FT Banking Summit 2018

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Cecilia Skingsley

Cecilia Skingsley is the Deputy Governor of Sveriges Riksbank, Sweden’s central bank. She took up the post in May 2013 for a term of six years. She was previously Chief Economist at Swedbank, and before that Head of FX & Fixed Income Research at Swedbank. She has previously been a financial journalist at Dagens Industri, a daily newspaper in Sweden; and the press secretary for Carl Bildt, the former prime minister and chairman of the Moderate Party. Ms Skingsley has a journalism degree, a financial analysts degree and a BA in Economics and Political Science, all from Stockholm academic institutions.

Olivier Guersent

Olivier Guersent is Director General at the DG for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union at the European Commission. He joined the European Commission in 1992, initially with the "Merger Task Force" in the Directorate-General for Competition. Since then, he has alternated between the private offices of a number of European Commissioners (Karel Van Miert, Michel Barnier and Neelie Kroes) and DG Competition (successively Deputy Head of Unit in charge of cartels, Head of Unit in charge of policy and coordination of cases, Head of Unit in charge of merger control, Acting Director “Transport, postal and other services" and, from 2009, Director responsible for the fight against cartels. From 2010 to 2014 he was the head of the private office of Michel Barnier, Commissioner for Internal Market and Services. Having held the position of Deputy Director-General since July 2014, Mr Guersent has been Director-General of the Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union since 1 September 2015. Mr Guersent graduated with distinction from the “Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux” in 1983. He is a member of the board of of the non-profit organisation Aremis and is a regular lecturer to postgraduate university students.

Charlotte Hogg

Charlotte Hogg, CEO, Europe, for Visa, has more than 25 years of experience in financial services, bank operations and management consulting. Most recently she served as chief operating officer for the Bank of England, from 2013 to 2017. Prior to that role, she led retail distribution for Santander in the UK and previously worked at Experian as the managing director of UK and Irish operations. She came to that from a role at Discover Financial Services, as CEO of Goldfish Bank. Earlier in her career, Ms Hogg was a managing director for strategy and planning at Morgan Stanley, and a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, based in the US. She is supporting Now Teach. She was also a former Director of BBC Worldwide and member of Audit and Remuneration Committees, the Finance, Audit and Remuneration Committees (equivalent of Board) of Oxford University Press, a Trustee and former chair of First Story Ltd, a former Governor of Nottingham Trent University and whilst in New York, former Board member of Partnership with Children. Ms Hogg is a Kennedy Memorial Trust Scholar from Harvard University, and has an honorary Doctor of Laws from Warwick University. She graduated from the University of Oxford with a BA in Economics and History.

Jon Danielsson

Jon Danielsson is the Co-Director of the Systemic Risk Centre at the London School of Economics. He is also an Associate Professor of Finance in the LSE’s Department of Finance. He has a PhD in economics and his research interests include systemic risk, financial risk forecasting and financial regulations. He has written two books, Financial Risk Forecasting and Global Financial Systems: Stability and Risk and published a number of articles in leading academic journals.

Julie Galbo

Julie Galbo has been Group Chief Risk Officer and Head of Group Risk Management & Control at Nordea Bank since 2017. She has also been a member of Nordea’s Group Executive Management team since 2017. Ms Galbo was the Head of Regulatory Change Management at Nordea from 2015 to 2016; Head of Alternatives & Manager Selection at Nordea Asset Management from 2014 to 2015; Deputy Director General at the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority from 2010 to 2014; Head of Division, State Capital Injections at the Danish Ministry of Economics and Business Affairs in 2009; Executive Adviser, Head of Management Support, Private Banking Denmark at Nordea in 2008; a Compliance Officer, Markets, Nordea from 2005 to 2007. She holds a Master of Law from University of Copenhagen.

