8th Annual Risk EMEA 2019

Adrian is Deputy General Manager of Agricultural Bank of China, London Branch, where he holds the SM4 position, with specific responsibility for Risk and Compliance. He was formerly CRO for Europe and the Americas at the National Bank of Abu Dhabi, and has held senior risk management positions at UBS and Merrill Lynch. His 25 years in the banking industry has included credit management roles covering most geographies, wholesale, investment banking and wealth management products, and a diversity of clients, ranging from Hedge Funds to Multinational Corporates. He has also held risk management jobs in London and Tokyo, with HSBC, Deutsche Bank and Fuji Bank.

Mark is the Chief Risk Officer for Aviva’s UK Insurance businesses. Mark had previously been CRO for the Aviva group’s internal reinsurance company and the Group Enterprise Risk Director. Mark was also a Board member of Aviva Italia Holding from 2013-2017 and was a member of the Audit and Risk Committees, chairing the Audit Committee for 18 months. Before joining Aviva in 2010, Mark spent 16 years in risk management consulting at the insurance practice of Willis Towers Watson, becoming a partner in 2002.

Thomas is currently Chief Compliance Officer at Moneta Money Bank, Czech Republic, formerly part of the GE Capital group, where he leads the anti-fraud, AML, conduct risk and regulatory compliance teams. He also has responsibility for an agile development team that is automating the bank’s digital client onboarding KYC controls.

Thomas has 20 years’ experience in compliance, audit and regulatory senior executive roles having served as a Senior Banking Regulator for the United Arab Emirates Central Bank from 1999 to 2006. He was Chief Auditor at GE Money Czech Republic from 2007 to 2014 before taking up the Chief Compliance Officer role in 2015. He was closely involved in the IPO process that led to the successful spin-off of the business as an independent entity in 2016. Thomas was also President of the group’s Volunteer organization from 2013 to 2018 and serves as a Non-Executive Director for the group’s Leasing subsidiary.

Thomas holds a Master of Business Administration with Distinction from Warwick Business School and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Manchester Metropolitan University.

Simon Gadd was appointed CRO of L&G Group in January 2013. As Group CRO he heads risk oversight for all risk types within L&G risk framework, including prudential, operational and conduct risks. He provides advice to the Board and Executives on risk matters across the Group, including both UK and overseas operations, and sits on the Group Executive Committee and Group Risk Committee.

Simon has had a varied career with Legal & General since completing a mathematics degree at Oxford University. He qualified as an actuary in 1991 and roles undertaken since have included defined benefit pension valuation, various pricing and marketing roles, general management roles, and leadership of the pensions review. Simon has led several different businesses within the Legal & General group, including the Retail Protection business, Group Protection business and as MD of Annuities from 2006 – 2012.

Sedjwick is a seasoned Chief Risk Officer with over 20 years of experience across commercial, retail and business (SME) banking products. He has multifunction experience across credit risk management, Enterprise Risk Management, business management, marketing, financial analysis and advanced analytics.

He has experience across products and markets having worked across both developed markets (US, UK, Western Europe) as well as Emerging Markets (Asia, Middle East and Africa).

Sedjwick has a Masters Degree in Business and a Bachelors Degree in Engineering.

Outside of work, Sedjwick is an avid squash and tennis player.

Nasreen is the Chief Risk Officer for UBS Asset Management. She is responsible for the implementation of principles and appropriate independent control frameworks for credit, market, treasury, and country risks within UBS Asset Management.
Nasreen is a member of the UBS Asset Management Executive Committee and the UBS Group Risk Executive Committee where she participates in shaping business strategy and influencing the future direction of UBS Asset Management and Group Risk Control.

She joined UBS in 1999 and prior to the current role was the Group Head of Market Risk.

Nasreen has a BSc in Actuarial Science and an MSC in Mathematical Trading and Finance.
Nasreen is the Chief Risk Officer for UBS Asset Management. She is responsible for the implementation of principles and appropriate independent control frameworks for credit, market, treasury, and country risks within UBS Asset Management.
Nasreen is a member of the UBS Asset Management Executive Committee and the UBS Group Risk Executive Committee where she participates in shaping business strategy and influencing the future direction of UBS Asset Management and Group Risk Control.

She joined UBS in 1999 and prior to the current role was the Group Head of Market Risk.

Nasreen has a BSc in Actuarial Science and an MSC in Mathematical Trading and Finance.

Paul Kennedy will be presenting at Risk EMEA

Prior to this, Tom was Managing Director, Head of Regulatory Policy for the Barclays Group, a global role he held since 2016, where he was responsible for leading policy on key strategic regulatory developments in areas such as Brexit, US regulatory recalibration, bank structural reform, IFRS9, capital, resolvability, data privacy, and market infrastructure (including MiFID2 and EMIR). Tom was also responsible for building relationships with, and executing advocacy strategies for, a wide range of regulators globally balancing the Group’s supervisory and policy priorities as well as being responsible for briefing and engaging with a wide range of C-suite stakeholders, Exco members and business heads on regulatory developments. Additionally, Tom headed up the development and enhancing of regulatory implementation processes across the Barclays Group involving stakeholders throughout the organisation. Externally, Tom has been an active member of numerous trade association committees, the International Regulatory Strategy Group and a frequent speaker on regulatory policy developments.

