Bernhard Dining Chairs

11th ANNUAL RISK EMEA 2022

13-14 June, 2022 | London

COVID-19
Reviewing the impact of COVID-19 on risks and controls with lessons learnt

Profitability & Business Strategy
Addressing profitability in the aftermath of the pandemic and a rapid change to risk

ESG
Discussing regulatory expectations and preparations for integration of ESG agendas

Emerging Risks
Reviewing the integration of risk management with emerging themes

Plus much more…

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Wei Shi

Wei Shi
Chief Risk Officer
Bank of China UK Limited & Bank of China London Branch

Fabrice Brossart
Chief Risk Officer, General Insurance and International
AIG

Carole Avis

Carole Avis
Chief Risk Officer, Legal & General Insurance
Legal & General

Jeff Simmons
Chief Risk Officer
MUFG Securities (Europe) N.V.

David Glendinning
Chief Risk Officer and Head of Risk UK
Société Générale

Jeremy Arnold
Chief Risk Officer
NatWest Markets

Ebbe Negenman
Chief Risk Officer and Member of the Executive Board
Knab

Michael Sparks
Chief Risk Officer, Issuer Services
BNY Mellon

Soren Agergaard Andersen
Chief Risk Officer
Nordea Asset Management

Sophie Dupre-Echeverria
Chief Risk and Compliance Officer
GIB Asset Management

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Soren Agergaard Andersen
Chief Risk Officer
Nordea Asset Management

Biography

Søren Agergaard Andersen is the Chief Risk Officer for Nordea Asset Management, the biggest asset manager in the Nordics with more than € 250bn AuM. Søren is responsible for the overall enterprise risk function, managing an international team of risk professionals in Denmark, Sweden and Luxembourg. Before joining the asset management industry, Søren held leading positions within risk in banking and pension/life insurance. One of his main priorities is to define and uphold a strong and yet flexible governance and risk framework, which can support a sound overall risk culture. Søren holds a M.A. in Mathematics and Economics and a PRM certification.

Jeremy Arnold
Chief Risk Officer
NatWest Markets

Biography

Jeremy is NatWest Markets' Chief Risk Officer, having joined the bank in 2018. He has an extensive experience as a trader and risk manager. His roles in risk management include running regional and global market risk teams at a variety of firms including Commerzbank, UBS, Investec and Nomura, and the role of Chief Risk Officer, EMEA at Nomura since 2015.

Jeremy holds a Masters in Economics Cambridge University.

Fabrice Brossart
Chief Risk Officer, General Insurance and International
AIG

Biography

Fabrice Brossart is the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) for AIG International General Insurance and oversees AIG's risk management function in 70+ entities outside of North America, ensuring these operations have a risk management system proportionate to their exposures and in line with local regulatory and corporate governance requirements.

Fabrice joined AIG in February 2011 as Chief Actuary for the European region, subsequently taking additional responsibilities for risk management and leading the Solvency II program. Between 2014 and 2015 Fabrice worked in several risk management roles at the AIG head office in New York, enhancing significantly the Group capital model. Returning to London in 2016, Fabrice played a key role in AIG's response to Brexit and the standing up of AIG Europe SA. More recently he has focused on business resilience, risk culture and conduct, climate risk and transformation.

An alumnus of France's Ecole Polytechnique, Fabrice holds actuarial qualifications in France and the UK as well as the Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary designation. Previous employers include AXA Insurance UK and Willis Towers Watson. Fabrice has represented AIG at the CRO Forum and supported two AIG Group CEOs in their engagement with the Geneva Association. He is a member of AIG's Executive Diversity Council and has co-led ERM's Diversity and Inclusion Council since 2017. Fabrice was named CRO of the year by Insurance ERM in January 2018.

Sophie Dupre-Echeverria
Chief Risk and Compliance Officer
GIB Asset Management

Biography

Sophie is the Chief Risk and Compliance Officer of Gulf International Bank (UK) Limited. She is responsible for driving an effective risk culture throughout the company, designing the risk and compliance frameworks and overseeing risk management and regulatory compliance practices. Sophie joined GIB UK with extensive experience in the field, having previously served as Executive Director for Compliance and Operational Risk Control at UBS Asset Management. Before this, she was Global Head of Operational Risk at Barings, and non-Executive Director of the Baring-Coller Secondaries Fund. Sophie was also an Operational Risk Manager and the Group Head of Investment Risk Framework at Schroders.

Sophie graduated from Université Lumière Lyon 2 with a Master's degree in Economics and Finance. She is a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.

Tom Garrubba
VP
Shared Assessments

Biography

Tom Garrubba will be speaking at Vendor & TPRM Europe.

David Glendinning
Chief Risk Officer and Head of Risk UK
Société Générale

Biography

David Glendinning is the UK Head of Risk. With Société Générale since 2004, David was previously Head of Group Credit Risk Provisioning. He began his career in Internal Audit and Inspection.

Ebbe Negenman
Chief Risk Officer and Member of the Executive Board
Knab

Biography

Ebbe Negenman is the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) of Knab. As a member of the executive board of Knab is co-responsible for the management of the bank. He has over 20 year's of experience in risk management. Till 2017 Ebbe worked as Head of Regulatory Risk at ABN Amro and was highly involved in the innovation of the sector. Till 2010 Ebbe was employed as a Managing Director Risk Management at ING Bank in Amsterdam and was several years based in the Real Estate division, and in Hong Kong where he had responsibility for the Asia Pacific region. He started his career at the Dutch merchant bank MeesPierson in the market risk management area. Ebbe has two MSc's (mathematics and econometrics) and a PhD in Operations Research and considers the ability to learn faster than your competitors as the only sustainable competitive advantage. He therefore made learning a way of living.

