Chairman & CEO, Verizon

Lowell C. McAdam is chairman and chief executive officer of Verizon Communications, with responsibility for the operations of Verizon, including all business units and staff functions. In addition, he is chairman of the Verizon Wireless Board of Representatives.

McAdam succeeded Ivan Seidenberg as CEO on Aug. 1, 2011 and as chairman on Jan. 1, 2012.

From October 2010 until he assumed his current position, McAdam served as president and COO and had responsibility for the operations of the company's network-based businesses -- Verizon Wireless and Verizon Telecom and Business - as well as Verizon Services Operations. He was also responsible for the technology management and CIO functions.

Before that, McAdam held key executive positions at Verizon Wireless since its inception in 2000 and built the company into the industry's leading wireless provider, with the nation's largest, most reliable wireless voice and 3G broadband data network. He was president and CEO of Verizon Wireless from 2007 until being named COO of Verizon, and before that served as Verizon Wireless' executive vice president and chief operating officer.

Earlier, McAdam was president and CEO of PrimeCo Personal Communications, a joint venture owned by Bell Atlantic and Vodafone AirTouch. He also served as PrimeCo's chief operating officer, responsible for overseeing the deployment of the new company's customer service operations and all-digital network.

McAdam has also served as vice president-international operations for AirTouch Communications and was lead technical partner for cellular ventures in Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Italy, Korea and Japan. McAdam joined AirTouch as executive director of international applications and operations in 1993. From 1983 to 1993, he held various executive positions with Pacific Bell, including area vice president of Bay Area marketing and general manager of South Bay customer services.

McAdam is past chairman of the board of directors of the CTIA, the wireless industry trade association. He is a director of the National Academy Foundation, a partnership between business leaders and educators that helps high schools across the country establish and run technical and service academies to prepare students for college and careers. He is also co-chair of the CEO Council on Health and Innovation, which encourages the adoption of innovative strategies to improve employee health and the delivery of higher-quality, more cost-effective healthcare. In addition, he is a member of the Cornell University Board of Trustees.

He earned a bachelor's degree in engineering from Cornell and a master's degree in business administration from the University of San Diego. He also spent six years in the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps and became a licensed professional engineer in 1979.

Former Group Executive Board Member, UBS and Ex-Chairman of Credit Suisse

Axel P. Lehmann is a senior leader with more than 25 years of experience at Group Executive Board and Board of Director levels in globally leading bank and insurance companies. Axel has a proven ability to work collaboratively within a diverse, multicultural, and multidisciplinary organization. He has strong strategic, operational, risk leadership, crisis management, executive management and oversight capabilities.

He is IMD Executive in Residence and Affiliate Professor at University of St. Gallen (HSG), a Board member and Senior Advisor. He is former Chairman of Credit Suisse Group and former member of Board of Directors at UBS. He was also a member of Group Executive Board at UBS , where he served as Chief Operating Officer, joint President of Personal and Corporate Banking, and President Switzerland. He previously enjoyed a nearly 20-year career at Zurich Insurance Group, where he spent 14 years on its Group Executive Committee in various roles. These include responsibility for the insurers European and North American business, Group Chief Risk Officer with additional responsibilities for Group IT, Regional Chairman for Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Chairman of Farmers Group Inc. (LA).

He holds a master´s degree in business administration and economics, obtained his doctorate with an award-winning dissertation, and received habilitation in business administration and service management from the University of St. Gallen. He is also a graduate of the Wharton Advanced Management Program (AMP), University of Pennsylvania.

CEO Emeritus, Deloitte and Member of the Board, Audit Committee Chair, Risk Committee & Credit Committee, Wells Fargo & Company

Mr. Quigley is a retired partner and CEO Emeritus of Deloitte. Prior to retiring in June 2012, Mr. Quigley served as chief executive officer of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL, the Deloitte global network), from 2007 to 2011, and as chief executive officer of Deloitte LLP, the U.S. member firm of DTTL, from 2003 until 2007. He served as a trustee of the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation from 2012 until December 2017. Mr. Quigley also is chairman of the board of directors of Hess Corporation and a member of the board of directors of Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, Inc. He previously was co-chairman of the TransAtlantic Business Dialogue, a member of the board of trustees of The German Marshall Fund of the United States, a director of the Center for Audit Quality, a trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation, a member of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting, and a member of numerous committees of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Quigley earned a Bachelor of Science degree and an honorary Doctorates of Business from Utah State University and Bentley College.

