Windsor Chairs and speakers include

Ann-Leena Mikiver is Head of Communications at Sveriges riksbank, the Swedish central bank. She has led the Riksbank’s communications strategic and operative work since 2013, including media relations, digital channels, speech/strategy coordination and internal communication. She is a member of the Riksbank’s Management team and she is also leading the communications network in the group for private-public co-operation in the financial sector (FSPOS) in Sweden. Mikiver is also a member of the BIS Head of Communications group. Prior her career at the Riksbank she have had communication executive roles in banking, telecom and the pharmaceutical sector and prior this she was a journalist, mainly covering macro economics. Mikiver has a BSc in Social Sciences/Economics.

Gabriel Glöckler is a seasoned central banker, economist and communicator. Since 1999, he has served the European Central Bank in a variety of senior roles. As Principal Adviser, he is currently part of the senior leadership of the Bank’s communications department, where he spearheads innovation to communicate ECB policy to the wider public more effectively. He is also a Chief Editor of the ECB blog. Prior to this, Gabriel led the ECB’s General Secretariat and its European Union department. He also spent five years as chief of staff to the ECB’s Vice-President and worked as an economist. Gabriel studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University and holds a Master’s degree from the College of Europe in Bruges, where he has also been a Visiting Professor for the last decade. He is a regular public speaker, including in the media. His academic work on European integration and central bank communication has been published widely.

Dale Alexander was appointed to the role of Director, Stakeholder Relations Planning, at the Bank of Canada in January 2022. Dale leads the strategy, planning and coordination of the Governing Council’s public speeches, outreach activities and consultations, as well as the implementation of stakeholder engagements on key Bank initiatives, such as retail payments supervision, Central Bank Digital Currency and Indigenous economic reconciliation. Dale has worked for the Bank for over 15 years in increasingly senior positions, including her time as the Senior Deputy Governor’s press secretary and team lead for corporate communications files. She has also worked as a communications strategist specializing in financial sector policy for the Department of Finance Canada. Dale holds a degree in English Literature from the University of Ottawa.

Stefan Ingves served as the governor of Sveriges Riksbank, from 2006 to 2022. He was chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision from 2011–19. Since November 2021, he has served as the vice-chairman of the Bank for International Settlements where he has chaired its Banking and Risk Management Committee since 2007. Ingves served as chairman of the Advisory Technical Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board between 2011 and 2017, and was first vice-chair of the ESRB from 2021. From 1999–2005, Ingves was director of the monetary and financial systems department at the International Monetary Fund and worked as deputy governor of the Riksbank from 1994–98, after a year working as director-general of the Swedish Bank Support Authority. From 1988–92, he was a member of the board of the Swedish National Debt Office, the Stockholm Stock Exchange and Värdepapperscentralen, as well as under-secretary for financial markets and institutions at the Swedish Ministry of Finance. Ingves has also worked in banking as assistant vice-president in the central finance and fund management division at Svenska Handelsbanken between 1984 and 1986, and was president of Sofe, Sweden’s Options and Futures Exchange in 1987. He has a PhD in economics and was a lecturer at the Stockholm School of Economics between 1976 and 1984.

Jan Frait was born on 28 November 1965 in Slavičín. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics at VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava in 1988, where he also completed his postgraduate studies in 1995. The same year he received the Young Economist of the Year award from the Czech Economic Society for his paper Portfolio Model of the Balance of Payments (and its Application to the Czech Republic in 1992–1995). Since 1990, he has lectured at the Economic Faculty of VŠB-TU Ostrava, where he qualified as an Associate Professor in Economics in 1998 and was appointed Professor of Economics in 2002. In 2000 the President of the Czech Republic appointed him as a member of the CNB Bank Board. After his mandate expired in 2006, he stayed with the CNB, working first as an adviser to the Board and later as Deputy Executive Director of the Economic Research Department responsible for financial stability analysis. He became Executive Director of the independent Financial Stability Department in 2010 and of the multi-divisional Financial Stability Department in 2018. In these posts, he represented the CNB on the European Central Bank’s Banking Supervision Committee, among other responsibilities. From 1999 to 2007 he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Czech Economic Society (CSE) and from December 2001 to January 2004 he held the post of CSE President. He has long worked as editor of Finance a úvěr – The Czech Journal of Economics and Finance. He specialises mainly in macroeconomics, financial stability, monetary theory and the international financial system. He has an extensive publication record on these topics in Czech and international journals.

