Summary
Join us on October 14 for The Definitive Risk Conference—a full day of expert insights, interactive sessions, and strategic networking for professionals across the risk landscape.
The agenda features keynote discussions on geopolitical dynamics, economic shifts, the evolving role of AI in risk management, and corporate risk outlooks, plus a panel with leading CROs. In the afternoon, choose between two focused breakout tracks for financial institutions and corporates, covering topics like private credit, liquidity risk, credit risk, supply chain resilience, and AI-driven risk analytics.
Stay tuned for more agenda and speaker updates in the coming weeks.
Event Details
Venue
Convene
133 Houndsditch, Liverpool Street
London
EC3A 7BX
Breakfast Spotlight Sessions
Main Conference
Agenda subject to change.
Track 1: Financial Institutions
Track 2: Corporates
* Agenda subject to change
Please note that due to limited seating, this event is reserved exclusively for clients and select industry professionals and is not open to members of the media. As such, your registration may be subject to confirmation.
Speakers
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Carla Selman
Head of Latin America Country Risk
Carla Selman is the Head of Latin American country risk. She joined the company in 2014, having previously worked in political risk in London, in Chile's diplomatic missions in France, and as a journalist in Santiago, Chile. Carla holds an MSc in Global Politics from the London School of Economics, a master's degree in Geopolitics and International Relations from Sciences-Po Toulouse, France, and a degree in journalism from Universidad Católica de Chile. Originally from Chile, she is currently based in London.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Simon Chard
CEO of KY3P®
Between 2021 and 2023, Simon was the Global Head of Business Development at KY3P®. In this role he led the assessments and data business including closing the acquisition of Trusight in January 2023. Simon also had responsibility for the development of our network of clients across industries.
Prior to joining S&P Global Market Intelligence in 2021, Simon was a Partner at PwC, based in London and with leadership roles within the Technology and Data Analytics practice. He has extensive experience in leading and building consulting and advisory businesses including the third party risk management and operational resilience capabilities. Prior to joining PwC, he established and led the third-party risk practice at Deloitte for five years. In this role he worked with clients across a range of industries including government, life sciences, technology and media and oil and gas.
Simon holds a BSc in Industrial Business Systems, an MBA from Warwick and is a qualified chartered accountant.
Self-employed
Jonny Wilkinson
Rugby Legend, Entrepreneur & Wellbeing Advocate
Jonny Wilkinson is a health and wellbeing ambassador, business founder, public speaker, sustainability advocate, rugby pundit, coach and philanthropist.
Globally celebrated as one of the best players to have ever played rugby union, Jonny compiled an impressive 91 caps at international level for England. He featured in 2 British and Irish Lions tours and was granted the honour of being inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame. His outstanding service to the game was recognised with a CBE by HM the Queen.
Following his retirement in 2014, Jonny began utilising his insight and knowledge as a rugby pundit for ITV and Sky Sports. He also launched his own health drink brand, One Living. Jonny has openly explored the difficulties that he faced during his career and life to date, for example the fear of failure. More recently Jonny has applied his personal experience and followed his passion to deeply understand himself and his potential by launching his I AM podcast series.
In a series of conversations with thought leaders and inspiring individuals across the globe, he advocates spiritual self-investigation leading to self-awareness and a realisation of what is available and possible for us all in life often using sporting analogies to articulate and relate his message. He is sought after as a motivational speaker.
A deeply passionate health and wellbeing advocate, Jonny initiated “NSPIRED”, a charitable foundation that provides mental, emotional support to school teachers and coaches to help inspire and empower them as well as the younger generation that they work with on a daily basis. He supports many other charities and is brand ambassador for a wide range of companies.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Whit McGraw
Head of Risk & Valuation Services
Risk & Valuation Services offers a broad set of data, analytics, and technology solutions across multiple risk domains to enable holistic credit and risk management. He serves as a member of the Market Intelligence Operating Committee.
