The Global Risk Management Leadership Meeting

Dr Evgueni Ivantsov is Chairman of the European Risk Management Council and author of Heads or Tails: Financial Disaster, Risk Management and Survival Strategy in the World of Extreme Risk. He is a member of the Advisory Group on Global Risks of the World Economic Forum.

Evgueni has a more than 20-year career in the banking sector working in global and large banks. His most recent role in banking was Head of Portfolio Management & Strategy at Lloyds Banking Group. Prior to this role, he worked at HSBC as a Head of Global Analytics and a Head of Portfolio Risk. Evgueni also worked in senior risk management roles at ING Group and Banque Bruxelles Lambert. In his risk management career, he was responsible for areas like stress testing, risk appetite, capital management, portfolio risk optimisation and risk modelling and analytics.

Dr Ivantsov was also a visiting Professor of Cass Business School (City University, London), a visiting Professor of International Economics at the Boston University and a visiting Professor of Money, Banking and Credit at the United Business Institutes in Brussels.

Silvia Pavoni has been the Editor in Chief of the Banker Magazine since January 2024. Silvia joined the Financial Times Group in 2005 and has been on assignment in over two dozen countries, including as economics editor for The Banker. Most recently, she was the founding editor of Sustainable Views, a service by FT Specialist providing readers with insight into how environmental, social and governance principles are reshaping capital, and into the emerging sets of policy and regulations driving this change. Silvia also serves as an advisory board member for the European Risk Management Council and for the Women of the Future Programme. She is also part of the London council of not-for-profit WILL, Women in Leadership in Latin America.

David J. Hayes has focused his career on energy, environmental and natural resources matters. He most recently served in the White House as Special Assistant to the President for Climate Policy. Prior to working for President Biden, Hayes was Executive Director of the State Energy & Environmental Impact Center at the NYU School of Law, where he worked with state attorneys general on climate, environment and clean energy initiatives. Hayes is a former Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the Stanford Law School; a Fellow at Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy and Woods Institute for the Environment; the Senate-confirmed Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer at the U.S. Department of the Interior for Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton; and Chairman of the Board of the Environmental Law Institute. Between his stints in government, he was a partner and Global Chair of the Environment, Land and Resources Department at Latham & Watkins. Hayes is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Stanford Law School.

Stephen Shelley was appointed Chief Risk Officer for Lloyds Banking Group in September 2017. The Risk Function encompasses all risk types including credit, market, operational, conduct, compliance and fraud. He is a member of the Group Executive Committee and also attends the Board. Stephen joined Lloyds Banking Group in May 2011 to be the Chief Credit Officer for Wholesale & International Credit Risk. In November 2012, he was appointed Risk Director for Commercial Banking and ran the Commercial Banking Risk function.

Prior to joining Lloyds Banking Group, Stephen was the Chief Risk Officer at Barclays Corporate. He was also Chief Credit Officer for the UK Retail and Corporate business in Barclays before taking the position as CRO for the UK Corporate business, which performed very strongly in the downturn.

Karina McTeague is Board Director and Chair of the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee, Department for Business and Trade at UK Government. Karina is a highly experienced business leader with a unique combination of UK and international banking, financial services regulation, governance, and global payments gained at Board and executive level. She has more than 25 years of retail and commercial banking, regulation and payments experience in a breadth of roles including general counsel, strategy, sales, and international Chief Risk Officer. She has been Chief Risk Officer at Visa Europe and at Lloyds Banking Group in North America. Karina has served at the Financial Conduct Authority as Director of Supervision for the Retail Banking & Payments sectors, after which she was Director of Supervision for the General Insurance & Protection sectors, and Conduct Specialists.

Keiran Foad joined the Group in April 2023 as Chief Risk Officer for NatWest Group and NatWest Holdings. He has significant experience across the enterprise-wide risk spectrum, as well as business leadership and transformation expertise both in the UK and globally.