Emily Shanks
Director of Sales EMEA, Banking Services
mthree

Biography

Emily leads mthree's Banking Services division which provides emerging talent solutions to global financial institutions for roles across middle and back office, cross-asset and cross-division with BA, Data and PMO skills. Emily is a qualified lawyer, spending several years in private practice ahead of moving into Financial Services. During her career, Emily lead teams at global banks and financial institutions executing Regulatory Transformation, Outreach and Contract Repapering programmes. Most notably she delivered a 2 year global KYC transformation programme, managing teams spread across 4 locations for clients, including RBS, State Street and Citi.

Emily went on to establish and manage the growth of the Regulatory and CLM consulting practice at a global tech and finance consultancy before joining mthree in 2020.

Wei Shi

Wei Shi
Chief Risk Officer
Bank of China UK Limited & Bank of China London Branch

Biography

Mrs. Shi is responsible for oversight of the risk management framework and internal control of both BOC UK and London Branch. As a senior manager of the Bank, she chairs the Risk Management and Internal Control Committee (RMICC), the Credit Risk Management and Decision Committee (CRDC), as well as the Operational Risk Committee (ORC).

Before her current role, she had served at Bank of China Head Office in Beijing for more than 20 years in various capacities including Team Head of Group Credit Policy, and Deputy General Manager of Financial Institutions Department.

Mrs. Shi graduated from Renmin University in China with a major in Finance, and holds MBA Honors from the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College in the USA.

Michael Sparks
Chief Risk Officer, Issuer Services
BNY Mellon

Biography

Michael is the Chief Risk Officer for BNY Mellon's Issuer Services businesses. Michael joined BNY Mellon in 2000 and has 25 years of industry experience covering global custody operations, on exchange and OTC clearing and settlement operations, debt and equity capital markets servicing, equity and FX trading, transaction banking and private client stockbroking.

Resident technical practitioner for the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment's Risk in Financial Services syllabus panel and member of the Association of Foreign Banks Risk Advisory Committee.

Jeff Simmons
Chief Risk Officer
MUFG Securities (Europe) N.V.

Biography

Jeff Simmons will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2021

Carole Avis

Carole Avis
Chief Risk Officer, Legal & General Insurance
Legal & General

Biography

Carole is an actuary with wide experience in leading product, financial and proposition developments who has held a number of senior positions within savings and insurance for Legal & General

Her current role is CRO, LGI leading the second line activity for the UK Retail and Group Protection and associated Fintech businesses of Legal & General.

Prior to its sale in 2019, Carole's role also included being CRO for L&G's GI company for 4 years.

Leanne Bridges
Head of Risk Centre of Excellence
Nationwide

Biography

I'm the Head of the Specialist Risk Centre of Excellence within the Chief Controls Office (CCO) at Nationwide and lead the risk capabilities covering Security, Data, Payments, Future Ways of Working, Business Services and Operations Transformation. I also have responsibility for the co-ordination of our response to the EBA Guidelines on Security and ICT Risk Management.

Additionally, I lead an 'incubator' called Intelligent Control which aims to embed Control by Design into our products and services including, the automation of control and continuous monitoring and assurance. A key output of the Intelligent Control approach is the continuous creation of data that provides a real time understanding of controls across the enterprise environment.

Stuart Burns

Stuart Burns
Head of Model Development and Validation
Bank of England

Biography

Stuart Burns currently has the role of Senior Technical Specialist at the PRA, working in the team reviewing and approving IRB models. He has responsibility for aspiring IRB firms. He previously ran the IRB risk weight analysis in the Annual Cyclical Scenario (ACS) stress test, challenging firms' stressed projections and recommending capital responses.

Stuart has over 20 years experience delivering credit risk, stress testing and economic capital models. This includes roles as:

Head of Model Validation for S&P Europe.

Head of Models for the Rainbow Business at Royal Bank of Scotland.

Head of Credit Risk Methodology at Barclays Capital, where he rebuilt the team following the departure of the previous head, and managed all IRB related regulatory issues.

Head of Corporate Analytics at HSBC, where he was responsible for Credit Risk Modelling and saw the bank achieve Advanced IRB status. He also introduced credit risk stress testing and economic capital.

Head of Economic Capital and Model Risk Management at Standard Chartered Bank, where his responsibilities included building an offshore validation team, and coordination of stress testing across portfolios and risk types. Advanced IRB status was delivered on the strength of these areas.

David Cassonnet
Director of Business Development
ActiveViam

Biography

David Cassonnet is Director of Business Development at ActiveViam, leading the creation of new solutons and use cases for the company.

In his role, David ensures that the new product features developed by the company's R&D team translate into innovative and actionable use cases that deliver tangible value to the clients' business.

With over twenty years of experience in financial markets, David has a double expertise in business development and solutions implementation. Previously he was Managing Director of ActiveViam in APAC where he and his consulting team were involved in several front-office and risk management projects with large local and international banks. David also held several roles at Mysis and Summit Systems.

Terri Duhon
Chair of the Board
Morgan Stanley

Biography

Terri Duhon went from a Math degree at MIT to a derivative trader on Wall Street then on to become an entrepreneur and author. She is now an educator, often guest lecturing at Oxford University where she is an Associate Fellow, and a board member of a number of large institutions such as Morgan Stanley International and Rathbone Bros a FTSE 250 UK Wealth Manager. She is passionate about diversity and culture and often speaks about Empowerment and Reinvention.

