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Blake Evans-Pritchard is bureau chief, Asia, for Risk.net, based in Hong Kong.

Before taking on his current role, he spent five years covering regulatory issues across Asia for Risk.net, including implementation of Basel III and other international standards in regional jurisdictions.

Previously, Blake spent five years in Brussels writing about the European Union’s financial services sector and competition policy, and a number of years as Africa editor for a news service covering post-conflict restitution around the world.

During his 16-year journalistic career, he has also reported from Sudan, Italy, the Netherlands, Ghana and Portugal.

Blake holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Aston in Birmingham.

Patrick Pearson is Head of Unit of Financial Markets Infrastructure in the European Commission’s Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Directorate General. He previously headed the Resolution and Crisis management teams and was responsible for the Financial Services Action Plan.

Before joining the European Commission in 1987, Patrick Pearson worked for the legal service and the foreign financial market affairs divisions in Dutch Finance Ministry in The Hague.

He has a law degree from Leiden University in the Netherlands.

Dr. Johnny Noe E. Ravalo is Assistant Governor and has been the Head of the Office of Systemic Risk Management, the BSP’s financial stability unit, since its inception in January 2017.

Prior to his current designation, Dr. Ravalo was in charge of the policy, financial literacy, consumer protection, and data management initiatives of the Supervision and Examination Sector, as well as the initial efforts of the BSP on financial stability.

While in the private sector, Dr. Ravalo had several consultancy engagements, notably with the USAID, the ADB, the ADB Institute, and SEACEN. Prior to these, he served as the first Chief Economist and designated Spokesperson of the Bankers Association of the Philippines from 1994 to 2002 during which time he was directly involved in the market efforts through the crises of 1997 and 1999, as well as the reform program designed thereafter.

Dr. Ravalo is the first Filipino to successfully complete the doctoral program in Economics at Boston University where he also earned his Master’s degree in Political Economy. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Business Economics (Cum Laude) from the University of the Philippines School of Economics, completing the degree requirements in only three calendar years.

Head of Risk Management (Insurance Division): December 2018 to present; Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), Insurance Division, Bern, Switzerland.

Head of Market and Credit Risks (Insurance Division): July 2016 to July 2019; Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), Insurance Division, Bern, Switzerland.

Senior Risk Manager: June 2015 to June 2016; Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), Insurance Division, Bern, Switzerland.

Specialist for Market Risks: March 2012 to May 2015; Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), Insurance Division, Bern, Switzerland.

Financial consultant (part-time): 1993 – 2011; Treuhandbüro F. Balmer, Wilderswil, Switzerland.

Part-time lecturer: 2012 to present; Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Basel, Switzerland.

Part-time lecturer: 2011 to present; Section de Mathématiques, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

Visiting professor: April 2016 – June 2016; Information and Decision Systems Department, ESSEC, Paris, France.

Part-time lecturer: 2009 – 2015;
Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Bern, Switzerland.

Post-doctoral research associate: 2009 – 2011; Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Bern, Switzerland. Founded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Research and teaching assistant: 2007 – 2009; Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Bern, Switzerland.

Teacher (part-time): 1998 – 1999; College of Commerce, Burgdorf, Switzerland

Lakshmi Shyam-Sunder is Vice President and World Bank Group Chief Risk Officer.

Lakshmi 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.

Prior to joining MIGA in March 2011, she worked since 1994 at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), also part of the World Bank Group, where she was Director for Corporate Risk, and Director of IFC's Risk Management and Financial Policy Department. She helped develop IFC's client risk management advisory services and IFC's portfolio risk metrics which formed the foundation for the GEMs initiative across MDBs. She led the development of IFC's integrated capital framework and was responsible for all financial risks in Treasury, lending and equity investment operations as well as rating agency issues. She was also Co-Chair of IFC's New Products Assessment Group.

Lakshmi is co-founder and Co-Chair of the Global Emerging Markets (GEMs) risk database, a Consortium for Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) and International Financial Institutions (IFIs).

Lakshmi has consulted for a 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.
Before joining IFC, Lakshmi was a faculty member at the MIT Sloan School of Management and earlier at The Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College. She has a Ph.D. in Finance from the MIT Sloan School of Management and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Mr Yong Choon Mun heads the Prudential Advisory Division, which is part of the Prudential Policy Department at the Monetary Authority of Singapore. The division oversees MAS’ policies on resolution and deposit insurance, and shapes MAS’ contributions to the BCBS, FSB SRC and other international fora. Prior to his current role, Choon Mun was in the Banking Department where he supervised a range of foreign banks.