Author, Best-Selling Author of The Black Swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a philosopher, scholar of randomness, essayist, risk-management expert, and former trader. He is known for a multidisciplinary approach to the role of the high-impact rare event. 

He is author of the New York Times bestseller The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, the revelatory book that explains everything we know about what we don’t know. In it, he defines a “black swan” as a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: it is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. He concludes that black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives. He offers surprisingly simple tricks for dealing with black swans and benefiting from them, and changing the way we look at the world.

Previously, Taleb has held senior positions with major banks focusing on the trading and risk management of complex derivatives, and worked independently on the floor of the Chicago exchanges. He went on his own in 1999 and, until 2008, specialized in protecting portfolios against extreme events.

In addition to his other books and scholarly papers, Taleb is the author of the extremely popular Fooled by Chance: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, which was named by Fortune as one of The Smartest Books of All Time. His books have more than a million copies in print, and are translated into 27 languages.

He is currently a visiting professor at the London Business School. He held among other positions that of the Dean's Professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and taught derivatives modeling at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. He has an MBA from Wharton and a PhD from the University of Paris.

The London Times has described Taleb as a “giant of modern thought… The hottest thinker in the world,” and GQ calls him “the most prophetic voice of all.”

Economist & Author, Telegraph

One of the City of London’s best-known economists, Roger Bootle runs the consultancy, Capital Economics, one of the world’s largest independent economics consultancies, which he founded in 1999. Roger is also a Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Committee and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries. He was formerly Group Chief Economist of HSBC and, under the previous Conservative government, he was appointed one of the Chancellor’s panel of Independent Economic Advisers, the so-called "Wise Men". In July 2012, it was announced that Roger and a team from Capital Economics had won the Wolfson Prize, the second biggest prize in Economics after the Nobel.

Roger Bootle studied at Oxford University and then became a Lecturer in Economics at St Anne’s College, Oxford. Most of his subsequent career has been spent in the City of London.

Roger has written many articles and several books on monetary economics. His latest book, The Trouble with Europe, published in May this year, has been widely acclaimed. It follows The Trouble with Markets, which analyses the deep causes of the recent financial crisis and discusses the threats to capitalism arising from it. Like his previous book, Money for Nothing, which correctly anticipated the financial crisis, it has been widely praised. It followed the success of The Death of Inflation, published in 1996, which became a best-seller and was subsequently translated into nine languages. Roger is also joint author of the book Theory of Money, and author of Index-Linked Gilts.

Roger appears frequently on television and radio and is also a regular columnist for The Daily Telegraph. In The Comment Awards 2012 he was named Economics Commentator of the year.

Former Deputy National Security Adviser in the Cabinet Office

Paddy McGuinness is Senior Adviser at Brunswick Group counselling clients globally on crisis, resilience, risk and geopolitics. His personal focus is on technology and cyber issues and he works independently with investment funds and start ups on technical solutions to security problems. From 2014-18 he was the UK’s Deputy National Security Adviser leading on national crisis response to the hazards and threats in the National Risk Register and oversaw the UK’s National Cyber Security Programme. Pro bono Paddy is Chair of Trustees at St Joseph’s Hospice in Hackney and a Commissioner of the Oxford Internet Institute Commission on Elections and Technology (OxTec).

12th Administrator of NASA, and former NASA astronaut, NASA

Maj. Gen. Charles Frank Bolden Jr. (USMC-Ret.) was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the 12th Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He began his duties as head of the Agency on July 17, 2009. 

At NASA, Bolden oversaw the safe transition from 30 years of Space Shuttle missions to a new era of exploration focused on full utilization of the International Space Station and space and aeronautics technology development. He led the Agency in developing a Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft that will carry astronauts to deep space destinations, such as an asteroid and Mars. He also established a new Space Technology Mission Directorate to develop cutting-edge technologies for the missions of tomorrow. The Agency’s dynamic science activities under Bolden include an unprecedented landing on Mars with the Curiosityrover, launch of a spacecraft to Jupiter, and continued progress toward the 2018 launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. 

