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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
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.
Bob Wigley is the Chair of UK Finance. Prior to this, he spent a career in finance, rising to be EMEA Chairman of Merrill Lynch and a member of the board of the Bank of England during the 2008 financial crisis.Bob Wigley is the Chair of UK Finance. Prior to this, he spent a career in finance, rising to be EMEA Chairman of Merrill Lynch and a member of the board of the Bank of England during the 2008 financial crisis.
Axel Weber is the past-Chair of UBS and the past-President of the German Bundesbank and a member of the European Central Bank Governing Council from 2004 to 2011. He is a member of the Group of 30.
Wies Wagenaar is a social psychologist and serves as the Global Head for the Centre of Expertise for Behaviour, Ethics & Compliance Learning for ABN AMRO. She started her career as a crisis management consultant.
Sir Paul Tucker is a research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. He previously served as Deputy Governor of the Bank of England and Chair of the Systemic Risk Council. He is the author of Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World Order
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.
Simon Thompson is the Chief Executive Officer of the Chartered Banker Institute.
Kathleen Taylor is the Chairwoman of the Royal Bank of Canada. She has served on the Board since 2001, where she has chaired the Human Resources and Corporate Governance Committees, and served on the Audit and Risk Committees.
Bryan Stirewalt is a former Chief Executive of the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA), having worked at the agency for 14 years.
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Richard Spencer is the past-Secretary of the Navy (U.S.) and past-Vice Chairman and CFO of the Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE).
Carine Smith Ihenacho is the Chief Governance and Compliance Officer of Norges Bank Investment Management.
Christina 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.
Sir Keith Skeoch is the former CEO of Standard Life Aberdeen (now-abrdn), and previously served as the Chair of the UK Financial Reporting Council from 2020 to 2021. He is now the Non-Executive Chairman of insurer QBE’s European Operations.
Paul Seabright is a Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the Toulouse School of Economics. He is the author of several books, most recently The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People.
Stephen spent a 25-year career in risk management and corporate intelligence, providing clients with insights into the causes of organizational dysfunction or under-performance.
Edgar Schein is the Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Management Emeritus and a Professor Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Schein investigates organizational culture, process consultation, research process, career dynamics, and organization learning and change.
Peter Routledge is Canada's Superintendent of Financial Institutions.
Admiral Charles “Chas” Richard served as the 11th commander of United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) between 2019 and 2022.
Fernando Restoy became Chair of the Financial Stability Institute on 1 January 2017. He had been Deputy Governor of the Bank of Spain since 2012. Previously, he held other senior positions at the Bank of Spain, which he joined in 1991.
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).
Sarah Rapson joined the FRC as Executive Director Supervision in September 2021. She is responsible for leading the FRC’s Supervision Division and its work to enhance audit quality both through standard setting and audit monitoring of firms; supervisory oversight of the Recognised Professional Bodies; and to promote improvement in corporate reporting through detailed technical reviews of companies’ annual reports and accounts.
Charles Randell served as the Chair of the UK Financial Conduct Authority from 2018 to 2022. He was previously a member of the Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority since its founding in 2013.
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