He became a member of the CNB Bank Board on 1 July 2022. Jan Frait has served as CNB Deputy Governor since 13 February 2023.

Ms. Anikó Szombati is Chief Digital Officer, executive director responsible for digitalization and FinTech development at MNB, the central bank of Hungary. Her main responsibility is to promote digital transformation in the financial sector as well as within the central bank, including the implementation of cutting edge technologies and research on CBDC. MNB aims at increasing the competitiveness and efficiency of the financial sector via developing regulatory concepts on how to safely embrace new innovations brought about by technological developments. She is member of the Financial Stability Council. Before joining the central bank in 2001 she was market risk manager at different commercial banks. She holds an MSC in Finance from Corvinus University Budapest and an EFFAS diploma.

Brian Gattoni is an Assistant Director in the Federal Reserve Board’s division of Reserve Bank Operations and Payment Systems with responsibilities to ensure the cybersecurity and resilience of Federal Reserve System Information Technology supporting Federal Reserve banks and payment systems. Gattoni is building partnerships and processes that ensure cybersecurity and resilience decisions are risk informed, mission focused, and account for the latest developments in threats and technology.

Prior to joining the Board in January of 2023, Gattoni was the Chief Technology Officer for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), where he was responsible for the technical vision and strategic alignment of CISA data and mission services to manage cyber and physical risk to federal networks and critical infrastructure. He led a portfolio of research and development efforts in bringing emerging technologies to use in CISA’s mission including Artificial Intelligence, Zero-Trust, Cyber Deception, Digital Twins, Counter Explosives Robotics and Automated Decision Support systems. Gattoni is a Board Member for the National Institute for Standards and Technology Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board.

Gattoni holds a Master of Science in Cyber Systems and Operations with certifications in Cyber Wargaming and Cyber Operations Infrastructure from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Kalliopi Letsiou is a Researcher at the Cambridge SupTech Lab of the University of Cambridge, with a rich blend of academic, legal, and compliance expertise, particularly in the realms of financial regulation, AML/CTF compliance, and AI governance. With a PhD nearing completion in the areas of Suptech and Financial Regulation, Kalliopi has specialised in advanced technologies for supervisory purposes, contributing valuable insights into regulatory challenges, such as data quality, and policy recommendations. Before joining academia and the Cambridge SupTech Lab, Kalliopi worked as an AML Compliance Specialist in international organisations and consulting companies where she gained exposure to the implementation of AML strategies with the use of advanced technology tools. Kalliopi also serves as a Lecturer at Brunel University London.

Marek Petruš is an external relations consultant with deep expertise in financial and economic policy communications. He has worked closely with top monetary policymakers as a strategic advisor to governors in the Czech Republic as well as more than a dozen low-to-middle income developing countries. He has been affiliated with the International Monetary Fund as a short-term expert for central bank communications, advising central banks across Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa to make their policies more transparent and on modernising their communications. His expertise and experience stems from an assignment as Director of Communications and later chancellor at the Czech National Bank (CNB), preceded by a career with the world’s leading news media companies, including Reuters and the Wall Street Journal. During his tenure, the Czech central bank upgraded its policy communications and brought its transparency and communication toolkit into line with global best practices. These advances helped solidify the CNB’s standing as one of the world's most transparent and best communicating central banks.

Marlene Knoerr has a background in economics and joined Deutsche Bundesbank as a trainee in 2018. She started a position in DG Banking and Financial Supervision in 2019 and spent a year at the Germany ministry of finance working on the implementation of the finalized Basel III standard in the EU in 2021/2022. For the majority of her time at Deutsche Bundesbank, she has been working on regulatory issues regarding Fintech, crypto-assets and digitalization in the financial sector.