Whit has 25 years of industry experience focused primarily in the capital and commodity markets. Prior to joining Market Intelligence, he worked on the Corporate Strategy and M&A team at Cargill, a global commodity and energy company based in Minneapolis. In this role, he split his time between leading M&A transactions and internal strategy projects both at the corporate and business unit level. Additionally, he served as a Vice President in the Institutional Equity Derivatives group at Morgan Stanley in London and New York.
Whit holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Hamilton College and an MBA from the Darden Business School at University of Virginia. He currently serves as a member of The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business Corporate Advisory Board and chairs the Corporate Engagement Committee. He also a member of the Development Committee for the Brunswick School in Greenwich, Connecticut.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Ken Wattret
Vice-President, Global Economics
Ken Wattret is the Global Economist within the Analysis and Insights team at S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Ken oversees global economic forecasting and analysis and supports a broad spectrum of corporate and financial clients. Ken has worked as an economist in the financial sector since the early 1990s including for HSBC and BNP Paribas where he was the head of market economics for the euro area. Prior to joining IHS Markit (now part of S&P Global) as Chief European Economist in 2018, Ken was a Managing Director of Global Macro at TS Lombard, an independent research provider. He is a well-known commentator in financial media.
Ken received his honors degree in economics from the University of Sheffield and holds post-graduate qualifications in finance.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Laurence Allan, Ph.D
Head of the Europe/CIS Insights and Analysis
Dr Laurence Allan joined IHS Markit, now S&P Global, in April 2011 and currently heads the regional risk and economic team for Europe/ CIS team, including a regional intelligence team of in-country analysts and sources. He previously led the Latin America team. He has advised a wide cross-sectoral range of corporate clients on operational risk across those regions. He works across the global risk and economics team on geopolitics , and on supporting commercial and skills development. He was previously a Research Analyst at the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office, and lectured on the politics of Latin America and the Caribbean at the University of London. He holds an MA and PhD in Latin American politics, and has published on the region. He speaks English and Spanish.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Natznet Tesfay
Head of Insights & Analysis
Her areas of specialization include geopolitical risks and influence mapping affecting emerging market debt vulnerabilities, energy transition pathways and global supply chain re-alignment. Before leading the research group, Natznet led the Africa team for over a decade, developing the integrated analytic capabilities as well as regional risk indicator and horizon scanning infrastructure, drawing on a range of methodologies such as geospatial analysis and scenario modeling techniques
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank
Ivan Mezquida
Chief Risk Officer EMEA
Chief Risk Officer (SMF4) and Assistant General Manager for the EMEA division. Chair of the EMEA Governance Steering Committee across all subs and branches in EMEA. SMTB is one of the largest FIs in Japan and SuMi Trust is one of the largest asset managers in Asia. SMTB provides corporate banking across different sectors such as project finance, shipping, airlines, real estate, corporates, commodity traders, etc. Including services such as syndicated loans, M&A finance and asset securitization arrangements among others. Market services like investment, trading, derivatives and global asset services such as custody, cash management. I have also previous experience in investment banking, derivatives, emerging markets, credit risk management, among others. Extensive experience dealing with the FCA, PRA and OCC.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Luca Blasi, PhD FRM
Head of Private Market Valuations
Luca Blasi leads a team of traded risk valuation and trading controls specialists at the Bank of England. His responsibilities cover valuation, product control and trading controls (front, middle and back office) of major investment banks trading operation in the UK. Previously he held international senior leadership positions in investment banking and financial advisory.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Justin Valentino
Associate Director, Scenarios and Modeling
Justin is the Head of Risk Quantification for the Global Insight group. He has a decade of experience developing and managing global country risk indices; geopolitical models; global macroeconomic scenarios and bespoke methodological development and thought leadership. He works closely with governments, financial institutions, corporates, extractive industries and insurance sector clients in advising how to integrate risk indices into credit risk and geopolitical evaluation models and providing customised solutions. In addition, he manages the Global Insight major incident response to ensure timely and effective cross-team coordination and produce risk forecasts for geopolitical and global economic crises. He holds an MSc in Economics from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts with a focus on North and Central Africa development and conflict.
