2022 Speakers

Shumi Akhtar is an associate professor at the University of Sydney Business School. Her research publications have appeared in leading international and Australian peer-reviewed journals. Akhtar has received a number of highly competitive external research grants, and regularly attends, presents and chairs sessions at top financial economic conferences, including the American Finance Association, American Economic Association, European Financial Management Association and Asian Finance Association. A number of her research papers received local and international awards. Akhtar was visiting scholar at Harvard, MIT and Stanford among others. She was invited to share her expert opinion before the Australian Parliamentary Senate Inquiry on Tax, International Trade and Investment and her recommendations were implemented. Akhtar's research scholarships have been recognised by the Australian Research Council, US-Australia Fulbright and Oxford University Fellowship/Scholarship.

Pieter Bierkens is Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s Interest Rate Benchmark Reform Lead. In his current capacity he coordinates the Bank’s preparation for the global reform of interest rate benchmarks. He has been based in Sydney since 2014. 

Previously, Pieter was Head of Markets of Commonwealth Bank in New York. Prior to Commonwealth Bank, he worked for 10 years in New York and London, where he started his career advising institutional investors on global fixed-income markets. 

Pieter holds a degree in Economics from Erasmus University in Rotterdam and a Master degree in International Affairs from Columbia University in New York. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and holds the Financial Risk Manager designation.

Michael has over 20 years’ investment management and consulting experience and joined BTIM from First State Super, where he was Head of Investment Strategy since January 2014. In this role, Michael was responsible for the establishment of an active asset allocation process and led the Fund’s Investment Strategy Team. Prior to this appointment, Michael was Head of Diversified Strategies at Perpetual for over five years, with portfolio management responsibilities for the manager’s range of diversified funds. Michael’s prior experience includes over 10 years in consulting roles at Watson Wyatt (now Willis Towers Watson) and NSP Buck.

Craig is passionate about digitally transforming financial services by cohesively bringing together the right mix of best in class technology to improve client service, boost business efficiency and reduce operational risk - “the art of the possible” combined with “pragmatic execution”.

Craig joined Droit as Chief Commercial Officer in July 2021. He is a member of the executive leadership team and is responsible for leading the firm’s commercial strategy.

As such, he is accountable for driving growth across core and adjacent businesses, as well as expanding its client base, partnerships and geographic footprint.

Prior to joining Droit, Craig was most recently Global Head of Sales and Account Management at Symphony, where his focus was on leveraging his deep industry and digital transformation experience to partner with Symphony’s clients to help them extract the most from the platform.

Prior to Symphony, Craig was Managing Director and Global Head of Client Ecosystem at Nomura. This was a business-led, front-to-back digital transformation programme aimed at breaking down internal silos - both technological and structural. Sub-projects of the programme included: 1) Symphony; 2) Salesforce; 3) Client Lifecycle Management; 4) Client Data Architecture; 5) Natural Language Processing Voice-to-text/ Soft Turrets; 6) Intelligent Advisor Dashboard.

Craig has over 20 years’ experience in Capital Markets having previously held Head of Sales Roles at RBS, State Street and RBC. Craig is passionate about mentoring, career guidance and talent development. He was Chair of the Global Markets EMEA Graduate Steering Committee at both Nomura and RBS.

Craig started his career at Goldman Sachs after receiving a BSc (Hons) in Economics from the University of Warwick. He is an accomplished racing driver, having won number of championships in karts and cars since he started racing at 10 years old.

Craig is married with two children and lives in the Essex countryside.

Rahoul was appointed to the AMP Limited Board as a non-executive director in January 2020. He is a member of the Remuneration, Nomination, Audit and Risk Committees and was appointed as Chairman of the Risk Committee in May 2020. At the same time, he was appointed to the AMP Bank Board and is a member of its Audit Committee and the Chairman of the Risk Committee.

Experience

Rahoul has over 40 years’ experience in professional services, advising complex multinational organisations in Australia and overseas.