John Glen MP

John Glen was appointed Economic Secretary to the Treasury and City Minister on 9 January 2018. He was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport from 14 June 2017 to 8 January 2018. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Philip Hammond from July 2016 until June 2017. He was first elected to Parliament as the MP for Salisbury in 2010. He previously worked for Eric Pickles and Sajid Javid as a Parliamentary Private Secretary.

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Karim Haji

Karim Haji is a Partner and Head of Banking and Capital Markets UK, at KPMG. He has 22 years’ experience at KPMG working in the Financial Services Banking practice responsible for leading engagements with a particular focus on capital markets clients. He has deep knowledge of global investment banking businesses and complex front-to-back business and risk processes for trading operations; and extensive experience of corporate and investment banks including leading audits and significant advisory engagements on governance, risk management and controls and financial due diligence. Mr Haji led a forensic investigation into a large rogue trading incident at a major global investment bank reporting to multiple regulators and the board of directors including the impact on governance, culture, supervision and controls. He additionally has detailed working knowledge of multiple accounting GAAPs including IFRS and recent experience with UK listing reporting requirements. He has been leading KPMG’s response to the UK initiative to build fairer and more effective markets through the FICC Market Standards Board.

Hani Kablawi

Hani Kablawi is Chief Executive Officer of BNY Mellon’s Global Asset Servicing organisation and Chairman of the company’s Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. His previous BNY Mellon roles include CEO of EMEA Investment Services, CEO of EMEA Asset Servicing, and Head of EMEA Client Management. Mr Kablawi is a member of BNY Mellon’s Executive Committee, the organisation’s most senior management body. He also serves on BNY Mellon’s European and UK bank boards, and on the management committee of the London branch of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation. Since joining The Bank of New York in 1997, he has held a number of client, regional and business management roles in New York, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and London. He previously worked for HSBC and Mashreq Bank in New York. Mr Kablawi is also a Deputy Chairman of the Advisory Council for the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), the independent financial think tank for central banks and public investment.

Matthieu Lemerle

Matthieu Lemerle is a Senior Partner in the London Office of McKinsey & Company. He serves a range of global, European and emerging markets based corporate and investment banks as well as brokers and exchanges. His client service spans topics across strategy, front office productivity improvement, customer experience, organisational design and cost. Mr Lemerle co-leads McKinsey’s Corporate and Investment Banking Practice and leads the firm’s Capital Markets and Investment Banking service line and has led multiple transformations to create efficiency and effectiveness in the front office and in control and support functions. He is also the McKinsey Banking Practice’s global knowledge leader. He has written a number of papers on the industry, interacts frequently with regulators and is a regular speaker at industry events.

Barnabas Reynolds

Barnabas (Barney) Reynolds is head of the global Financial Institutions Advisory & Financial Regulatory Group at multinational law firm Shearman & Sterling. He advises the full range of market participants on their businesses in the London and European markets. His practice focuses on financial regulation and legal risk management, including cross-border legal, regulatory and insolvency regimes. Mr Reynolds has been involved in helping to shape, analyse and comment on the global regulatory reforms that arose out of the financial crisis such as shadow banking, derivatives regulation, capital requirements regulation (CRR), Basel III, recovery and resolution and corporate governance. Most recently, he has been at the forefront of discussions of how Brexit will affect businesses in the UK and globally.

Fiona Reynolds

Fiona Reynolds is the CEO of Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), the UN-supported proponent of responsible investment, focusing on the investment implications of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in investment and ownership decisions. She joined the PRI in 2013 and has overall responsibility for the PRI’s operations globally. She has more than 20 years' experience in the pension sector, working in particular in the Australian superannuation sector and played an active role in advocating pension policy change on behalf of working Australians and participated in a number of government committees and working groups on retirement incomes policy. Ms Reynolds has a particular interest in retirement outcomes for women. Prior to joining the PRI, she spent seven years as Chief Executive Officer at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST). She has formerly been a pension fund director/trustee of AUSfund and been on the boards of Industry Funds Credit Control, Australia for UNHCR, the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors and the National Women in Super Network. In 2012, she was named by the Australian Financial Review as one of Australia’s top 100 women of influence for her work in public policy. Ms Reynolds also serves on the Board of the UN Global Compact, the Council of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), the Global Advisory Council on Stranded Assets at Oxford University, the UN Business for Peace Steering Committee and the Steering Committee for Investors on Climate Change.

