2024 speakers

Olof Mankert is the Group Chief Risk Officer for NOBA Bank Group, encompassing Nordax Bank, Bank Norwegian, and Svensk Hypotekspension, with 17+ years of experience in the banking sector. He has been the Group CRO of NOBA since 2016 and has previously served as Chief Compliance Officer, Legal Counsel and Treasury Analyst. Olof has experience in risk management, compliance, and treasury functions, including handling IPOs, M&A transactions, and developing risk frameworks. He has led risk management functions through significant transformations, emphasizing a people-centric approach and practical risk management strategies. 

After graduating from University of Pavia in 1997 with a degree in business and economics, Stefano Biondi started to work as a junior risk manager for JP Morgan, first in Milan and then in London. Soon afterward he joined ABN AMRO Bank and subsequently moved to Amsterdam as senior credit risk manager in charge of trading counterparty credit risk management. 

During his 5 years stint at ABN AMRO Bank, Biondi also worked on the implementation of a bank-wide credit risk portfolio modelling system as well as a risk reporting tool. Following that experience at ABN AMRO he came back to London to accept a role as head of credit risk analytics and portfolio reporting at Standard Bank of South Africa in charge, among other things, of implementing the internal model for the Basel 2 FIRB project. In January 2007 Biondi returned to Italy where he joined Banca Mediolanum as head of risk control with group-wide risk management responsibilities. In 2011 he undertook an executive master in business and banking administration at Bocconi University. In 2014 Biondi took, within risk management of Banca Mediolanum, the responsibility for quantitative modelling, reporting and group wide coordination. In April 2018 became head of risk management for Banca Mediolanum reporting to the group chief risk officer. In March 2020, Biondi became group chief risk officer for Banca Mediolanum. 

Stefano Chiarlone manages 250 finance professionals, including the chief financial officers and finance areas of five subsidiaries: asset and liability management of the Italian book (liquidity, pricing and strategy), active credit portfolio and capital management (securitisation, origination discipline, data/product steering, regulatory interpretation), strategic planning and budgeting (costs, revenues and capital), accounting, and statistical reporting. He leads strategic projects across UniCredit Italia. 

Corinna Schempp is developing and implementing FIA Europe's political and regulatory engagement strategy with elected officials, regulatory agencies and other key policymakers, in each case in the UK, the European Economic Area and Switzerland, in close coordination with the FIA policy staff and the head of Europe. Leading the Brussels office, she is also involved in evaluating pending legislation; surveys legislations’ impact on the organization; develops the organization’s response to legislation.

Schempp joined the organisation in September 2014 from LCH.Clearnet Limited where she was a senior regulatory advisor in the compliance and regulation team. Previously, her responsibilities covered regulatory compliance in relation to LCH.Clearnet’s SwapClear business, including liaison with the Bank of England, CFTC, Ontario Securities Commission, AMF Quebec, BaFin and other international regulators. During Schempp's time at the clearing house, she also worked closely with the legal team to provide support on European and US regulatory issues, including the implementation of Dodd-Frank and associated CFTC regulations across LCH.Clearnet impacted business units. Prior to joining LCH.Clearnet in May 2011, Schempp, a dual qualified lawyer, was legal and regulation manager at London Stock Exchange’s equity derivatives business, formerly known as EDX London. She holds a post-graduate diploma in European Union law from Kings College, London, as well as law degrees from Germany.

Joost Dijkers is the Head of Risk Management of Transtrend, a Rotterdam-based Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA). After having obtained a Master's degree in Applied Physics from Delft University of Technology, he decided to start a career in financial services. One year at insurance company Achmea was more than enough to learn that the actuarial profession didn't suit him. But how different it was when he joined Transtrend, where he felt immediately at home. He joined as a Research Analyst in 2006 and never left. In 2013, he was asked to set up an independent Risk Management department, which he still heads. With his team of four, he covers all aspects of risk management, whether operational, strategic or financial, in close contact with first line risk owners. Together, they serve a range of international clients, with currently around 6 billion USD assets under management.