Bolden graduated from C. A. Johnson High School in 1964 and received an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy. He earned a bachelor of science degree in electrical science in 1968 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps. In 1977, he earned a master of science degree in systems management from the University of Southern California.

Bolden’s 34-year career with the Marine Corps included 14 years as a member of NASA’s Astronaut Office. After joining the office in 1980, he traveled to orbit four times aboard the Space Shuttle between 1986 and 1994, commanding two of the missions and piloting two others. He retired from the Marine Corps in 2003 and was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in May 2006.

President of World Bank, World Bank

Ajay Banga is the President of World Bank. He will become executive chairman of the board of directors on January 1, 2021 Ajay is a co-founder of The Cyber Readiness Institute, first vice-chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce and a trustee of the United States Council for International Business. Ajay is a founding trustee of the U.S.-India Strategic Partnership Forum, a member of the U.S.-India CEO Forum, and is Chairman Emeritus of the American India Foundation. He served as a member of President Obama’s Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. He is a past member of the U.S. President’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. He was awarded the Padma Shri Award by the President of India in 2016, the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2019, and the Business Council for International Understanding’s Global Leadership Award. He is a fellow of the Foreign Policy Association and was awarded the Foreign Policy Association Medal in 2012. Ajay is a member of the board of overseers of the Weill Cornell Medical College. In addition, Ajay serves as a director of Dow Inc. and is a member of its compensation and governance committees. Prior to Mastercard, Ajay served as chief executive officer of Citigroup Asia Pacific. During his career at Citigroup, he held a variety of senior management roles in the United States, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. He also oversaw the company’s efforts in microfinance. Ajay began his career at Nestlé, India, where for 13 years he worked on assignments spanning sales, marketing, and general management. He also spent two years with PepsiCo, where he was instrumental in launching its fast-food franchises in India as the economy liberalized. He is a graduate of Delhi University and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Former Director, GCHQ

Robert was Director of GCHQ, the UK’s largest intelligence and cyber security agency, from 2014-17 and recently retired from Government after 20 years in national security roles, including Prime Minister’s Security Adviser.

He is now Executive Chairman for Europe of BlueVoyant, a global cyber security services company, and Senior Adviser at McKinsey & Co.

Robert established the UK National Cyber Security Centre in 2016, having been responsible for the UK’s first cyber strategy in 2009. While at No10 he also published the first National Risk Register for the UK in 2008. He is a leading authority on cyber security, cyber conflict and the application of technology in national security and writes regularly on cyber issues in the Financial Times.Robert is a Senior Fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center, the Institute of Engineering and Technology, and the Royal United Services Institute, and an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford.

U.S. Chief Information Officer

Over a 40-year career, Mr.Scott has shaped groundbreaking information technology solutions at some of the world’s most recognizable brands, including Microsoft, General Motors, VMware, and The Walt Disney Company. A cybersecurity and cloud computing pioneer, he has championed and executed strategies that have driven results from the corporate boardroom to the consumer’s living room, changing the way we think about modern data management and open-source advancements. Following a long tenure at Marriott, where he developed the first microcomputer-based forecasting tools and labor management and scheduling tools, he held executive roles at Sun Microsystems, Price Waterhouse, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. As the first chief information officer to manage corporate-wide IT at The Walt Disney Company, he upgraded the company’s infrastructure, developed enterprise-wide risk management and cybersecurity functions, and insured company-wide compliance with regulatory and risk issues. As CIO of Microsoft, he was responsible for all aspects of the company’s IT organization and enterprise digital supply chain, including Microsoft.com and partner-facing websites. In 2015, he was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as the third Chief Information Officer of the United States. During his tenure, he initiated a 30-day Cybersecurity Sprint and led the government response to a series of cyber intrusions, including an unprecedented breach of personnel data. he implemented a 21st-century approach to digital governance, promoted transparency and innovation, and established partnerships between the public and private sectors. Along the way, he navigated net neutrality policy, managed privacy issues arising from the Apple vs. the FBI legal case, and oversaw federal technology spending, including managing an $85 billion budget. Today, he leads the TonyScottGroup, offering cutting-edge enterprise strategy and solutions. He has a bachelor of science in information systems management from the University of San Francisco and a juris doctorate from Santa Clara University. He has been inducted into the CIO Hall of Fame by CIO magazine and is a two-time winner of FedScoop’s 50 “Golden Gov: Executive of the Year” award.