Previous to his London role, Tom was Head of Regulatory Policy for Barclays in Asia Pacific and spent over 10 years in various senior in-house legal roles based in Singapore. During this time, Tom was responsible for managing legal and regulatory risk for Barclays’ investment banking and wealth businesses in the wider APAC region, a role that involved advising senior executive and risk committees and business leads on regulatory risk and managing communications with a wide range of Asian regulators on a mixture of supervisory and policy issues. Tom had a particular focus on the extra-territorial impact of EU and US post-crisis regulation.

Tom originally qualified as a solicitor with Clifford Chance before moving in-house to Barclays in 2004. He studied politics at Newcastle University and a post graduate law degree at the College of Law in London.

Ebbe has over 15 years’ experience in leading departments in the financial sector. Currently Ebbe is employed as the Chief Risk Officer of Aegon Bank (including Knab). Before he worked as Head of Regulatory Risk at ABN AMRO and was involved in several innovation projects for Risk Management at ABN AMRO bank. Previously he worked as a Managing Director Risk Management at ING Bank in Amsterdam and Hong Kong. Ebbe has extensive risk management knowledge, including strong expertise in Accounting and Regulations. He is well experienced in the 2nd line oversight of all risk categories: Credit Risk, Market Risk (responsible for Asset and Liability Management at ING Bank), Non-financial Risk, Real Estate risk, (worked for 4 years as a senior Managing Director at one of the largest real estate companies in the world), Investment Risk (responsible for the risk management of all ING Life investments in the Asia Pacific region), Regulatory Risk (at ABN AMRO), and Model Risk (one of the contributors of this topic at ABN AMRO).

Alistair has over 20 years experience working in the financial services sector for top-tier institutions. He has worked across Investment Banking, Structured Finance, M&A, Retail, Corporate and infrastructure areas, covering all aspects of governance, control and risk management. He has specialised in Operational Risk for the last 15 years, implementing practical enterprise risk management frameworks in both front office supervision and second line Operational Risk roles.
Alistair has held a number of senior roles at Citi, including Head of Risk Management for Global Banking, covering Europe, Middle East and Africa and at Barclays Bank including Head of Operational Risk for Barclaycard and Group Functions. He is currently the CRO for Barclays UK Ventures which is focused on driving innovative growth through the identification, incubation and scaling-up of potentially transformational new business lines and business models for Barclays.

Charles A. Richard III is a Senior Vice President at QRM, with over 25 years of experience in enterprise risk management, balance sheet management, credit risk management, and regulatory capital management. During his tenure at QRM, he has consulted with hundreds of financial institutions worldwide and helped QRM build an international client base of over 250 long-term engagements.

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).

Louise Thorpe is the Chief Privacy Officer for American Express and leads the global teams that oversee the risks related to privacy, information security, records management and information technology. Louise joined the company in 2012, having previously held positions at Vodafone in the UK, and for the Victorian Privacy Commissioner in Australia. Louise holds undergraduate degrees in law and media studies from La Trobe University, a masters of law from Melbourne University. She is currently completing an Executive MBA at Imperial College London, and serves as an advisory board member for OneTrust – a privacy management software company.

Rajiv has over 20 years of investment banking experience managing risk, regulatory and technology transformation programmes. He has successfully delivered large change programmes building strong relationships with stakeholders while developing, managing and leading high impact teams across geographies. He has also developed a leading vendor technology solution providing trading, risk management and financial & physical settlement for trading energy products.

Mark Bird will be presenting at Risk EMEA

Charlotte is Citi’s Global Head of Information Security Internal Standards & Cyber Advocacy, with overall responsibilities for the life-cycle of Citi’s internal Information Security standards and policies, and a global, cross-franchise external engagement program to strengthen and develop Citi’s relationships with the public sector and industry partners. In this role she is also responsible for partnering with teams across Citi to support their understanding of cyber and data protection public policy, legislation and regulation, future trends and political developments. Charlotte joined Citi in 2015. Prior to joining Citi, she had roles working with government partners within the retail and financial crime public policy teams of UK Finance, and in International Strategy at TheCityUK.

Russell has worked as a trader, risk manager and assurance provider in large and medium banks as well as entrepreneurial trading firms. The common thread across these roles has been a hands-on IT development component, i.e. “innovation”. Currently he is using machine learning to re-use existing scenario results to predict new, adhoc scenarios quickly as well as identifying the explanatory features driving the results.

Gianluca is Head of Enterprise Risk for the International Wealth Management division at Credit Suisse. His function acts as a guardian of divisional risk appetite, sharing responsibility with management for unexpected or “out of strategy” losses incurred in the business. Within Credit Suisse, he previously headed the Credit Portfolio Management team for UK Investment Banking entities.

