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Loretta Yuen
EVP and Group Head of Legal & Regulatory Compliance, OCBC

Loretta Yuen is the EVP and Group Head of Legal & Regulatory Compliance at OCBC. She oversees the full spectrum of legal and regulatory risks, including anti-money laundering, across OCBC Bank and its subsidiaries


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Chris Woolard
Former Interim CEO, UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

Chris Woolard is the Former Interim CEO of the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). He is currently a partner in the global auditing firm EY.


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Chris Whitehead
CEO, FINSIA

Chris Whitehead is the CEO of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (FINSIA). FINSIA's mission is to drive improvements in professional practice and high standards of conduct.


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Shee Tse Koon
Group Executive and Group Head of Consumer Banking Group and Wealth Management, DBS

Shee Tse Koon is Group Executive and Group Head of Consumer Banking Group and Wealth Management for DBS. Prior to this he was Country Head for DBS Singapore.


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Starling Insights
Starling Insights Editorial Board

Starling's team of editors provide review and analysis of current trends and developments in the industry.


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Christine Skinner
Assistant Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics, Wharton School of Management

Christine Skinner is an assistant professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics at the Wharton School of Management. Her research focuses on central banking, the financial markets, separation-of-powers, corporate governance, and law and macroeconomics.


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Ho Hern Shin
Deputy Managing Director (Financial Supervision)

Ho Hern Shin is the Deputy Managing Director in charge of Financial Supervision. She oversees the Banking & Insurance, Capital Markets, and the Policy, Payments & Financial Crime Groups in MAS.


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Carolyn Rogers
Former Secretary General, Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada

Carolyn Rogers is the Secretary General of the BCBS. She is currently the Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada.


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Mark Roe
Head of Risk Culture, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA)

Mark Roe is the Head of Risk Culture at the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA).


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Tom Reader
Associate Professor, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics

Dr Tom Reader is an Associate Professor of Organisational Psychology at the London School of Economics. He directs the Masters of Science in Organisational and Social Psychology and he leads a Masters in Science and Executive course on Organisational Culture. Tom is also a chartered psychologist (MA and PhD, University of Aberdeen; Leverhulme Fellowship).


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Mirea Raaijmakers
Former Global Head of Behavioral Risk, ING

Mirea Raaijmakers is the former Global Head of Behavioral Risk for ING. Mirea joined ING in 2017 and was appointed to her current role in August 2018. Prior to ING she worked for the Dutch Central Bank (DNB) where she developed and executed the supervision on Behaviour & Culture.


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Ann Pendleton-Jullian
Fellow, Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

Ann Pendleton-Jullian is a Fellow at the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. She is a writer, architect and educator whose work explores the interchange between culture, environment, and technology.


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Matsuo Motonobu
Secretary-General, Japan SESC

Matonobu Matsuo is the Secretary-General of the Japan Securities & Exchange Surveillance Commission. The SESC falls under the FSA and is responsible for “ensuring fair transactions in both securities and financial futures markets.”


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Kathy Matsui
Adjunct Professor of Management, Kyoto Graduate School of Management, General Partner, MPower

Kathy Matsui is an adjunct professor of management at Kyoto University Graduate School of Management. She is also a General Partner of MPower Partners, Japan's first ESG-focused global venture capital fund.


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Tom Malone
Professor of Management, MIT

Thomas W. Malone is the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.


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Rick Ketchum
Former Chairman & CEO, FINRA

Mr. Ketchum is the former Chairman of Board of Governors and Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (2009 - 2016).


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Michael Held
General Counsel and Executive Vice President of the Legal Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Michael Held is the general counsel and EVP of the Legal Group at the New York Federal Reserve Board (NY Fed). He is also a member of the Bank's Executive Committee. In addition, he serves as deputy general counsel of the Federal Open Market Committee.


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Andy Haldane
Chief Economist, Bank of England

Andrew G. Haldane, FAcSS FRS is a British economist who worked at the Bank of England between 1989 and 2021 as the chief economist and executive director of monetary analysis and statistics.


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Katherine Gibson
Deputy Commissioner, Financial Sector Conduct Authority

Katherine Gibson served as a member of the Transitional Management Committee of the South Africa Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) at the time of her appointment as Deputy Commissioner. In this role she fulfilled a number of key responsibilities and was also appointed as Acting Commissioner.


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James H Freis
Former Interim CEO, Wirecard, Former CCO, Deutsche Börse Group, Former Director, FinCEN

James Freis is a former Director of FinCEN and was the longest serving Director of that agency. He subsequently was the CCO at the Deutsche Börse Group and interim CEO at Wirecard following the exposure of fraud at that firm.


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John Flint
Former Group CEO, HSBC

John Flint is the former Group CEO of HSBC. As of 2021, Mr. Flint was appointed to be the CEO of the UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB).


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Amy Edmondson
Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School

Professor Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, a chair established to support study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises and the betterment of society. She studies leadership, psychological safety, and organizational learning.


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Jonathan Davidson
Former Director, UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

Jonathan Davidson is a former Executive Director of Supervision and Authorisations for the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). He is currently a Senior Advisor to the FCA on Sustainability and Climate Change.


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Thomas J. Curry
Former US Comptroller of the Currency

Curry was nominated by President Obama to serve as head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). As Comptroller of the Currency (2012-17), Curry led the US federal agency that charters, regulates, and supervises national banks and federal savings banks.


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