Chief Risk Officer, National Security Agency (NSA)

Ms. Anne Neuberger serves as NSA’s first Chief Risk Officer and a member of NSA’s Senior Leadership Team. As Chief Risk Officer, she is responsible for creating and maturing a methodology and processes to assess risk across NSA’s mission, and implementing an enterprise risk management process. Prior to her assignment as Chief Risk Officer, Anne served as the Director of NSA’s Commercial Solutions Center, responsible for NSA’s interface and partnerships with the private sector. Prior to that, she served as Special Assistant to the Director, NSA, for the Enduring Security Framework (ESF), building a deep and effective partnership between leading companies, the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, NIST and NSA, on initiatives across a broad set of technical and policy areas. In this capacity, Anne also led the Department of Defense’s Defense Industrial Base Pilot, defining the first policy and legal framework for government sharing of classified signatures and indicators with Internet Service Providers. Prior to ESF, Anne served on the U.S. Cyber Command Implementation Team which led the planning and standup of USCYBERCOM.

Prior to joining NSA, Anne served as the Navy’s Deputy Chief Management Officer and a Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Navy, with responsibility for guiding Navy enterprise IT programs. 

Anne first joined government service in 2007 as a White House Fellow, working for Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. The nonpartisan White House Fellows Program was founded in 1964 and is one of America’s most prestigious programs for leadership and public service.

Prior to joining government service, Anne was Senior Vice President of Operations at American Stock Transfer & Trust Company (AST), where she was responsible for directing operations, including dividend distributions, and complex mergers, and acquisitions processing, for approximately 2,000 publicly traded companies. Anne joined AST in 1994 as a software programmer, was promoted to the position of Chief Information Officer (CIO) in 2003 and Senior VP of Operations in 2005. As CIO, she led a team that designed and implemented systems to automate the granting and exercising of stock options as well as online share purchases and sales. As Senior VP of Operations, she managed the acquisition and integration of the corporate trust operations of Wachovia Bank, NA.

Anne earned a MBA, Beta Gamma Sigma and a Masters of International Affairs from Columbia University. She graduated from Touro College, summa cum laude, where she was awarded the Hannah Lander Award for Academic Excellence and a Merit Scholarship.

Managing Editor (US) and Columnist, Financial Times

Gillian Tett leads U.S. editorial operations across all platforms for the Financial Times. She writes weekly columns covering a range of global economic, financial, political and social issues. In 2015, Tett received an honorary doctorate from Lancaster University in the U.K., one of the top 10 British universities. In 2014, she was named columnist of the year in the British Press Awards and was the first recipient of the Royal Anthropological Institute Marsh Award. Her latest book, The Silo Effect, looks at the global economy and financial system through the lens of cultural anthropology.

Chief Platform & Functions Officer, Legal, Risk, Compliance & Corporate Secretariat, Standard Chartered Bank

Libby brings over 25 years of expertise in managing non-financial risks and strategic change in the financial markets and services sector. As the Chief Platform & Functions Officer, for Risk, Compliance, Legal and Global Corporate Secretariat functions, she now leads the transformational GRC platform innovation, development and implementation for the Bank. Her experience has provided a unique insight and understanding of the interplay between multiple risk disciplines, including financial crime, operational, reputational, regulatory, information and cyber security, and conduct risk management. Before joining SCB she held several senior executive roles in RBS, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and BNP Paribas.

Chief Audit Executive, OP Financial Group

Sakari Lehtinen works as chief Audit executive of the OP Financial Group in Finland. Sakari's special areas of interest are risk-based and agile auditing, the use of data analytics and AI on internal auditing, and the management of competence and development. He has 25 years of experience in internal auditing and has served as the chairman of the Board of the Institute of Internal Auditors in Finland.