Gianluca also covered a Senior Financial Engineer role at Algorithmics, leading projects on Market and Credit Risk, ALM and Liquidity/Solvency II.

Gianluca started his career as a strategist/trader for FCT Group in 2006, just in time to experience some of the 2008 volatility where he learnt first-hand the importance of holistic risk management.

Lewis is the head of the Fintech Risk function within Deutsche Bank. Lewis has held a wide range of roles across financial services ranging from Sales & Trading to Consultancy. He joined Deutsche’s Operational Risk division as the lead for FX, Rates and Derivatives before setting-up Fintech Risk 2017. His remit is to drive risk-considered innovation across concepts such as blockchain, AI, Open Banking & Cloud while interacting with regulators and experts to help form common governance in the fintech space.

Mariana Gomez de la Villa (1979, Mexican nationality) has joined ING in 2015 and is currently the global head of ING’s Blockchain program, with overall responsibility for driving research, development and deployment of Distributed Ledger Technology as well as capitalizing on its potential in order to unlock mass-scale value.

Under Mariana’s leadership, the Blockchain program has delivered over +30 proofs of concept in collaboration with the following business areas: payments, trade finance and working capital solutions, financial markets, post-trade, bank treasury, lending, compliance and identity.

Mariana is also responsible for setting up long-term purpose and vision, including the governance of the program within the organization. Mariana is an active leader in global consortia, outlining the Distributed Ledger Technology strategy and envisioning market landscapes.

Mariana’s accountabilities include the definition of products, services and business models, as well as foresight to business, technology, leadership communities and international stakeholders, including regulators.
Mariana Gomez de la Villa (1979, Mexican nationality) has joined ING in 2015 and is currently the global head of ING’s Blockchain program, with overall responsibility for driving research, development and deployment of Distributed Ledger Technology as well as capitalizing on its potential in order to unlock mass-scale value.

Under Mariana’s leadership, the Blockchain program has delivered over +30 proofs of concept in collaboration with the following business areas: payments, trade finance and working capital solutions, financial markets, post-trade, bank treasury, lending, compliance and identity.

Mariana is also responsible for setting up long-term purpose and vision, including the governance of the program within the organization. Mariana is an active leader in global consortia, outlining the Distributed Ledger Technology strategy and envisioning market landscapes.

Mariana’s accountabilities include the definition of products, services and business models, as well as foresight to business, technology, leadership communities and international stakeholders, including regulators.
Mariana Gomez de la Villa (1979, Mexican nationality) has joined ING in 2015 and is currently the global head of ING’s Blockchain program, with overall responsibility for driving research, development and deployment of Distributed Ledger Technology as well as capitalizing on its potential in order to unlock mass-scale value.

Under Mariana’s leadership, the Blockchain program has delivered over +30 proofs of concept in collaboration with the following business areas: payments, trade finance and working capital solutions, financial markets, post-trade, bank treasury, lending, compliance and identity.

Mariana is also responsible for setting up long-term purpose and vision, including the governance of the program within the organization. Mariana is an active leader in global consortia, outlining the Distributed Ledger Technology strategy and envisioning market landscapes.

Mariana’s accountabilities include the definition of products, services and business models, as well as foresight to business, technology, leadership communities and international stakeholders, including regulators.

Thomas will be presenting at Risk EMEA 2019

Alexander has more than 15 years’ experience in the world of Capital Markets and Investment Banking. He has worked in various client facing roles for Deutsche Bank in Germany and United Kingdom. In his current role, Alexander coordinates the coverage of FinTech clients for his business division globally and is voting member of Deutsche Bank’s FinTech onboarding council. Alexander graduated from Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

Maciej Lewandowski is a seasoned banking professional with 20+ years of experience ranging from financial control, credit risk management to corporate banking, derivatives and fixed income.

Currently (since June 2014) he is working in ECB Banking Supervision (aka Single Supervision Mechanism – SSM) as Head of Section & Joint Supervisory Team (JST) Coordinator, responsible for consolidated supervision of one of the largest Dutch banks. As JST Coordinator, he leads 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. He is responsible for the international team of experts located in Frankfurt and Amsterdam.

Prior to joining 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.

Sucharita Banerjee Lodha will be presenting at Risk EMEA

Rob has over twenty years’ experience working within the financial services sector as both an industry professional and management consultant. Having worked with NatWest Markets, Capco and Ernst & Young, Rob is now a Managing Director at BCS Consulting where he leads their Risk and Finance Service Line. Specialising in Non-Financial Risk Management, he has worked for many tier 1 FS institutions, managing transformation programmes focused on risk management policies, processes and systems. Recently Rob has worked closely with clients developing risk and control frameworks with appropriate characteristics, testing and alignment to 3 LoD responsibilities. He is currently the interim Head of Operational Risk for MUFG.

