Shehzad Ali Sharif currently working as a Senior Joint Director has more than a decade and a half of working experience with the Central Bank. His main areas of expertise are Strategic Planning, Annual Performance Review and BCP. He played a key role in the development of SBP Vision 2020. In the area of BCP, he has been involved since the inception of BCP program in 2006, and has been instrumental in the development of the BCP manuals, policies, establishment of multiple backup sites, conducting BIAs & BCP preparedness Reviews, BCP Communication cards and development of the BCP course curriculum. Due to his accomplishments in the field of BCP at SBP, Mr. Shehzad was awarded with the Organizational Competence Award. Mr. Shehzad holds an engineering degree and an MBA degree.

Muhammad Akmal, has banking experience spreading over three decades. Joining the State Bank of Pakistan in 1991, he has worked in areas of regulation and supervision of banks and nonbank financial institutions. His areas of expertise include Banking Inspection, Foreign Exchange Policy formulation and implementation, Consumer Protection, Banking Conduct, etc. In view of his vast experience in Central Banking, he has been entrusted with the charge of Director Strategic Planning to provide leadership to SBP in formulation and implementation of strategic goals and SBP Vision 2020. He has attended a number of local and foreign trainings/expert panels and attachment programs offered by other central banks, IMF and the World Bank. He is member of various committees of the SBP. He also remained Co-Chairman National Financial Inclusion Strategy (NFIS) Technical Committee on “Financial Literacy & Consumer Protection”, Country Coordinator for Asian Clearing Union, especially for attending issues relating to import/export. He has conducted various capacity building programs for SBP and the Banking Industry. He has been a resource person from SBP for imparting trainings at Foreign Services Academy, Government of Pakistan, National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), Trade bodies/Chambers and National Institute of Banking & Finance (NIBAF). 

Guenther Sedlacek is Senior Reporting Development Manager and head of the unit “integrated data model” in the statistics department of the Oesterreichischen Nationalbank (OeNB). Since 2013 he has been responsible for the development of the new integrated reporting data model used in the Austrian banking market as well as for the cooperation with reporting agents belonging to the financial sector and software providers.

He studied Technical Mathematics und started his business career as a research assistant at the statistics department of the Vienna University of Economics and Business, where he also received his PhD. In 2001 he changed over to the statistics department of the OeNB. There he was responsible for the development and operation of the security-by-security reporting and compilation system till 2010. During this period he also worked several months for the directorate statistics at the ECB and in the financial market division of the OeNB. In 2010 he became head of the direct investment unit in the statistics department and in 2012 he took over the collection and management of micro data, including the central credit register. In 2013 he was nominated to be the chair of the Austrian Standing Committee on Reporting, where – among others - strategic decisions concerning the integrated reporting data model (timelines, contents, etc.) are made and amendments to national legal acts are discussed. He is strongly involved in some European projects regarding the future of reporting. In 2020 he has been responsible for developing a data governance concept for the OeNB in order to strengthen data usage.

Janet Cosier is the former Chief Risk Officer and Adviser on Strategic Planning at the Bank of Canada. She continues in her capacity as the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Payments Association. She has served in a variety of functions including comptroller and chief accountant, as well as chief internal auditor, before being appointed adviser to the governor. She has provided technical assistance to various central banks in the areas of strategic planning, risk management, governance and financial reporting. Before joining the Bank of Canada, she worked with the Office of the Auditor General of Canada and with the Department of Industry, Trade and Commerce. Mrs Cosier holds degrees from York University and the University of Windsor in mathematics, computer science, accounting and financial management.

Trevor Sabean was appointed interim senior director of the Bank of Canada’s Data and Statistics Office in October 2017.  In this capacity, he oversees the divisions responsible for ensuring that the Bank of Canada’s economists and researchers have efficient access to high quality data and statistics, as well as the required IT tools (High Performance Computing, analytic packages, dedicated research zone, etc.), and technical and statistical support. Prior to joining the central bank, he worked for Statistics Canada. When he joined the central bank in 2010, he worked as the assistant director where he was responsible for the bank’s Macroeconomic Indicators and Financial Institutions Statistics division. Mr. Sabean holds a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University, a Masters of Arts in Economics from the University of Ottawa, and a Masters Certificate in Risk Management & Business Performance from York University.