David has a portfolio of senior management roles in the European public affairs industry, and has advised over 50 of the world’s largest financial institutions and trade associations on their public affairs strategy, stakeholder engagement, and reputation management activities across Europe, the UK and globally. He leads Kreab’s Financial Services Practice and is the Senior Partner of the Financial Policy Advisers Network. David has worked at the European Commission, the Financial Services Authority, McKinsey & Company, and Campbell Lutyens.

David has a portfolio of senior management roles in the European public affairs industry, and has advised over 50 of the world’s largest financial institutions and trade associations on their public affairs strategy, stakeholder engagement, and reputation management activities across Europe, the UK and globally. He leads Kreab’s Financial Services Practice and is the Senior Partner of the Financial Policy Advisers Network. David has worked at the European Commission, the Financial Services Authority, McKinsey & Company, and Campbell Lutyens.

Gabriele Galateri di Genola was appointed Chairman of Assicurazioni Generali on 8 April 2011. He was reappointed Chair by the Board of Directors on 7 May 2019 and he fully entered in charge on 23 May 2019, when the new article 29.1 of the Articles of association entered into force.

He holds a degree in Law and an MBA from Columbia University. He was appointed CEO of IFIL in 1986 and CEO and General Manager of IFI in 1993; subsequently, in 2002, he was appointed CEO of Fiat. From 2003 to June 2007 he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mediobanca. From 2003 to 2010 he was Vice-Chairman and a member of the Board of Directors of Generali. From 2007 to 2011 he was Chairman of Telecom Italia S.p.A., where he was a member of the Board of Directors until April 2014.

Francesco is the Chief Executive Officer at Barclays Europe. Based in Dublin, he serves on the Board of Barclays Bank Ireland PLC, and leads the Barclays Europe Executive Committee. Barclays Europe is Barclays’ principal platform for regulated activities in the EEA. It has approximately €93bn in IFRS total assets and €3bn in equity.

Francesco joined Barclays in London in 2010, as Global Head of Barclays Corporate Development, where in addition to corporate activity on Barclays’ behalf, he was responsible for all Principal Investments across Barclays Group. In 2018, he moved to the Investment Bank as Co-Head of Barclays EME Financial Institutions Group and was subsequently appointed Chief Executive Officer for Barclays Europe in 2020.

Prior to Barclays, Francesco worked as a Senior Banker at JP Morgan in New York. Before JP Morgan, he held a number of senior roles at Bear Stearns, Lazard and GE Capital.

Francesco holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy, Politics & Economics from University of Oxford and a Master of Science in Economics and Philosophy from the London School of Economics.

Anne joined Fidelity International as CEO in December 2018 from M&G Investments where she was CEO and a director of its parent company Prudential plc.  Anne was appointed a Director of FIL Limited in September 2019.  She has worked in the asset management industry since 1992. Anne has almost three decades of experience as an analyst, portfolio manager and CIO and is a strong proponent of ESG investing.  Her career path spans many blue chip global names in the financial sector including Alliance Capital, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch Investment Managers and Aberdeen Asset Management.

Anne is a Chartered Engineer and began her career as a research fellow at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research.  She is a former chair of the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s Practitioner Panel.

Anne was publicly recognised in the UK for her services to the voluntary sector and to the Financial Services industry by being appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in 2014 and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2015.

Anne holds an MBA from INSEAD and a BSc (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh as well as an honorary degree from Heriot-Watt University.

David is CEO of London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and a member of the Board of LSEG plc.
He joined the Group in August 2018, having spent 20 years at Goldman Sachs in a number of senior roles, most recently as Global Head of Market Structure and Global Head of Metals & Mining. He also served as Chief of Staff to Lloyd Blankfein – then President and COO of Goldman Sachs – and spent three years in Russia as Co-Head of Russia/CIS. Before joining Goldman Sachs, he practiced law at Davis Polk & Wardwell.
David holds a B.A. from Yale University, and postgraduate degrees in law (JD) and international affairs (MALD) from Harvard University and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, respectively.