Ghanshyam Patil will be presenting at Risk EMEA

Leslie Perry Coombs will be presenting at Risk EMEA

Jaro Semerak serves as a Privacy Consultant specializing in Vendor Risk Management at OneTrust – the largest and most widely used dedicated privacy management technology platform to operationalize privacy, security and third-party risk management. In his role, Jaro advises many of the world’s leading organizations and partners on EU GDPR, California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Brazil LGPD, and hundreds of the world’s privacy laws, focused on formulating efficient and effective responses to data protection requirements as well as building and scaling privacy programs. Jaro holds a Business Management degree from the University of South Wales.

Andrew is a non-Executive Director of the Institute of Operational Risk and a member of the England and Wales Chapter’s Executive Board. He is also Head of the Operational Risk Regulatory Advisory function at Credit Suisse having moved from HSBC. Andrew is probably best known for his work at the FSA and subsequently the PRA. During his time at the FSA and PRA Andrew managed the Operational Risk Review team in the Risk Specialist Division and represented the UK on the BCBS’ and EBA’s Operational Risk working groups.

Georgia is an experienced Operational Risk and Controls practitioner, specialising in Risk and Control Self Assessments and the challenges associated with Enterprise wide Risk taxonomies and supporting causal, controls, organisation and process taxonomies.
Georgia has spent time devising different aggregation and calculation values for the reporting of non-financial risk impacts, and has spent the last 18 months working on process led RCSAs at Barclays.

Georgia started her career at JP Morgan in financial reporting and has worked on various projects across finance, risk, compliance and legal.

Gavin has 25 years of experience in Trading, Risk Management, Finance, Consulting and Auditing in investment and corporate banking focusing on front-to-back trading infrastructure.

Gavin started his career as a Chartered Accountant, later specialising in financial services, gaining valuable experience in performing investigations into organisations losing money through unauthorised trading, specifically Barings Bank and Daiwa Bank.

Gavin loves working as an interface between technology and business, getting involved in the latest technology innovations and helping the business to leverage the potential from changes in social behaviour brought about by this technological innovation.

Most recently Gavin has helped Nordea Bank re-build their front-to-back trading infrastructure.

Kaivalya Vishnu is the regional EMEA & APAC lead for liquidity risk technology at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Based in London, he is responsible for providing technology solutions to support Corporate Treasury Liquidity Management and Data Management functions. He & his team is accountable for the implementation of technology platforms and tool sets to source data and deliver analytics and reporting capabilities to meet business and regulatory demands. He has been leading various initiatives to build Corporate Treasury’s strategic next generation data & analytics platform that will standardize the reporting & data framework, operational work flows and data governance while meeting the obligations under regulations such as Basel III / CRD IV (LCR, NSFR, ALMM, Delegated Act), Fed 5G, Stress Modelling & Internal Management reporting.

Kaivalya is a technology executive with 20+ years of rich diversified experience in designing & delivering technology solution across various industry sectors. Prior to BAML, he had held various positions at firms such as Barclays Capital, RBS, Standard & Poor’s, Fitch Ratings, Samsung Corporation & Lucent Technologies across locations in UK, USA, India and South Korea. He has built up his career specializing in technology development & management that helps businesses maximize their return on technology investment by adopting the best practices in business technology integration, Program Management, Global delivery framework, Business Analysis and an optimal people-process-technology operating model.

Kaivalya holds an executive MBA from Cass Business School, London and Masters in Computer Science from Allahabad University, India. He is also a visiting faculty at Cass Business School, London and has co-authored a couple of papers published in academic/management journals.

Liv A. Watson is a Senior Director of Strategic Customer Initiatives at Workiva Inc. Watson currently serves as Chair of the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) Technology Trends Subcommittee, member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) Sustainability Committee, member of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Technology consortium, and an active member of the XBRL International Funding Task Force. She has published numerous articles for international publications and journals, including Harvard Business Review and Strategic Finance, The Washington Post, Financial Times, Business Week, InformationWeek Wall Street & Technology, and CFO Magazine.Liv is also the co-author and contributing author to several books, including XBRL for Dummies as well as Governance, Risk, and Compliance Handbook published by Wiley.

With over 20 years’ experience in software implementation and consulting projects, Simon has in depth experience of various risk management and treasury issues. Educated in Melbourne, Australia, Simon also has an MBA from University of Bradford. At BearingPoint, Simon is responsible for business development for risk management solutions within Financial Services.

Antoine Bezat is responsible of Stress Testing Models and Methodologies for BNPP since 2017. This transversal role covers all risk classes (Credit, Market, interest rates,  operational  and cyber, revenues and liquidity). Antoine is also in charge of the forward looking aspects of IFRS9 provisioning.

Antoine has been responsible of the independent validation for market activities of Dexia until 2009 where he joined BNPP.  Within BNPP Antoine worked on credit economic capital model, provisioning and stress testing. He became head of Credit Stress Testing in 2014.

