Risk Week – Day 1 – Climate & Credit Risk

Victoria Collins

Global Head of Climate Risk and ESG

Nomura

Victoria’s career spans over 25 years working in financial institutions, in trading, finance and risk roles, predominately in Risk Management. She has been with Nomura for nearly ten years, and is currently responsible for establishing and managing the global risk management framework for Climate Risk and ESG.

Jonas Rooze

Head of Sustainability Research

BloombergNEF

Jonas leads BNEF’s sustainability analysis, helping corporations and investors understand the technologies and solutions companies can employ to generate new sustainable opportunities and reduce their transition risk. This leverages BNEF’s research on transformational topics ranging from clean energy and electric mobility to digitalization and advanced materials, as well as building on Bloomberg’s close connection with the TCFD. Before this, Jonas lead BNEF’s research on the impact of the energy transition on the European power sector and what that means for utility and investor strategies, and was author of BNEF’s New Energy Outlook for Europe. Jonas previously worked in sustainable energy consulting and holds an MSc in sustainable energy from Imperial College London and an MEng from Cambridge University.

Murat Bozdemir

ESG Product Manager

Bloomberg

Murat heads Bloomberg’s EMEA and APAC product development for ESG & Climate Risk Enterprise Data solutions. He interacts with clients and regulators, identifying key challenges and supporting the development of new data sets for ESG regulatory disclosure and new climate risk requirements. Murat has 18 years of risk management and compliance experience covering sell and buy side markets. Before joining Bloomberg, Murat worked as a Director at KPMG, advising clients in risk control, capital management, compliance and accounting topics.

David Crcen

Head of Credit Risk Products

Bloomberg L.P.

David leads credit risk management product for Bloomberg, L.P., with focus on credit risk analytics that support trading and risk management functions in financial institutions, asset managers, and corporations. Prior to joining Bloomberg in 2017, David led risk management for global banks and asset managers, with specialization in credit and securitization. He contributed to the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets Best Practices for Risk Management (2008), and has advised regulators and accounting firms on complex structured finance transactions.

Sophie Dupre-Echeverria

Chief Risk Officer

GIB UK

Sophie is the Chief Risk and Compliance Officer of Gulf International Bank (UK) Limited. She is responsible for driving an effective risk culture throughout the company, designing the risk and compliance frameworks and overseeing risk management and regulatory compliance practices. Sophie joined GIB UK with extensive experience in the field, having previously served as Executive Director for Compliance and Operational Risk Control at UBS Asset Management. Before this, she was Global Head of Operational Risk at Barings, and non-Executive Director of the Baring-Coller Secondaries Fund. Sophie was also an Operational Risk Manager and the Group Head of Investment Risk Framework at Schroders.

Sophie graduated from Université Lumière Lyon 2 with a Master’s degree in Economics and Finance. She is a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.

Kevin O'Rourke

Managing Director and Head of Risk Management (EMEA)

Mizuho Bank

Kevin is Managing Director and Head of Risk Management (EMEA) for Mizuho Bank. He is also Deputy CRO on a cross entity basis for Mizuho Bank and Mizuho International (a UK incorporated entity of Mizuho Securities) and is a Supervisory Board member of Mizuho Bank Europe (located in Amsterdam) where he Chairs the Board Risk Committee. He has extensive Board experience as a member and chair of multiple jurisdiction Board and Governance committees.

Kevin is based in London and is a highly experienced, commercially focused leader with enterprise-wide risk and product knowledge across an array of financial and non-financial risks such as cyber, conduct/culture and ESG. He has a proven record in managing change and developing governance structures in an international, multicultural setting across different business entities and regulatory environments.

Paul Tivvnan

Global Head of Sell-side Enterprise Sales

Bloomberg L.P.

Paul Tivnann is the Global Head of Sell-side Enterprise Sales. Since joining Bloomberg in 1999, Tivnann has held various senior level management positions before his most recent position, leading our Sell-Side Enterprise sales effort globally. Tivnann began his career as an interest rate and bond option broker, having worked for Tullett and Tokyo and later FIMAT. A graduate of Bristol University, Mr Tivnann holds a bachelor's degree in physics.

Stefano Biondi

Chief Risk Officer

Mediolanum

After graduating from University of Pavia in 1997 with a Degree in Business and Economics, Mr. Biondi started to work as a junior risk manager for JP Morgan, first in Milan and then in London. Soon afterward he joined ABN AMRO Bank and subsequently moved to Amsterdam as senior credit risk manager in charge of trading counterparty credit risk management. During his 5 years stint at ABN AMRO Bank he also worked on the implementation of a bank-wide credit risk portfolio modelling system as well as a risk reporting tool. Following that experience at ABN AMRO he came back to London to accept a role as head of credit risk analytics and portfolio reporting at Standard Bank of South Africa in charge, among other things, of implementing the internal model for the Basel 2 FIRB project. In January 2007 he returned to Italy where he joined Banca Mediolanum as head of risk control with group-wide risk management responsibilities. In 2011 he undertook an Executive Master in Business and Banking Administration at Bocconi University. In 2014 he took, within Risk Management of Banca Mediolanum, the responsibility for quantitative modelling, reporting and group wide coordination. In April 2018 became head of risk management for Banca Mediolanum reporting to the Group CRO. In March 2020 became Group Chief Risk Officer for Banca Mediolanum.