Andrew Hunt is the proprietor of Andrew Hunt Economics Ltd, an independent economics consultancy established in 2001. The firm serves around fifty clients across the financial and non-financial corporate sectors, including global banks, hedge funds, family offices, and major asset management groups. Andrew provides regular briefings and tailored consultancy services to a diverse readership that includes staff at Central Banks, Finance Ministries, the IMF, and other international organizations.

Based in the UK, Andrew travels extensively to visit central banks, finance ministries, and official entities as part of his research, as well as to meet with clients. Before founding his company, Andrew spent over 12 years as an economist advising the Board and portfolio managers of the Dresdner Bank Group, both in the UK and the Asian region.

Geoffrey Greener is the Chief Risk Officer of Bank of America. He is responsible for overseeing the company’s governance and strategy for global risk management and compliance, including relationships with key regulators and supervisory institutions worldwide. 
 

In his role Greener provides independent oversight and guidance for managing risk and ensuring compliance, including the development and implementation of risk management measures across the company. Greener has served in a number of senior roles throughout the company, including Enterprise Capital Management executive, in which he was responsible for capital management for Bank of America, and head of Global Markets Portfolio Management. Greener also has chaired the Global Markets Capital Committee and the Global Banking and Markets Regulatory Reform Executive Committee.

Farisa Zarin is the Global Head of Group Public and Regulatory Affairs at Standard Chartered. In that capacity, she is responsible for the strategic engagement and positioning on public policy and regulatory policy issues for the Bank. Prior to joining Standard Chartered, Farisa spent 20 years at Moody’s, serving as the Chief Government and Public Affairs Officer reporting to the CEO. She also oversaw Moody’s Corporate Social Responsibility program. Farisa has also worked as an attorney at the following organizations: the United Nations Office of the Prosecutor, International War Crimes Courts; the United States Senate Judiciary Committee; and the American Bar Association’s Central and Eastern European Law Initiative.

Farisa attended Oberlin College where she earned a B.A. in Economics and Psychology; University of Wisconsin where she earned a J.D. and was placed on the Dean’s List; and the Instituto Universitario Europeo where she earned an LL.M. in comparative law. 

As Global Head, Financial Crime Risks, Steve holds responsibility for the leadership of Financial Crime Compliance for Standard Chartered Bank, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory obligations in relation to anti-money laundering, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption and fraud. 

Steve joined Standard Chartered in 2015 as the Global Head for Sanctions Compliance after having held senior financial crime compliance leadership positions at several other global financial institutions. He previously served as Deputy Chief Counsel for U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) providing legal counsel to OFAC and the U.S. Treasury Department related to the development, implementation, and enforcement of foreign policy based economic sanctions programs. 

Gwenda Phillips is an experienced banking executive with over two decades in financial services. Currently, Gwenda is the Chief Risk Officer for SC Ventures, Standard Chartered Bank’s innovation, fintech investment and ventures arm and is also the Global Head of Digital Assets Risk Management for Standard Chartered Group. 

Gwenda joined SC Ventures following 18 years with ANZ, where she held a variety of senior Business and Risk roles across multiple countries and divisions, with her last position as the Chief Risk Officer of Digital. 

Adrian Munday is the Global Head, Operational, Technology & Cyber Risk at Standard Chartered. He is also Chairperson of the Group Non-Financial Risk Committee and is responsible for the overall second line of defence responsibilities relating to operational, technology & cyber risk. Adrian is currently based in the UK. Adrian joined Standard Chartered Bank recently from Deutsche Bank (“DB”) where he was the Group Head of Non-Financial Risk overseeing technology, cyber, resilience and operational risks.  Additionally, he oversaw reputational risk and the second line product governance function.  Adrian maintained a strong emphasis on industry emerging risks across artificial intelligence (“AI”), digital assets and environment, social & governance (“ESG”) in particular.

He spent 18 years at DB across a range of roles that started in the Corporate and Investment Bank, spanning complex change leadership, financial risk, capital management and business-line Chief Operating Officer (“COO”) roles before moving into the Chief Risk Officer (“CRO”) function.  This included supporting key regulatory remediation facing off to law enforcement and supporting negotiations on key industry settlements.