He is currently a Senior Advisor at Minter Ellison and is a member of the Audit and Risk Committee of the firm’s Partnership Board. Between January 2018 and June 2021 he was Partner and National Leader of Minter Ellison’s financial services practice in Australia and leader of the risk consulting practice. Prior to this, Rahoul was a Senior Partner at PwC for almost 30 years, where he undertook a number of leadership roles, delivering audit, assurance, and risk consulting services to major financial institutions in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom.

Directorships of other ASX listed companies: None

Government and community involvement

• Member, Reserve Bank of Australia, Audit Committee (appointed February 2018)

Elliot has been with Westpac Economics for 13 years, having previously worked at the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). Over his career, his focus has remained on Australia’s place in the global economy, having assessed economic and financial developments in Asia for the RBA. Clarke manages Westpac Economics’ global economic and financial market forecasts. He holds an honours degree in economics from the University of Sydney, a masters of applied finance from Macquarie University and is a CFA Charterholder.

Entering financial markets in a trading capacity, John’s career spans 30 years in financial services and has included senior markets-based roles overseeing FICC businesses for HSBC, Westpac Institutional Bank, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Macquarie Bank. He has also had extensive offshore experience in both London and Hong Kong in regional and global teams across most products.

He is currently Chief Investment Officer at market-leading fintech SocietyOne.

Iancu focuses on climate investment and engagement at London-based Fulcrum Asset Management. He has previously worked for Legal & General Investment Management, where he led the stewardship team’s work in the energy sector and advised institutional clients on sustainability, and for climate finance think-tank the Carbon Tracker Initiative.

Recognised as a ‘rising star’ of sustainable investment by Investment Week, Iancu is one of the lead authors of the CFA Institute’s Certificate in ESG Investing, and holds degrees in philosophy and public policy.

Peter Deans retired in May 2019 after seven years as group chief risk officer of the Bank of Queensland in Australia and a finance career spanning 32 years. He now undertakes selected risk and strategy advisory engagements in the financial services, corporate, start-up and technology sectors. Deans is a regular public speaker on the topics of risk management, ethics, technology and regulatory and compliance topics. He is the founder of the 52 Risks management framework and a non-executive director of The RegTech Association in Australia.

Reshma is an experienced Data, Security and Technology Risk specialist. She has a Masters in Information Technology, a Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer (CDPSE) and loves anything that involves Data. With over 20 years’ experience in Banking and Financial sector in Australia and New Zealand, Reshma is very passionate about Data Security and emerging data challenges.
Reshma is a Board Member at ISACA Melbourne and is the Diversity Director. She is also the Ambassador for ISACA’s SheLeadsTech and previous Coordinator for SheLeadsTech Melbourne. Reshma is the Women in Leadership Program Lead at Australian Women in Security Network (AWSN) and the AWSN Chapter Lead for Melbourne. Reshma has been the ISACA’s CDPSE Manual Subject Matter Expert Reviewer and continually contributes to blogs, Podcasts and security magazines. 
Reshma was the finalist in Women in Security Awards in 2020 for People’s Choice Award in IT Security, and was nominated for Best Student Security Leader, AWSN Award for 2020, Australia’s most outstanding Women in Protective Security/Resilience and The One to Watch.

In 2021, she was awarded the Best Volunteer in Australian Women in Security Awards. In 2022 she has be nominated for the Unsung Hero award.
Reshma is a Thrive Coach, she coaches women transitioning between careers and is passionate about helping students with mentoring and guiding careers in Technology and STEM. Her passion has led her into assisting women in leadership roles and working on many women led initiatives.

Paul is currently working for Suncorp Bank covering Stress Testing & Sustainability Risk. His experience spans financial risk and regulations in both industry (i.e. banking) and consulting - spanning more than 20 years. He has helped to deliver optimised risk and regulatory frameworks and processes across the domains of  data, governance, scenarios analysis, risk management,  regulatory reporting, right through to the application of best fit technologies. More specifically, he has covered the domain of climate risk (including sustainable financing) for many years delivering climate risk training, consulting and CTB/RTB programs. Working with both large and small financial institutions across Australia, UK, Europe and Asia, a key focus has been to help financial institutions best align to the risk and opportunities that climate risk will create.

Paul has a Honours in Business Administration and a MSc in Quantitative Finance,  is the lead author of the Chartered Banker Institute’s Climate Risk certification and is a ABA Climate Risk Working Group member.

