Risk EMEA 2023 Draft

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.

Farooq has been with UBS since June 2020. He previously held various senior positions in Investment Risk at Fidelity International and Royal London Asset Management. He spent close to a decade in managing hedge fund Investment Risk at Tudor Investment Corporation and City Financial. He started his risk career in the Investment Banking space, at Royal Bank of Scotland, Lehman Brothers and finally Nomura before transitioning to the alternative’s arena.

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.

Jeff Simmons joined MUFG Bank in June 2014 as the Head of Enterprise Risk, tasked with creating the function. He has been involved intensively with the enhancement of the Risk Management framework in MUFG Bank (Europe). This has involved him in the formation of an Enterprise Risk function in Amsterdam tasked with delivering the full range of regulatory submissions. In April 2018 he transitioned to MUFG Securities to become involved in the Brexit project. In this capacity he is the CRO for MUFG Securities (Europe) N.V. the Dutch subsidiary of MUFG Securities (EMEA).

Prior to joining the bank he spent some 20 years specializing in best practice Risk Management including Market Risk, Credit Risk, Risk Model Validation and Regulatory Risk consulting. As well as have line management responsibilities in various institutions he has also gained extensive experience in implementing Risk Management frameworks from both a technical and operating model based perspective.

Michael Sparks is the Chief Risk and Compliance Officer responsible for risk management and compliance oversight of the Issuer Services businesses at BNY Mellon.

With over 20 years of experience in financial services, Michael has risk management and first line business experience covering global custody operations, on exchange and OTC clearing and settlement, debt and equity capital markets servicing, equity and FX trading, transaction banking and private client stockbroking.

Michael began his career at Abbey Stockbrokers (part of the Santander Group), going on to join BNY Mellon in 2000. In that time, Michael has held first line management roles in Pershing’s Retail Brokerage Middle Office and Risk Management roles aligned to Pershing, Securities Operations, Global Collateral Management, ABN Amro Mellon, Corporate Trust, Depositary Receipts and Treasury Services.

Thomas Wallace is CRO of Revolut UK, having led the Group Financial Risk function since 2021. He has nearly 20 years of experience in risk management within industry and consultancy.

Before joining Revolut, Tom was a partner in the risk function at McKinsey, where he helped build the Risk Dynamics team focusing on risk analytics and model governance as well as serving top-tier clients on sustainability and climate risk topics. Prior to this he provided quantitative advisory services to banks and insurance firms as part of the PwC actuarial practice.

Tom is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and holds an MA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge.

Valeriu Bajenaru will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2023

Assad Bouayoun will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2023

John has an academic background in economics and over 25 years of experience in financial markets. John spent ten years in financial markets as a futures trader before taking on a role at the UK regulator in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, supervising a range of global investment banks. John then moved into risk advisory with PwC supporting a range of retail and wholesale banks on ICAAP, ILAAP, Recovery Planning and general regulatory engagement. John is currently Head of Prudential Risk at SMBC BI and oversees the Bank’s ICAAP, Recovery Plan and Sustainability Risk Management processes.

Dirk Effenberger is Head Investment Risk at UBS CIO. His team monitors key financial market risks and assesses their impact on asset classes. In addition, his team publishes the UBS Global Risk Radar – an investor’s guide to key investment risks. Dirk joined UBS in 2007. Previously, he was an economist at Deutsche Bank Research (Frankfurt and Toronto) and Swiss Re (Zurich). Dirk is a regular speaker at UBS client events and a guest lecturer to Coursera and University of St. Gallen. Dirk holds a master’s degree and a PhD in Economics from the University of Muenster (Germany) and studied at the University of California (USA).

Joao Figueiredo will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2023

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.

Julius is Head of Audit at the Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) in London and in that role responsible for covering Risk Management, Treasury, Capital Adequacy and Finance in the EMEA region, and Client Asset Safety globally. Before joining BNY Mellon in 2015 he worked at PwC in Luxembourg as Risk and Regulatory Consultant, specialised in Prudential Risk/ Basel III. Julius has a Master in Economics and Political Sciences, and holds both the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) as well as the Sustainability and Climate Risk (SCR) Certificate.

Michalis Ioannides will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2023

Haitian works in UBS Treasury Risk Control. She is a Managing Director heading Liquidity and Funding Risk Control team globally. Haitian also had extensive experience in Market Risk covering products across Fixed Income, Secured Funding, and Equity Financing.