Sadia Ricke joined Standard Chartered in February 2023. She is Group Chief Risk Officer, a member of Group Management Team (GMT) and a Director of the Court of SC Bank. In January 2025 she also assumed overall GMT responsibility for the Compliance, Financial Crime & Conduct Risk teams and Legal and Corporate Secretariat teams. She leads a team of approximately 6,000 employees and is responsible for the development of Group risk, compliance and legal processes, and for supporting an appropriate risk culture and conduct discipline. 
 
Sadia has a broad range of financial and risk experience and a thorough understanding of our footprint markets. She joined the Bank from Société Générale, where she started in 1994 in the Financial Institutions Credit department. Sadia gained more than 13 years of structured finance experience in the Natural Resources and Energy Finance division where she was Co-Deputy Head, a position she held until 2010 before becoming Head of Credit Risk for SG CIB in Paris. In 2014 Sadia relocated to Hong Kong to take on the role of Head of Global Finance for Asia Pacific. She was appointed Group Country Head and Head of Coverage and Investment Banking for the UK in 2017. Sadia became Deputy Chief Risk Officer in 2019 and then Group Chief Risk Officer in 2021.

Andrew Hinchliff is the Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s Group Chief Risk Officer. He commenced this role in February 2025. Andrew joined the Commonwealth Bank in 2015 as Executive General Manager of Global Markets. Prior to his appointment as Group Chief Risk Officer, Andrew was Group Executive Institutional Banking and Markets since 2018. 

Before joining the Commonwealth Bank, Andrew had an 18 year career in investment banking in London, New York and Australia. He commenced his career as an Oil and Gas Design Engineer after graduating with Honours with a Bachelor of Engineering and Commerce from the University of Western Australia. Andrew went on to complete his Masters of Business Administration at the Stern School of Business in New York majoring in Finance.

André Boucher joined National Bank of Canada in 2021 as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). In this role, André is responsible for strengthening the information security program, ensure the protection of information assets and technology, and lead the architecture and software engineering practices that enable the Bank’s evolution. André also acts as an information security advisor to the executive team by recommending cybersecurity investments, practices, technical expertise and governance.

Prior to joining the Bank, André was the Associate Head of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, part of the Communications Security Establishment. He retired in 2014 from the Royal Canadian Air Force. Colonel (Ret’d) André Boucher served as a senior communications and electronics engineering officer. He has extensive experience in leadership, secure technologies, including cyber and air operations in Canada, NORAD and NATO.

Jean-Sébastien Grisé is Executive Vice-President and Chief Risk Officer. In that capacity, he leads the Risk Management and Compliance functions and oversees the management of financial and non-financial risks across the Bank. Mr. Grisé has held a succession of leadership positions since joining the Bank in 2015, including that of Senior Vice President and Head of Credit, where he oversaw credit activities, loan portfolio management, and climate risk for the entire Bank.

Prior to joining the Bank, he held executive positions in credit at GE Capital, where he worked for 16 years while also holding leadership roles in operational quality and sales.

Mr. Grisé is a member of the board of directors of the International Financial Risk Institute and serves as the chair of the Westmount Soccer Club, an organization aimed at promoting physical activity and leadership among youth.

Mr. Grisé holds a bachelor's degree in finance from HEC Montréal, graduated from the Management Development Course at the John F. Welch Leadership Center in New York, and completed the Advanced Risk Management Course at Wharton. He also holds a Six Sigma Black Belt certification.

Jason Forrester joined Standard Chartered in September 2020 as Chief Risk Officer, Regions. He currently holds the role of Global Head, Enterprise Risk Management and Deputy CRO, SC Bank, and since 2024 has also assumed the role of Co-Head Chief Risk Officer for Corporate and Investment Banking, based in London.

Jason’s career spans over three decades, with extensive expertise in risk management and vast experience across many of our key footprint markets – particularly in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Prior to joining Standard Chartered, Jason spent 21 years at Credit Suisse where he held a variety of senior roles, including the Head of Enterprise, Operational & Liquidity Risk and EMEA CFO, working in London, New York, Singapore and Zurich. Prior to this, he worked for PwC across Audit and Advisory.

Kirsten Wilkinson is the Chief Risk Officer for Africa, Middle East & Pakistan at Standard Chartered Bank, based in Dubai. She is responsible for the oversight and risk management of all markets across the region, ensuring effective risk governance and management practices.

Prior to her current role, Kirsten was the Chief Risk Officer for South Africa and the Southern Africa markets. She has been with the bank since 2014 and has held various risk roles in Asia, Africa, and Middle East.