Per Nymand-Andersen has over 25 years of Central Banking Experiences and was part of creating and developing the European Central Bank from scratch. Per has developed his expertise in banking and financial markets, fintech, data science, communications, securities settlement systems, statistics and Management.

Per holds several Fintech/data science Advisor Board positions in private and simi-public organisations. Per is a Lecture at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt and is a frequent speaker at international events and author of several publications/articles regarding financial markets, data science, communication and statistics. His recent renown book “Data science in Economics and Finance for Decision Makers” was published by Riskbooks.com.

Prior to joining the ECB, he provided market research consultancy services for the European Commission, Luxembourg.

Per has an MBA in Economics and Management Science from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark and has a Fintech certificate from Harvard University.

Per speaks four languages (English, German, French and Danish).

Further details: https://www.linkedin.com/in/per-nymand-andersen-81609913

Mr. Sukhvir Notra is a Senior Information Security Specialist at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). He has been an information security professional for over 10 years with majority of his career focused on defensive cyber operations. At the Cyber Resilience Coordination Centre (BIS), Sukhvir is responsible for development and delivery of cyber range exercises, managing cyber resilience assessments of central banks and other projects aimed at strengthening cyber resilience and promoting collaboration in the central bank community. His primary interest include leadership, operations, information security readiness and risk management. He has a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering degree and a Masters of Cyber Security from University of New South Wales.

Stephen is an international consultant with broad expertise for over 25 years in digital financial services, payment systems, central banking practices and legal and regulatory frameworks. Prior to working as an International consultant, Stephen was in charge of the National Payments System division at the Central Bank of Kenya, where he championed financial inclusion initiatives in Kenya- key among them was the globally recognised M-Pesa platform run by Safaricom which currently has 27 million subscribers, equivalent to a penetration rate of 75% in mobile money sector. 

Stephen has considerable experience working with a wide range of stakeholders in the digital financial world (Telecommunication firms, Banks, donor organisations, Treasury, other regulators). At a regional level, he has extended his leadership expertise in the harmonisation of various initiatives at an East Africa Community (EAC) level. At an international level, he is a regular contributor and an acclaimed global speaker at both International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) fora. In addition, he has excellent research capabilities and is frequently requested to carry out peer review assignments and book reviews for colleagues in the industry

Klaus Löber is the Chair of the CCP Supervisory Committee (CCP SC) in ESMA, which was established in 2020. His areas of responsibility encompass the tasks attributed by the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) to the CCP SC, in particular the enhanced supervisory convergence towards EU CCPs and ensuring a resilient CCP landscape in the EU as well the monitoring and supervision of CCPs established in third countries in view of the risks that they may pose to the EU financial system. He is also chairing the ESMA CCP Policy Committee contributing to the EU Single Rule Book in the area of CCPs.

Prior to this role, Mr Löber was the Head of the Oversight Division of the European Central Bank in charge of the oversight of financial market infrastructures, payments instruments and schemes. Earlier positions include the Head of the Secretariat of the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures, the global standard setting body in the area of payments, clearing and settlement as well as positions in the European Commission, Deutsche Bundesbank and private practice.

Mr Löber regularly publishes on financial markets legal, regulatory and infrastructure issues and lectures at universities.

Raymond Kleijmeer works at APG Asset Management on the implementation of the Digital Operational Resilience Act. Until May 2024 he worked at De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), the central bank and financial prudential supervisor of the Netherlands. DNB seeks to safeguard financial stability and enhance the resiliency of financial institutions and the financial system as a whole. Raymond was involved in international working groups hosted by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) publishing among others, the CPMI-IOSCO guidance on cyber resilience for financial market infrastructures in June 2016 and the Financial Stability Board Cyber Incident Response and Recovery toolkit published in 2020. At a national level he worked on the initiation and implementation of the Threat Intelligence Based Ethical Red teaming (TIBER) framework in the Netherlands from 2015 until 2019, when he was seconded to the BIS Financial Stability Institute to publish an FSI Insight on international red team testing frameworks. At the BIS Cyber Resilience Coordination Centre Raymond was seconded from 2020-2022 to establish a program for central banks to perform cyber resilience assessments on critical business services with methodology developed by Carnegie Mellon University.