Florent has been part of the Commodity Research team since March 2018, specializing in developing fundamental and quantitative signals for commodity derivative markets. Prior to this role, he worked as a sustainable investment solutions structurer. Florent holds a degree from ESSEC Business School's Advanced Master in Financial Techniques program, ranked #5 globally by the FT and #1 in both the 'commodities' and 'options and futures' categories. From 2021 to 2024, the Société Générale Commodities Research team received recognition as the best Cross-Commodity Research team in Energy Risk, a highly respected ranking focused on risk management, trading, and regulation for global commodity markets.

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, Simmons transitioned to MUFG Securities to become involved in the Brexit project. In this capacity he is the chief risk officer for MUFG Securities (Europe) N.V. the Dutch subsidiary of MUFG Securities (EMEA).

Prior to joining the bank, Simmons spent some 20 years specializing in best practice risk management including market risk, credit risk, risk model validation and regulatory risk consulting. As well as having line management responsibilities in various institutions he has also gained extensive experience in implementing risk management frameworks from both a technical and operating model-based perspective.

Duncan Wood is the London-based editor-in-chief of Risk.net. He was promoted to the role at the start of 2015, to lead the editorial reorganisation of the website and its print titles. Wood had been editor of Risk magazine since July 2011. He rejoined Risk as European editor in October 2009, having originally worked for Risk and Asia Risk in London and Hong Kong as a writer and researcher between 1998 and 2000.

In the intervening years, Wood was news editor for the Oliver Wyman-founded online start-up ERisk.com. He also worked freelance for six years while living in Germany, with his work featuring in Euromoney, Financial News, IFR, and The Wall Street Journal, as well as Risk magazine and its sister titles. Wood has written about derivatives and risk throughout his 17-year career in journalism. He is a Neal Awards finalist, and has won Incisive Media's journalist and editor of the year awards.

Klaus Duellmann is Head of SSM Risk Analysis Division within Directorate General Micro-Prudential Supervision IV of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. Until May 2014 he was Head of Supervisory Coordination and Risk Analysis Division and Head of Banking Supervision Research in the central office of the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt. Currently his main areas of work are related to horizontal risk assessments of SSM banks, in particular supervisory stress tests. He has a PhD in Finance from the University of Mannheim.

Adrian Docherty leads the Bank Advisory team, which provides key relationship bank clients with technical sector expertise and help on strategic financial issues relating to balance sheet management and efficiency.

In practice, this means advising on capital raising alternatives, risk management and transfer frameworks, regulatory developments (especially Basel III and IV), accounting changes (especially IFRS 9), funding/liquidity strategies, credit portfolio management, solvency creation/optimisation structures and innovative ways of financing growth. In recent years, the issue of “disruption and obsolescence” (ie. new banking business models) has increasingly featured; so now too do strategies around Brexit

Adrian has 25 years’ experience in advising financial institutions, initially as a strategy consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton. After nine years at Booz Allen, Adrian was hired by one of his clients, Barclays, to help run the rapidly growing investment banking business line. Adrian spent three years as COO of Investment Banking, before moving to run the balance sheet advisory team in Barclays Capital’s Financial Institutions Group.

Adrian has a Master’s from Cambridge University. His book "Better Banking: Understanding and Addressing the Failures in Risk Management, Governance and Regulation" was published by Wiley in 2014

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, Simmons transitioned to MUFG Securities to become involved in the Brexit project. In this capacity he is the chief risk officer for MUFG Securities (Europe) N.V. the Dutch subsidiary of MUFG Securities (EMEA).

Prior to joining the bank, Simmons spent some 20 years specializing in best practice risk management including market risk, credit risk, risk model validation and regulatory risk consulting. As well as having line management responsibilities in various institutions he has also gained extensive experience in implementing risk management frameworks from both a technical and operating model-based perspective.

Wouter is the Chief Risk Officer of Optiver Amsterdam and has been a member of the local management team since April 2022. He also serves as a member of the EMIR Eurex Risk Committee. Wouter joined Optiver in 2013 and prior to his current role led the Trading Risk Management team at Optiver Amsterdam. He is a graduate of the University of Antwerp and holds an M.Sc. in Business Engineering.

