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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Arvinder Bharath brings to bear a blend of experience spanning over 30 years in technology, banking, and policy setting. She started her career in technology working with corporates, conglomerates and tech and telecom giants such as British Telecom, Nortel Systems, Cisco, Compaq and Hewlett Packard. She later joined Barclays Bank where she held senior positions in technology, mergers, acquisitions, and separations across the globe. She then returned to the Caribbean to lead RBC Royal Bank as president and country head for Trinidad and Tobago. Arvinder subsequently moved to the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago as Deputy Inspector of Financial Institutions, transitioning to lead Financial Technology, Information Security and Knowledge and Information departments. She is currently a Digital Risks Expert with the IMF where she provides technical assistance to member countries in management of digital and cyber risks arising from digitalization of the financial services sector, public financial management and adoption of digital currencies. She is involved in various international working groups and forums on transformative technologies such as Quantum Computing, generative AI, DeFi and others. 

Arvinder holds a BSc Hons in Information Technology and an MBA in Banking – both from the University of London.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.