Paul is the Global Head of Traded Risk Analytics overseeing model development of risk models across Market Risk, Counterparty Credit Risk and Stress Testing. Paul has over 20 years of modelling experience. First, as a physicist modelling the behaviours of very dense, low temperature plasmas; before moving into Finance where he joined a Model Validation team. Paul then spent 7 years in Model Validation before moving into Risk Model Development.

Naz Ebrahim is part of Morgan Stanley’s EMEA Stress Testing and Portfolio Risk team, in her capacity as Head of Prudential Risk she leads all the efforts around delivery of the ICAAP, Recovery Planning, Risk Appetite and Risk Identification in EMEA working closely with the all the risk areas, Finance, Treasury and Legal.

Naz has over 10 years of experience in Financial Services starting with KPMG in Canada, moving to London on international secondment. Prior to Morgan Stanley Naz spent eight years at Barclays in various risk management roles, including delivery of the first ever dual PRA/EBA stress test in 2014.

Thibault Godbillon is a banking resolution specialist. Prior to joining the EBA he was a manager within the Bank of England’s resolution directorate where he was particularly involved in the execution of the Bank’s MREL policy as well as in resolution and contingency planning. Prior to joining the Bank Thibault held several positions in the financial industry in London and Paris.

Dr Ying Hu is the Head of Risk Analytics at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Europe Limited (SMBCE). She is responsible for SMBCE’s Credit and Op risk modelling, ICAAP stress testing, RAROC and RWA calculations. Her latest project was to establish a Model Risk Management Framework for the bank. Prior to joining SMBCE she worked at Deutsche Bank in the Risk Analytics and Instruments Group, where she was responsible for managing and developing Deutsche’s RAROC pricing tool. Ying holds a PHD degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Warwick.

Casey will be presenting at Risk EMEA 2019

Amit has got extensive Treasury and Risk Management experience with banks across different countries. He has worked with global banks for the last 15 years and his roles have spanned a number of functions. His expertise ranges from funding and liquidity activities at the money market desk to the development of sophisticated risk management analytics, covering Liquidity, Interest Rate Risk, Funds Transfer Pricing and Asset-Liability Management. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Financial Risk Manager.

Krishna is a career banker with Canara Bank, a premier Indian state-owned bank. Currently holding compliance oversight role (SMF 16) approved by the UK regulators. He is a member of the Compliance Committee of Association of Foreign Banks, London. Plus chair of CBUK AML Committee and Risk Management & Compliance Committee. Krishna has expertise in regulatory change management and horizon scanning and diving the process of remediation under handling the s.166 review. His skills include Identifying potential areas of compliance vulnerability and developing remedial systems and controls. Drafting all policies and procedures including AML, Compliance and Risk Management. Setting up TLOD model and heading the second line function and establishing governance and risk framework.

• Establishing governance and risk framework

Savaiz Khawaja co-leads QRM’s European, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Client Management team. He is responsible for assisting clients to develop best practices in asset-liability management, funds transfer pricing, capital management, and stress testing. Based in London, he has been working in the financial services industry for more than 20 years, and employed by QRM in various capacities for more than 15 years. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, and a master’s degree in Quantitative Finance from ICMA Centre, Henley Business School.

Henry Lin is a Co-Lead of QRM’s EMEA Client Management Team. Based in London, his responsibilities include working with QRM’s diverse client base to elevate their operations to best practices and instill a culture of continuous change; managing a talented team of consultants to ensure that QRM’s clients are unquestionably satisfied; evolving best practices to keep pace with a rapidly changing industry; and communicating industry changes to both QRM’s development team and client base. He has steered reengineering projects for clients ranging in size from 1 billion to well over 1 trillion in assets, across a wide variety of disciplines, including ALM, FTP, and capital management. Prior to joining the London office, he led QRM’s Asia-Pacific Client Management Team in Singapore. He has a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Financial Mathematics, both from the University of Chicago.

I have over 10 years of experience in model validation, starting from various Front Office Pricing Models, covering Equity, IR, FX and Hybrids, and switching to all types of Risk Models afterwards. My current primary focus as a Co-Head of Risk Model Validation at Nomura is on validation of credit exposure, margin calculations and stress testing models implemented in Nomura Group globally. I have PhD in theoretical physics from Augsburg University and MSc in applied math and physics from Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology.

Nigel is a Chartered Accountant and has held various roles in banking having worked in Internal Audit at Schroders and Credit Suisse. Previous roles also include Head of Operational Risk and Enterprise Risk reporting to CRO’s at Santander. In the last 7 years Nigel has been Head of ICAAP and held various Stress Testing roles at RBS.

Jason is Head of Balance Sheet Management at Nat West Markets.  He has responsibility for managing the deployment of capital & balance sheet.  This involves decisions at the strategic and transaction level.  The team provide the business capability to take effective resource decisions, shape the resource utilisation to ensure resilience under stress and manage the direct business response to prudential regulations.  Prior to joining Nat West Markets in 2006 Jason was at Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he ran an EMEA Planning & Strategy team. FCCA, LLB Hons (Law).

