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Victoria Collins' career spans over 25 years working in financial institutions, in trading, finance and risk roles, predominately in risk management. 

She has been with Nomura for ten years, focused on enterprise-wide risk management. Collins was appointed global head of climate risk & ESG three years ago. She is responsible for establishing and managing the global risk management framework for climate risk and ESG, and for ensuring risk management is aligned to the firm’s sustainability objectives, such as net zero.

David Bailey is executive director for prudential policy, responsible for the development, negotiation and implementation of prudential policy that supports the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA)'s objectives and broader financial stability. He also represents the PRA on the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision.

Bailey joined the Bank of England in 2014 as director of financial market infrastructure and has held roles as executive director of authorisations, RegTech and international supervision, and executive director of financial markets infrastructure. His most recent role was executive director of UK deposit takers supervision which he held until February 2024.

Prior to working at the BoE, Bailey was head of markets infrastructure and policy at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and at its predecessor, the Financial Services Authority (FSA).

He graduated from Durham University and began his career at JP Morgan.

Marina Antoniou is the global head of global markets risk & control assessment at BNP Paribas. She specialises in global capital markets non - financial risks with a focus on conduct risk, rogue trading, financial crime and trade surveillance. Antoniou also has experience in risks and controls relating to artificial intelligence, large language models and data privacy. 

She is an executive committee and board member at various institutions and participates in global capital market forums. Antoniou is very interested in technology. She is a founding member and vice-chair of the Hellenic Tech Network, participated in studies around the implementation of digital currencies, and reviewed the AI governance of a leading fintech academic centre in the UK. Antoniou takes part in global innovation forums and explores ways to use AI and other innovative technology to transform risk management practices. 

She has extensive experience working with regulators globally. In the past, Antoniou acted as lead validator, at top tier banks, on regulatory conduct risk programmes sanctioned by the US Federal Reserve Bank and the US Department of Justice and also acted as head of audit for Citigroup where she received the global recognition award for her performance. Previously, she worked on due diligence projects and valuations during M&A transactions. 

Antoniou is a qualified chartered accountant and member of the ICAEW. She completed a technology entrepreneurship course at Harvard and an ESG course at Wharton, University of Pennsylvania. Antoniou also studied fintech at the University of Oxford Said Business School during which she developed a fintech innovation idea aiming at fundraising for people impacted by natural disasters. She studied investment management at the London Business School and has an MSc in Economics & Finance from Warwick Business School. Antoniou acts as guest lecturer at executive MBA courses and speaker at conferences globally covering conduct risk, digital transformation, digital assets, artificial intelligence, fintech and ESG.

Katherine Wolicki is the global head of engagement and outreach for GARP Benchmarking Initiative (GBI). GBI plays a key role in supporting evidence-based policymaking through the provision of industry benchmarking studies. Prior to this she was with HSBC for 12 years where she led the global financial and model risk regulatory policy and engagement team for risk. The team was responsible for the external regulatory interface for the traded risk, treasury risk management and global risk analytics function. This included the provision of guidance on regulatory risk matters, regulatory policy interpretation and industry engagement. Prior to this, Wolicki was based in Brussels as a public affairs consultant specialising in financial services regulation. She has an MA in international economic relations from American University and a maîtrise in European and international law from the University of La Reunion. Wolicki is a fluent French speaker and an avid hiker and mountaineer.  

Daniel Mankowitz is a staff research scientist at Google Deepmind, working on solving the key challenges that will unlock reinforcement learning algorithms to work on real-world applications at scale. This includes a focus on reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) in the context of large language models (LLMs) such as Gemini. 

He has worked on: code optimization, code generation, chip design, video compression, recommender systems, and controlling physical systems such as heating ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC), with publications in Nature and Science. 
 

Rory Stewart is a diplomat, author, explorer, academic, and politician – serving in successive Conservative governments as minister of state for international development, minister for environment, minister of state for Africa, and minister of state for prisons. He is a senior fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, where he teaches politics and international relations.

Stewart is an acclaimed author and co-host of the successful podcast, The Rest is Politics, alongside Alastair Campbell. He has been described by the New York Times as “living one of the most remarkable lives on record.”. Stewart was the first man to walk across Afghanistan after the US-UK invasion, and served as deputy governor of two Iraqi provinces at the age of 29. He advised the US President and British Prime Minister on their Afghanistan and Middle East policy. Stewart is proficient in 11 languages.

Kanwardeep Ahluwalia is co-head of global markets risk for Bank of America. He joined Bank of America from Swiss Re where he was the group head of financial risk management, which included the role of chief risk officer for asset management, as well as serving as the reinsurance chief risk officer for Emea. Prior to that, Ahluwalia worked at Bear Stearns where he had a number of positions leading to the roles of chief risk officer for Europe & Asia and global head of market risk. This was preceded by a period working in regulation for the UK’s former Securities & Futures Authority.

Lidia Treiber is a Senior Director, Asset Management and Buy-Side Solutions, at Moody’s, with over 18 years of accomplishments within the asset management industry. She brings a wealth of experience, investment knowledge, integrity, and commitment to understanding investors’ needs. As quoted in the Financial Times, Reuters, CNBC, Milano Finanza, and publications across Europe, Lidia provides a deeper understanding of global investment markets’ evolving dynamics and has a keen sense of how technological innovation can better support the buy-side community’s ever-changing demands.

At Moody’s, Lidia’s focus is leading the marketing strategy of a vast suite of solutions for clients on the buy-side, leveraging our capabilities to help investment professionals gain insights to solve their most significant challenges.

Before joining Moody’s, Lidia held leadership positions at leading asset management firms. She started her career as a fixed-income credit analyst delivering investment recommendations to portfolio managers at BlackRock. From there, she went on to hold various leadership roles as a fixed-income expert providing investment market insights to institutional and retail investors in Latin America, North America, EMEA, and the UK for nearly 17 years.

Lidia is a CFA charterholder, holds a certificate in ESG investing and green bonds from CFA Institute, and most recently completed the Disruptive Strategy curriculum with Clayton Christensen at Harvard Business School.

Chris Knight took the role of group chief risk officer in May 2021. For the previous three years he had been the chief executive of Legal and General’s retail retirement business, where he led the expansion of annuity propositions, developed one of the leading providers of lifetime mortgages and launched their financial advice and care businesses. Knight also serves as Legal and General’s customer champion, representing retail customers’ interests across the whole product range, a perspective he brings to his chief risk officer role. 

He has previously held positions at Legal and General of finance director of the international division, and chief financial officer of Legal & General Assurance Society. Knight has a first-class economics degree from King’s College, Cambridge and has worked on four continents in a career spanning more than three decades. He is a fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.

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

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