María J. Nieto is Senior Advisor in the Directorate of Financial Stability, Regulation and Resolution, at Bank of Spain where she has developed her career since December 2000. She is author of several articles on banking, financial stability and regulatory issues that have been published by prestigious peered reviewed journals and she is member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Banking Regulation and the Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance. She has cooperated as consultant with the IMF and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and has worked at the ECB, Council of Economic Advisors to the Spanish President and the IMF. Ms Nieto earned a PhD cum laude from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and MBA (finance) from the University of California Los Angeles.

John Fell is Deputy Director General for Macroprudential Policy & Financial Stability in the ECB. He is also the chair or co-chair of several international working groups - including the Eurosystem’s Macroprudential Policy Group (MPPG), the European Systemic Risk Board’s (ESRB) Instrument Working Group (IWG), and the ESRB’s task force on stress-testing. He is a member of the ECB’s Financial Stability Committee (FSC), the ESRB’s Advisory Technical Committee (ATC), and the Financial Stability Board’s Standing Committee on Assessing Vulnerabilities (SCAV). He led the stress-testing work for the ECB’s “comprehensive assessment” in 2014 as well as EU-wide banking sector stress-tests coordinated by the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) (2009, 2010) and the European Banking Authority (EBA) (2011, 2014). His crisis management experience is extensive, including negotiating EU/IMF financial assistance programs in several euro area countries (e.g. in Ireland, Portugal and Spain). Between 2003 and 2010, he was Head of the ECB’s Financial Stability Division, spearheading the inaugural issue of the ECB’s Financial Stability Review in 2004 and directing it thereafter. Before moving to the financial stability area in 2003, he was an Adviser in the ECB’s Monetary Policy Directorate. Prior to joining the ECB in 1998, as a principal economist, he held various positions at the European Monetary Institute (EMI) and the Central Bank of Ireland. John holds postgraduate degrees in Economics (1987) and in Finance (1993) from University College Dublin and Dublin City University respectively, and is a PhD candidate at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. He has published his research in several academic and policy journals.

Thomas Allen is a Research economist at the Banque de France. His research focuses on green finance, working on the development of metrics and modeling tools for climate and environment-related financial risk assessment. Thomas is assigned to the NGFS Secretariat (hosted at the Banque de France), where he was charge of the second workstream of the NGFS dedicated to Macrofinancial issues. He supported the WS2 Chair’s team in developing the NGFS reference scenarios for the first phase of work. He also helped coordinate the Banque de France/ACPR’s application of the NGFS scenarios for its pilot risk assessment exercise. Prior to joining the Banque de France, Thomas worked for the OECD, Bioversity International (CGIAR) and the French National Institute for Agronomic, Food and Environmental Research (INRAE).

Pedro Duarte Neves is Adviser for the Board of Directors of Banco de Portugal. He was Vice-Governor of Banco de Portugal from June 2006 to September 2017. Pedro Duarte Neves participated at the main high-level supervisory and regulatory fora like the EBA, SSM, ESRB, and FSB. He was Alternate Chairperson of the EBA from July 2013 to June 2018 and he has chaired a number of committees in the scope of the FSB, EBA, and the Joint Committee of the ESAs. His research interests include banking supervision and regulation, macro-prudential policy, and the real economy.

Pedro Duarte Neves is a Visiting Professor at Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics. He is also Associate at the Systemic Risk Centre, London School of Economics. Pedro Duarte Neves holds a PhD in Economics from Université Catholique de Louvain. He published in scientific journals like The Journal of Econometrics, Economics Letters and Economic Modelling.

John Fell is Deputy Director General for Macroprudential Policy & Financial Stability in the ECB. He is also the chair or co-chair of several international working groups - including the Eurosystem’s Macroprudential Policy Group (MPPG), the European Systemic Risk Board’s (ESRB) Instrument Working Group (IWG), and the ESRB’s task force on stress-testing. He is a member of the ECB’s Financial Stability Committee (FSC), the ESRB’s Advisory Technical Committee (ATC), and the Financial Stability Board’s Standing Committee on Assessing Vulnerabilities (SCAV). He led the stress-testing work for the ECB’s “comprehensive assessment” in 2014 as well as EU-wide banking sector stress-tests coordinated by the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) (2009, 2010) and the European Banking Authority (EBA) (2011, 2014). His crisis management experience is extensive, including negotiating EU/IMF financial assistance programs in several euro area countries (e.g. in Ireland, Portugal and Spain). Between 2003 and 2010, he was Head of the ECB’s Financial Stability Division, spearheading the inaugural issue of the ECB’s Financial Stability Review in 2004 and directing it thereafter. Before moving to the financial stability area in 2003, he was an Adviser in the ECB’s Monetary Policy Directorate. Prior to joining the ECB in 1998, as a principal economist, he held various positions at the European Monetary Institute (EMI) and the Central Bank of Ireland. John holds postgraduate degrees in Economics (1987) and in Finance (1993) from University College Dublin and Dublin City University respectively, and is a PhD candidate at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. He has published his research in several academic and policy journals.