Andrej Šircelj graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Ljubljana and completed his master’s degree at the Faculty of Law in Maribor. In 2005, he was appointed State Secretary at the Office of the Prime Minister with a mandate at the Ministry of Finance. In charge of key government projects in the areas of banking, finance, and infrastructure, he cooperated with many international institutions, such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the OECD-. He was also in charge of projects in the areas of finance and taxes during the Slovenia’s Presidency of the Council of the EU in 2008. Between 2008 and 2009, he was a member of the Board of Directors at the European Investment Bank. In 2011, he was elected as member to the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia, where he chaired the Committee on Finance and Monetary Policy. He was re-elected as member to the National Assembly in the 2014 and 2018 elections.

Victor van Hoorn is the Executive Director of Eurosif, the European Sustainable Investment Forum, the leading pan European Sustainable and Responsible Investment association advocating for a more sustainable financial system. It works as a partnership of European national Sustainable Investment Forums (SIFs). SIF members include institutional investors, asset managers, index providers and ESG research and analysis firms totaling over €8 trillion of assets under management, as well as other stakeholders such as NGOs, trade unions, think-tanks and philanthropic foundations. Eurosif is also a founding member of the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance, the alliance of the largest SIFs around the world.

Prior to Eurosif, Victor was Head of Financial Services at Hume Brophy, a leading EU public affairs consultancy, advising asset managers and asset owners on their engagement with EU policymakers. In that role he closely followed the EU sustainable finance since its inception.

Victor is and attorney-at-law admitted to the New York and Amsterdam bar. He holds the French and Dutch citizenship.

Marcel Haag is Director for horizontal policies at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union. He has worked in different Commission services, including prior to his present assignment, as a Director for policy coordination at the Secretariat General of the Commission. Mr Haag is a lawyer and qualified as a judge in Germany.

Ingrid Holmes is the Executive Director of the Green Finance Institute. The GFI sits at the nexus of the public and private sectors and convenes and leads sectoral coalitions of global experts that identify and unlock barriers to investment towards impactful, real-economy outcomes, to benefit our environment, society, and business. Key areas of focus currently include energy efficiency in buildings, electric vehicle roll out, emerging markets infrastructure financing and financing nature based solutions. Ingrid was previously a Director and Head of Policy and Advocacy at Federated Hermes International. She was also the firm’s climate change coordinator. She has over 15 years of experience working on environmental policy and sustainable finance issues. Prior to joining Hermes Ingrid was a Director at sustainable development think tank E3G, leading a range of global initiatives on sustainable and inclusive finance. She has also held positions at the low carbon asset manager Climate Change Capital; been an energy and environment adviser in the UK Parliament; and adviser at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Prior to that she had a career in science publishing and journalism.

Ingrid has held several Government advisory roles including Member of the UK Green Finance Initiative (2016/2018), Member of the European Commission’s High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (2017/2018) and ran the Secretariat for the Green Finance Taskforce (2017/2018). She is currently Vice Chair of the Disclosures Working Group within the UK Prudential Regulation Authority/Financial Conduct Authority Climate Financial Risk Forum; Co-Chair of the Investment Association’s Climate Change Working Group; and Member of the Lloyd’s ESG Advisory Group.

Ingrid has a BSc in Biological Sciences from the University of Edinburgh and an MSc/DIC in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London. Her BSc thesis was published in Genetical Research (Cambs) and she was awarded the Kathleen Lacy Prize for ranking first in her MSc specialism (Pollution Management).

Stephanie brings more than 25 years’ investment experience to the CIO role. Stephanie began her investment career at Lazard Asset Management as a graduate trainee and progressed to become a US fund manager before joining Aberdeen Asset Management in 1997. Stephanie joined Invesco in Henley in 2003, where she specialised in European equity income investing and was responsible for a number of European equity portfolios. She took on the role as CIO of the Henley Investment Centre in January 2020.