Choon Mun holds a Bachelor of Accountancy (Honours) degree from Nanyang Technological University.

Amédée Prouvost is the Director of the World Bank’s Operational Risk Department where he leads the institution’s non-financial risk practice, which includes operational risk management, business continuity and crisis management, enterprise risk management, and corporate insurance. He also serves as the Secretary of two of the highest-level executive management risk oversight committees: the Finance & Risk Committee and the Enterprise Risk Committee.

After six years building the World Bank’s non-financial risk practice and strengthening the organization’s risk culture, he is now deeply involved in the institution’s response to the unfolding COVID-19 crisis, planning for the future, considering how the way we work will have changed, and trying to imagine a “new normal” with a greater focus on risk and resilience.

Since joining the World Bank in 1984, Mr. Prouvost has held positions across the finance and risk functions, including CFO of MIGA, Finance Manager for Development Finance, and Financial Representative in Europe. He also worked in a variety of roles in the institution’s Treasury and served as Senior Adviser to three World Bank Group CFOs. He began his professional career at Banque Paribas (now BNP Paribas) and served as a Reserve Officer with the French Navy.

Mr. Prouvost holds an MBA (with distinction) from the Wharton School, a Master’s degree in economics and statistics from ENSAE Paris (one of the French “grandes écoles”), and a Master of Advanced Studies in economics and finance from Paris Dauphine-PSL University.

In his personal time, Mr. Prouvost serves as the President of the Board of Alliance Française of Washington DC (voted “best Arts & Culture Non-Profit” in DC in both 2019 and 2020), as a member of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Board of UNICEF USA, and as a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Global Business School Network.

Nagarajan (Nags) Sankaranarayanan is Chief Financial and Administrative Officer for Asia ex-Japan currently based in Singapore. He has regional responsibility for over 600 professionals across 12 countries, overseeing Operations, IT, Finance, Corporate Real Estate and Services, Data Management and Security, Corporate Transformation and Fin-Tech projects as well as Business Continuity Management. He also sits on the board of various Nomura’s companies.

Nags has 25 plus years of work experience in various leadership roles across both business and broad corporate/support areas in investment banks and start-up hedge fund. Prior to joining Nomura, he worked at Goldman Sachs, LionRock Capital (hedge fund) and JP Morgan in capacities as Equity Sales Trader, COO, and in the CFO office. Nags also has extensive experience in setting up and managing businesses, M&A, risk management, business strategy, global project and cost management programs, offshoring and managing large teams. Over his career, he has lived and worked across multiple Asian countries, including India, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Nags is also passionate about technology and finance, as well as a keen supporter of entrepreneurship. He has invested in and actively advises and mentors technology and finance-related startups.

Nags holds an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a Cost Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree.

David has unique experience spanning the full trade lifecycle, execution to ledger. An experienced C-suite executive, David has significant exposure reporting to and working alongside CEOs and other C-suite focusing on strategic direction and operation of firms.

His geographic experience spans London, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Moscow and Johannesburg having held senior executive positions in ask these locations. His experience spans established and emerging markets.

Currently based in Singapore he is looking at opportunities to work with businesses focused on growth and geographical expansion where his strategy and build experience can be leveraged.

Philip Woo is the Chief Risk Officer and oversees corporate governance and risk management in Tokio Marine Life Insurance Singapore (TMLS). He has over 26 years of experience in the financial sector, and began his career at MAS before joining the insurance industry. Over the period, he has played leadership roles in Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Business Continuity & Crisis Management, Outsourcing/Vendor Risk Management and Technology Risk Management (TRM). He currently chairs the Governance, Risk and Compliance Committee (GRCC) at TMLS, and oversees the managing of operational, financial and strategic risks in the company. In addition to risk management, Philip has a wealth of experience in strategic planning, financial technology and payment system matters.

Michael is the Founder and President of SureStep – a global systems integrator specializing in GRC automation and reporting solutions.

Since 2007, SureStep has successfully completed projects across finance, manufacturing, transportation, natural resource and other industries. Those clients have ranged from 2-person risk and compliance teams to those having over 65,000 participants in their GRC programs. As the practice lead at SureStep, Mike guides clients to best practices and ensures they optimize their GRC technology investments for the long term.