Prior to joining NatWest, Keiran was Group Chief Risk Officer at Santander in Madrid where he led the Global Risk and Compliance function. Over a 37-year career in the financial sector, Keiran spent over 25 years at Barclays in the UK and overseas, and Northern Rock prior to 11 years at both Santander UK and Santander Group in Madrid.

Gavin Smyth has been Nationwide’s Chief Risk Officer since November 2020, helping to keep the Society, and its members, safe and secure. Gavin joined the Society in 2017 leading independent oversight and management of the Society’s conduct and compliance and prudential risks. Gavin has significant experience working in financial services having previously held senior roles at Tandem Bank, PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Lakshmi Shyam-Sunder was appointed Vice President and World Bank Group Chief Risk Officer in February 2014. She was previously Chief Financial Officer and Director, Finance and Risk at the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance and credit enhancement arm of the World Bank Group. Ms. Shyam-Sunder was one of the key contributors to the MIGA/IBRD Exposure Exchange Agreement within the Bank Group, and was responsible for strengthening and enhancing the finance, risk, resource management, IT, and control functions in MIGA. Ms. Shyam-Sunder has consulted for a wide range of public and private sector institutions in the U.S. and in emerging markets. She has also served on the Board, and Finance and Risk Committees of institutions in emerging markets.

David Coleman is Chief Risk Officer at EBRD. He is responsible for leading departments that include Risk Management, Environment and Sustainability and Procurement Policy and Advisory. He is a member of the Executive Committee and Chair of the Risk Committee. In addition, he is a member of the commitments committee and Asset and Liability committee. He is active in supporting the Banks Transformation agenda, continuing to be a sponsor of major IT change related projects and member of the Programme Steering Board.

David has held MD level roles in Risk Management for 25 years, spanning retail, wholesale and investment banking at such institutions as Bankers Trust, Deutsche Bank and RBS.

Chris Knight is the Group Chief Risk Officer at Legal & General Group. Previopusly, he was CEO of Legal & General Retail Retirement (LGRR) for three years. Chris led the expansion of L&G’s annuity propositions, created one of the leading providers of lifetime mortgages and established our Financial Advice and Health & Care businesses. He has also served as L&G’s Customer Champion, representing retail customers’ interests across the whole product range: a perspective he brings to his CRO role. From his time as CEO of a life insurance joint venture in Taiwan, to actuarial consulting in Africa, Chris has extensive international experience, in a career spending more than three decades. He is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.

Julia Dunn joined HSBC in May 2021 as HSBC’s UK Chief Risk Officer. She is responsible for leading and managing the firm’s Risk function, which includes setting and managing the organisation’s risk exposure and reporting directly to the Group CRO and the HSBC UK CEO. She sits on both the Global Risk Executive Committee and HSBC UK Executive Committee.

Prior to her current role she was the Group Chief Risk Officer for Nationwide Building Society where she spent 9 years. She spent 13 years with the Financial Services Authority during the Great Financial Crisis in both supervisory and enforcement roles. In her final role at the Regulator, she was Director of Retail Banking Supervision. Her early career was spent at PricewaterhouseCoopers where she trained to be a Chartered Accountant. Julia champions diversity and is the Executive Sponsor for the Ability network in HSBC UK.

Lucy Shenton is an Expert Associate Partner at McKinsey and Company based in Berlin. She specializes in helping organisations quantify their cyber risk and build risk-based cyber strategies. Before joining McKinsey in 2018, Lucy worked for BAE Systems in London as a Cyber Security Consultant, specialising in information assurance and cyber risk management. Her clients ranged from private prisons to large-scale critical infrastructure providers, working in both the IT and OT domains. Lucy has a Masters degree in Engineering Science from Oxford University with a focus on artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital logic and optoelectronics, and is CISSP-accredited. Lucy has also worked as a software engineer for a humanoid robotics company where she programmed chatbots and interactive human robots.