Simon Onyons brings over two decades of information technology and cybersecurity experience, most recently in the area of finance regulation. He currently serves as a senior advisor to the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), where he works on the NCSC Advisory Group to support the NCSC Industry 100 initiative to improve cyber resilience across UK industry and will remain in this role while at FTI Consulting.

Prior to FTI Consulting, Mr. Onyons was a Senior Vice President and Head of EMEA Governance, Risk and Compliance within Global Information Security at Bank of America. While at Bank of America, he created and co-led the award-winning Financial Sector Cyber Collaboration Centre (FSCCC) and served as Chair of the Cyber Security Working Group of the Association for Financial Markets in Europe.

Before that, Mr. Onyons worked in cybersecurity at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), where he was tasked with defining and implementing the strategy, policy, and structure of the FCA’s cyber supervisory division. Whilst at the FCA, he worked across a range of international working groups and collaboration efforts with global regulators and co-authored best practice cyber resilience guidance for the G7 Cyber Experts Group, the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI), and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO).

Previously, Mr. Onyons worked in business continuity and recovery for a number of IT service providers after beginning his career at IBM.

Born 1953, Mr. Grønn holds a graduate degree in economics (cand.oecon. 1979) from the University of Oslo. Work experience since 1980 includes vfarious positions at Norges Bank, including Director of International Department, Director of Statistics Department, and Special Advisor to the Governor. Mr. Grønn spent altogether eight years at IMF’s Executive Board in Washington DC, as Senior Advisor (1989-1992), Alternate Executive Director (2011-2013) and Executive Director (2013-2016), as well as one year at the ECB in Frankfurt as national central bank expert, monetary policy (2005-2006). He retired from his position at Norges Bank in July 2021, and continued as a consultant at the Bank on a part-time basis until December 2023.

Luís Marcos is Head of Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Unit within the Information Systems and Technology Department at Banco de Portugal, where he acts as a catalyst for innovation, transforming complex data into actionable insights that drive organizational success. He is instrumental in cultivating a data-driven culture, leveraging advanced analytics to unlock new opportunities and enhance operational efficiency.

Prior to this role, he managed project teams from strategic planning through execution and delivery of data projects, initially focusing on Business Intelligence before transitioning to Artificial Intelligence.

Beginning his career as a consultant in the financial services and telecom industries, he developed a strong foundation in data analysis and client management, which he now applies to his strategic and leadership roles.

Simon joined the Financial Market Infrastructure Directorate at the Bank of England in October 2019 with responsibility for supervision, risk and resilience.

Simon joined the FSA in June 2009 as a supervisor in the Major Retail Groups Division and transferred to the PRA at legal cut-over and has been predominantly engaged in large firm supervision, most recently as Head of Major UK International Banks before taking on his current responsibilities.

Prior to joining the FSA Simon had a wide ranging career in retail and commercial banking, most recently as Head of Balance Sheet Management for Lloyds Retail Banking Division and prior to that as head of Capital One’s UK financial planning and treasury management functions. Simon’s early career was focused on corporate banking, predominantly as a relationship manager.

Johan has an extensive background from the financial sector and has previously held positions within the field of business development, project management and financial infrastructure coordination at Swedbank and the Swedish Bankers´ Association. He is currently acting as an advisor at the Analysis and Innovation division at the Payment Department of Sveriges Riksbank. Previously he was employed at the General Secretariat and Financial Stability departments of the Riksbank where he; held key positions in the retail CBD proof of concept "e-krona" between 2019 and 2023, was responsible for the establishment and coordination of the Swedish retail payment council 2015-2019 and the uptake of cyber resilience analysis from a financial stability perspective 2016-2018

Ricardo Carvalho is an Artificial Intelligence Engineer and Project Manager in the Information Systems and Technology Department at Banco de Portugal, a position he has held since 2021. His career in the field began in 2014, initially focusing on data projects and gaining valuable experience working on Business Intelligence initiatives.