Karl Eisenhammer oversees Moody’s ESG Solutions for Australia and New Zealand. He is responsible for a team focused on delivering ESG solutions across ESG Measures, Climate Solutions, SME Solutions, Index Solutions and Sustainable Finance to a client universe across corporates, FI, NBFI and government. The Sustainable Finance offering at Moody’s ESG Solutions also includes the provision of Second Party Opinions and Sustainability Ratings to potential debt issuers in both bond and bank loan markets. Karl has almost 20 years’ experience as a corporate coverage banker across a variety of industries. Having started his career with ANZ he transitioned to Bank of America in their Global Corporate and Investment Banking team where he embraced the universal banking model. Karl has had broad exposure to all traditional banking products and capital markets including more recently in sustainable finance and carbon offsets. Karl holds a Bachelor of Economics from WSU as well as a Post Graduate Diploma of Environmental Management from UNSW.

Katrina Ell is an assistant director and economist in the Sydney office of Moody’s Analytics. Katrina manages the Asia-Pacific edition of Economy.com and is responsible for the research, analysis and forecasting of economies throughout the Asia-Pacific region, with a particular focus on Australia and New Zealand. Katrina is regularly quoted by international media such as CNBC, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and Sky News. She previously worked as an analyst at the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority. Katrina received her bachelor’s degree in economics (honours) from Macquarie University and is currently completing her Masters in Applied Economics at Macquarie University.

Felicity is Senior Economist in the Australian Economics team at ANZ. She is responsible for analysis and forecasting of key Australian macroeconomic indicators, as well as thematic research on the Australian economy. She also provides specialist analysis on topical issues, including the housing sector and the policy outlook. Felicity publishes regular and ad-hoc reports and presents to internal and external, domestic and international clients. She also provides regular media commentary on key local economic issues.
Felicity has more than twenty years’ experience as an economist in financial markets. Prior to joining ANZ, Felicity worked as a Senior Economist for the Royal Bank of Scotland, a Senior Economist at ABN AMRO Australia, and as an Economist for BZW Australia.

William (Bill) H. Evans is a graduate of Sydney University (BEc. Hons I and University Medal) and the London School of Economics (M.Sc.), where he was a Commonwealth Scholar. He has worked as a Research Manager for the Reserve Bank of Australia, Treasurer at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and prior to joining Westpac in 1991, was Director and Head of Financial Markets at Schroders Australia Limited for 8 years.

Bill joined Westpac in 1991 in the position of Chief Economist and Head of Research. During his time at Westpac he has also spent 2 years in New Zealand as Head of the Institutional Bank with responsibility for Westpac’s corporate and financial markets businesses.

He is currently Managing Director Economics. He is the Bank’s economic spokesman and is responsible for all of the Bank’s economic research. Bill travels frequently, advising Westpac’s customers on the Australian economy and financial markets. He has developed many important contacts in the U.S, Europe and Asia.

Bill was Chairman of the Australian Business Economists for eight years and is now a life member.

Kim is the General Manager – Responsible Investment at HESTA and leads the fund’s approach to responsible investment across all asset classes, including its approach to climate change and impact investment.

She has more than 15 years experience as a responsible investment and sustainability professional. Prior to HESTA, she held roles as the Head of ESG at Hostplus, Portfolio Manager, Responsible Investments at VicSuper and Director within Ernst & Young’s Climate Change and Sustainability Services Team.

Kim holds Bachelors degrees in Civil Engineering and Economics and a Master of Science, where her research focussed on engagement and voting.

John Feeney manages Martialis Consulting working on financial markets product and infrastructure. He has been in financial markets for 30 years in trading and management roles across most asset classes. Feeney has worked for National Australia Bank, Commonwealth Bank, Citibank and Macquarie Bank, trading and managing interest rate derivates, foreign exchange, credit, commodities and funding businesses. Most recently, he has focused on Libor and other interbank offered rate transition issues as well as the broader practice areas of Martialis Consulting.