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Dr. Nick Faull
Head of Strategic Risk Consulting
Marsh

Biography

Nick is Head of Strategic Risk Consulting at Marsh as part of which he is leading the roll-out of Marsh's Climate proposition. Nick combines extensive experience consulting to leading Financial Institutions, focussing on Risk, Finance and Data, with a strong background in climate risk having completed a DPhil in climate change modelling at Oxford University.

Most recently Nick led the development and implementation of a physical climate risk assessment framework for a large bank, in response to the Bank of England's BES stress testing requirements. Nick also has experience working with European banks, developing risk frameworks to satisfy regulatory needs and providing PMO for the delivery of critical regulatory programmes.

Nick provides oversight of Flood Re's UK-wide Flood Rapid Response Programme and continues to support for clients navigate climate and ESG risk in the FI sector.

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Francis Gross
Senior Advisor
ECB

Biography

Francis Gross will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2021

Aleksi Grym
Head of Digitalisation
Bank of Finland

Biography

Aleksi Grym is Head of Digitalisation at the Bank of Finland. He manages a portfolio of cross-departmental projects related to the digital transformation of the financial industry, covering topics such as FinTech, payment technologies, digital currencies, and cyber security. Before joining the Finnish central bank he worked in the consulting and technology investment industry for 15 years in London and Helsinki.

Angela Johnson de Wet
Cloud Enabled Business Transformation – Head of Function
Lloyds Banking Group

Biography

Ange is responsible for Cloud and Technology Change Risk at Lloyds Banking Group. Prior to working at Lloyds, Ange led transformation teams and programmes at Deutsche Bank including: Cloud Security, Risk and Compliance, Anti-Financial Crime Analytics, Data Quality People Change and Money Markets Finance, Risk and Regulatory Reporting.

Before joining Deutsche Bank, Ange worked as a Senior Manager at EY across Asia Pacific and EMEIA within the Financial Services Organisation focusing on Corporate Banking and Capital Markets transformation and advisory programmes. Ange started her career at IBM in Australia working as a developer, tester, designer and then business analyst and project manager.

Ange has an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering (Mechatronics / Robotics) and Computer Science from the University of Melbourne, Australia.

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Niels Kaas
Head of Risk and Security
Central Bank of Denmark

Biography

Niels Kaas will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2021

Katrina-May Kwan
EMEA Head of Risk Governance
Wells Fargo

Biography

Katrina-May Kwan will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2021

Maurice Lisi
Head of Digital Channels
Intesa Sanpaolo

Biography

Maurice Lisi will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2021

Stephane Malrait
Head of Market Structure & Innovation
ING Bank NV

Biography

Stéphane Malrait is Managing Director and Global Head of market structure and innovation for Financial Markets at ING Bank. Stephane is working with advocacy groups, policy makers and regulators to follow market structure and industry challenges impacting the financial market industry. He is also leading innovation activities in the capital market space within ING and developing external partnership with Fintech companies. He actively contributes in industry working groups to represent ING Bank.

Stéphane joined ING in 2015 to lead the bank e-commerce initiatives across all financial market products and to develop the financial market group's cross-asset ecommerce strategy. Before joining ING, Stephane spent eight years at Société Générale, where he was Global Head of FIC eCommerce, creating an eCommerce business covering credit, rates, money market, emerging market and FX. Prior to this, Stéphane worked at JPMorgan Chase for ten years, serving in different roles in Global FX E-Commerce Business Management and cross-asset eCommerce technology and was based in London and New York.

Stephane has a strong background in financial markets and understands the need for continued technological development to drive positive change in trading and market structure workflows. He is leading ING Financial Market innovation strategy and working on the implementation of financial regulations that will impact the clients trading activity and transform how trading floor operates.

Stephane is also an advisor or board member for several Fintech initiatives and trading associations in Fixed income and FX. Since 2005 he has been active with the ACI Financial Market Association – an international non-profit organisation that represents the interests of market professionals in foreign exchange and money markets. He chairs the ACI FX committee since 2010 and joined ACI FMA board in 2020. He is also an active member of the ECB FX contact group and co-chair the BIS Global FX code of conduct Algo and TCA sub-group.

Ryan Manyika
Third-Party Risk Solutions Engineer
OneTrust Vendorpedia

Biography

Ryan Manyika serves as a Third-Party Risk Solutions Engineer for OneTrust VendorpediaTM– a purpose-built software designed to operationalise third-party risk management. In his role, Ryan advises companies throughout their third-party risk management implementations to help meet requirements relating to relevant standards, frameworks, and laws (e.g. ISO, NIST, SIG, GDPR and CCPA). Ryan works with clients to centralise their third-party information across business units, assess risks and performance, and monitor threats throughout the entire third-party relationship, from onboarding to offboarding.

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Darko Matovski
CEO
causaLens

Biography

Darko Matovski, PhD, is the CEO of and co-founder causaLens. The company is leading Causal AI research, a way for machines to understand cause & effect, and serves some of the most sophisticated organisations. Darko has also worked for cutting edge hedge funds and research institutions. For example, the National Physical Laboratory in London (where Alan Turing worked) and Man Group in London. Darko has a PhD in Machine Learning and an MBA.