Alison Rose

Alison Rose is the Chief Executive of RBS’s Corporate, Commercial & Private Banking business and joined the Coutts Board in 2015. She is a member of the RBS Executive Commitee, leading over 16,000 people and accountable for market-leading brands such as Coutts and Lombard. She has worked at RBS for over 20 years. Prior to her current role, she was Head of Europe, Middle East and Africa, Markets & International Banking. Previous roles with RBS include Head of EMEA Corporate Coverage & Client Management, Head of Non-investment Grade Origination and Head of Leveraged Finance for the UK and Europe. Previously shortlisted for the “most influential woman in investment banking” award by Financial News, Mr Rose is a supporter of diversity and is executive sponsor for the bank’s employee-led networks. She also champions RBS’s partnership with Entrepreneurial Spark, an innovative initiative that is supporting start-up businesses across the UK.

Sacha Sadan

Sacha Sadan is Director of Corporate Governance and a board member of Legal & General Investment Management (LFIM). In 2016 he was recognised in the Financial Times as one of the “30 most influential people in the City of London”, crediting him as a leading architect of 2012’s “shareholder spring”. Mr Sadan has overall responsibility for corporate governance including environment, social and governance (ESG) principles. His team performs a highly active role engaging with companies in which LGIM invests, seeking to deliver superior long-term value for shareholders. Prior to joining LGIM in 2011 he was a fund manager, and so regularly draws on his in-depth knowledge of companies and markets. He was a senior UK equity manager at Gartmore (2002–2011) where he co-managed a range of UK equity hedge, retail and institutional funds. Mr Sadan started his career in the City in 1994 at the Universities Superannuation Scheme where he became the lead equity manager of its £4bn UK pension fund. In 2009 and 2010 he was voted the top-rated pan-European fund manager in the Thomson Reuters Extel Awards (known as the “City Oscars”). In 2001, he was awarded Best of the Buy Side by Institutional Investor magazine. Mr Sadan is a founding member of the UK Investor Forum and a member of its board. He is also a member of the Investment Association, Governance and Engagement Committee and a member of the CFA Institute. He has a BA in accounting and finance from Manchester University.

Keith Skeoch

Keith Skeoch became Co-Chief Executive of Standard Life Aberdeen plc and also Co-Chief Executive of its asset management business, Aberdeen Standard Investments, following the merger of Standard Life plc and Aberdeen Asset Management plc in August 2017. Mr Skeoch, alongside Co-Chief Executive Martin Gilbert, has responsibility for overseeing £655bn of assets (at 31 December 2017). Mr Skeoch was appointed Chief Executive of Standard Life plc in 2015, having been Chief Executive of Standard Life Investments since 2004. He became a Director of Standard Life Investments upon joining as Chief Investment Officer in 1999 and joined the Board of Standard Life plc in 2006. Prior to joining Standard Life Investments, from 1980 to 1999, he was with James Capel (HSBC Securities from 1996) where latterly he was Managing Director of International Equities. He started his career in 1979 at the Government Economic Service. Mr Skeoch has held a number of key industry appointments and is currently a board member of the Financial Reporting Council. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Sussex and Teesside University in recognition of his contribution to the financial services industry, most notably in establishing best practice in stewardship and governance in the wake of the global financial crisis. In 2013, he was named European Personality of the Year by Funds Europe. He is a Fellow of the Society of Business Economists, which was awarded for service to the economics profession.