Kristy is the inaugural Executive Officer of ASFI. Established following the collaborative effort to develop the Australian Sustainable Finance Roadmap, ASFI works to create a financial system in Australia that can support a sustainable, resilient and prosperous future for all Australians. By working across the finance sector, with government, regulators, research institutions and peak bodies, ASFI drives implementation of the Australian Sustainable Finance Roadmap.

With a background in sustainable finance and impact investing across the public and private sectors, prior to ASFI Kristy led the Australian Government’s work with private and institutional investors to mobilise capital for climate and social impact in Australia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. In this role she established the Australian Government’s first impact investment fund, designed to build sustainable and inclusive financial markets in Southeast Asia. She was also a special advisor on the Prime Minister’s Social Impact Investing Taskforce in 2020. She has previously worked in Australia, Latin America, the UK and in global roles for large and small organisations, driving global progress on sustainability issues. She holds a BSc (Environmental) and a Masters in Environmental Law from the University of Sydney and will complete her MBA (Social Impact) in 2022 at UNSW (AGSM).

Iain is presently the Head of Technology and CISO for the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He has enjoyed a long and varied career across multiple industries including, Banking, Telecommunications, Online Media, and Education lading divisions spanning all areas of Technology.

During his career, he has held Global Head of Operational Risk roles at ANZ, CBA, and Macquarie Bank.

Andreas Hefter is associate partner at McKinsey & Company, focusing on risk management and business transformation at financial institutions in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia. His work is focused on risk management and compliance at financial and non-financial institutions, and spans across engagements in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Hefter has worked extensively on risk and culture transformations, enterprise risk, non-financial risk, financial crime, risk organisation, three lines of defence, regulation and compliance.

Over 25 years in Financial Services. John is the NAB Lead on Financial Benchmark Reforms and has been involved in leading this since October 2017.In this role John advises and works closely with Sponsor, impacted product and customer segment heads, risk, legal & project managers to ensure NAB meets the timelines and changes required to transition customers off LIBOR to alternative reference rates.

Manish Jayswal is the head of risk management, and consumer and business banking at Westpac, and is responsible for the oversight of consumer risk portfolio insights across financial and non-financial risk. In prior roles at Westpac and Commonwealth Bank of Australia, he worked in credit risk, balance sheet management, treasury and capital allocation. Jayswal has held several global senior risk management roles, notably with Fannie Mae in Washington DC during the peak of global financial crisis that began in 2007–08, the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation and GE Capital. He has designed and implemented risk management frameworks such as risk appetite, early warning, the economic capital framework, stress-testing, loss allowance modelling, home price forecasting.

Sidharth is an FRM certified Risk professional with over ten years of total experience - three years as an Engineer and the last seven years as a risk analyst across Market risk, Liquidity risk (Treasury) and Credit risk functions.

He currently works for a multilateral development bank founded by the Governments of the BRICS countries. Prior to this he worked for Goldman Sachs as a risk associate in the Market risk and Treasury divisions.

He has knowledge of advanced risk concepts such as debt sustainability analysis, country risk, macroeconomic scenario analysis, stress testing, capital planning, credit risk pricing, sensitivity analysis and VaR, among others. He has hands-on experience in various risk regulations such as CCAR, FDSF, LCR and NSFR.

Sidharth has strong analytical and quantitative skills, excellent communication skills, and has working proficiency with Bloomberg, Tableau, Excel, VBA and Financial Modelling.

His interests lie in the areas of international finance, sovereign risk analysis, macroeconomics, financial development, infrastructure financing and the evolving landscape of digital finance.

Kamran Khan is Deutsche Bank’s Head of ESG for Asia Pacific. In this newly established client-facing role, he is responsible for defining and executing the bank’s ESG strategy across all business divisions in Asia. He is a member of the Global Sustainability Council of Deutsche Bank.

Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Mr. Khan established Infra-Tech Capital, an impact fund investing in companies utilizing technology to provide infrastructure services and achieve UN Sustainable Development Goals. He was also appointed by the Obama White House to serve as the head of global investments and operations at the US Millennium Challenge Corporation, where he managed a USD 10bn portfolio and led a USD 1.5-2bn annual investment program globally.