SureStep provides solutions from ServiceNow, Workiva and IBM as well as GRC managed services. Mike’s team works from offices in Hong Kong and Singapore in addition to their New York and Toronto locations.

Eric Aldous, CFA and FRM, is a Managing Director and serves as the Global Head of Futures at RBC Capital Markets.  Mr. Aldous joined RBC Capital Markets in 1999 as part of Group Risk Management in Toronto.  In 2001, he transferred to New York as part of the Hedge Fund Trading Risk Team.  In 2002, Mr. Aldous joined to the Due Diligence Team in the Alternative Assets Group, which provides fund linked derivatives and credit to hedge fund portfolios.  From 2009 to 2012, Mr. Aldous, as Head of Front office Risk for Futures and Head of Market Infrastructure Clearing was responsible for the overhaul of RBC’s clearing infrastructure, the development of the futures regulatory strategy and the creation of a comprehensive futures risk program.  In addition to his role at RBC, Eric Aldous also serves as a FIA Board Member and Board Treasurer.

Mr. Aldous has a Bachelor of Commerce from Dalhousie University.

Russell Beattie is the Director, Head of Asia Pacific Futures & Options, OTC Clearing and FX Prime Brokerage. Russell has 26 years’ experience in listed exchange traded derivatives in APAC. He has lived / worked and been a licensed representative in Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and Australia.

He has built and coached highly profitable electronic trading / sales trading / origination and clearing teams in Australia, India, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Being a product professional with an extensive marketing / sales background he values his broad based relationships which cover buy-side and sell-side clients across the globe.

In his career he has spent over 15 years as a registered company director, licensed
responsible officer and/or licensed internal control manager across various regional
businesses.

Prior to Joining BAML Hong Kong in January 2015, Russell was the Managing Director, Head of Prime Services Japan and Head of Agency Derivatives Services Distribution (Asia Pacific) for Barclays based in Tokyo. As part of that role he was also a member of the Barclays APAC Prime Services Management Committee.

Russell is an elected board member of the Futures Industry Association of Japan and
continues to participate on several other market advisory committees such as Futures
Industry Association, Asia and the Korean Exchange Derivatives Markets Advisory
Committee.

Russell takes an active interest in mentoring current economics & finance students where he is on the advisory board of the HK Federation of Business students association, Honorary Vice President of the Advisory board of Business Students Union, HKUSTSU and participated as a guest speaker at the College of Business & Economics , ANU, Canberra.

Russell graduated from the Australian National University, Canberra with a Bachelor of
Economics.

Prior to starting in the financial markets on the Sydney Futures Exchange he was granted a commission as a Royal Australian Infantry Officer and qualified as an airborne trooper with the 1st Royal Australian Commando Regiment.

Yujun helms SGX’s award-winning equity derivatives business, which covers 99% of investible Asian GDP. The equity derivatives product suite includes flagship contracts such as the FTSE China A50, Nikkei 225, FTSE Taiwan, Nifty50, and MSCI Singapore futures and options. He was responsible for recent innovations including the Nikkei Total Return futures, the Nikkei 225 options compression service, and the FTSE Taiwan liquidity switch service.

Yujun began his career with SGX in 2006. Since then, he has accumulated experience along the exchange vertical, including market development, membership acquisition, and listed company compliance.

Shun Yanagisawa is a Director and the Japan Head of Futures, Clearing and FX Prime Brokerage, which sits within the Markets at Citigroup Global Markets Japan Inc.

In this capacity, he is responsible for managing Futures, OTC Clearing and FX Prime Brokerage business.
Prior to joining Citi, Yanagisawa was responsible for sales and marketing at JPMorgan in Japan for over 11 years.

Approx. 20 years industry experience, Yanagisawa regularly participates in public roundtables and serves for multiple industry groups and help advocate stability for the clearing system in derivatives. Shun is the elected board member, Vice President, ExCo and chairman of Operations committee of FIA Japan, interest rate swap steering committee at JSCC, Wholesale market steering committee of TFX, advisory board member of Risk.net ASIA and several working groups member of ISDA. Shun holds an M.B.A. from the University of Wales.  

Blake Evans-Pritchard is bureau chief, Asia, for Risk.net, based in Hong Kong.