Samsung UK&I
Lisa-Marie Cuthbertson
Head of Credit Risk
Lisa-Marie Cuthbertson, Head of Credit Risk for Samsung now for 7 years, having worked 20 years in Credit Risk, spending 9 years heading up the Credit Risk division of the Westcoast Group, helping to drive their growth as one of the UK’s largest companies. Experience leading multinational contract negotiations, underwriting unsecured multibillion pound portfolios. Most proudly, leading various teams of Credit Risk Managers and Credit Analysts, supporting their development, and career journeys.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Chris Rogers
Head of Supply Chain Research
Chris Rogers is Head of Supply Chain Research at S&P Global Market Intelligence. He has over 25 years of research experience, including more than a decade covering global supply chains. He has worked at firms including Panjiva (acquired by S&P Global in 2018), Bloomberg, JP Morgan, and most recently freight forwarder Flexport. His coverage includes corporate decision-making, international trade policy, and logistics network operations.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Jonathan Ablett
Executive Director, Global Economic Modelling Economics & Country Risk
Jonathan leads the S&P Global Market Intelligence team in charge of scenario design and new macroeconomic and sectoral economic models. As part of this work, he helps develop customized macroeconomic scenarios for due diligence, regulatory stress tests, impact analysis, and strategic planning purposes. He leads the team that implements these scenarios, operates the proprietary macroeconomic model, and designs new models for additional client purposes.
Prior to joining S&P Global (now part of S&P Global), Jonathan was an Expert at the McKinsey Global Institute, the think tank of McKinsey and Company, where he specialized in applied economic and strategic analysis for both private and public sector clients. Prior to joining McKinsey, he worked at the Massachusetts House Ways & Means Committee developing budget and policy recommendations and the World Bank.
Jonathan holds an M.A. in Economics from McGill University and an M.B.A. from Babson College.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Steve Matthewson
Head of News
Steve leads a number of specialist teams in the S&P Global Market Intelligence newsroom that provide global, industry-focused coverage of banks, insurers, asset managers, REITs and the private equity industry.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Natasha McSwiggan
Principal Economist
Natasha McSwiggan is a Principal Economist on the Banking Risk team specialising in emerging markets in Europe and Central Asia.
Natasha McSwiggan is a Principal Economist for S&P Global Market Intelligence's Banking Risk Service. Based in London, UK, she specializes in banking risk analysis for emerging markets in Europe and Central Asia. Natasha also leads Banking Risk and Country Default Risk Production and Databanking, where she drives enhancements in data integrity and process efficiency. She holds a Master’s in Economics from the University of Surrey and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of York.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Clemens Thym
Head of Credit Solutions
Clemens Thym leads the Credit Solutions business that develops desktop, feed and API platforms such as the flagship RatingsDirect® and RatingsXpress ® products which distribute S&P Global Ratings data and research to investors, investment and commercial banks, insurance, non-financial corporates, and a range of government and other entities. He leads the product, content, operations, and market development teams.
Prior to that he was the Chief Operating Officer for China, responsible for setting up the domestic operations for S&P Global’s China market entry, including domestic ratings, market intelligence , finance, people, technology and PMO functions, and drive integrated execution of the SPGI China strategy and business plans, steward strategic partnerships, and market development.
Previously, Clemens held various roles in APAC and Europe to grow the businesses of Risk Solutions, Capital IQ, Credit Solutions and Risk Services in analytical, consulting, product management, and commercial capacities.
Clemens holds a Masters in International Economics and Finance of the University of Innsbruck (Austria).
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Enrico Piccin
Director, EMEA Business Development, Derivatives Services
Enrico specializes in derivatives services across investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers, and insurers, providing clients with solutions for trading, structuring, risk management, hedging, pricing, and valuation. His role encompasses the data, pricing, and valuation of derivatives ranging from simple to exotic, as well as structured products across Equity, IR, FX, Credit, XVA, and Commodities.