Previously, Mr. Khan held senior executive roles at the World Bank and helped establish the World Bank Group regional hub in Singapore, comprising the World Bank, International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Multilateral Insurance & Guarantee Agency (MIGA). Prior to his time at the World Bank, Mr. Khan worked on M&A transactions and advisory mandates at JP Morgan and LEK. He also served as a US Foreign Service Officer with the US Agency for International Development (USAID), where he led operations for the project finance and guarantees facility.

Mr. Khan served as an Advisor on Infrastructure Finance to APEC, ASEAN, and the G-20. He is a member of the Senior Advisory Board at Fudan University Fintech Centre in Shanghai with a mandate to advise on Belt and Road Initiative projects. He has also served on the Board of Advisors at a variety of market-leading companies using technology to achieve ESG goals. He is a frequent speaker at events such as World Economic Forum, ASEAN Summit, APEC Summit, and in major international media.

Mr. Khan holds an MBA from the Booth School of Business at University of Chicago, and an MS in Applied Economics and Master of Government Administration from the University of Pennsylvania. He received his BS in Economics from George Mason University.

Katya is a highly strategic thought leader with Tier-1 management consulting experience, sharing a wealth of knowledge and over a decade's worth of international experience across the US, UK, Middle East and Australia.

She has contributed to multi-million-dollar savings and revenue growth initiatives for private and AXS-listed organisations, traversing diverse industries including financial services, sustainability, travel & tourism, logistics, real estate, and telecommunications. 

As National Australia Bank’s Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Risk Officer - People, Conduct & Culture, Chris is responsible for the oversight of risks within these domains and supports NAB’s lines of business, globally, in their assessment and management of Compliance, Conduct, People and Culture risk.

He supports individual business units with the development, implementation and monitoring of policies and procedures required to manage risk, including the regular testing of their effectiveness.

Prior to joining NAB, Chris was a partner at Deloitte specialising in Risk within the Financial Services sector. With over 25 years’ experience in consulting and the financial services industry, he has experience in and exposure to all aspects of retail, business, wealth and capital markets/institutional banking.

Yoonsik Ma is leading the Risk Management APAC Product team and the Global IFRS9 Product team, by piloting Adenza’s growth strategy to align with sustainability and technology. With extensive experience in fulfilling the regulatory needs of clients globally, he is focused on driving innovations in technology solutions to enable firms to keep pace with The Final Basel III Capital Framework and IFRS9.

Yoonsik has previously held leadership roles in growing the business for Risk Calculation & Reporting, where he played an instrumental role in pioneering and expanding Adenza’s footprint across Australia and South-East Asia.

Megan Motto is Chief Executive Officer of Governance Institute of Australia, a national membership association and leading authority on governance.

Megan drives the direction of the Institute that advocates for more than 43,000 governance and risk management professionals from the listed, unlisted and not-for profit sectors.

Prior to her Governance Institute role, Megan was CEO of Consult Australia. Megan is also currently a Director of Standards Australia and a National Director for the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA).

Megan has a BA/BEd, a MA in Communications Management and is a Fellow of both Governance Institute of Australia and Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Emma Murphy is a strategy, communications and leadership consultant that worked for the Bank of England for almost 20 years.  As part of her role there she developed and implemented the first strategic plans in the Bank of England’s 325-year history.  These focused on how best to manage deeply analytical talent while building a more diverse workforce, transforming rigid ways of working, and bringing internal and external communications into the 21st century.  Emma also led the division that introduced the Bank’s new approach to communications and has also played central roles in the integration of the Prudential Regulation Authority into the Bank and establishment of the Financial Policy Committee.  Emma has advised other central banks around the World, helping adapt lessons learned from the Bank of England’s experience into their differing contexts and has particular expertise in meshing cultural change with the people and communications challenges.

Vasyl Nair is group chief executive at Mine Super and has a background in law and corporate finance, having also held roles across operations, strategy, marketing and risk functions at some of Australia’s largest financial services institutions. He holds bachelor of laws, bachelor of commerce, graduate diploma of legal practice and executive master of business administration degrees. Nair is also a director of Recreo Financial, an Australian financial technology company, specialising in superannuation and investment administration.