Marco Giovanni Crotti is a policy expert at the European Banking Authority (EBA). He is responsible for the implementation of the EBA FRTB roadmap and represents the EBA at the BCBS Market Risk Group. 

Crotti holds a MSc in mathematical engineering from Politecnico di Milano and an executive master in EU studies at the centre international de formation européenne.

Joris Krijger is a Tech Ethicist working as Ethics & AI Officer at the Dutch bank de Volksbank while also holding a PhD position on the topic of Ethics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He presently works on bridging the gap between ethical principles and AI by studying the operationalization of ethics in data science contexts. Additionally, he holds positions as a.o. Founding Editorial Board Member of Springer Nature’s AI and Ethics Journal. For his contributions to the field of responsible AI he received a.o. a Graduate School Award for PhD Excellence.

Jasper is director of G7 portfolio management within the EBRD Treasury. He oversees the central risk warehouse for all hard currency risks across the Bank’s balance sheet, and is also heavily involved with IBOR transition across various RFR working groups. 

Livingsmith joined the EBRD in 2011. Previously he worked as a macro trader, and was a market maker at ABN AMRO.

Leif is Global Head of Liquidity Management & Money Markets (Group Treasury), Divisional Treasurer Wholesale Banking for ING.

 His remit includes:

• Management of short term funding access, cash and collateral positions
• Effectively securing and steering of all contingent liquidity risk metrics such as the liquidity coverage ratio (LCR)
• Ensuring sufficient funding at all times in all currencies and ING locations to safeguard and facilitate the various business activities of ING worldwide
• Act as a trusted advisor and point of contact to senior management of the Wholesale Banking division

Leif has over 20 yrs of Banking industry experience and before he joined ING worked for DekaBank (Germany, Frankfurt).

Eric Schaanning is heading the Group Banking Book team covering Interest Rate Risk in the Banking Book for the combined UBS & Credit Suisse Group. Prior to joining UBS / Credit Suisse, Eric held various positions at the European Central Bank and Norges Bank, covering Stress Testing, Macroprudential Policy, Cyber Risk and Central Clearing among others. Eric holds a PhD in Mathematics from Imperial College London and an MSc in Mathematics from ETH Zürich.

Roland is the sustainability risk manager for Mizuho in the EMEA region. He supports the Risk Management Department to improve and implement the ECB and EBA guidelines on sustainability risk and to conduct sustainability risk initiatives across the region. Roland recently joined Mizuho after working in Deloitte Netherlands' climate risk modeling team. With Deloitte, Roland supported banks in the Netherlands and across Europe with the implementation of regulations on sustainability risk including the integration in quantitative risk models. Roland has a background in sustainable innovation and quantitative finance.

 

In 2016 William Cooper became the head of risk for SEB Denmark with responsibility for protecting the banks financial results and reputation by preventing excessive risk taking and promoting a strong risk management culture. He has a key role in driving and contributing to risk related projects including the banks FRTB program. 

Cooper has worked in the past for both buy and sell side firms, in roles ranging from trading at a large hedge fund to working as a quantitative analyst at a tier 1 investment bank, always with a focus on improving financial modelling and analytics to maximize risk management and market awareness. He holds a BSc in mathematics and economics from the LSE and a MSc in mathematics from the University of Copenhagen.

Neil McLeod has over 20 years’ experience within the financial markets industry, across multiple asset classes, including Credit Trading, Money Markets, Interest Rate Trading and XVA. He is currently head of Group Treasury Markets within Erste Group Bank AG, one of the major financial groups specialising in the CEE region. Neil is a former member of the ECB Money Market Contact Group and an active member of the EUR Risk Free Rate Working Group.