Ashan Ramakrishnan will be presenting at Risk EMEA

As part of his role, Gilles liaises very closely with financial institution issuers, bond investors, rating agencies and regulatory bodies, balancing the interests of all stakeholders in order to advise his clients on optimal capital structures and the instruments available to meet the capital requirements of the new regulatory regime.

Prior to joining BNP Paribas in 2014, Gilles spent 8 years at UBS where he started his career in the Capital solutions team. He then held positions in the FIG Benelux (2005-2007) and Nordic teams (2007-2013)

Gilles graduated from Imperial College with a MSci in Mathematics and Computing, and holds a Master in Management diploma from HEC Paris

Tony Roberts joined Deutsche Bank in 2011 where he heads Leverage Management as well as Capital & Liquidity crisis management in Treasury. Currently he has responsibility for steering leverage and balance sheet volume in BAU, as well as the management tools and mechanisms for steering capital and liquidity in stress or crisis situations.

Prior to Deutsche Bank, Mr. Roberts spent 6 years at Standard Bank, latterly in Treasury & Capital Management, before which he worked for the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Mr. Roberts has an MA in Modern History from Oxford University.

Hanna is the Group Chief Risk Officer at Bankmed, a regional corporate, retail and private banking organisation headquartered in Lebanon with operations in the EMEA region. He is responsible for designing and implementing the Group risk management strategy and processes to support delivery of the strategic goals of the Group and its subsidiaries. Prior to joining Bankmed, Hanna was the Head of Risk Strategy at Bank of Ireland Group and held senior Risk & Regulatory management consulting roles at Ernst & Young, KPMG and Accenture in the UK and globally.

Hanna is an experienced executive with over 20 years’ risk management experience, covering both strategy and pragmatic implementation of Risk Management programmes across all major industry segments in a wide number of geographic markets. He holds a specialised Master’s degree in Financial Engineering from ESSEC Business School and an MSc in Finance from the Paris-Dauphine University in France. He has written many articles on financial risk management and is a frequent speaker at leading UK and international conferences.

Perry is a qualified Actuary, who joined LBG in 2015 from HSBC where he was Chief Executive Officer (CEO), for UK Insurance. In HSBC, he also, served as Global Insurance Chief Risk Officer and ran the bank’s own insurance coverages.

Prior to this, he served as Group Chief Actuary and spent a few years as CEO of a pan-European GI business and a reinsurer with a global remit, covering life to commercial lines.
Other previous roles have been with the Reinsurance Group of America, as founding CEO of their UK operations, Tillinghast, AON and Zurich.

Perry is a fellow/council member for 2018/2019 of Institute & Faculty of Actuaries, a Certified Enterprise Risk Analyst (CERA) and a member of the Association of British Insurers ABI.

Perry lives in London, is married to his wife Rita and has 3 children Jordan, Taran and Manisha. Interests include holidaying, scuba diving and running the obligatory taxi service to his kids’ social lives.

Hadrien is a Senior Manager at Avantage Reply in charge of the Risk, Finance and Compliance consulting services within Avantage Reply. Avantage Reply is a specialised consulting unit within the Reply group (www.reply.com). Prior to that he was a Senior Market Risk Manager at Dexia/Belfius in the Quantitative Market Risk team and later in the Risk Analysis team.

His areas of focus are:
1) Trading activities: with a focus on market risk (incl. FRTB), counterparty credit risk, and settlement & clearing processes.
2) Banking book activities: with a focus on interest rate risk in the banking book, credit spread risk in the banking book, and liquidity risk.
3) Resolution regime: in particular supporting the regulator with the modelling of the resolution strategy.

Across all these areas Hadrien helps clients with modelling the risks, reviewing policies & risk frameworks and defining the risk processes & supporting the implementation of IT systems.

Neels Vosloo is the Head of EMEA Regulatory Risk within Global Markets Risk Management at BAML. Before joining BAML, Neels headed up the Traded Risk Modelling team in Deloitte’s Risk Advisory practice in London. He has worked in risk modelling roles across market and counterparty risk, and has been a Senior Risk Specialist in the Traded Risk Department at the PRA, overseeing the transitions to both the CRD III and CRD IV / CRR regimes, and participating in drafting the first version of the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB). Neels hold degrees in Mathematics, Philosophy, and Actuarial Science from the University of Pretoria.

BC Achary is an experienced international banker with many years of experience covering various assignments in credit and risk management, treasury, asset liability management, trade finance, business strategy and development, regulatory compliance and general management. Currently he is the Executive Director and Deputy Chief Executive Officer of FCMB Bank (UK) Limited. Prior to this he was the Executive Director and Chief Risk Officer of the Bank from 2012 to 2018.

He is a Chartered Fellow of CISI, a member of its Fintech Committee, and a Certified Member of the Institute of Risk Management. He has also successfully participated in the Fintech Programme of Said Business School, Oxford University.