Head of Enterprise and Non-Financial Risk, London Stock Exchange Group

Robert is the Head of Enterprise and Non-Financial Risk at London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). Robert was previously the Group Head of Capital Risk Management at Revolut. Before this, Robert was the UK Head of Enterprise and Non-Financial Risk at Credit Suisse. He holds a Mathematics degree from University of Leeds and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.

Group Information Risk Officer, KBC Group

Peter Debasse works for KBC's Group Risk team as the Group Information Risk Officer. His team is driving the methodology with regards to Information Security and IT-related risks, is challenging processes and controls via deep dives and is responsible to report to the group committees. He is also co-founder and active member of the Belgian Cyber Security Coalition, a cross-sector community with players from academia, public agencies and the private sector.

Peter is an engineer, holder of ISACA certificates CISA, CISM, CRISC, CDPSE and holds a degree in big data & analytics.

Chief Risk Officer, SCB DataX

Manish is a seasoned risk and compliance leader with retail / private / investment banking experience across multiple financial and non-financial risk disciplines and extensive experience in managing regulatory engagements, internal/external audit, remediation and compliance projects (e.g. MAS, HKMA, BAFIN, FINMA, BOT, RBI, etc). Currently, he is CRO of data & AI accelerator, SCB DataX, of SCBX Group which is regulated by Bank of Thailand. Additionally, he designs, implements and oversees group-wide program for data governance, data privacy and AI governance. In these roles, he also actively champions GRC adoption.

He is based in Singapore/Bangkok. He is very passionate about innovation, large scale transformation that reshapes an organization and people advocacy to build high performing teams.

Member of the Executive Committee and Chief Ethics, Risk and Compliance Officer,, Novartis

Klaus Moosmayer, Ph.D., has been Chief Ethics, Risk & Compliance Officer of Novartis since 2018. He is a member of the Executive Committee of Novartis. Mr. Moosmayer previously was chief compliance officer of Siemens AG, a position he held since 2014. During his 18year career at Siemens, Mr. Moosmayer also served as chief counsel compliance from 2009 to 2013, and as compliance operating officer from 2007 to 2009. Mr. Moosmayer received his doctor of jurisprudence from the University of Freiburg in Germany, and passed his first and second state examination in law in Germany. He is internationally recognized in the field of compliance. He serves as vice chair of the Business at OECD (BIAC) executive board and served as chair of its Anti-Corruption Committee from 2013 to 2020. He is co-founder and chair of the European Chief Compliance and Integrity Officers’ Forum; and co-chair of the B20 Integrity & Compliance Task Force under the G20 presidency of Saudi Arabia. He served as co-chair of the B20 Integrity & Compliance Task Force under the G20 presidency of Argentina in 2018, and as chair of the B20 Integrity & Compliance Task Force under the G20 presidency of Germany in 2017.

Managing Executive: Corporate Risk and Security , Vodacom Group

Wilna Meiring is a powerhouse in the world of risk and security, with over 30 years of experience driving impact across the telecommunications and mining industries. As the Managing Executive of Risk and Corporate Security at Vodacom Group, she leads with vision and precision—overseeing enterprise risk, corporate security, and insurance across multiple regions. Known for turning complexity into clarity, Wilna is a trusted voice at the boardroom table, guiding executive teams through ever-evolving risk landscapes. Her sharp technological insight and strategic mindset have shaped business resilience and empowered high-performing teams to thrive in uncertainty. Beyond her executive role, Wilna is deeply committed to advancing the profession. She serves on the board of the Institute of Risk Management South Africa (IRMSA) and is an alternate trustee for both COMRiC and the Vodacom Retirement Fund. But her influence doesn’t stop there. As a certified leadership coach, Wilna is passionate about growing future-fit leaders—helping individuals unlock their potential, lead with authenticity, and make bold, meaningful impact.

