Biography

Raymond Kleijmeer has worked on resilience in the financial industry at both the national and international level.

Raymond is currently working at APG Asset Management, an international institutional investment firm operating in the pension industry with approximately EUR 600 billion assets under management and offices in New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Brussels and the Netherlands. In this role he has worked since 2024 on the further implementation and effectiveness of operational resilience approaches in the context of the regulatory framework of the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA).

Prior to this, he worked at the central bank of the Netherlands (DNB). At the national level, he participated in public-private information sharing structures such as the FI-ISAC and Insurance-ISAC from 2011-2018. He was also directly involved with the preparations and start of the Threat Intelligence Based Ethical Red Team testing framework (TIBER) in 2015 for financial critical infrastructure institutions in the Netherlands and the subsequent further expansion in 2018 to the insurance and pension industries.  Internationally, he contributed to work on cyber resilience coordinated by standard-setting bodies hosted by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) since 2012. He worked for example on the different phases of the publication of the CPMI-IOSCO guidance on cyber resilience in 2016 and the adoption and implementation monitoring that followed in 2020-2022. Additionally, he contributed to the work by the Financial Stability Board such as the publication of the Cyber Incident Response and Recovery toolkit in 2020.

He was seconded two times at the BIS in 2019-2022: First at the Financial Stability Institute in 2019 where he worked on a publication about the development and adoption of international red team testing frameworks. In the second secondment at the BIS Cyber Resilience Coordination Centre he organised a program from 2020-2022 to perform Cyber Resilience Assessments with methodology by Carnegie Mellon University and developed a first resilience benchmark with the participating BIS member central banks. Upon returning to DNB, he performed roles in supervision strategy and operational risk supervision in 2022-2024.

Throughout his career working together with many different colleagues internationally has further enhanced his perspectives of how different roles operate in the context of digital operational resilience. Especially in the rapidly evolving area of cyber resilience it is crucial that knowledge and skills are continuously kept up to date and developed further in the financial industry at both authorities and institutions. For this reason he enjoys to contribute on a personal title to various training activities organized by the European University Institute.