Giorgio Baldassarri is Global Head of the Analytic Development Group (ADG). His team is responsible for the analytical development, maintenance and on-going validation of all credit risk models and products across Risk Services. These products are used by financial institutions and companies to measure and manage credit risk within regulatory frameworks such as Basel II/III or Solvency II. Prior to joining S&P Global Market Intelligence in 2011, Giorgio worked at Barclays for three years as Associate Director in Group Risk (Operational Risk and Credit Risk). Giorgio holds a Ph.D. in Quantum Mechanics and Semiconductor Physics from Sapienza University of Rome.

Brandon is a Trustee of the Responsible Finance Institute Foundation a Non-executive director of LintelFinancial Services Limited  and of Obillex Limitedand an advisor to Rosette Limited a Shariah merchant bank .

Brandon is an advisory council member of the Institute of International Monetary Research and is a member of the Financial Markets Group at the London School of Economics.

He currently lectures at Buckingham University on their Masters in Money, Banking and Central Banking degree course.

Brandon retiredfrom Barclays Bank  in 20004 where he was Treasurer of retail and corporate banking and a member of the banks Executive Committee. Prior to this appointment he was Head of Structured Products at Barclays Capital

Atanas Dimov has global responsibility for the management of credit risk arising from illiquid debt investments as well as counterparty credit risk at Aviva Investors. 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.

Georg Hauser, an Austrian national, is heading Credit Risk Management in ING in Germany, hitherto known as ING-DiBa, part of ING Group. This comprises Retail Banking as well as Wholesale Banking. He has been in the banking and risk profession since more than 25 years, mostly with ING, and was active in several European countries, including Poland, Russia and now Germany.

Michalis Ioannides will be presenting at Risk EMEA

Doriana Iovino will be presenting at Risk EMEA

Catherine held a variety of risk and front line roles in market risk, liquidity risk, structured products, derivative sales and Corporate Lending, including a number of years in the RBS group. In recent years she has had a much greater focus on regulatory matters.

Catherine has lectured on a number of subject areas in a variety of institutions including the Institute of Bankers and Dublin City University and for the past three years has been lecturing on the Masters in Risk Management programme in Trinity College Dublin, which is the highest ranked  university in Ireland.

Sid Khan is the Head of Traded Risk CCP Risk Management at HSBC. He is responsible for global risk management of HSBC’s exposure to the Central Counterparty (CCP) sector. This includes responsibility for group CCP risk management policy, governance and oversight, and strategic enhancement of global risk measurement and monitoring capabilities.

Sid holds PhD and Masters degrees in Mathematics from Johns Hopkins University, as well as Masters and Bachelors degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a Bachelors degree in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Nils Foyn is an international experienced analytics leader with 20 years experience working with and for banks, primarily in Risk Management. Before joining Danske Bank in 2014 Nils worked for ANZ in Australia where he refurbished the analytics function. Nils is currently leading the advanced analytics initiative in Danske Bank, where new tech stacks, new methodologies and new data items are the foundation for value creation for customers and shareholders.

Andreas is a financial professional with extensive quantitative and investment banking experience across Europe and Middle East. Currently, at FBN Bank UK he heads the portfolio risk and is implementing IFRS9, Stress and sensitivity testing. He has started his financial career with Lehman Brothers were he was Fixed Income quantitative and derivatives modeller. He moved to the world of exotic derivatives and structured products producing innovative asset and liability solutions for clients across Europe. He has worked for BMO, CALYON, RBC and ITC Markets. Andreas is frequently quoted by Bloomberg, and the press, with regards to the debt and NPL crisis in Europe. Andreas studied Astrophysics and advanced Mathematics at London University and Cambridge. He was awarded a scholarship to do a PhD in London on Einstein’s General Theory of relativity and he has written articles in referred scientific journals.

Maciej Lewandowski is a seasoned banking professional with 20+ years of experience ranging from financial control, credit risk management to corporate banking, derivatives and fixed income.

Currently (since June 2014) he is working in ECB Banking Supervision (aka Single Supervision Mechanism – SSM) as Head of Section & Joint Supervisory Team (JST) Coordinator, responsible for consolidated supervision of one of the largest Dutch banks. As JST Coordinator, he leads 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. He is responsible for the international team of experts located in Frankfurt and Amsterdam.

Prior to joining 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.

Robert McWilliam is a Managing Director within Financial Markets at ING Bank NV. He is currently leading an initiative within ING’s Innovation Lab, to develop a clearing (OTC/ETD) and client clearing platform.

He joined ING in 2010 to set up a CVA Trading desk which he extended to include funding (FVA), collateral/margin (SIMM), liquidity (LCR), capital and credit risk measurement.

From 1997 to 2010, Mr McWilliam held various positions at ABN Amro, latterly as Global Head, Counterparty Exposure Management.