Patrick Jenkins

Patrick Jenkins has been Financial Editor and Assistant Editor at the Financial Times since 2014. In this role, he shapes the FT’s overall financial coverage, with a focus on financial services and investment. He works closely with the editors of Markets, Lex, FT Money, FTfm and the financial services team. He also contributes to leader writing and comment, while continuing to write for the Inside Finance column.

Previously, Mr Jenkins was Banking Editor from 2009 until 2014, leading the 10-strong global financial services reporting team. Prior to this he was Companies Editor, and before that Editor of International Company News. Prior to taking up this post, Mr Jenkins spent four years in Germany as Frankfurt Correspondent for the FT. He joined the FT Group in 1996 editing the newsletter FT world insurance report, before becoming a UK companies reporter in 2000.

Caroline Binham

Caroline Binham covers the gamut of financial regulation for the FT, from benchmark-rigging scandals to ringfencing. She was previously the FT's award-winning legal correspondent, with a particular focus on white-collar crime. Prior to joining the FT six years ago, Ms Binham covered financial regulation during the crisis at Bloomberg News. In a previous journalistic life, she worked at Conde Nast for titles including Tatler and Traveler. She has lived and worked in Paris, Rome and New York.

Brian Caplen

Brian Caplen is Editor of The Banker, one of the world’s leading financial journals, and part of the Financial Times Group. He is Executive Editor of fDi magazine which deals with foreign direct investment.
He regularly appears on the BBC, CNN, CNBC and Al Jazeera to comment on international banking, economic and financial issues. He frequently lectures on financial topics.
He also worked as a business editor and journalist in Hong Kong and the Middle East for 10 years. He has travelled extensively and done numerous high level interviews with prime ministers, finance ministers, central bank governors and senior executives.
He has a first class honours degree in Development Studies from the University of East Anglia.

Martin Arnold

Martin Arnold has been the FT’s Banking Editor since 2014, leading the global coverage of banks and overseeing the financial services reporting team. His two previous jobs were Deputy Companies Editor, helping to oversee corporate coverage, and Private Equity Correspondent, when he won the BVCA award the BVCA award for “Private Equity Correspondent of the Year” in 2007. Before that, he spent five years as Paris Correspondent, covering the French political scene, the presidential elections, and several industry sectors including finance. Early on in his career he covered technology for FT.com in London, and worked in New York covering consumer industries during the dotcom boom and bust of 1999-2000.

Joy Macknight

Joy Macknight is deputy editor at The Banker, covering transaction banking and technology. Previously, she was features editor at Profit & Loss, a foreign exchange and derivatives magazine and conference producer. Before that, she was editorial director at Treasury Today and editor at gtnews, which cover corporate treasury. She also worked as staff writer on Banking Technology and IBM Computer Today, as well as a freelancer on Computer Weekly. She has a BSc from the University of Victoria, Canada.

Laura Noonan

Laura Noonan is the FT’s Investment Banking Correspondent, where she writes on some of the world’s biggest banks and on industry trends. Before joining the FT in 2015, Ms Noonan covered European banking for Reuters, and the Irish banking crisis for the Irish Independent. She is also a CFA charterholder.

Silvia Pavoni

Silvia Pavoni is the Economics Editor of The Banker, a monthly publication part of the Financial Times group, for which she has written on international trade agreements, sovereign debt crises, capital markets and financial technology. Ms Pavoni is in charge of The Banker’s Latin America section, the research behind the annual ranking of international financial centres as well as video and audio content for thebanker.com. She has reported from developed and emerging markets including Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, the UK and Hong Kong, among many others, with both written and filmed pieces.

As part of her role, she regularly interviews finance ministers, central bank governors, policy makers and senior bankers. She represents The Banker at various international events, including the annual meetings of the IMF/World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, and has chaired numerous conferences and panel discussions on banking, trade and investment. Previously, she was in charge of Centaur Media’s specialist database on public private partnerships, which was tasked with providing data to the UK Government. She has also conducted research for organisations such as the Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the UK and the Italian Trade Commission. Ms Pavoni holds a BSc in Economics and Finance from Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

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