Global Head OTCR Framework and Stress Testing, Standard Chartered Bank

Margaret Norden is a lawyer and spent ten years specialising in dispute resolution in 2 global law firms working in London and Hong Kong. Margaret joined Standard Chartered Bank in London and worked in a number of roles in Legal, Corporate Secretariat and Shared Investigative Services including building and leading a global team in Legal COO, covering operational risk, policy, governance and project management. Margaret led the implementation of a wide range of risk management programmes including cyber security, data management, third party risk, anti-bribery and corruption and conduct. Margaret also developed a competition compliance framework as well as manging major disputes and investigations. Margaret was appointed Global Head of Operational Risk in 2022. In 2024, with the merger of Operational Risk and Cyber teams, Margaret took on an expanded role as Global Head of Frameworks and Stress Testing, and now manages the Operational Risk and Cyber Risk Frameworks including oversight of governance and reporting, risk appetite and operational risk stress testing; Operational Risk, Change Governance, Transaction Processing and Product Governance Policies, and a dedicated Third Party Risk Management team.

Head of Compliance Risk Management - Group Compliance, Eurobank SA

Argyro has more than 15 years experience in the financial services sector. She currently holds the position of Head of Compliance Risk Management and Governance within the Group Compliance Function of Eurobank SA.

Executive Director, Intesa Sanpaolo

Responsible at group level for Internal Validation, Model Risk Management and Second Level controls (credit files review, Data Quality, Data Lineage, Reporting Governance), direct report to the Group CRO. Previous experience was 15 years in the Risk Management Function as Head of development function for market and counterparty risk regulatory internal models, responsible for Market Risk Technology and head of group FRTB program from 2016 till February 2020.

Head of Enterprise and Operational Risk, Nationwide Building Society

Ben is a Chartered Accountant who has worked in risk and control disciplines within large Financial Services businesses for almost 25 years. Roles have spanned the three lines of defence, as well as several years as an external reviewer. His current role is at Nationwide, where he has spent the last 9 years – with responsibilities centred around setting the risk framework; overseeing its application; and reporting on risk insights.

Head of Policy, Compliance Monitoring and Governance, Vodafone

Lauren is an recognised legal and compliance leader, with a broad experience in regulatory law, M&A, financial crime and corporate governance. She started her career at Slaughter and May as a Competition and Regulatory Solicitor in both London and Brussels (until 5PQE) before moving to Vodafone to broaden her practice as a commercial solicitor. At Vodafone, she now leads policy, compliance monitoring (FCA, GDPR, Financial Crime and CNI) and governance, and earlier this year she won "Head of Governance of the Year" at the Women in GRC Awards.

Co-Head Operational Risk Management, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority

Philipp Herrmann is the Co-Head of Operational Risk Management at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), where he leads the organization’s Operational Risk Management practice. Since joining ADIA in January 2016, Philipp has played a pivotal role in shaping ADIA’s risk governance framework, focusing on defining clear roles and responsibilities, enforcing policy adherence, setting risk appetite, and fostering a culture of accountability and integrity. His work ensures that ADIA’s risk management structure promotes compliance and supports effective decision-making through risk quantification, monitoring, and continuous reporting to stakeholders.

In addition to his second-line oversight, Philipp leads the first-line Operational Risk Management function, ensuring the efficient implementation of the risk management process.

Prior to ADIA, Philipp held senior roles at Deutsche Bank and UBS for over a decade, where he managed global risk and compliance teams, drove successful regulatory initiatives, and centralized key risk functions.

Head of Assurance, Risk and Internal Controls, ABB

Head of Assurance, Risks, and Internal Controls at ABB, with over 20 years of experience in developing and strengthening SOX compliance and internal control frameworks across pharmaceutical and engineering sectors. Specializes in integrating emerging technologies and new trends into risk and control environments to drive operational excellence.

Global Head of Resilience Risk, Standard Chartered Bank

Ana Chavez Alanis is the Global Head of Resilience Risk at Standard Chartered Bank in the UK. Ana’s professional experience expands across cybersecurity, operational resilience, and risk management. Throughout her career, Ana has successfully led strategies that enhance resilience and safeguard critical assets against emerging threats. Her diverse background includes leading cross-functional teams in the development of risk frameworks and resilience programs that align with business objectives. Prior to Standard Chartered, Ana held leadership positions in risk management and consulting firms in the UK, USA and Mexico, successfully leading the development and implementation of comprehensive risk management strategies and achieving compliance with regulatory requirements. In her free time, Ana enjoys exploring new cultures, and travelling.