Stephanie holds an MA (Cantab) in History from Cambridge University. Stephanie also holds the AIMR designation from the Association for Investment Management and Research (now known as the CFA Institute).

Jane Ambachtsheer oversees the firm’s ambitious approach to sustainable investment. This is empowered by the firm’s Sustainability Centre, which undertakes innovative research and policy development, guides BNPP AM’s investment stewardship and industry engagement activities, and supports investment teams in accessing, integrating and reporting on ESG factors. On the business side, Jane is responsible for BNPP AM’s Corporate Social Responsibility (‘CSR’) approach, ensuring the firm’s day-to-day activities reflect the high standards it expects from companies. Jane is a member of BNPP AM’s Global Investment Committee and Business Management Committees, and reports to the Head of Investments, Rob Gambi.

Previously, Jane spent 18 years with global investment consultancy Mercer, where she was Partner and founder of the firm’s Responsible Investment business. Jane regularly researches, writes and speaks on topics addressing the intersection of sustainability and climate with finance and investment. She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto and a Research Affiliate at the University Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, and holds a Master of Social Science from the University of Amsterdam and a Bachelor of Economics and English Literature with honours from York University.

Lawrence is a globally recognised digital advocate in the financial services sector with a track record as an advisor, executive, and board member, working with firms from early-stage start-ups to global brands. Based in London, he is the Principal of Elipses, a digital investment management firm focused on sustainable investments and state of the art digital technologies like blockchain, big data, and AI. He is a co-founder of Global Digital Finance, a global members’ network delivering advocacy and standards to promote fair and transparent digital markets, and he is the former CEO of Innovate Finance, the UK fintech members association. Lawrence has an MBA, sits on several boards, and is a regular Forbes contributor. He promotes ethical and sustainable finance policies for a transparent, secure, and quality digital future for everyone.

Prior to his current role, Javier was Chief Executive, Americas & UK region since September 2015. In this position, he significantly deepened SWIFT’s engagement model with global transaction banks and successfully delivered business development results in high-growth markets. He was also an Executive sponsor of SWIFT’s Customer Security Programme from 2016 to 2018, helping to formulate and lead SWIFT’s response to the growing cyber challenge facing the community.

Pérez-Tasso joined SWIFT in 1995 and held a number of position including as Chief Marketing Officer, a role in which he was responsible for developing SWIFT’s current five-year strategy. The SWIFT2020 strategy he defined has led to the co-operative’s renewed focus on cross-border payments, expansion into financial crime compliance and deeper presence in the market infrastructures area, including its entry into instant payments. Earlier in his career, Pérez-Tasso held a number of technology and leadership positions in business development in regional offices in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Ulrich Bindseil is Director General Market Infrastructure and Payments at the European Central Bank (ECB), a post he has held since November 2019. Previously, he was Director General Market Operations (from May 2012 to October 2019) and head of the Risk Management Division (between 2005 and 2008). Mr Bindseil first entered central banking in 1994, when he joined the Economics Department of the Deutsche Bundesbank, having studied economics. His publications include, among others, Monetary Policy Operations and the Financial System, OUP, 2014, and Central Banking before 1800 – A Rehabilitation, OUP, 2019.

Professor Danuta Hübner is a Polish economist, academic and policy maker. Born in 1948, she received her Masters degree from the Foreign Trade Department at the Warsaw School of Economics (1971) and a PhD in 1974. She is still teaching at the Warsaw School of Economics and was awarded honorary doctorates in economies and law by several universities including Sussex University and Economic University in Poznan.

Before becoming an advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister in Poland in 1994, she has been engaged in building the new Polish economy after communism. As a Polish Advisor, Vice-Minister or Minister, she has promoted a new approach to industrial policy as well as the development to prepare Poland’s entry in the European Union and in the OECD. Ms. Hubner became the first Polish Minister for European Affairs and the first Polish member of the European Commission (regional policy).

Since 2009, she has been a Member of the European Parliament, where she uses her experience in international institutions, for instance as Undersecretary General for the United Nations (Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva between 1998 and 2000).