Matthew Vincent is the editor of FT Project Publishing – the department that produces special reports and series on financial services, technology, climate and law. He was previously regulation correspondent, Lombard columnist, deputy companies editor, UK companies editor, and editor of the FT Money section.

Matthew was named National Journalist of the Year by the Investment Management Association in 2011, a year after winning the Best Newspaper Journalist award from the Association of Investment Companies. He began his career with the FT Group on Investors Chronicle, which he edited for five years.

Daniel Mikkelsen is a Senior partner in McKinsey’s Financial Services, McKinsey Sustainability, and Risk & Resilience Practices. Daniel heads McKinsey Sustainability’s financial work, and works extensively in financial services, risk and compliance, and digital and analytics. Daniel primarily advises major financial institutions and has worked with some of the world’s top banks as well as many insurers, asset managers, and hedge funds. His main areas of focus are climate and sustainability, analytics, digital, risk, compliance, finance, and audit.

Mark Kandborg works as the Group Chief Risk Officer at Nordea. He has previously held several positions within Nordea, here among as Group Chief Financial Officer, Deputy Head of Large Corporates & Institutions and as the Group Treasurer. He has an educational background as an economist from the University of Copenhagen and as Captain in the Danish Army.

Luis Mariottoni has over 22 years of financial industry experience, split between Citibank and SAS Institute and MOODY’S. At Citibank, he excelled in roles across risk management, sales & marketing, and corporate finance, demonstrating a broad skill set. Currently, Luis aids CROs, CFOs, and business heads in navigating complex regulatory environments and banking challenges, focusing on the use of advanced data and AI Analytics to enhance decision-making. His deep understanding of financial institutions’ needs is complemented by his advocacy for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Sustainable Finance, particularly in developing AI-driven risk management tools.

Luis’s expertise not only spans finance and risk management but also extends into the ethical application of AI in finance, making him a vital resource for understanding AI and ethics in the financial sector. His multifaceted experience enriches his approach to addressing modern financial challenges.

Alok Rustagi leads the Banking Data and Analytics practice at EXL in EMEA.  He is a seasoned professional in data and analytics consulting, focusing on credit risk, regulatory compliance and risk transformation across UK, Europe and Americas. Prior to EXL, he worked with KPMG and organisations specialising in data & analytics, bringing in data driven decisioning across various industries.

With deep domain experience and understanding of risk and regulatory lifecycles across multiple jurisdictions, Alok has helped a number of large banks achieve regulatory compliance across Basel 3, IFRS9 and BCBS239. Over the last 12 months, he has been heavily involved in helping clients to prioritise use-cases to achieve cost efficiencies through careful use of AI accelerators. He is a regular contributor to various thought leadership initiatives within the area of regulatory compliance including, a recent piece on Basel IV demonstrating his ongoing commitment to advancing industry dialogue.

James Ingram is Managing Director, Head of Sales for Europe & Africa at Moody’s Analytics, leading sales teams representing MA products and services and customer relationships across the region.

James is a proven leader with over 20 years of experience across financial markets, building high-performing teams, developing go-to-market strategies to drive growth and partnering with customers to unlock opportunity through an integrated view of risk. Prior to his appointment as Regional Sales Leader this year, James was Managing Director, Head of Sales for Insurance & Asset Management, with a focus on building Moody’s presence and visibility across Europe & Africa and establishing strategic relationships with customers, partners and associations. He has played a key role in the integration of RMS’ catastrophe and climate risk business following its acquisition in 2021 and helped lead the launch of Moody’s ESG service for commercial underwriting. Since joining Moody’s Analytics in 2016, James has held a number of key sales and sales leadership positions across a wide range of teams, notably leading the growth of Moody’s IFRS 17 business and Learning Solutions. Prior to joining Moody’s, James worked in capital markets for 14 years with domain specialism in structured finance and experience in both marketing and product management roles. James holds a BSc in Management Science & Spanish from The University of Southampton and a certificate in Leadership from Michigan Ross School of Business.