Biography

Emran Islam is a Senior Market Infrastructure Expert at the European Central Bank (ECB). In his role, Emran co-ordinates the cyber resilience work for the Eurosystem. He was a part of the team that developed TIBER-EU, the Cyber Resilience Oversight Expectations (CROE), established the Euro Cyber Resilience Board, developed and operationalized the market-wide cyber exercise (UNITAS) and is currently developing the Cyber Incident and Information Sharing Initiative (CIISI-EU). Emran participates in various international groups, including the G7 Cyber Expert Group, the CPMI Task Force for Reducing the risk of wholesale payments fraud related to endpoint security, the FBS Cyber Lexicon Working Group, the CPMI-IOSCO Cyber Working Group, the ESRB Systemic Cyber Working Group and the World Bank FIGI. He was involved in the G10 Oversight of SWIFT and was the overseer of STEP2-T and EURO1. Prior to joining the ECB in 2015, Emran worked at the Bank of England for 5 years, where he was the supervisor of CHAPS, Bacs and FPS, as well as leading on the cyber work for UK FMIs.