Before taking on his current role, he spent five years covering regulatory issues across Asia for Risk.net, including implementation of Basel III and other international standards in regional jurisdictions.

Previously, Blake spent five years in Brussels writing about the European Union’s financial services sector and competition policy, and a number of years as Africa editor for a news service covering post-conflict restitution around the world.

During his 16-year journalistic career, he has also reported from Sudan, Italy, the Netherlands, Ghana and Portugal.

Blake holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Aston in Birmingham.

Alex Adranghi is a Vice President, Quantitative Analyst and front office AI lead at MUFG. He is a founding member of the MUFG European Innovation Labs. He previously worked at WestLB and Bloomberg. Alex pop has a background in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science.

Daniel heads SGX’s digital initiatives across cash equity and derivatives. He is driving the development of SGX’s OTC derivatives trade registration and broker-centric trading platform bridging the gap between electronic and OTC markets. He is also driving innovation for cash equity retail customers such as digital corporate actions and electronic payments.

Daniel joined SGX in 2014 after spending almost 10 years in Accenture’s Capital Markets group. Since joining SGX, he worked on several exchange initiatives across trading, clearing, depository services and collateral management as well as in platform sales.

As a Technical Solution Architect, Thibault participates in analyzing needs of financial institutions in Asia Pacific, suggesting the best fit solution, and acting as a two-way communication between the customer needs in term of technology (digitalization, performances, cloud, AI etc.) and the Murex roadmap delivering the evolutions.

Based in Singapore since 2009, Thibault has participated in Murex projects implementations in Singapore, India, Malaysia, Thailand, and Australia for financial market systems managing derivatives trade lifecycles and risks. Then developing presales for connectivity, APIs and batch/real-time data flows. Now in charge of business process customizations and architecture.

Thibault holds a master’s in information technology from Polytech’Tours and a master’s in Management and Business Administration from IAE Tours.

Sylvie Davidson is a principal partner in YourBoard,a board advisory business.She wasmost recentlyCROfor the Asia Pacific Region andManaging Director at UBS AG. As CRO she had risk oversight for Wealth Management, Investment Banking and Asset Management activities,providing independent oversight on risk, including control and governance frameworks.Sylvie has worked in Asia since 1994 and has over 29 years’ experience in thefinanceindustry. Prior to joining UBS, she was COO for the equities business in Asia at Barclays Capital, supporting the business in achieving its strategic goals at a regional and divisional level. Before Barclays Sylvie held senior roles at Standard Chartered Bank, first in structuring investor products and then in Equity Financing. Prior to that she was at Merrill Lynchfor 18 yearswhere she started as trader in equity derivatives, then moved on to sales and marketing of equity derivatives, built the valuation risk management team and laterreturned to the business creating innovative product and platforms for Equities and Equity Derivatives. Sylvie has extensive experience in risk management, COO, trading, sales, structuring and project management across asset classes working for major banks in Switzerland, London and Hong Kong.

Anthony has over 20 years’ experience in financial services and joined HSBC Securities Services in Dublin in 2006 as an Equity Pricing Specialist. In 2011 he moved into the role of Global Product Manager - OTC Derivative Pricing. His responsibilities in this role include product strategy, regulatory oversight, operating model design and automation of valuation processes. Prior to joining HSBC Anthony was responsible for equity derivative product control at Dresdner Kleinwort in New York. Anthony is based in Hong Kong since 2015 now focusing on listed and OTC derivative solutions for clients across the full trade lifecycle including valuation / model governance and collateral management.

Sage Patel joined IHS Markit (Markit Asia) in March 2011. Before joining IHS Markit, Sage was responsible for Pricing and Valuations at Fitch Solutions. Sage has extensive product and commercial leadership responsibilities across fixed income, derivatives, and structured credit and at tier-one investment banks, starting at Salomon Brothers, Citigroup Global Markets, Bank of America N.A and RBC Capital Markets across London, New York, and Toronto.

Sage has been driving IHS Markit's (now S&P Global Market Intelligence) continued expansion into Asia-Pacific capital markets which will continue to provide optimized solutions and best practices for market reforms adoptions in an ever-changing regulatory landscape in Asia.