In his current role as the Head of Credit Risk at Goldman Sachs Asset Management B.V. Wim van Nes leads the management of Credit Risk for all Alternative Credit strategies and holds the position of Voting Member on the Investment Committee. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Wim served as the Team Lead Alternative Credit Risk at NN Investment Partners in the Netherlands, where he was also delegated as a Voting Member of the Investment Committee. He has also held significant roles such as Senior Credit Risk Manager at NN Investment Partners, Risk Advisor at Delta Lloyd Asset Management, and Manager of Distressed Assets at Delta Lloyd Asset Management. Wim's expertise extends to his earlier positions, including Derivatives, Valuation and Collateral Management Specialist at Delta Lloyd Asset Management from and his initial experience gained through a Finance Traineeship at Delta Lloyd. With a rich and diverse background, Wim van Nes brings a wealth of experience and strategic insight to the world of risk management.

David van Bragt, PhD, is a consultant investment solutions in the fixed income, LDI and investment solutions team of Aegon AM. David is mainly active in the fields of asset & liability modelling (ALM), liability-driven investment (LDI) and risk management for institutional investors. He also monitors regulatory developments for Aegon AM and is involved in product development. Prior to joining the firm, he was an ALM consultant for insurance companies at Ortec Finance. David has been in the industry since 2004 and joined the firm in 2011. He holds a PhD (cum laude) in applied physics from Delft University of Technology, an MSc in applied physics from Eindhoven University of Technology and an MA in philosophy from University of Amsterdam. He is a Certified Financial Analyst EFFAS, Dutch RBA (CFA Society VBA Netherlands).

Max Verheijen has held several positions at Cardano, most recently as Director advising clients on the implementation of risk management solutions. From 2010 to 2020 as Managing Director and member of the management team, Max was responsible for the Financial Markets division including trading. He has thorough knowledge of risk management, financial markets instruments and regulations, treasury, finance, hedging market- and counterparty risk. Max started his career at ING Bank most notably as Vice President at the Interest Rate Derivatives Department. In 2000 he joined IMC Financial Products as a Senior buy-side trader, and then finally to Cardano in the role of Head of Trading as part of a merger between Cardano and IMC Financial Products.

Max has a M.Sc. in Economics from Tilburg University, and is registered Treasurer following the completion of the postgraduate program on Treasury Management and Corporate Finance at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Corinna Schempp is developing and implementing FIA Europe's political and regulatory engagement strategy with elected officials, regulatory agencies and other key policymakers, in each case in the UK, the European Economic Area and Switzerland, in close coordination with the FIA policy staff and the head of Europe. Leading the Brussels office, she is also involved in evaluating pending legislation; surveys legislations’ impact on the organization; develops the organization’s response to legislation.

Schempp joined the organisation in September 2014 from LCH.Clearnet Limited where she was a senior regulatory advisor in the compliance and regulation team. Previously, her responsibilities covered regulatory compliance in relation to LCH.Clearnet’s SwapClear business, including liaison with the Bank of England, CFTC, Ontario Securities Commission, AMF Quebec, BaFin and other international regulators. During Schempp's time at the clearing house, she also worked closely with the legal team to provide support on European and US regulatory issues, including the implementation of Dodd-Frank and associated CFTC regulations across LCH.Clearnet impacted business units. Prior to joining LCH.Clearnet in May 2011, Schempp, a dual qualified lawyer, was legal and regulation manager at London Stock Exchange’s equity derivatives business, formerly known as EDX London. She holds a post-graduate diploma in European Union law from Kings College, London, as well as law degrees from Germany.

Fabio is an experienced risk manager with a strong focus on ESG risks, market risk, credit risk and risk integration. Well versed in recovery plannning, RAF, ICAAP, European Stress tests. Extensive experience, both in banking and academic environment (Bocconi and adjunct professor in Luiss, Sole24). Participant in working groups (EBF, AFME, ABI) as expert of risk management processes.

Deputy head of Prometeia's Climate Change & ESG Risks competence line, Luca is experienced both in Retail Business Banking and in Corporate Investment Banking. He has been working since 2019 on Climate Change Risk frameworks dedicated to Risk Management, Planning and Credit functions of EU-wide Banks, also leading Prometeia’s task force dedicated to supporting SSM Banks in defining their ECB Climate Change Action Plans and facing ECB Climate Risk Stress Tests.