Executive Director, JP Morgan Chase

A passionate and accomplished technology risk practitioner with almost two decades of experience in GRC roles within Financial Services.

Head of Operational Risk, Euroclear UK & International

Omer has been involved in the financial services industry for over 20 years across risk management, risk consulting and audit in the UK and Middle East. His areas of expertise include Operational Resilience, Cyber Risk, Transformation Risk and Third-Party Risk Management, and the regulatory challenges in these areas. He has a keen interest in Scenario Analysis and Horizon Scanning. Omer has been with Euroclear UK & International for 5 years where he has led the firm’s 2nd line Risk Management oversight activities. He is a member of the UK Finance Heads of Operational Risk network and holds the CRISC and CISA certifications.

Head of Non-Financial Risk Taskforce, Canada Life UK

Dave has worked in financial services for 36 years, starting his career at Nationwide Building Society, where he held a number of senior roles in internal audit and compliance. Dave joined the Lending Standards Board (LSB) as Compliance Director in July 2013, and became CEO in 2016. Dave worked closely with the industry and the regulators in developing self-regulation and voluntary standards as a key complement to statutory regulation, enabling firms to deliver good customer outcomes in SME lending, APP scams and branch closures, with the emphasis on improving standards. Dave joined Virgin Money’s Risk function in 2019 and held various roles covering change, operational and conduct risks. In 2023 he moved to first line to head up implementation of Consumer Duty before joining Canada Life in 2024 as Head of Risk & Compliance, focusing on operational and conduct risk. Since February he has moved to first line to lead the non-financial risk taskforce which is implementing improvements to the operating environment and making sustainable changes in areas such as operational resilience, cyber and IT, third party, Consumer Duty. Dave’s focus in all of his roles has been on improving standards and thinking about the delivery of outcomes.

Head of Operational Risk, Santander

Ben joined Santander UK in 2023 as Head of Operational Risk - Governance, Reporting & Standards. As part of this role, Ben oversees the non-financial risk framework, policies, structures and underlying programmes and infrastructure including Risk Appetite, RCSA, Issue/Action Management, Taxonomies and Systems. Ben has approximately 20 years experience in Financial Services in the US and UK including at Citi where he operated in a number of leadership roles across the first and second lines of defence, including compliance, operational and enterprise risk. Ben has broad subject matter expertise in Governance, Risk & Compliance, risk identification and assessment, control design and testing, and risk monitoring and reporting.

Head of Internal Control, Siemens Energy

Dorothea has more than 15 year of experience in Risk and Internal Control. She is currently the Head of Internal Control Governance at Siemens Energy being appointed to this role in 2020. She was previously the Head of Risk and Internal Control for Siemens Global Services. Dorothea has spent nearly a decade in various roles in Accounting and Mergers & Acquisitions.

Head of GRC, Lazada (Alibaba Group)

Suman is a Security Governance, Technology Risk, and Privacy Programme specialist with over 18 years of extensive experience. As the Head of Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) at Lazada Group, part of the Alibaba Group, Suman excels in driving technology risk management, regulatory compliance, application security, and data protection. Passionate about tracking and assessing technology and privacy regulatory requirements, Suman is dedicated to advancing technological and privacy risk mitigation initiatives. Suman's expertise support organisation Cybersecurity mission to deliver robust security and compliance across various geographical regions.

Product Manager Enterprise GRCA, Shell

Gurjeev is a Product Manager for 6 MetricStream applications used by 3 business areas (SOx, Internal Audit and Trading Compliance) in Shell. As such he is responsible for strategy, project implementation and IT operations management of the MetricStream implementation and associated reporting. He has 20+ years of experience within the Energy industry with BG Group and Shell in a variety of roles in Finance and IT. Gurjeev is a Chartered Accountant based in UK.

Analyst & Pundit, GRC 20/20 Research & GRC Report

Michael Rasmussen is an internationally recognized thought leader and pioneer in governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC). With over 30 years of experience, he has extensive expertise in enterprise GRC strategy and processes supported by robust information and technology architectures. Known as the “Father of GRC,” Michael was the first to define and model the GRC market in February 2002 while at Forrester, setting the foundation for the modern understanding of GRC.