Mr McWilliam is Chairman, PRMIA Global Board: a not-for-profit, member-led global network for the promotion of Professional Risk Management practices.

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.

Erkin has been with BCS Consulting for nearly 10 years, is a member of the firm’s Executive Management Team and is currently leading the Enterprise Risk, Financial Risk and Finance areas, focusing on helping leading Financial Services organisations address critical issues such as digital innovation, capital efficiency and risk-adjusted returns, stress testing, liquidity risk, Basel III/IV, IFRS9, data management, process efficiency and automation. Over his 25-year career in management consulting he has worked across Europe and US at clients such as HSBC, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, RBS, Willis and the Hartford.

Rich Sudowsky is the Head of Credit Risk Management (CRM) of Swiss Re Group and leads a team that is accountable for identifying, measuring, monitoring and controlling credit default and migration of credit risk.  The team ensures that Swiss Re’s credit risk profile is transparent to the senior management and appropriate relative to Swiss Re’s risk appetite.  In addition to the significant amount of work originating from the credit risk taking businesses of Swiss Re, he is also responsible for the Group’s governance structure, pertinent policies, referral processes, and involved in the credit risk measurement methodologies.

Rich has more than 25 years of credit and consulting experience all within the insurance industry.  He has worked for a number industry leading employers, rating agencies and investment banks where prior to joining Swiss Re he served as the Global Head of Insurance Credit Risk for Barclays Capital.  Rich holds an MBA and Bachelor of Science in Finance from Monmouth University.

Jeroen Van Doorsselaere joined Wolters Kluwer in 2004 and heads the firm’s risk and finance team globally. During his career he has acquired in-depth theoretical and practical knowledge about the financial industry. Through his expertise of International Accounting Standards (IAS)/International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), Van Doorsselaere has built and specified the IAS accounting templates and IAS 39/IFRS 9 calculators within the accounting team. In his career, he developed the credit risk and IFRS 9 requirements as part of the global rise of CECL and more forward-looking accounting standards. Furthermore, he has gained project experience to meet the growing requirements from the central or local regulators as well as the specific requirements and difficulties facing clients.

He began his career within the firm in Basel and credit risk calculators to fulfil the needs of the Basel II requirements, and he has evolved as an IFRS expert, supporting IAS 39 projects and providing advice to banks across Europe, Africa, Middle East, Southeast Asia, Australia, and Japan. He has gained experience in joining enterprise-wide stress test across risk domains to make this an integrated strategy in Risk, Finance and Regulatory Reporting. He was educated at The University of Ghent, Belgium and completed an internship with Deloitte in portfolio management and price verification within the capital market space.

MV is the Head of the IRB Model Assessment Team in the Financial Market Supervision Department in Czech National Bank. He has absolved PhD. study at CERGE-EI in Prague in a field of Quantitative Economics. He also holds a MSc. in Mathematics from Comenius University in Bratislava.
MV works for Czech National Bank since 2005 and led various teams in the On-site supervision division, including team conducting on-site examination in a field of Credit Risk. He has been a member of various EBA’s working groups and has been taking part in developing various regulations at European level, especially aimed on the IRB approach.

I joined Lloyds Banking Group in 2009, and since 2010 have been Head of Credit for Global Funds. I am a senior sanctioner on Credit Committees for Commercial Banking, and sit on their Markets ExCom and Risk Committees. I sit on various working parties looking at Clearing of OTC Derivatives/Emir/Mifid/Collateral Optimisation. I was invited to the Bank of England round table on Financial Market Infrastructure in late 2016 as a BBA representative, and also to the Dutch Central Bank’s conference in June 2017 (same topic) . Prior to joining Lloyds I spent 10 years at Deutsche Bank where I was Head of Western European FI Credit.

Ben currently leads on Credit Risk for BCS Consulting. Over the past decade he has built up extensive experience in running critical regulatory implementation and remediation projects across commercial and retail banking, focused on credit and financial risk. This has included IFRS 9, IRB model applications, capital planning, stress testing, data management, process efficiency and operating model design. He has worked in a wide range of institutions, including HSBC, Santander, TSB, BACB and Close Brothers.

Chaoxin will be presenting at Risk EMEA 2019

Adam Ziarkewicz will be presenting at Risk EMEA

Yes, the Center for Financial Professionals are happy to discuss speaking opportunities at Risk EMEA 2019. For further information on this please contact shannon.harris@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 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.

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 Risk Insights App

Certainly! We are pleased to offer you a 50% discount on the third registration or provide a fifth registration for free. If you would like to register more than five colleagues please contact us on +44 (0) 20 7164 6582 Please note:

• Registrations must be made at the same time
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• The lowest registration will be discounted

Yes there are plenty of opportunities for the Center for Financial Professionals to share thought-leadership to the attendees of Risk EMEA 2019 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. Risk Insights Feature your content on our Risk Insights website and supporting Risk Insights monthly newsletter. For further information please download our media pack here.

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• Provide a discounted rate to attend
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