Campbell Nicoll is chief risk officer (CRO) at Regional Australia Bank, with 15 years' experience in credit and operational risk management. His previous roles in the financial sector include general manager positions at ASB Bank and a CRO role at the Bank South Pacific.

Sam O'Sullivan is chief risk officer at QIS and leads a team in continually enhancing QIC's risk management capability. Before joining QIC, he held senior roles in the investment management and infrastructure sectors in Australia and overseas. O'Sullivan is passionate about delivering confidence in business decisions and outcomes by delivering risk and assurance programs in support of strategic objectives.

Su-Lin Ong is a Managing Director of RBC Capital Markets, Chief Economist & Senior Relationship Manager. She has led the Economics & Fixed Income Strategy team for AU/NZ since 2010 and was Head of AU Research, including oversight for equity research, from 2015 to 2019.  In August 2019, she began a newly created role to help foster senior relationships with RBC’s key clients.

Su-Lin is part of the global strategy team with primary responsibility for formulating and presenting RBC’s AU/NZ macroeconomic outlook, cash rate view and bond yield forecasts. Based in RBC’s Sydney office, she works closely with sales and trading across fixed income, currencies, and equities in Australia as well as key RBC offices across the globe. Prior to joining RBC in 1998, Su-Lin was a fixed income economist for Hambros Bank and before that worked as an economist at the Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet in Canberra.

She is a former Director of Business Spectator and the NSW/ACT FINSIA Regional Council.  Su-Lin is an Executive Member of The Australian Business Economists, CEDA’s Economic Policy Committee, and sits on the Women in Banking and Finance Board. She is also a founding member of RBC’s Diversity Council, RWomen Committee and actively involved in their mentoring and charity programs including Lou’s Place and Ronald McDonald House, Randwick. She is an ambassador for the RBA’s Women in Economics initiative and supports a number of initiatives aimed at building pipeline economic talent, especially female. Su-Lin regularly represents RBC at various industry, policy, and education forums. She holds a BEc from the University of Sydney, Post Graduate in Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia, is a Fellow, FINSIA, and scholarship recipient and recent graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Ravi Pandit is executive director, foreign exchange and interest rate products, Asia-Pacific at CME Group, and is responsible for expanding its existing FX and interest rate business and developing new opportunities across the region. He joined CME Group in August 2015 and he has 25 years' experience in the financial markets. Prior to joining CME Group, Pandit was a consultant to Singapore Exchange, where he provided strategic advice and project management for its launch of listed FX futures. Before that, he worked for 12 years in Dresdner Bank and subsequently Commerzbank, where he headed up the local markets trading team and helped build its Asian presence in interest rate and FX derivatives trading. Pandit also worked in various trading roles at Barclays, and in operations and technology at Citibank.

Clive is the Deputy Chief Risk Officer – Risk & Compliance at Heartland Bank, a New Zealand specialist bank with the strategy to provide ‘best or only' banking products in niche Australian and NZ markets. His experience includes over 17 years in risk and compliance and internal audit roles across Heartland Bank, ASB (CBA's New Zealand subsidiary), Suncorp Group and professional services firm Ernst & Young.  Clive has demonstrated success with leadership and relationship management, focusing on influencing senior and executive stakeholders through pragmatic insights to drive positive and lasting change.

Nicola is the Acting Group Chief Risk Officer in AMP (previously the Chief Audit Executive).  She has more than 25 years of experience in financial services, both domestically and internationally, during which time she has built a deep understanding of regulation, risk, governance and control. Nicola has held various roles in financial services organisations and regulators, including most recently with ANZ as General Manager of Audit for the Wealth business, and at Barclays, HBOS and the Financial Services Authority in the UK. Nicola is also a Past President of the Chartered Institute of Internal Audit in the U.K. and a former Board member of the Global Institute of Internal Audit.

David Robertson is Bendigo and Adelaide Bank’s chief economist. He has worked in a range of senior roles in treasury for the State Bank of New South Wales, First Chicago and Commonwealth Bank. Robertson's regular economic commentaries draw on decades of economic research and policy-making, and his unique and fresh style of delivery has garnered a loyal following for his regular YouTube segments.

Helen Rowell was appointed as Deputy Chair of APRA in November 2015, and reappointed for a further five-year term from 1 July 2018.