Award-Winning Financial Times Columnist, Economist and BBC Broadcaster

Tim Harford is a world-renowned behavioural economist, award-winning Financial Times columnist, data detective and BBC broadcaster. Described as ‘Britain’s Malcolm Gladwell’ (and as ‘a genius at telling stories that illuminate our world’ by Gladwell himself), and by the New Statesman as ‘perhaps the best popular economics writer in the world’, Tim brings storytelling, humour, insight and intelligence to the world of data, work and statistics.

His long-running Radio 4 show and podcast More or Less looks at the truth behind the dubious statistics and manipulated figures making the news, whilst his Cautionary Tales podcast is a journey through stories of human error and its unexpected impact, with guests including Russell Tovey and Alan Cumming. He’s also presented the popular Fifty Things That Made The Modern Economy series (and wrote the accompanying books) and, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, he hosted How To Vaccinate The World. On television, he wrote and fronted Channel 4’s examination of the nation’s financial challenges in Skint: The Truth Behind Britain's Broken Economy.

Although he’s a ‘serious’ economist with a career spanning Oxford, Shell and the World Bank, Tim’s FT columns dwell on the economics of daily life and offers tongue-in-cheek solutions to readers’ problems. His first book The Undercover Economist, sold almost two million copies, and built on these themes. It was likened to Freakonomics in its explanation of everything from coffee shops to organised crime to development aid. He's since gone on to be one of the foremost writers on economics.

Tim’s other titles include: The Logic of Life which applies economic theory to the world to explain how rational (or otherwise) our decisions are; Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure which shows how challenges of all types need to be tackled by learning to improvise and allowing for failure. Messy: How to Be Creative and Resilient in a Tidy-Minded World, considers why tidiness, organisation and predictability aren’t always the best environments to foster innovation and achievement; and How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers, equips readers with the tools to understand and question the numbers that dominate headlines, and sometimes seem to confirm our own biases.

From why we might be misunderstanding the advantages and difficulties of AI (and what the history of technology can tell us about both) to how to identify and challenge misinformation. Why it’s so hard yet so important to learn from mistakes, how to deal with uncertainty, predict disasters and deal with flawed forecasting, Tim explores a fascinating world of behaviours, numbers and assumptions. Taking in everything from the military to game shows, aviation to ballet, he questions received wisdom, common sense, and statistical certainty. His accessible, easy style provides entertaining, thought-provoking insights relevant to every person and organisation. Tim is a member of Nuffield College, Oxford and continues to be an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. He’s a two-time winner of the Bastiat Prize for economic journalism and has been named Data Commentator of the Year, Economics Commentator of the Year, and has won the Society for Business Economists writing prize and the Royal Statistical Society prize for journalism.

Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, International and Treasury Services, BNY

Rajeev Bhatnagar is the Chief Risk and Compliance Officer for BNY’s International business. Based in London, Rajeev is responsible for managing risk and compliance across all risk and compliance disciplines for all businesses and legal entities in APAC, EMEA and LATAM. He is also the global Chief Risk and Compliance Officer for Treasury Services. Rajeev has more than 30 years of international banking experience. Prior to joining BNY in 2020, he was in senior roles at Commonwealth Bank of Australia for over six years and at Citigroup for 21 years. Rajeev has broad-based banking and risk management experience, spanning corporates and financial institutions, business banking and retail banking. In risk management, he has held Chief Risk Officer roles at country, regional and global levels. He has managed teams across all risk categories, including credit risk, operational risk, market risk, compliance and financial crime compliance. Rajeev is an Engineer and holds a master’s in business administration.

Managing Director, Compliance, Barclays UK

Victoria is an experienced risk and compliance leader. She is is currently a Managing Director in Compliance at Barclays. Previously, Victoria was the Chief Risk and Compliance Officer at the Cambridge Building Society, where she was awarded Outstanding Chief Risk Officer by Credit Strategy in 2019 and was previously Deputy Chair of the PRA Practitioner Panel.