA Financial Markets Advisory business and Global Head of Platform of the Financial Strategic Investors Group. He also served on various regional and divisional executive committees. Prior to BlackRock, Mr. Wallen was an Associate Principal at McKinsey and co-founded a web start-up.

Relevant Experience:

• Analysed more than €500 billion loan exposures across asset classes in crisis situation, including in context of Troika-mandated banking-sector diagnostics in Ireland and Greece
• Supported European Central Bank with system-wide stress tests across Eurozone in 2016 and 2018
• Oversaw multiyear balance sheet and risk transformation programmes for major EMEA banks and Global Systemically Important Banks (“GSIBs”) including stress testing, regulatory compliance, balance sheet management and RWA optimization
• Support to Prudential Regulation Authority, Single Supervisory Mechanism and Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority-supervised banks on supervisory findings remediations
• Led multiyear sustainability, climate risk and net-zero target-setting programs for banks and asset owners
• Directed non-performing loan (“NPL”) management programmes and supported bank recapitalisations
• Executed buy/sell-side transactions on loan portfolios across asset classes
• Led set-up and winddown strategies for ‘bad-banks’
• Set-up several investment platforms, including a $10 billion infrastructure fund and a $30 billion private markets multi-asset class platform
• Designed COVID-19 crisis policy response through Corporate Bond Purchase Programs for central banks
• Integrated three distinct businesses to establish a cohesive more than $1 trillion assets under management (“AUM”) BlackRock business unit