Nicolae is the EMEA Head of Market Risk Analytics at Morgan Stanley, leading model development for regulatory and risk management models for market risk. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 2018 Nicolae has led the Quantitative Risk & Capital Strategies team within the risk methodology team at Credit Suisse and has held positions in proprietary trading (systematic trading) and academia (computational fluid dynamics research). Nicolae holds a PhD in applied mathematics and has over 15 years’ experience in quantitative modelling as applied to market risk, systematic trading, applied mathematics and engineering.

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.

Sreekar Periketi will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2023

Jack Rzeznik will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2023

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.

Borislav Vladimirov will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2023

Neels Vosloo covers Regulatory Capital Policy and Advocacy for EMEA within Enterprise Capital Management at Bank of America. Before joining BofA, Neels headed up the Traded Risk Modelling team in Deloitte’s Risk Advisory practice in London; he has held risk modelling roles across market and counterparty risk, including as Senior Risk Specialist in the Traded Risk Department at the UK FSA and PRA. Neels holds degrees in Mathematics, Philosophy, and Actuarial Science from the University of Pretoria.

Katherine leads the Global Financial and Model Risk Regulatory Policy and Engagement team for Risk at HSBC. The team acts as the external regulatory interface for the Wholesale Credit, Traded Risk, Treasury Risk Management and Global Risk Analytics functions and includes the provision of guidance  on regulatory risk matters, regulatory policy interpretation and industry engagement.  She has been with HSBC for eight and a half years. Prior to this she was based in Brussels as a Public Affairs consultant specialising in financial services regulation. Katherine has an MA in International Economic Relations from American University and a Maîtrise in European and International Law from the University of La Reunion. She is a fluent French speaker.

Chaoxin Zheng will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2023

Allen is the Head of Financial Crime and Compliance Management at Nest. His background is Audit with EY and then Engineering Consultancy including working on the London Olympics. He joined Nest when it was a start up to support the introduction of Automatic Enrolment legislation in the UK and worked in a variety of roles during its development. The Scheme currently stands as one of the biggest in the UK by membership with over 11 million members and circa £25 bn AUM.

Ben leads LBG’s oversight of operational resilience and technology resilience risks. Ben enjoys building functions that anticipate new risk challenges, develop innovative ways of optimising the treatment of risk, and help our business succeed. He has a passion for coaching, enhancing capability and bringing executives and regulators on the journey. As LBG embarks on it’s biggest transformation yet, Operational and Technology Resilience remains at the forefront of our mission to Help Britain Prosper.

Alia Cooper has worked for HSBC for 10 years in a variety of Financial Crime Risk focussed roles. She was heavily involved in the deployment of HSBC’s Global Standard FCR framework in the Europe region and has held roles in KYC Operations, Business and Compliance. In her current role Alia is focussed on the future of CDD, with an emphasis on efficient and effective compliance with the global regulatory environment in which HSBC operates.

Zara Culican will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2023

Ben Davis currently leads the Global Operational Resilience function within Barclays Bank whilst also performing wider Operational Risk responsibilities as part of the Managing Director leadership team. Prior to his time in Barclays, Ben led the Operational Risk and Resilience division within Sainsburys Bank where he was accountable for all aspects of the Operational Risk Framework together with Control Assurance and Crisis & Incident Management. Ben has also held a number of senior roles both within, and outside of, Risk across the Financial and Professionals sector.

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.

Maya is an experienced professional focusing on Data Protection, Privacy Regulation and Regulatory Change. In her role as a Risk Manager in EPCOR Privacy, she works with the EMEA teams to manage the risk of regulatory changes and rulings and ensure risk management and compliance are across the forefront of BAC’s business operations.
Maya has over 10 years’ experience delivering security, regulatory and data protection projects across various industries including Investment Management and Retail Banking. She has acquired the skillset to effectively enable transformation within challenging business and IT environments, working with a multitude of technical, organisational and C-suite stakeholders.
Maya is a certified privacy professional and holds CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT, CIPP/US, CIPP/A and CISSP certification. She holds a BSc in Business Economics and an MSc in Information management from Tilburg Business School.