Before joining S&P Global, Enrico spent seven years in Paris, France, where he led counterparty and market risk model validation activities at Société Générale and in financial risk at Generali. Enrico began his career in Milan, Italy, at Fideuram Investments (Intesa Sanpaolo Group) as a quantitative analyst focusing on asset allocation and subsequently in pricing and structuring complex commodity derivatives at Edison Trading (EdF Group).
With extensive international experience in derivatives, risk management, quantitative modeling, capital markets, energy, asset management, and insurance, Enrico holds both a bachelor's and a master's degree in economics and finance.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Gavan Nolan
Executive Director, Business Development and Research, Fixed Income Pricing
Gavan Nolan, a specialist in credit markets, is an Executive Director responsible for business development and co-heads research for Fixed Income Pricing at S&P Global Market Intelligence.
A published author, Gavan has written about the credit markets from the accounting scandals of the last decade through the financial and European sovereign debt crises. He is a well-known commentator on the credit default swaps (CDS) markets, including credit fundamentals and CDS mechanics, in particular ISDA definitions, credit events and auctions. He has been a frequent contributor to both print and broadcast media, and quoted in Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Daily Telegraph, Bloomberg, Reuters, Dow Jones, Global Capital, CNBC and BBC's R4 Today programs. Gavan played a key role in developing the Markit CDS pricing product, the leading service in the CDS market. Prior to joining Markit in 2003, now S&P Global, he worked at J.P. Morgan and TD Securities in a variety of fixed-income roles.
Gavan holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Queen Mary College, University of London, UK
European Risk Management Council
Evgueni Ivantsov Ph.D.
Chairman of the European Risk Management Council
Dr. Evgueni Ivantsov has a risk management career stretching over 25 years. He is the Chairman of the European Risk Management Council. He is an Advisory Board member of Financial Times’ Banking Risk & Regulation and has a monthly column in FT. Dr. Ivantsov is the author of the book "Heads or Tails: Financial Disaster, Risk Management, and Survival Strategy in the World of Extreme Risk" and his articles are regularly published in leading media outlets, including the Financial Times and The Banker.
Prior to joining the European Risk Management Council in 2017, Dr. Ivantsov held various executive positions at several global banks, including Head of Portfolio Management & Strategy at Lloyds Banking Group and Head of Global Analytics and Head of Portfolio Risk for Europe at HSBC. Evgueni was also a Member of the Advisory Board of FT Banking Risk & Regulation.
Dr. Ivantsov has also been a visiting professor at Cass Business School (now Bayes Business School, City University, London) and a visiting professor of International Economics at Boston University.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Ken Wattret
Vice-President, Global Economics
Ken Wattret is the Global Economist within the Analysis and Insights team at S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Ken oversees global economic forecasting and analysis and supports a broad spectrum of corporate and financial clients. Ken has worked as an economist in the financial sector since the early 1990s including for HSBC and BNP Paribas where he was the head of market economics for the euro area. Prior to joining IHS Markit (now part of S&P Global) as Chief European Economist in 2018, Ken was a Managing Director of Global Macro at TS Lombard, an independent research provider. He is a well-known commentator in financial media.
Ken received his honors degree in economics from the University of Sheffield and holds post-graduate qualifications in finance.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Laurence Allan, Ph.D
Head of the Europe/CIS Insights and Analysis
Dr Laurence Allan joined IHS Markit, now S&P Global, in April 2011 and currently heads the regional risk and economic team for Europe/ CIS team, including a regional intelligence team of in-country analysts and sources. He previously led the Latin America team. He has advised a wide cross-sectoral range of corporate clients on operational risk across those regions. He works across the global risk and economics team on geopolitics , and on supporting commercial and skills development. He was previously a Research Analyst at the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office, and lectured on the politics of Latin America and the Caribbean at the University of London. He holds an MA and PhD in Latin American politics, and has published on the region. He speaks English and Spanish.