Charis Papanastasiou
Chief Risk Officer
SIB (Cyprus) Ltd, Sberbank Group

Biography

Charis is a Risk Management generalist with 13+ years of experience in investment and retail banking. He is currently the Chief Risk Officer of SIB (Cyprus) Ltd, Sberbank Group, where he is responsible for developing the Risk Management framework, overseeing regulatory initiatives and driving strategic projects related to risk. His interests include Fintech and innovation in Risk Management. He holds an MBA and a Master's in Financial Mathematics. He is also a CFA charterholder and a certified Financial Risk Manager.

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Sunil Verma
Head of Market Risk Stress Testing Methodology
UBS

Biography

Sunil heads the market risk stress testing methodology at UBS. He is responsible for developing models used globally across UBS. He is closely engaged in various regulatory projects such as CCAR, EBA Stress Testing, IWST, FINMA Stress Testing etc. He runs a small team based out of London, Krakow and Mumbai.

Sunil is an engineer (undergrad) and MBA. During his career, prior to UBS, he has worked at banks such as ING, RBS, Lloyds and Northern Trust. He enjoys maths, machine learning, watching documentaries on diverse subjects and experimenting with cuisines for Sunday family meals.

Paul Walsh
Practice Lead – Digital Transformation and European Consulting lead
Vox Financial Partners

Biography

Paul is a highly effective change leader with a more than 25-year track record of successfully delivering significant transformation programmes across business and technology in complex global banking environments. He has delivered a wide range of initiatives, including bank integration programmes, global resource/process migration, material cost optimisation initiatives, and large-scale regulatory change.
Paul has excellent business and technical expertise, having most recently founded Zenaxys, a company that helps banking clients define and execute digital transformation strategies. Before that, he held various senior executive positions at Commerzbank AG, including Head of Transformation and Strategic Architecture, Head of Trading Technologies and historically worked for Capco, a Financial Services consultancy.

Sucharita Banerjee Lodha
Head of Operational Risk and Governance, International GI
AIG

Biography

Sucharita Banerjee Lodha is the Head of General Insurance International Operational Risk and Governance, ERM . She has held various operational risk management positions within GI International supporting effective roll out of operational risk management tools and concepts within Claims, Finance, Operations and shared service centres. She has led teams across Business Consulting, Outsourcing Risk management, Offshore Development Centers, Technology and Risk Management. She has a proven track record of managing global teams and leading regulatory change initiatives. Sucharita holds an MBA from London Business School and an MS in Quality Management from Birla Institute of technology. She is also a six sigma Black belt and has a B.tech in Information Technology. She chose non-financial risk management as a career to pursue her passion for healthy risk culture in organizations. She has worked with Deloitte, American Express, Tata Consultancy Services in her professional career. She has worked with consulting and Financial services firms in India, the US and is currently based in London, UK. Sucharita is also the chair of Gender Equality Matters Employee resource group in AIG.

Andrew Barnett
Head of Fraud Management
Nordea

Biography

Andrew is a fraud professional having been in the industry, fighting the criminals, for over 15 years across all businesses and fraud types in 3 different firms. For the last 4 years Andrew has been with Nordea leading the 1st line of defence team against fraud which provides authentication, detection solutions and operational capability for the whole bank across the spectrum of fraud typologies.

Dr Bernhard Bartels
Executive Director ESG Analysis
Scope Group

Biography

Bernhard Bartels is an Executive Director within Scope Group, Europe's leading rating agency. Within Scope Group, he acts as Co-Head of ESG since February 2021 and is responsible for running the methodology development for ESG impact and risk solutions with a dedicated focus on EU Taxonomy alignment. Prior to his transition in the ESG Team, he worked as a Director at Scope Ratings and lead analyst for multiple European sovereign and supranational issuers. Mr Bartels has studied Political Sciences and Economics in Mainz and Kiel. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.

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Beate Born
Head of Strategic Projects UBS Wealth Management, Executive Director
Former UBS AG

Biography

Beate Born has 17 years of experience in the financial services industry in Switzerland, Europe and Asia and has run her own consulting practice. She is currently Head of Strategic Projects at UBS Wealth Management in Zürich. Many of her 13 years at UBS she spent in Operational Risk and Capital Markets running global regulatory initiatives such as MiFID I&II as well as large initiatives such as Brexit and platform programs for Wealth Management. She is member of the leadership team of the Enterprise Data Management Council (EDMC) Women in Data Network as well as the EDMC ESG Committee. In September 2021 Beate will complete a Master's Degree in Sustainability Leadership from the University of Cambridge with a focus on ESG data reporting and carbon disclosure comparability. Further Academic degrees include an MBA from Clark University, a DESS from the Sorbonne, an executive MBA from the Swiss Finance Institute and a certificate of advanced studies in Financial Market Regulation from the University of Zürich.

Cecilia Gejke
Chief Risk Officer
East-West United Bank S.A

Biography

Cecilia Gejke has a background in Material Physics and renewable energy sources prior to joining the world of Finance. Cecilia has held various leadership roles within Risk Management and capital & liquidity management at financial institutions both in London and Europe, gaining a broad experience across investment, retail and private banking products and cultures. Cecilia has a proven track record of designing and delivering efficient risk management frameworks to drive business performance.

Luke Guilliam
Sales Executive
Riskonnect

Biography

Over the last 3 years, I have provided trusted advice and guidance to a variety of organisations looking to change their approach to GRC. The organisations I have worked with have often been looking to advance their approach to GRC through the use of modern, intuitive, and insightful technology. My job is to help these businesses and people with this often daunting task, and make it as seamless as possible.