Based in Singapore, Eric is responsible for setting the ESG research, integration, and active ownership agenda in Asia. In his role, Eric conducts proprietary research to identify and manage investment risks and opportunities related to the sustainability strategies of companies in the region. Eric also works with Asian based portfolio managers on evaluating ESG exposures at a portfolio level. He collaborates with the ESG team on methodologies for product development and represents Manulife IM’s ESG capabilities among the local investment community..

Prior to joining Manulife Investment Management, Eric led the Sustainable Finance initiatives for Asia-Pacific at S&P Global where he helped to develop and launch the ESG Evaluation Framework.  He worked closely with analysts across the region to evaluate ESG exposures in corporate and infrastructure entities. Before joining the Sustainable Finance team, he covered various sectors as a credit ratings analyst at S&P in both the United States and Asia. Preceding S&P, Eric worked on an equity portfolio at Barclay’s PLC in New York, and on the special situations desk of the boutique investment bank StormHarbour Partners LP.

Eric holds a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Colgate University. He is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Society of Singapore.

A wealth management practitioner and financial market professional, John has more than 20 years of experience spanning across multiple asset classes as well as client segments.

As a builder of successful businesses be it in Singapore, Malaysia and the region; John has an in depth understanding of how potentially complex financial markets product can be made simple and accessible to suitable retail, affluent and SME clients.

Leading multiple teams of wealth management experts, John is currently managing the Wealth Management Treasury business for UOB’s Personal Financial Services Division. His portfolio includes product management, solution advisory, sales specialists and treasury dealing which is critical to the value chain of UOB’s treasury business.

From Foreign Exchange, Equity, Interest Rate, Commodity, Fixed Income to Structured Products; it is John’s passion to connect client’s wealth planning needs with the intricacies of financial markets by partnering with best in class providers, investing in highly experienced wealth specialists and making the complex simple for our clients to understand and access as investment solutions.

John is also highly involved in Singapore’s sustainability industry developments especially when it comes to sustainable investing; to which he has help launched UOB’s award winning Sustainable Investing program for its wealth management clients. He has also contributed to Singapore’s first Green Finance Handbook as part of MAS’s Green Finance Industry Taskforce initiative.

On top of his Wealth Management capacity, John is also the Sustainability Lead for Group Personal Financial Services; supporting the bank’s aspiration to be the leading bank in ASEAN promoting sustainable living, payments and investments for our consumer bank clients.  

Bruno Neukirch is currently Head of Fund and ESG solutions.

His role is to organise and promote the Societe Generale Fund linked product offering in Asia.

The main objective is to provide access to Societe Generale clients to Investment Strategies and Thematics through funds, including ESG funds.

Bruno NEUKIRCH joined the Societe Generale Group in 2000. He has started his career as portfolio manager within Lyxor Alternative Investment team and then joined the Societe Generale Financial Engineering team in 2004.

He has held different senior positions in Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong, notably being in charge of the pricing team on Funds and Societe Generale Indices in Paris and more recently heading Lyxor Structuring team for Asia.

Manish Singhai is a seasoned investor, having joined the industry in 1993. Since 2003, he has held Asian CIO and CEO roles at global asset managers AllianceBernstein, Aviva Investors, Lazard AM, and Tokio Marine AM.

Manish is an early thought leader in the ESG space, and an active proponent of DEI. At AllianceBernstein as early as in 2000, he pioneered an inhouse Corporate Governance (CG) assessment framework, much before CG and SRI eventually morphed into ESG. In all investment processes he has since designed and led, he has ensured that ESG considerations are central but, in a pragmatic, and not pedantic manner.

Manish has also engaged continuously with corporate managements on ESG issues over more than two decades. In the early 2000s, he worked closely with a Korea University think-tank and other institutional investors to get truly independent directors elected to the boards of leading Korean corporates.

Manish was a member of the Equity Advisory Group, International Institute of Finance, Inc., and a leader/member of their Corporate Governance Task Forces on Indonesia, Malaysia, China and India. He has presented white-papers on ESG-related topics at prestigious forums such as the Fourth OECD roundtable in Asia and the Council of Institutional Investors (cii.org) plenary session in Washington DC. Very recently, Manish has created https://esg-matters.today to post periodic thought pieces on the E, S and G challenges encountered as an investor, and as a repository of ESG resources

Manish holds a B Tech from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, an MBA Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta, and is a CFA charterholder.