Nino’s 18 years career in risk management spans across systemically important listed banks both in emerging and developed markets, the Big Four Consulting (EY, KPMG) and listed multinational companies in Australia. Nino accumulated unique experience in each of the Three Lines [of Defence] as well as external assurance providers/advisors granting her a broad perspective on important risk management matters.
Most recently, Nino led the creation of the first Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) function at Bank of Georgia, the London Stock Exchange listed systemically important bank in Georgia. This entailed strengthening the Risk Culture and the effectiveness of the Three Lines [of Defense – LOD] Model across the organization. In her previous role as the Chief Auditor at the company, Nino modernized the Internal Audit function and influenced the introduction of many innovative, advanced risk management frameworks throughout the Group.
Prior to relocating from Australia, Nino held senior risk management roles in both 1LOD and 2LOD at Westpac Banking Corporation (the second largest bank in Australia) based in Sydney.

Imtiaz Hussain is the Deputy Chief Auditor at BNY Mellon responsible for Investment Management and Wealth Management, Human Resources and ESG, Global Compliance, and Audit Innovation & Analytics. His primary responsibilities include creation of Internal Audit strategy, and risk based annual audit plan; delivery of audit projects in a timely manner and within budget; and seamless operations of the Audit Function. Imtiaz is responsible for driving Audit’s Agile Transformation initiative, and sponsoring strategy for auditing ESG.

Imtiaz received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Slippery Rock University and completed his MBA in International Finance and Strategy from George Washington University. Imtiaz is a Certified Public Accountant and holds several certifications in the field of Banking and Project Management.

John has spent his career fighting fraud across multiple sectors, working within both Fraud Investigations and Fraud Risk Advisory. An active member of the Anti-Fraud community, John supports Fraud Risk Reduction via his drive for greater collaboration between risk professionals, enhanced awareness of emerging risks, and the blended use of digital and analogue tools. John is currently the Head of Internal Fraud Risk Prevention at Standard Chartered Bank.

Dr. Uwe Klapproth is serving as a Head of Group Risk and a Non-Executive Director / Board member in the banking sector. He studied Business Management and Criminal Science..

Germar is Head of Division in ECB’s Directorate General Systemic and International Banks, which is in charge of the line supervision of G-SIBs. He is overseeing several Joint Supervisory Teams as well as project work related to the implementation of new regulatory approaches. Before joining ECB in 2014 from the German Federal Agency for Financial Market Stabilisation, he was responsible for the oversight over German public banks that benefitted from state support as well as the development of resolution plans. Following university studies in physics and business administration, Germar has worked in commercial banks since 1997, mainly in risk controlling and portfolio management roles

Nitesh Kumar will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2023

Peter joined HSBC in 1997 and was worked across various businesses in front-line and risk, control roles. Since 2020, Peter has lead Risk Stewardship (2LOD) oversight activities across the Wholesale and Markets businesses as well as leading on enterprise-wide internal fraud. With deep SME knowledge gleaned from various international assignments, Peter leads on the policies and controls which underpin HSBC’s fraud defences and he works closely with Financial Crime and Risk teams across the firm to deliver targeted anti-fraud frameworks. Key priorities for Peter include the transition to digital and greenwashing risks.

First psychologist ever appointed by a central bank – The Dutch Central Bank – to use her specific skillset in supervision. First behavioural scientist appointed as Global Head Behavioural Risk Management at a global bank with a direct reporting line to the ExCo. Editor and lead author of the highly influential book – Supervision of Behaviour & Culture. Worked with regulators across the globe including the ECB, NY FED, MAS and APRA in embedding behavioural insights. Key-note speaker and advisor across the globe. Unique experience in execution of behavioural risk reviews and reveal blind spots and unknown behavioural risks. Broad experience with applying behavioural insights and realising behavioural change in renown profit and governmental organisations

Jeff Simmons joined MUFG Bank in June 2014 as the Head of Enterprise Risk, tasked with creating the function. He has been involved intensively with the enhancement of the Risk Management framework in MUFG Bank (Europe). This has involved him in the formation of an Enterprise Risk function in Amsterdam tasked with delivering the full range of regulatory submissions. In April 2018 he transitioned to MUFG Securities to become involved in the Brexit project. In this capacity he is the CRO for MUFG Securities (Europe) N.V. the Dutch subsidiary of MUFG Securities (EMEA).
Prior to joining the bank he spent some 20 years specializing in best practice Risk Management including Market Risk, Credit Risk, Risk Model Validation and Regulatory Risk consulting. As well as have line management responsibilities in various institutions he has also gained extensive experience in implementing Risk Management frameworks from both a technical and operating model based perspective.