Paolo Bertoluzzo is Chief Executive Officer of Nexi and Nexi Payments since July 2016.Paolo is also Chairman of the Nexi Strategic Committee.

Prior to joining Nexi, he served as Chief Commercial Operations and Strategy Officer of the Vodafone Group Plc with responsibility for Vodafone’s global commercial management, strategy and operations, as well as innovation and transformation projects. From 2008 to 2013 Paolo Bertoluzzo was Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone Italy and since 2012 of the Southern Region, when he became a member of the Vodafone Group’s Executive Committee.
Paolo joined Vodafone Italy in 1999, where he held the positions of Chief Operating Officer (2007), Chief Commercial Operations Officer (2006) and has headed the Consumer division (2005). Between 2010 and 2012 he was a member of the Board of Directors of Vodacom, the largest mobile communications group in Sub-Saharan Africa, and Vodafone Ireland.

Currently he is a member of the Politecnico of Milan Advisory Board. From 2013 to 2016 he has served as a Member of the GSMA Board, the worldwide telecom industry Association.

Paolo graduated with a degree cum laude in Management Engineering from the Politecnico of Milan in 1990 and completed an MBA with distinction from INSEAD (Fontainebleau – France) in 1994. He started his career as a management consultant working both in Europe and the United States.
Paolo is married with four daughters.

After a 42-year career with the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where Henne Schuwer focused on the European Union and transatlantic relations, Ambassador Schuwer joined Kreab as a Senior Advisor in 2020. During his career, Henne was involved in all Dutch EU Presidencies, the last one as Deputy Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the EU and Chair of Coreper I. After this, Henne served as the Director of the Private Office of the Secretary General of NATO. Mr Schuwer also has extensive knowledge of US politics and trade issues due to two assignments in the US, including a stint as the Dutch Ambassador to Washington DC in 2015-19.

Sharon S. Yang is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the International Financial Markets office in Treasury International Affairs.  Sharon heads a team of international economists and financial analysts responsible for addressing a wide range of international financial policy issues, including advocating U.S. financial regulatory interests in multilateral forums such as the Financial Stability Board and G-20, bilaterally through formal dialogues with international counterparts in Europe and Asia, and by assessing potential systemic financial risk in key international financial markets.  She leads Treasury’s international engagement on financial innovation, including through G7, FSB, and the IMF High-level Advisory Group on Finance and Technology.  Prior to her current role in Treasury International Affairs, Sharon was in Treasury’s Office of the General Counsel.

Sharon’s work at Treasury builds on 15 years’ private sector financial regulatory, strategy and legal experience, including as in-house counsel and in private practice in New York.  Sharon began her career as a management consultant, where she advised Fortune 500 companies on corporate strategy.  Sharon holds a Juris Doctorate from the Georgetown University Law Center and is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

John Berrigan is currently the Director General in DG FISMA (Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union) of the European Commission.

DG FISMA is responsible for EU-level legislation for the financial sector; in this context, John represents the EU Commission on the Economic and Financial Committee, the Financial Services Committee and the Single Resolution Board.

John has been a Commission official since the mid-1980s and has spent much of this time working on financial-sector issues – first in DG ECFIN, where he contributed to financial-sector aspects of the assistance programmes for other Member States, and now in DG FISMA.

Earlier on, he also worked on monetary policy and exchange-rate analysis in the context of preparations for the introduction of the euro in 1999.

In the mid-1990s, he worked for several years with the International Monetary Fund.

John has a master degree in economics from University College Dublin. He is married with two children.

Katharine Braddick is Director General for Financial Services at the Treasury, leading on all aspects of policy for financial services, and is the Treasury’s member of the Financial Stability Board.

Katharine joined the Treasury in 2014 as Director, Financial Services (International), before which, she had spent a decade in financial services regulation at the FSA and, latterly, the Bank of England where she was Director of Prudential Policy.

Katharine began her career as a fast stream civil servant at the Department of the Environment and has also worked at the Association of British Insurers.