Suchitra leads the development of ESG linked equities products at SGX. She is a part of SGX’s equities business and is currently driving new products innovation in the derivatives business. Most recently, she was responsible for the launch of Asia’s first international REIT sector futures and the FTSE Net Total Return Index series.

Suchitra joined SGX in 2019. Prior to this, Suchitra spent over 10 years in the Equity and Funds Solutions Group at Barclays, London across trading and structuring roles.

Sebastien Hitier is the global head of credit quantitative modelling at BNP Paribas.

Since 2006, he creates models for the pricing, risk management and relative value of financial instruments and the development of the infrastructure required to provide such services.

Prior to this, he did similar work for JPMorgan. Sebastien studied applied mathematics at Ecole Centrale Paris.

George Hong is head of platform and quants at Credit Suisse, based in Hong Kong. He holds an B.A. in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Mathematical Finance from Cambridge University.

Liang Wu is an Executive Director of Financial Engineering and heads up CrossAsset Product Management at Numerix. Wu has previously served as VP of Financial Engineering in the Client Solution Group at Numerix. Before joining Numerix in 2015, he worked at CME Group and HSBC in Pricing and Valuation, and Model Review roles. He holds an MSc degree in Financial Engineering from Columbia University, an MSc degree in Space Physics from Rice University and a BSc degree in Geophysics from University of Science and Technology of China.

Having joined Chartis in July 2020, Jay’s primary focus is to lead and build-out our offerings for the buy-side, both in asset management and wealth management. Buy-side is a focused area of Chartis’s expansion and we are delighted to have Jay leading this area which is increasingly important for both our clients and the industry in general. Jay was most recently a Senior Principal at Finastra. Prior to this he spent 4 years as a Senior Analyst at Celent, 4 years as the Director of Capital Markets at HP, 5 years as a Research Director at Gartner and his first 8 years in industry as a Group Manager in fixed income IT at UBS.

Jay holds a BFA from Cooper Union, a BA from Saint Lawrence University and an MBA in Finance from NYU Stern School of Business. Additionally, Jay is Series 7 certified with FINRA.

Vishal Kapoor has 23 years’ experience in strategic planning, risk management, and capital planning advisory. He is currently heading the audit teams for Risk and Finance in DBS at the Group level. He has spent time in auditing, banking and consulting. His projects include reviewing ICAAP/ liquidity risk for 3 consecutive years for a major Singapore-based bank, and reporting the results to the board and the regulator. He addressed stress testing issues at an enterprise-wide level, set risk governance for banks in China and Singapore, conducted programme reviews for Basel II and provided over 700 hours ICAAP/ Basel III/ liquidity training to senior management and the board of various banks. Previously, he held key positions with JP Morgan, Standard Chartered, Deutsche Bank, and Credit Suisse.  He holds an MBA from Chicago Booth School of Business and is a Chartered Accountant.

Amol Padhye has 17+ years of strong experience in Treasury and Risk Management across Indian Banks, Foreign Banks and Risk Consulting space. He is an active speaker at various conferences across Asia focusing on Treasury and Risk Management.

Amol currently Heads Market Risk function at HDFC Bank where the role evolves around managing Trading Book Risk, Banking Book Risk, Liquidity Risk, Counterparty Credit Risk and Bank Credit Assessment in addition to supporting ICAAP, Group Risk and Country Risk Frameworks. Prior this this, worked as Director within Financial Services Risk Management practice of Ernst & Young LLP and led the practice for Treasury, Market & Liquidity Risk, ALM/ FTP advisory. Before EY, worked with BNP Paribas-India as Associate Director and Head Risk-Investment & Markets where the role covered setting up and running Market & Liquidity Risk function and engage with senior management in India.

Bram van den Bergh is Head of Asset and Liability Management for Asia Pacific at Natixis, is based in Hong Kong and joined Natixis in 2017. Bram has over a decade of experience in Treasury and Asset and Liability Management and has an international background having worked in Amsterdam, London and Hong Kong at 4 financial institutions (ABN AMRO, Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays and now Natixis).

Bram has a background in FX, Interest Rate Risk hedging and Liquidity & Capital Management. He has experience in managing bank balance sheets in Europe and Asia ensuring regulatory compliance and sound, robust and efficient risk management practices. Additionally, Bram has extensive experience in Strategic Restructuring Programmes. He has a Master of Science in Economics & Finance degree from Tilburg University in the Netherlands.