Lorraine joined Nest as Head of Risk in 2021. She has worked across various sectors but is strongly established in Financial Services, having worked in a global risk role for Zurich and, prior to that, in similar roles for Nationwide Buidling Society. Before joining Nationwide Lorraine worked for KPMG in their IARCS (Internal Audit, Risk and Compliance Services) team.

Lorraine has nearly 20 years experience of risk and controls alongside a Masters degree in Risk Management and post graduate qualifications in audit and accounting. She has presented on a number of topics for the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors, sharing her passion with both peers and the next generation of risk, compliance and audit professionals.

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.

Konstantina is a highly experienced Financial Risk professional with over 20 years career in Banking in various Quantitative Modelling roles, most recently as the Group Head of Model Risk Management at Barclays. Prior to that, she worked at Deutsche Bank where she built and led the Bank’s Model Risk Management function and before that at UBS in various quantitative roles in both the Front Office and Risk. Konstantina has extensive experience in developing Model Risk Management frameworks including methodologies to assess and quantify Model Uncertainties and their impact on the output of the framework they are used for (e.g. Capital in stress, IFRS9 etc). Konstantina’s most recent work involves Climate Transition modelling. She holds a PhD in Mathematics from Imperial College, London and an MSc and BSc in Mathematics from ENSIMAG, Grenoble, France and the University of Patras, Greece respectively.

Gilles Artaud has been working in investment banking since last century, where he held various positions within Quant, Front Office, IT and Risk Department, working all along on many models, quant developing, managing, validating them, making sure their risks are adequately managed. He’s now in charge for the 3rd line of defence of Model Risk Audit for Group Inspection in Group Crédit Agricole SA, dealing with transformation of risk induced by new models, framework, market and business evolutions, new fields of modelisation and compliance with ever-increasing regulations.

Yingbo joined UBS in 2010 and is currently co-head of the Model Risk Management and Control function with focus on valuation models and methodologies. Prior to UBS, he worked in various roles across quant and model risk control at CICC, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley.

Stuart Burns will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2023

Philippe joined Crédit Agricole CIB in 2016 as Managing Director to follow ECB review of BCBS 239. Prior to that, Philippe held several risk and IT positions within HSBC Global Banking & Market and Société Générale CIB in Paris where he managed IS strategy and transformation program for equity derivatives, market risk and corporate banking activities.
He is expert in architecture, advanced analytics and digital transformation, graduated with a master’s degree in mathematics applied to finance.

Currently heading the IFRS 9 Organic Impairment team for Starling Bank. With over eleven years of experience in managing projects and delivering statistical analysis, financial risk programs on Regulatory Risk, IRB Applications, IFRS9 development and Stress Testing Modelling. Academic from the University of Warwick focusing on Global Banking Regulation.

Madison joined BNY Mellon’s Risk and Compliance team in 2017 and has held a variety of roles across EMEA and Global Regulatory Change Management. She has a Legal background, and her early career was spent in Legal team at Abrdn and Aegon Asset Management, as well as a 1st Line Regulatory Risk role with Natwest.

Madison is currently repsonsible Global Regulatory Change Management. This involves supporting the identification, allocation and assessment of new regulations to BNY Mellon’s entities and LOBs, across APAC, EMEA and Americas.

Francis Gross is Senior Adviser in the Directorate General Statistics of the European Central Bank.
Francis’ main interest lies in developing vision, conceptual design and strategy for sustainable digitalisation of the economy, with a focus on effective measurement. His immediate aim is to design and drive concrete, feasible measures with transformational power, e.g. global, public-good digital infrastructure to make the system adequately measurable and more efficient. Starting in 2006 he initiated the movement that led to the G20-backed Global Legal Entity Identifier System, where he serves on the Regulatory Oversight Committee.
Before joining the ECB in 2001, Francis spent fifteen years in automotive, eight at Mercedes, working on globalisation.
He holds an engineering degree from École Centrale, Paris, and an MBA from Henley Management College, UK
In his free time, Francis coaches athletes for javelin throwing, including the current decathlon world champion.

Aleksi Grym is Head of Fintech at the Bank of Finland. His team manages a portfolio of projects covering financial technology, new payment systems and digital currencies. He is a member of the ECB’s digital euro project steering group and has been a member in several other international working groups. Before joining the Finnish central bank Aleksi worked in the consulting and technology industry for over fifteen years in London and Helsinki, advising organisations ranging from SME’s to leading global corporations.