Mrs Rowell joined APRA in 2002 as General Manager, Industry Technical Services and held a number of senior roles, including General Manager, Diversified Institutions Division, General Manager, Policy Development and Executive General Manager, Supervisory Support Division prior to her appointment as APRA Member, with primary responsibility for superannuation, from 1 July 2013. As of July 2021, Helen is responsible for insurance and in April 2022, she added the cross-industry portfolio to her responsibility.

Mrs Rowell was the Chair of APRA’s (cross-divisional) general insurance industry group from 2006 to 2011, and has represented APRA on the Financial Security Board’s Supervisory Intensity and Effectiveness Group and was previously co-Chair of the Joint Forum Financial Conglomerates Committee. Mrs Rowell is currently the APRA representative on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Working Party on Private Pensions, and was appointed President of the International Organisation of Pension Supervisors in November 2019.  Helen has also represented APRA on various sub committees of the International Association of Insurance Supervisor (IAIS) and since 2021, sits on the IAIS Executive Committee and has also been appointed as the IAIS Diversity, Equality & Inclusion champion.

Prior to joining APRA, Mrs Rowell was a partner at the international consulting firm Towers Perrin; she is also a Fellow and past President of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia.

Chris Schaub has been delivering risk management solutions into the financial services, insurance and corporate sectors for 25 years, and has a proven record of selling and implementing risk solutions that meet compliance and business needs. Schaub joined SAS in 2010 to head up the operational risk, governance and compliance solutions, and has since been appointed business solutions manager​, financial risk management, helping customers modernise their risk ecosystems to meet the demands of IFRS 9 and Basel III/IV Regulatory Capital. Prior to joining SAS, he worked at Misys, Sungard and Fiserv, where he sold and delivered risk and compliance solutions as part major risk transformational programs at global ASX-listed financial institutions.

Professor Elizabeth Sheedy is a risk management and governance expert based at the Macquarie Applied Finance Centre. She spent her early career in the financial services sector before joining academia in the mid-90s. At Macquarie she teaches in the highly-regarded Master of Applied Finance program. Since 2012 her industry-relevant research has focused on risk culture, governance and remuneration in the context of financial institutions. She comments regularly in the media on the topic of financial services misconduct.

Naeem Siddiqi is the author of Credit Risk Scorecards : Developing and Implementing Intelligent Credit Scoring, (Wiley and Sons, New York, 2005), Intelligent Credit Scoring : Building and Implementing Better Credit Risk Scorecards (Wiley and Sons, 2017), and various papers on credit risk topics.

Naeem meets with senior executives and decision makers from between 40-50 lenders globally each year, and provides strategic advice to them on areas such as the development and validation of credit scoring models, climate change risk, infrastructure planning for analytics, and retail credit risk strategy. He has also trained hundreds of bankers in over 25 countries on the art and science of credit scorecard development, and helps credit risk analysts develop better scorecards.

Naeem has an Honours Bachelor of Engineering from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of London, and an MBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto.

Dr Peter Simpson is currently the Global Head of Safety, Security & ESG for Standard Chartered bank., with a footprint in the highest risk regions of the world. Peter is a pilot by trade, and has BSc, MSc, MA, MBA and DBA. He is passionate about and leading organisations through customer-focussed change and simplification, and working with the next generation of young leaders. He is a Board member in a not-for-profit looking after the most vulnerable members of society.

Corinne is a Director, Risk Management for National Australia Bank.  In her role, Corinne is responsible for oversight and challenge in the Corporate & Institutional Banking Division.   Institutional Banking has been at the forefront of Sustainability and ESG risk for over a decade, Corinne leverages a diverse range of experiences including Global markets, Product Management, Treasury and Risk to provide strategic risk advice and practical solutions in a complex environment.

Paul Taylor has held Executive roles in risk management across Investment Banking, Hedge Fund Management, Retail Banking and Insurance most recently as General Manager Portfolio Management & Market Risk at BOQ.