Since 2021, Ricardo has been leading artificial intelligence projects, combining his expertise in project management with his technical skills in AI engineering. One of his most notable achievements is the development of the ALYA project, which was honored with the Portugal Digital Awards 2023 for the best digital transformation project in the public administration sector ("Best Government Project"). In this project, Ricardo not only managed the overall project but also led the technical team, ensuring the design and integration of AI solutions within the organization's architecture and facilitating their adoption across the business.

Dirk Broeders is a Senior Lead Financial Risk Expert at the European Central Bank and a Full Professor of Finance at the School of Business and Economics of Maastricht University. Previously he was a Senior Financial Risk Manager at the Financial Markets Division of De Nederlandsche Bank. He served also as a Fellow at the Financial Stability Institute of the Bank for International Settlements and is a former Executive Member of the International Organisation of Pension Supervisors. Before joining the Dutch central bank he worked in asset management as a head of research and a buy-side investment analyst. He has published widely on finance, investing, risk management, central banking and climate change-related risk. He obtained his Ph.D. from Tilburg University.

Damian Brennan is a senior manager in the Anti-Money Laundering Division in the Central Bank of Ireland. In this role, Damian leads a supervision team and also inputs on domestic, EU and international policy developments in the area of AML/CFT. Damian has extensive international experience having worked as an assessor on the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) Mutual Evaluations of the UK in 2017-2018 and Germany in 2021-2022 where he was responsible for assessing the effectiveness of AML/CFT supervision and preventive measures. Damian is a member of Ireland’s delegation to FATF and was a member of the project team which drafted the FATF’s Risk Based Supervision Guidance that was published in 2021, and from 2020 to 2022 was a member of project teams which revised the FATF’s Methodology and Mutual Evaluation process for the next round of FATF assessments. Damian has worked in the Central Bank of Ireland since 2001 having held roles in the legal and enforcement areas prior to moving into the AML/CFT area in 2010. Damian holds a Bachelor of Civil Law and Masters in Commercial Law degrees from University College Dublin.

Freyr Hermannsson is an experienced central banker and has worked with a dozen central banks and United Nations agencies since the turn of the century. He is an independent advisor focusing on sovereign asset and liability management, particularly balance sheet management and central bank policy solvency, reserve management and public debt management. He has hands-on knowledge of monetary and exchange operations, FX markets development, exchange rate regimes, FX regulations (incl. capital controls) and capital account liberalization, central banking recapitalization and related accounting issues.

Mr. Hermannsson initially joined the Central Bank of Iceland in 2000 and after several years in the private sector was drafted back into the central bank in Iceland’s 2008 financial crisis where he served as Head of Treasury. He led international reserves management, implemented central bank open market operations, negotiated government debt transactions, developed capital controls, and worked on crisis prevention and management during and after the crisis of 2008.

A mathematician by education, he holds a M.Sc. from Columbia University in Operation Research and a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He has lectured on the mathematics and economics of financial markets as an Adjunct Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Iceland.

Angela O’Connor is the Deputy Head of Risk Management and Head of Operational Transformation & Resiliency at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland. Previously, she was the Chief Operating Officer in the Market Operations, Monitoring, and Analysis (MOMA) function at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where she coordinated monetary policy market operations and risk management activities. Before joining the Federal Reserve, Ms. O’Connor held various roles in international financial development and was a lecturer at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and International Relations from Scripps College and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University.

Simone is the manager of the Global Innovation team at the FCA Innovation department, where he leads on several domestic and international strategic initiatives such as the Global Financial Innovation Network and multiple Open Finance projects. With a background on policy and innovation spanning different sectors and countries, he joined the FCA Innovation department in 2019 and has led many flagship initiatives such as the first survey of the application of AI in UK financial services, the establishment of the AI Public Private Forum, the pioneering cross border testing leveraging regulatory sandboxes.