Amit Lakhani
Head of Third Party Risk Management, CIB
BNP Paribas

Biography

Amit Lakhani has varied experiences in managing operational risks at organisations of all sizes. He started his career working as a consultant with Accenture where he developed and deployed multi-million dollar programmes involving compliance and risk elements, especially information security and cyber risks. Further, Amit worked at large multinational organisations in his role at KPMG driving strategic decision-making, investments and risk reduction programmes.

In his current role, Amit looks after IT risks, third party/vendor risk management and fraud risks across the Corporate and Institutional Banking division for BNP Paribas. Increasingly, he is converging the management of all such transversal operational risk topics into Operational Resilience and therefore OpRes is becoming a key priority for him. He has been a key contributor to the CIB OpRes programme and provided oversight and supervision on the topic through his second line of defence role.

Maciej Lewandowski
Head of Risk Poland
NatWest

Biography

Maciej is a seasoned banking professional with 20+ years of experience ranging from financial control, credit risk management to corporate banking, derivatives and fixed income, combined with experience of regulatory topics and passion for tackling the climate transformation.

He joined NatWest Markets in June 2020 where he's primarily responsible for setting up and managing risk hub to support investment banking of NatWest Group.

Before (since June 2014) he worked in ECB Banking Supervision (aka Single Supervision Mechanism – SSM) as Head of Section & Joint Supervisory Team (JST) Coordinator, responsible for consolidated supervision one of the largest banks in the Netherlands. As JST Coordinator, he led risk identification and implementation of risk-based and forward-looking Supervisory Examination Program. He took part in the start-up phase that included recruitment as well as fine-tuning of tools and processes.
Prior to the ECB, Maciej worked in various roles in a number of banks: PKO Bank Polski 2008-2014 (Head of Credit Risk Assessment Department, member of Bank's Credit Committee, Advisor to CEO), HSBC 2008 (Head of Structured Finance) and Citi in Poland and Hungary 1996-2008 (Debt Capital Markets, Derivatives Sales, Financial Control).
Maciej has graduated from Warsaw School of Economics and holds a Master Degree in Banking and Finance. He is a speaker and panelist at conferences on risk and regulatory outlook topics.

Vikas Munshi
Enterprise Security Architect
ING Bank

Biography

Vikas is a cyber security professional, a banker, and a creative technologist with over two decades of IT security experience. Currently Vikas works for the global CISO office of ING where he is architecting the future security state of Workplace and DevOps. Besides work, Vikas is into long walks with his Siberian Husky with whom he shares a deep fascination for the wonders of Nature.

Ozgur Ozel
EMEA Head of Prudential Regulatory Relations, Executive Director
Morgan Stanley

Biography

Ozgur Ozel will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2021

Andrea Pozzi
Group Head of Non-Financial Risk
Santander

Biography

Andrea Pozzi will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2021

Alex Rothwell
Detective Chief Superintendent
City of London Police

Biography

Alex has 30yrs policing experience with the Metropolitan and City of London Police. As Head of Fraud Operations he leads the coordination of national economic crime investigation for policing in England and Wales. He has had a varied and fulfilling career performing investigative, intelligence gathering and strategic roles targeting a wide variety of crime types, particularly organised crime. He has previously performed secondments with Customs and Excise, SOCA and the NCA. In addition to his day to day responsibilities Alex is an active hostage and crisis negotiator and has considerable experience in the investigation and management of kidnap, blackmail and extortion.

Gary Savill
Head of Enterprise Risk
SAGA

Biography

Gary Savill is Head of Enterprise Risk for Saga Group and has over 12 years of extensive risk management expertise, working previously in general and medical insurance for AXA UK for 10 years and as Deputy Head of Operations for Sanlam Investment Management for 4 years. Gary is a Chartered Management Accountant, qualifying whilst working for Nestle UK and is also a Specialist member of the IRM and member of the Institute of Management.

Gary have extensive experience of Solvency II operational risk capital, risk and control frameworks, risk appetite, conduct risk, risk culture, third party risk oversight and building high performance teams. He has a particular interest in psychology and decision making.

Praveen Singh
Head of Information Technology Risk and Cyber Security
ICBC Standard Bank

Biography

Praveen Singh will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2021

Rob Stephens
Sales Executive
Riskonnect

Biography

Rob is responsible for New Business Sales and Account Management in EMEA. Based out of our London office, Rob helps guide organisations through the vendor evaluation process, remaining a key point of contact through the implementation process and throughout the ongoing relationship.

Rob joined Riskonnect in September 2017 and has over 7 years experience in Governance, Risk and Compliance solutions helping a range or organisations from different industries including Telecommunications, Financial Services, Maritime and Infrastructure Projects, and more, evaluate, select and implement highly successful solutions.

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Jeremy Strong
Senior Lead, Fraud Control
NatWest

Biography

Member of the Fraud Leadership Team across Natwest for 5 years; previous fraud prevention responsibilities have covered various products, customer journeys and fraud typologies. Currently accountable for the overall prevention and strategy of First Party Fraud (covering onbook, mules and application fraud)

Previous roles include Operations Manager for Debt Management and Head of Customer Experience for Ulster Bank.

Sean Titley
Director of Enterprise and Operational Risk
Metro Bank

Biography

Sean has over 25 years of experience in Risk Management across disciplines, including Enterprise Risk, Operational Risk, Credit Risk, Strategic Risk and Front Office Supervision. He is a passionate advocate for the furtherance of Operational Risk as a discipline, co-authoring papers and acting as a speaker and panellist at many external events.