Alex Twigg is Founder and CEO of digital transformation advisory firm Shift Happens Group, Co-Founder and Executive Chair of experience-as-a service platform Appeggio.com, an Independant Non Executive Chair of fintech, Cape and an Independent Non Executive Director of netbank, Alex Bank. Previously, he was CEO of UBank, co-founder and CIO of Judo Bank, and an Independant Non Executive Director of Eftpos. 

Fintech Asia placed Alex among Asia’s 100 most influential Fintech leaders and he was named in CIO Magazines top 50 Australian CIO in 2019. Alex is also a member of the Australian Chartered Institute of Directors, a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia and a member of the University of Queensland Business School’s Service Innovation Alliance. 

Stefan Ullrich is VP for Sales, Fixed Income and FI ESG at Eurex, one of the largest derivatives exchanges worldwide. He is responsible for growing Eurex' Fixed Income business in Asia, covering ETD, OTC Clearing, Repo and FX. He has nearly 20 years' experience expanding the business of world-leading futures exchanges in Asia across all major asset classes.

Prior to joining Eurex, he was director for Sustainable Finance at a leading Singapore sustainability consultancy, before establishing his own advisory practice. In his sustainability work, Stefan focuses on the intersection of Corporate Sustainability and Sustainable Finance and on developing new collaborative solutions for financing the transition to a low-carbon, resilient and sustainable global economy.

Stefan has held senior-level positions with several international futures exchanges and was part of a small team that established an Asian derivatives exchange in Singapore

He holds master's degrees in Sustainability from Harvard Extension School and in Classical Chinese from Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany

A former management consultant at PwC, derivatives trader at Dresdner Kleinwort and head of macro research/portfolio manager at macro hedge fund FMCP, all based out of London, Olivier Vojetta relocated in 2012 to Sydney to work for Macquarie Group. Initially a principal consultant with the central strategy consulting team supporting the group worldwide, Olivier transferred to the risk mgmt. group in 2018 to help build the Strategy service function within newly formed RMG Enterprise Support (RES) centrally. With a passion for strategy and risk, Olivier has over the years successfully created and executed group level business strategies that helped businesses set themselves apart by placing innovation at the heart of change management and decision-making.

Theo and his team are responsible for implementation of the risk and compliance framework in line with Cbus’ risk appetite. The team identifies new regulatory obligations that may impact Investments, undertake risk training, as well as Investment incident root cause analysis, operational due diligence of external investment managers, undertake risk assessments of new Investment initiatives and are responsible for internal and external mandate pre & post trade compliance.

Dianne Weinstein has 25 years' experience in the financial services industry across senior risk and compliance roles. As the head of group regulatory risk at AMP, she developed a regulatory risk framework, and led regulatory engagements with regulators and regulatory change management. Weinstein has worked in major financial institutions and as a former regulator.

Paul Wylie is Head of Risk, Asia Pacific for LCH Ltd.  In his role, he is responsible for overseeing the various LCH risk functions and benchmark reform for the APAC region.

Before joining LCH in March 2019, Paul headed Structured Products and managed fixed income portfolio mandates at Mason Stevens.  Prior to that, Paul held senior front office trading roles both in Australia and overseas, including running Strategic Trading, CVA Trading, and Credit Solutions for Lloyds bank PLC in London.

Paul holds degrees in Actuarial Studies and Applied Finance from Macquarie University, Australia.

With over a decade of international risk management and regulatory compliance experience, Gloria is a risk management evangelist who believes having inclusive and diverse leadership is the cornerstone for effective risk management, innovation and good corporate governance. Being a citizen of the world, Gloria is a bridge builder in her personal and professional life, bringing curiosity, integrity, and intelligence to her numerous ventures.

Before moving to Australia with NAB, she held various advisory and management positions with Asia Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association’s Compliance Committee, NAB Asia, JP Morgan Chase, Santander and China Merchants Bank. Gloria obtained her law degree from the University of Hong Kong and is a certified professional practitioner and fellow member of the International Compliance Association.

Gloria is privileged to serve in NAB’s Cultural Inclusion Committee which drives strategic initiatives to harness the power of cultural inclusion in leadership roles. Also serving as a member of the Women in Banking and Finance Vic Leadership Committee, Gloria targets to grow the talent pipeline of professional women and develops initiatives to amplify the voice of women of all backgrounds.