S&P Global Ratings
Paul Watters
Head of Credit Research EMEA
Paul Watters is Head of European Credit Research for S&P Global Ratings. Since 2017 he has been the chair of S&P’s European Credit Conditions Committee where senior analysts and economists examine macro credit trends and risks factors that may broadly impact Credit Ratings.
Prior to his current role Paul has held various senior product development, analytical, and research roles within S&P’s Leveraged Finance Group since joining S&P in January 2002, that included being a primary analyst for a portfolio of high yield credits in the metals and mining, chemicals, and oil and gas sectors.
Previous to S&P, Paul spent almost fifteen years working in debt capital markets in various senior trading and research roles with both Lehman Brothers and Nomura International.
Paul is a CFA Charterholder, and a Fellow of the Association of Corporate Treasurers.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Steve Matthewson
Head of News
Steve leads a number of specialist teams in the S&P Global Market Intelligence newsroom that provide global, industry-focused coverage of banks, insurers, asset managers, REITs and the private equity industry.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Alan Kwan
Head of Market Development, Credit Solutions Europe
Alan Kwan is the Head of Market Development for Credit Solutions in Europe at S&P Global Market Intelligence. He specializes in developing and executing innovative go-to-market strategies that enable clients to effectively measure, monitor, and manage credit risk.
With extensive experience in the financial services sector, Alan previously drove product solutions at S&P Global Ratings, focusing on Sustainable Finance and Cyber Risk in the Asia-Pacific region. His prior roles include leading product strategy and content marketing at another international rating agency and serving as APAC Head of Marketing for the Investment and Advisory division at Thomson Reuters.
Alan holds an MBA from the University of Manchester and a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Hong Kong. He is a Certified ESG Analyst (CESGA®), Project Management Professional (PMP®), and Chartered Marketer. His expertise spans credit risk analysis, sustainable finance, and digital solutions, with a commitment to fostering innovation in the financial sector through new technology including Gen-AI.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Anna Boyd
Associate Director, Economics & Country Risk
Anna Boyd joined Economic and Country Risk Consulting team in February 2018 and is responsible for integrity due diligence, market entry and investigative business intelligence consulting at S&P Global Market Intelligence.
She was previously the head of MENA corporate investigations at FTI Consulting where she managed many complex multi-jurisdictional matters in the field of integrity due diligence, asset tracing and litigation support, including in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Libya.
Prior to her move into consulting, she was head of the Middle East and North Africa Country Risk Forecasting team at S&P Global, responsible for political risk forecasting, scenario modelling and quantitative risk scoring across the whole region. Anna has led on projects including devising a political risk model relating to the security of Qatari food imports, managing a series of in-depth MENA region country studies for a US government client, and war-gaming possible future developments in the Syria conflict. She has provided expert comment to several media outlets including Al Jazeera, Reuters and the BBC. Anna started her career as an Arabic linguist with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Anna holds an MA with Distinction in Arabic from the School of Oriental and African Studies, having written her dissertation on 1950s-60s Iraqi poetry. She also holds a 1st class honors degree in Arabic from the University of Edinburgh and studied in Cairo and Damascus. She speaks French and Arabic.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Arsene Lui CFA/FRM
Associate Director, Quantitative Risk Modelling
Arsene Lui is an Associate Director of Quantitative Risk Modelling, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence's Risk & Valuation Services. He Specializes in the research and development of novel machine learning models aimed at assessing and managing counterparty risks, including insolvency risk, payment risk, and climate change risk. Arsene regularly speaks at various credit risk events and webinars, and contributes thought leadership commentaries on tropics related to credit risk and machine learning.
Arsene had his academic training in Scientific Computing and Computer Vision at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, and is a CFA Charterholder and a Certified FRM.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Diego Iscaro
Head of Europe and CIS Economics, Insights and Analysis
Diego Iscaro is the head of S&P Global Market Intelligence’s European macroeconomics team based in London.
Diego coordinates the analysis and forecasts of the Western and Emerging European regions and is responsible for the coverage of many eurozone economies. A specialist in European economic and policy issues, Diego has taken a lead role in the presentation of key forecasts and themes to a broad spectrum of clients across Europe, the Americas, and Asia, including corporates, banks, and institutional and hedge fund-based portfolio managers. He is also a frequent participant at seminars and panel events, as well as a commentator on economic and financial issues.