Sean has held Director level roles at a number of organisations, both on a consultancy and permanent basis. He is currently Director of Enterprise and Operational Risk at Metro Bank, running a growing team responsible for the Bank's overall risk management framework and approach to Operational Risk from a second line perspective. This includes liaison with the PRA and FCA and making ongoing enhancements to the Bank's approach to risk appetite, governance and embedding a strong risk culture across the three lines of defence. Sean has been integral to a transformation in the Bank's approach, including putting in place a new Risk Taxonomy, Bank Risk Report, approach to RCSA, Control Testing, Operational Risk losses and Scenario Analysis as well as setting up a new Operational Risk Oversight Committee, which he chairs. His team is working closely with the first line on approaches to Operational Resilience, Third Party Risk Management and the management of People, Change, Data, Information Security and Technology Risks.

Sean is a member of the Institute of Operational Risk/IRM Operational Risk Committee, providing advice on its approach to Operational Risk and running the IOR's Chapters across the globe.

Dr Giorgio Baldassarri
Global Head, Analytical Development Group
S&P Global

Biography

Giorgio leads the Analytical Development Group (ADG), a global team of 15 highly skilled individuals (PhDs, CFAs, FRMs), developing all quantitative models that power the Credit Analytics platform within Credit Risk Solutions, and enable users to assess the credit risk of public and private companies, worldwide. His team helps positioning the models and provides deep technical expertise during pre-sale and post-sale process. Giorgio is the inventor of a novel approach to quantify credit risk of publicly listed companies.

Prior to joining S&P Global Market Intelligence, Giorgio worked as Associate Director in Group Risk at Barclays, leading the re-development of its AMA operational risk model. He holds a PhD in Quantum Mechanics and Semiconductor Physics, and a magna cum laude degree in Physics and is the author of more than 50 papers in scientific peer-reviewed journals.

His latest paper on energy transition risks and opportunities was published in Journal of Energy Markets in 2020.

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Ashish Bansal
Head of Finance and Regulatory Reporting
Union Bank of India (UK) Ltd

Biography

Ashish Bansal, a certified Chartered Accountant from India, is the Head of Finance & Regulatory Reporting in Union Bank of India (UK) Limited. In his 8 years of industry know-how, his range of experiences span from application of operational aspect of conventions at grassroot, to administering and formulating policy blueprints at the executive stratum. His in-depth technical understanding of banking products and demonstrated cognizance of RBI's as well as Bank of England's regulatory governance, adds to his industry's proficiency

Charles Calovich
Solutions Manager
Workiva

Biography

Charles is a former audit professional, with a 10-year career in audit and SaaS. He manages the GRC solutions across EMEA, focusing on solutions designed to meet regional regulatory mandates and initiatives. Charles received his MBA from Ithaca College, with a focus on Accountancy.

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Atanas Dimov
Head of Credit Risk and Real Asset Investment Risk
Aviva Investors

Biography

Atanas Dimov has global responsibility at Aviva Investors for the management of investment and credit risks arising from illiquid debt investments, buy-&-maintain strategies and money market funds as well as counterparty credit risk. Prior to this, he spent 13 years in debt origination, portfolio management and credit risk at Bank Of America Merrill Lynch and KfW IPEX-Bank as well as financial audit at Deloitte. Atanas qualified as a CPA in the US.

Bryan Foss
Non-Executive Director and Visiting Professor
The Risk Coalition

Biography

Bryan Foss is an experienced and independent non-executive director, working with listed, private, public sector and public interest entities (PIEs). Bryan is an FRC Advisor, co-founder of the Risk Coalition and Visiting Professor with Bristol Business School. In addition to an executive MBA he has qualifications across Board governance, finance and accounting, technology and marketing.

Per Hansson
Head of CCR Exposure Management
Deutsche Bank

Biography

Per Hansson is a Director and Head of CCR Exposure Management within Credit Risk Management at Deutsche Bank, responsible for the bank's IMM and pre-deal exposure models for counterparty credit risk. Per is additionally responsible for capital planning and the bank's Pillar 2 capital model for credit risk. Previously, Per worked in Market Risk Management for Credit Trading and CVA at Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan and was also a risk manager in JP Morgan's prime finance business. Per has an MSc in Engineering Physics from Lund University, Sweden.

Jerome Henry
Principal Advisor
ECB

Biography

Jérôme Henry is Principal Adviser at the ECB, in the financial stability area. He led Quality Assurance for SSM stress tests and was a BIS fellow. Originally from the Banque de France, Mr Henry started at the ECB leading its modelling team and thereafter its projection exercise.

Mr Henry has a number of research publications, eg the ECB STAMP€ e-book. An ENSAE graduate, he holds an Economics PhD and a History BA from Paris Sorbonne.

Amit Inamdar
Director, Risk Management
Evalueserve

Biography

Amit has 15 years of experience in risk management, regulatory advisory, and big data analytics in the banking and insurance sector. He has worked on numerous assignments including model development and validation in the areas of pricing and regulatory risk models.

Before joining Evalueserve, Amit worked with firms such as RBS, S&P, KPMG, and J.P. Morgan. Amit has a master's degree in business administration, with a specialization in finance. He has also a master's degree in technology from IIT Bombay, India.