Farooq has been with UBS since June 2020. He previously held various senior positions in Investment Risk at Fidelity International and Royal London Asset Management. He spent close to a decade in managing hedge fund Investment Risk at Tudor Investment Corporation and City Financial. He started his risk career in the Investment Banking space, at Royal Bank of Scotland, Lehman Brothers and finally Nomura before transitioning to the alternative’s arena.

Emma Hagan will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2023

Jodie Humphreys will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2023

Senior Audit Leader with multi-disciplinary experience of over 22 years in the area of business and integrated technology auditing. Expertise in products (retail, markets, insurance and investments), digital, technology, cyber, resilience, emerging technologies, data and sourcing. Building collaboration and engagement across senior leaders, regulators and control functions. Firm believer in coaching and supporting a diverse team to help fulfill their potential. Currently, Head of Audit with Lloyds Banking Group covering Insurance, Stockbroking and strategic technology platforms, security, resilience, digital transformation, data management and migration. Previously, worked with Deutsche Bank, Bank of Africa UK, Credit Suisse, KPMG and Oracle.

Basima Khuram will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2023

Marion Laboure will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2023

Carlos Martin FRM Msc BBA is an Executive Director at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Global Head of CIB Markets Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities Operatonal Risk Management. He has 25 years’ industry experience having previously worked at Morgan Stanley, CIBC, BNP Paribas, UBS, RBS NatWest Markets and EY in roles across Trading, Technology, Finance, Market Risk, Operational Risk and Audit.
Carlos collaborates with the Council for International Securities and Investment (CISI), the Professional Risk Managers International Association (PRMIA) and the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP). He is a certified Financial Risk Manager, holds a Master of Science in Finance by the University of Syracuse, New York, a Bachelor of Business Administration by the Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, and Academic Qualifications in Economics, Computer Programming, Market Risk and Operational Risk.

Dr. Ying Poikonen is currently the Head of Modelling Group for EMEA region in SMBC. She is responsible for the quantification of Credit, Market, Liquidity, Operational and Climate Change related financial risks for both internal and regulatory purpose, as well as the development of Model Risk Management and Stress Testing for EMEA region. Prior to joining SMBC, Ying worked in Deutsche bank. She holds a PhD degree in Engineering from Warwick University.

Peter Quell is Head of the Portfolio Analytics Team for Market and Credit Risk in the Risk Controlling Unit of DZ BANK AG in Frankfurt. He is responsible for methodological aspects of Internal Risk Models, Economic Capital and Model Risk. Prior to joining DZ BANK AG Peter was Manager at d-fine GmbH where he dealt with various aspects of Risk Management Systems in the Banking Industry. He holds a MSc. in Mathematical Finance from Oxford University and a PhD in Mathematics. Peter is member of the editorial board of the Journal of Risk Model Validation and a founding board member of the Model Risk Management International Association (mrmia.org).

Romaric Rollet will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2023

Yes, the Center for Financial Professionals are happy to discuss speaking opportunities at the Risk EMEA Summit. For further information on this please contact alice.kelly@cefpro.com or call us on +44 (0) 20 7164 6582.

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.

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.

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 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.

Yes. As with all of our events the Center for Financial Professionals will be providing brilliant coffee, breakfast, lunch, refreshments, and smaller bites during the networking breaks.

There are ample opportunities for networking and interaction throughout the Summit, such as

• Breakfast, lunch and refreshment breaks
• Cocktail reception at the end of the day (Subject to confirmation)
• Q&A, panel discussions and audience participation technology available through the App

Yes there are plenty of opportunities for the Center for Financial Professionals to share thought-leadership to the attendees of the Risk EMEA 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 Summit. Visit the Sponsor tab for further information or contact sales@cefpro.com / +44 (0) 207 164 6582.

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• Provide a discounted rate to attend
• Place your logo and profile on the Summit website
• 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 marketing@cefpro.com or call +44 (0)20 7164 6582

If you are unable to attend the Summit due to national/COVID restrictions, CeFPro would be more than happy to offer you a refund, credit note or the option to transfer the ticket to a colleague who is able to attend.

Yes, CPE Credits are available for the Risk Americas Convention and the Masterclasses.