Before joining S&P Global Market Intelligence, Diego worked as a risk analyst at the Royal Bank of Scotland in London, Coutts & Co. (London), and Citibank (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
Diego earned a master's degree in economics and a postgraduate certificate in economics with mathematics from Birkbeck College (London) and a degree in Economics from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina). He speaks fluent English and Spanish.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Jack Kennedy
Research and Analysis Director of S&P Global Market Intelligence Country Risk
Jack is Associate Director and head of the Middle East and North Africa desk of the S&P Global Market Intelligence Country Risk team. Jack specializes in the geopolitical and commercial implications of political risks and violent trends across the MENA region, with a particular focus on Egypt, the Gulf states, and the eastern Mediterranean.
Prior to S&P Global Market Intelligence, Jack was lead Middle East analyst for a business and political risk consultancy firm in Scotland.
Jack holds an MLitt in Middle East and Central Asia Security Studies from the University of St Andrews and an MA in Arabic and Social Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh.
Allied Irish Bank
John Kelly
Chief Risk Officer UK
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Hanna Luchnikava-Schorsch
Head of Asia Pacific Economics
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Luke Armstrong
Head of Buyside Risk, Financial Risk Analytics
Luke Armstrong is Buy Side Risk Product Manager at S&P Global Market Intelligence. He has a decade of experience in buy side risk management working at CQS and Bluebay Asset Management. As product manager, he is responsible for the design and build of S&P Global Market Intelligence's next generation buy side risk management platform. Luke holds a BEng in Aerospace Engineering with first class honours from the University of Southampton.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Alberto Micucci
Head of xVA and Counterparty Risk Solutions
Alberto is the Product Owner for S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Risk as a Service, guiding the development of the Counterparty Credit Risk, XVA and Traded Market Risk solutions. Alberto has over 15 years of experience both at financial institutions and vendors. Alberto has a M.Sc. in Engineering from Politecnico di Milano.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Jim Elder
Head of Market Development, Credit Solutions
Jim Elder is Head of Market Development for the Credit Solutions Business at S&P Global Market Intelligence. He is responsible for leading a global team tasked with defining the market strategy for the Credit Solutions product suite, including desktop and enterprise solutions focused on information from S&P Global Ratings. This includes solutions such as RatingsDirect and RatingsXpress, where investors, issuers and other market participants turn to understand credit ratings and research from S&P Global Ratings. Jim also leads Partnerships for Credit Solutions, enabling a multitude of firms to enrich their client solutions and platforms with credit ratings information.
Previously, he led market strategy for Credit Analytics, a suite of quantitative credit analysis tools and helped launch Climate Credit Analytics, a tool to understand the credit risk of climate change. He has presented on topics ranging from corporate credit analysis, transfer pricing and risk management to municipal finance and valuation methodologies at numerous industry conferences and webinars.
Jim’s 20+ years of industry experience includes positions in asset management, financial guaranty and structured finance. Prior to joining Standard & Poor’s in 2007, he has worked at J.P. Morgan and XL Capital Assurance.
Jim holds an M.B.A in finance from New York University’s Stern School of Management. Jim graduated with bachelor degrees in Computer Science and Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Lucy Thomson, CFA
Executive Director, Totem
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Sascha Ostanina
Principal Analyst, Europe & CIS, Country Risk
Sascha Ostanina is a principal analyst providing qualitative analysis and thought leadership on a range of topics, including security, political, regulatory and geopolitical risks in Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia and the South Caucasus. She has previous experience working on EU security policy, European defense industries and NATO interoperability, as well as nuclear security and military conflicts. Sascha holds academic degrees in international security, sustainability and journalism.