Dilbagh Kalsi
Partner
Fintegral

Biography

Dilbagh is a Partner at Fintegral and leads the firm's UK practice. He specialises in the areas of traded risk and climate risk, helping banks to enhance their analytics capabilities to better identify, quantify and manage current and emerging risks. He has over 20 years of experience in trading, risk management and quantitative modelling at banks and hedge funds, including Credit Suisse, Man AHL and Nomura. Dilbagh holds a degree in Natural Sciences (Physics) from the University of Cambridge.

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Libor Krkoska
Deputy Head, Country Strategy
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Biography

Libor Krkoška has been Deputy Director, Country Strategy at the EBRD since November 2018. He joined the EBRD in 1997, initially working in the Chief Economist Office and then as the Head of Office in Moldova, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Cyprus. Before coming to the EBRD, Libor was a researcher in the Economic Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences from 1994, and, prior to that, worked for Česka Pojistovna, the largest Czech insurance company. Libor holds a Ph.D. in Economics from CERGE-EI in Prague, was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, and obtained a Masters degree in Mathematics from Charles University in Prague.

Steve Lindo
Course Designer and Lecturer
Columbia University MS in Enterprise Risk Management

Biography

Steve Lindo is a financial risk manager with over 30 years' experience managing risks in ALM, funding, banking and trading portfolios. In addition to his role as Lecturer and Course Designer in Columbia University's MSc in Enterprise Risk Management program, he is currently Principal of SRL Advisory Services, an independent consulting firm specializing in risk governance, education and strategy, and Co-Principal of Intelligent Risk Management LLC, an executive education and advisory partnership using analytical methods pioneered by the CIA. Mr. Lindo is a regular presenter at conferences, webinar host and author of risk management articles and case studies.

Andrew Mackay
Global Head of Model Risk Framework
Deutsche Bank

Biography

Andrew is Deutsche Bank's Global Head of Model Risk Framework, having joined the bank in 2019. He has nearly 20 years' experience in Finance, including 14 years in model risk, having briefly been an army officer, English teacher and derivatives trader, before joining RBS and ultimately heading up a variety of local and remote teams at RBS, including as the Group Head of Model Risk Strategy.

Alistair McLeod
Managing Director
Bank of America Merill Lynch

Biography

Alistair McLeod will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2021

Nigel Milbank
Climate Programme – Senior Manager
NatWest

Biography

Nigel Milbank is a Cambridge University graduate and Chartered Accountant having trained with Arthur Andersen and Deloitte. Nigel has held audit positions in Schroders and Credit Suisse as an Audit Director, following which he helped set up the Operational risk function and Product Control global assurance at Credit Suisse.

Nigel was Director of Enterprise and Operational Risk at Santander UK from 2006 to 2011 and joined RBS in 2012 to run the Group ICAAP function. He has held various stress testing delivery and improvement roles at RBS/ Natwest Group and since 2020 has been Programme Manager on the Climate Programme building climate stress capability and embedding climate financial risk management.

Tim Le Mare
Integrated Risk Director
Workiva

Biography

Tim is a CMIIA and QIAL internal audit professional, with a 20-year career in internal audit and risk that includes leading a significant internal audit transformation project leading the migration of 10 separate internal audit teams to a single unified technology platform. Tim specialises in the use of tools and technology to optimise internal audit processes.

Tobias Noll
Deputy Head Marketing & Sales
RSU Rating Service Unit

Biography

Mr. Noll studied business administration at the University of Applied Sciences in Aschaffenburg, Germany. From 2006 to 2012 he worked for Société Générale and Barclays Capital in Frankfurt, Paris and London.

Since 2012 Mr. Noll services and advices banks regarding all RSU-run credit risk management tools such as internal rating systems, stress testing tools, IFRS9, early warning systems and LGD-models.

Suresh Sankaran
Head of Model Risk Governance
Metro Bank

Biography

SURESH SANKARAN is the head of model risk governance at Metro Bank where he oversees the setting out of the bank's expectations in respect of practices relating to model governance. Suresh provides oversight to regulatory and statutory requirements and the bank's high-level approach to achieving compliance. Suresh is responsible for framing the bank's approach to managing model risk exposure, and is in charge of the bank's internal framework that controls the processes for model development, validation and usage, assigns responsibilities and roles, and ensures a properly documented approval process for model development, validation, implementation, and use.

Benjamin Westwood
Senior Manager, Stress Testing strategy Division
Bank of England

Biography

I joined the Bank of England in 2004 having completed an MSc. in Economics. Since then, I have worked in a variety of areas within the Bank, largely with a macroeconomic focus. I joined the Bank's Stress Testing Strategy Division in 2015 and have been responsible for several of the Bank's stress test publications. I led the design and running of the Bank's 2019 Liquidity focussed exploratory scenario exercise and I am currently managing the production of the 2021 climate-risk focussed stress exercise.

Liv Watson
Senior Advisor and Digitisation Lead
Impact Management Project

Biography

Liv is on secondment to the IMP, leading the IMP's facilitation on digitisation. She also chairs the IMP's Non-financial Digital Transformation Working Group, an initiative aiming to determine if and how non-financial reporting lends itself to structured data using the open international standard for digital business reporting, XBRL.

As the co-founder of XBRL and the XBRL International consortium, Liv works globally with leading market regulators, accounting associations and institutions. She has held several speaking engagements on financial and business reporting standards, its benefits, potential applications and adoption in corporate governance and social responsibility reporting. Liv has also held several leadership positions related to XBRL, including as a member of the IFRS XBRL Advisory Committee, the XBRL International Steering Committee and the XBRL Standing Committee.