Bozena Gulija is a financial sector professional with primary expertise in banking regulation and risk management, whose experience spans the private and public sector across several jurisdictions (EU, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and Croatia). She has worked for private companies including ABN AMRO, Euroclear, State Street, Nordea, and Intesa Sanpaolo Group, and public institutions such as the European Court of Auditors, the Croatian National Bank, and the Institute for International Relations. Bozena has been actively collaborating with several professional and academic institutions through lectures and research projects (e.g. Warwick University, Zagreb University, IADI-BIS, Central Banking, Risk.net) and as an author and reviewer (e.g. Financial Regulation International, IFLR - International Financial Law Journal, Journal of Banking Regulation).

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bozenagulija

Stefano Borgioli is a Senior Team Lead - Economist-Statistician in the Monetary & Economic Statistics Division of the Directorate General Statistics of the European Central Bank (ECB). He joined the ECB in April 1999 after 3-year working experience as an economist in the Macro-Prudential Department of Banca d’Italia. He had temporary stints in both the Directorate General Macroprudential Policy & Financial Stability and the Directorate General Economics of the ECB.

He has worked extensively on banking statistics, statistics for macroprudential analysis and financial integration. He published in these areas and he frequently gives lectures at Universities (Politecnico di Milano, University of Florence, University of Frankurt).

Anand Sinha joined the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in July 1976 and became deputy governor in January 2011. He was adviser in RBI up to April 2014 after demitting the office of deputy governor in RBI on January 18, 2014. As deputy governor, he was in charge of regulation of commercial banks, non-banking financial companies, urban cooperative banks and information technology, among others. He has represented the RBI in various Committees/Groups of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), was on the G20 Working Group on Enhancing Sound Regulation & Strengthening Transparency and also a board member of the Securities and Exchange Board of India. He holds master’s degree in physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.

Jérôme Henry is the principal adviser in the European Central Bank (ECB) macroprudential policy and financial stability division. His responsibilities cover financial stability assessments and the related infrastructure requirements. Henry has led ECB teams for quality assurance of the single supervisory mechanism stress tests and was involved in country crisis management. He also worked at the Bank for International Settlements as a Financial Stability Institute fellow. Prior to this, Henry was a long-standing Eurosystem forecast co-ordinator. He started his time at the ECB leading the macromodelling team. Prior to his central bank career, Henry conducted research at the French Economic Observatory and the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. He is a founding member of the Centre for Economic Policy Research Euro Area Business Cycle Network. An Ensae Paris graduate, Henry holds a PhD in Economics and a bachelors degree in History from Paris Sorbonne.

Daniel C. Hardy is currently a Senior Research Associate at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Research, and a consultant on economic policy issues. He spent many years at the International Monetary Fund, leading work on macroeconomic and financial sector surveillance; Fund-supported programs; Fund policies; and technical assistance in a wide range of industrialized, emerging market, and developing countries. Most recently he was head of the Debt Capital Markets Division and led numerous FSAPs. He has also held positions at the Deutsche Bundesbank and the Austrian Financial Market Authority, and been an academic visitor at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and the Vienna University of Economics and Business. His recent research has addressed topics in public sector governance; the functioning of the European Monetary Union and the Capital Market Union; and sovereign debt management. He studied at the universities of Oxford and Princeton.

Daniel C. Hardy is currently a Senior Research Associate at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Research, and a consultant on economic policy issues. He spent many years at the International Monetary Fund, leading work on macroeconomic and financial sector surveillance; Fund-supported programs; Fund policies; and technical assistance in a wide range of industrialized, emerging market, and developing countries. Most recently he was head of the Debt Capital Markets Division and led numerous FSAPs. He has also held positions at the Deutsche Bundesbank and the Austrian Financial Market Authority, and been an academic visitor at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and the Vienna University of Economics and Business. His recent research has addressed topics in public sector governance; the functioning of the European Monetary Union and the Capital Market Union; and sovereign debt management. He studied at the universities of Oxford and Princeton.

María J. Nieto is Senior Advisor in the Directorate of Financial Stability, Regulation and Resolution, at Bank of Spain where she has developed her career since December 2000. She is author of several articles on banking, financial stability and regulatory issues that have been published by prestigious peered reviewed journals and she is member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Banking Regulation and the Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance. She has cooperated as consultant with the IMF and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and has worked at the ECB, Council of Economic Advisors to the Spanish President and the IMF. Ms Nieto earned a PhD cum laude from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and MBA (finance) from the University of California Los Angeles.