Société Générale International
Guillaume Figer
Chief Risk Officer
Guillaume Figer is the Chief Risk Officer of Societe Generale International Limited (SGIL) and a global risk management leader with extensive experience across the financial services industry. He is recognized for his leadership in technology-driven risk management and AI innovation, having integrated advanced solutions to enhance risk frameworks and operational efficiency. Over a career spanning Société Générale, Groupe BPCE/Natixis, and EY, he has built and overseen complex risk functions with international scope, including spearheading a model risk management department and establishing AI expertise.
MUFG
Rajiv Shah, CFA
Head of Credit Portfolio Analysis (Director)
Rajiv has over 15 years of experience in Commercial and Investment Banking, with deep expertise in credit risk management and portfolio analytics. He currently leads the Credit Portfolio Analysis function within MUFG’s 2LoD Credit team, overseeing credit risk MI, reporting, and analytics to support strategic portfolio management. Rajiv is responsible for driving large-scale transformation initiatives, spearheading global digitisation programs, and embedding AI-driven capabilities into credit processes and MIS infrastructure.
Nuveen
Lu Li
Managing Director and Head of Investment, Liquidity & Credit Risk, EMEA & APAC
Lu Li, Managing Director at Nuveen, leads the investment, liquidity as well as credit risk function for the EMEA & APAC business across all asset classes. She has over 19 years of experience in the financial services industry, with her distinctive expertise in private markets. In her current role, Lu provides risk advisory and oversight on key investment strategy and transactions; embeds effective risk management framework to drive better business decision making. noten
Lu is a Fellow of the Chartered Certified Accountants, also serves as a member on the RICS Global Investment Risk Forum. Lu is fluent in English and Mandarin.
BlackRock
Luke Thomas
Head of Risk for Private Credit (EMEA)
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Lewis Cooper
Head of Strategy and Market Development, Financial Institutions, Global Risk & Economics
Lewis is an experienced product management professional and currently leads Strategy and Market Development for the Global Risk & Economics practice at S&P Global Market Intelligence. In this role, he oversees the development and strategy of data and insight solutions across Economics, Country Risk, and timely indicators such as the Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI).
Lewis provides his expertise and insights to customers to support their decisions, with a focus on servicing clients across the buy-side, sell-side, commercial and central banks, and professional services. Previously, he was the global product lead for the PMI service and is a subject matter expert on the PMI.
He has a background in economics and previously worked as an economist covering the PMI surveys, where he was responsible for the production of monthly reports, research and analysis. He joined S&P Global in 2019 and holds a BSc in Economics from Kingston University, London, and an MSc in Economics from the University of Reading. Lewis is based in the UK.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Rafael Castro
Credit Product Specialist, Credit & Risk Solutions
Rafael is a Credit Product Specialist in EMEA for S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Credit & Risk Solutions, which provides data, research and analytics to global financial market participants. His focus is in probability of default (PD) and loss given default (LGD) solutions.
FCA
Howard Cornwell
Manager, Alternatives Supervision
Howard has worked in the Alternatives supervision team for 7 years and has managed the team for the last 3. Prior to that Howard worked in a variety of roles covering wealth management and private banking, business banking and product development in the RBS Group.
Crisil
Amit Vora
Head of Sales - Reginal Banks and Asset Managers
Head of Sales – Regionals (Banking & Asset Management)
Amit Vora leads sales and client relationships for Regionals, covering banks and asset managers globally at Crisil Integral IQ, based out of London. He is responsible for the commercial strategy for regional clients of Crisil Integral IQ, which delivers solutions and actionable intelligence to top financial institutions, driving strategic transformation, risk optimization, and operational excellence with offerings across research, risk, lending, analytics and operations.
Amit has over 20 years’ experience across risk consulting, services and software solutions. He has been with Crisil since 2005. In his earlier roles, Amit led Crisil Integral IQ’s credit and lending solutions and buy-side practices. He has also been a part of Crisil’s risk software solutions and advisory businesses with diverse experience across the UK, EMEA, US, South Asia and Asia Pacific.
Amit has done his Masters in Business Management in India.
AstraZeneca UK Ltd
Clive Jacob
Credit Risk Director