Liv has authored one of the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA)'s most successful professional courses, "Accounting System Technology for the 21st Century", and published numerous articles for international publications and journals. She is an editorial board member of the "International Journal of Disclosure and Governance", as well as the co- and contributing author to several books, including "XBRL for Dummies", and the "Governance, Risk and Compliance Handbook", "The Landscape of Integrated Reporting," and "Effective Auditing for Corporations".

For the past 10 years, Liv has also been the Senior Director of Strategic Customer Initiatives at Workiva Inc., which has served over 70% of fortune 500 companies and more than 200 EU companies with their statutory reporting requirements.

Liv is a long-standing member of the IMA and is an Advisory Board Member to the University of Southern Indiana and the University of Albany. She is Norwegian and currently based in Amsterdam.

Yitian Xie
Head of Firmwide-Methodology and Money Market Model Validation
UBS Solutions AG

Biography

Yitian Xie will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2021

PANEL DISCUSSIONS

Interactive panel discussions are designed to increase attendee interaction by running a live Q&A throughout the session.

PRESENTATIONS

Hear industry experts provide detailed insight on a range of topics, engage one on one with the presenter during the Q&A.

NETWORKING BREAKS

Networking opportunities including breakfast, lunch and refreshment breaks on both days, access to all streams and sessions.

MEET THE SPEAKERS

Continue discussions beyond the auditorium and interact with speakers and attendees after their session.

WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND A CEFPRO CONFERENCE?
HEAR FROM PAST ATTENDEES AND SPEAKERS…

2nd December 2021

22nd November 2021

Can ethics and robotics mix?

Risk specialist Lee Bristow breaks down a new strategy to mitigate security threats from third parties. If you use third parties to support your business's core […]

18th October 2021

Reviewing changes in uses of outsourcing and long term implications of Covid-19

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the thought leader as an individual, and are not attributed to CeFPro or any particular […]

27th September 2021

Assessing and allocating risk in the contract for the new 'normal'

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the thought leader as an individual, and are not attributed to CeFPro or any particular […]

16th September 2021

Reviewing alternative rates emerging amidst market hesitation towards SOFR

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the thought leader as an individual, and are not attributed to CeFPro or any particular […]

14th September 2021

Developing continuous monitoring for oversight processes across contact lifecycle

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the thought leader as an individual, and are not attributed to CeFPro or any particular […]

13th September 2021

Increasing public and private collaboration and sharing of data to identify trends and tackle risk across the industry

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the thought leaders as individuals, and are not attributed to CeFPro or any particular organization. […]

13th September 2021

Overview of the regulatory landscape and convergence for holistic management

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the thought leader as an individual, and are not attributed to CeFPro or any particular […]

8th September 2021

Managing the impact on the working environment and internal controls

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the thought leader as an individual, and are not attributed to CeFPro or any particular […]

8th September 2021

Reviewing supply chain resilience and developing controls to maintain resilience of processes

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the thought leader as an individual, and are not attributed to CeFPro or any particular […]

7th September 2021

Supply chain risk management and practice

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the thought leader as an individual, and are not attributed to CeFPro or any particular […]

31st August 2021

Implementing a Trade Surveillance Program to increase fraud detection

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the thought leaders as individuals, and are not attributed to CeFPro or any particular organization. […]

SHARE YOUR THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

SHARE YOUR EXPERTISE…

GET YOUR BRAND SEEN…

CONNECT WITH SENIOR LEADERS…

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Are there any rules on the dress code?

Business attire is requested. The Summit is a formal opportunity to network with like-minded professionals and to gain knowledge from the industry's finest risk management experts.

What is the cost and what is included in the registration fee?

We offer incentives for 'early bird' registrants of the Summit, as outlined on our pricing structure. Registration includes breakfast, refreshment breaks, lunches, the cocktail reception at the end of the day, full access to the sessions and exhibition area. Presentations from sessions are also available, subject to speaker approval.

Where can I find the Summit documentation and speaker presentations?

All registered attendees will receive an email with access to documentation and speaker presentations after the Summit* We will work with our presenters to include as many presentations as possible on our Risk Insights App during the Summit. *Please note that our speakers often have to gain permission from their relevant compliance departments to release their presentations. On rare occasions compliance may not allow presentations to be distributed.

Are there opportunities to share my thought-leadership at the Risk EMEA 2021 Summit?

Yes there are plenty of opportunities for the Center for Financial Professionals to share thought-leadership to the attendees of Risk EMEA 2021 Summit and our wider risk professionals community. At the event We can distribute your material to the attendees, offer you an exhibition booth, and provide speaking opportunities so that you may enjoy a more prominent presence at the Forum. Visit the Sponsor tab for further information or contact sales@cefpro.com / +44 (0) 207 164 6582.

Are media partnerships available for the Risk EMEA 2021 Summit?

Yes. As part of a media partnership we can offer a variety of options to increase the branding and awareness of your association, company, certificate, publication or media. We are flexible with what we can offer however we usually:

Provide a discounted rate to attend
Place your logo and profile on the Summit website
Place your logo on the Summit brochure
Place your logo on promotional content where applicable
Distribute your media/marketing at the Summit
Promote through social media channels

To discuss this further please contact alex@cefpro.com or call +44 (0) 20 7164 6582.

Representing a financial institution or government body – (E.g. Bank, Insurance company, Asset Manager, Regulator)

PRE-AGENDA RATE

£499

Representing an information/service provider (E.g. Consultant, Vendor, Executive Search Firm, Law Firm)

PRE-AGENDA RATE

£1,299

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