Thomas Huertas
Professor, Institute for Law and Finance, Goethe University
Module coordinator

Thomas F. Huertas is Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Law and Finance, Senior Fellow at the Center for Financial Studies and Fellow at SAFE (Sustainable Architecture for Finance in Europe), all at the Goethe University in Frankfurt. In addition, he is a non-executive director of Barclays Bank Europe. Formerly, Tom was a partner in EY’s Financial Risk Practice and chaired the firm’s Global Regulatory Network. From 2004 to 2011 Tom was an Executive Director of the UK Financial Services Authority as well as Vice Chairman of the Committee of European Bank Supervisors (2009-10), Alternate Chair of the European Banking Authority (2011), Vice Chair of the European Systemic Risk Board (2011), Member of the Basel Committee on Bank Supervision (2009 – 2011) and Member of the Resolution Steering Committee of the Financial Stability Board (2009-2011). Earlier in his career Tom was Chief Executive and Chair of Orbian plc, an internet-based supply chain finance company. He also held a number of senior positions at Citigroup, including Chief Executive and Chairman of Citibank AG (Germany). He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago and has published extensively on financial services regulation.

Andrea Federico
Partner, Oliver Wyman
Module coordinator

Andrea Federico is a Partner at Oliver Wyman. He joined the firm in London in 1998 and throughout his career has worked across a number of European jurisdictions and beyond. He is currently based in Rome and advises financial services firms, authorities and governments on some of their most pressing strategic and operational challenges. Andrea is co-director of the FBF-Oliver Wyman Climate Risks and Anti-Money Laundering Academies.

Rico Brandeburg
Partner, Cyber and Resilience, Oliver Wyman

Rico is a Partner in the Risk & public Policy and Digital, Technology, & Analytics practices. Rico has more than 13 years of experience in consulting to leading financial institutions in the US, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. Rico focuses on frameworks, operating models, data and infrastructure capabilities across cybersecurity, cyber and operational resilience, technology risk, third party risk, and operational risk.

James H. Freis, Jr.
Founder, Market Integrity Solutions LLC
Module coordinator

James H. Freis, Jr. is a global expert in financial regulation, in particular, the area of anti-money laundering, having served as AML officer for a group of European financial institutions, and also previously as the lead United States Government official responsible for AML issues. Mr Freis currently leads Market Integrity Solutions, a consulting firm providing executive advice on global financial regulation and innovative technology solutions. From 2007 to 2012, Mr. Freis was Director (CEO) of the United States Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the lead U.S. Government official for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing requirements, and head of the country’s financial intelligence unit (FIU). From 2014 through 2020 he was Managing Director, Chief Compliance Officer, and Group Anti-Money Laundering Officer for the Deutsche Börse Group in Frankfurt, Germany, responsible for overseeing regulatory requirements and engaging with financial supervisors for Group entities on a global basis for this provider of financial market infrastructures. In June 2020, upon joining the FinTech payments provider, Wirecard, he promptly disclosed internal fraud, was named CEO, and initiated a global restructuring. His career as an attorney began at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, followed by seven years in Basel, Switzerland at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). Mr Freis is a graduate of Georgetown University, earned his Juris Doctor from Harvard University, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder.

Markus Schulz
Deputy Global Head FCC & Head Change Management for Financial Crimes Compliance (FCC) at ING

Markus Schulz is the Deputy Global Head FCC & Head Change Management for Financial Crimes Compliance (FCC) at ING. In his current role he looks after the transformation of the Bank’s financial crime control and organisational framework with a special focus on RegTech. He is a trained banker by trade and has over 25 years of experience in Financial Services and since the early 2000s dedicated to the fight against financial crime working for a number of global Financial Institutions. He is passionate about modernising and developing the Financial Crime Compliance industry especially the future of Surveillance. For this he is a very active member with a number of instrumental groups like the Wolfsberg Group, Egmont Group, Madison Group, Basel Institute on Governance, Insurance Europe, FATF, IACA and the European Commission just to mention some. He has initiated and lead various successful collective industry action groups around topics like Trade & Economic Sanctions, AML and FATCA as well as Ethics in Business.

Patrick Kenadjian
Professor, Institute for Law and Finance, Goethe University
Module coordinator

Patrick is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, where he teaches at the Institute for Law and Finance. Patrick has co-chaired conferences at the University on financial reform, including resolution regimes for banks, insurance companies and CCPs and other solutions for “too big to fail”, the proposed European Capital Market Union, the importance of culture and ethics in financial institutions, Basel III, collective action clauses in sovereign debt, EDIS, NPLs, sovereign debt and safe assets in the EU and, most recently, on green banking and green central banking. Since 2015 he has served on the Advisory Council to the Salzburg Global Forum on Finance in a Changing World. Patrick is also Senior Counsel at Davis Polk & Wardwell London LLP. He was a partner of the firm from 1984 to 2010, during which time he opened the firm’s Tokyo and Frankfurt offices in 1987 and 1991, respectively and spent over 25 years in its European and Asian offices.

Amra Balic
Managing Director, Head of BlackRock’s EMEA Investment Stewardship

Amra Balic, Managing Director, is Head of BlackRock’s EMEA Investment Stewardship team based in London having joined the firm in 2011. Amra is responsible for leading BlackRock’s investment stewardship efforts covering company engagement including voting in Europe, the Middle East and Africa on behalf of BlackRock’s clients globally. The team engages companies and others in the investment stewardship ecosystem to promote the governance and business practices aligned with long-term value creation. Amra is a member of the Stewardship Global Executive Committee and EMEA Executive Investments Subcommittee. Amra currently serves on a number of industry bodies and initiatives to enhance governance and sustainable business practices including the UK Investment Association’s Stewardship Committee, the UK Institute of Directors Center for Corporate Governance Advisory Board, the FRC Investor Advisory Board, Eumedion General Board, the UK Investor Forum Board of Directors and the ECGRF Board of Trustees. Prior to joining BlackRock, Amra spent 14 years working on issues surrounding investors and investment decisions ranging from fixed income analysis, deal origination, investment appraisal and management of research & analytical content. Amra joined BlackRock after 11 years with Standard & Poor’s (now S&P Global), where she was a Director in European Corporate Credit Ratings.

Sir Douglas Flint CBE
Chairman, Standard Life Aberdeen plc

Sir Douglas’ wide-ranging international and financial experience is an important asset to the business as it delivers against its strategy. His strong track record of board leadership as a chairman helps to facilitate open and constructive boardroom discussion. Previously, Sir Douglas served as chairman of HSBC Holdings plc from 2010 to 2017. For 15 years prior to this he was HSBC’s group finance director, joining from KPMG where he was a partner. Between 2005 and 2011 he also served as a non-executive director of BP plc. In other current roles, Sir Douglas is chairman of IP Group plc and serves as HM Treasury’s Special Envoy for Financial and Professional Services to China’s Belt and Road Initiative. He is also a member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s international advisory panel, and of the board of the International Chamber of Commerce UK. Additionally, he is chairman of the Just Finance Foundation, non-executive director of the Centre for Policy Studies, member of the global advisory council of Motive Partners and board member of the Institute of International Finance. He also chairs the Corporate Board of Cancer Research UK and is a trustee of the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity. He holds a BAcc (Hons) from the University of Glasgow, a PMD from Harvard Business School and is a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.

Sabine Mauderer
Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank

Dr. Sabine Mauderer has been Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank since September 2018. She is responsible for the Directorates Markets and Human Re-sources. Additionally she is a member of the Exchange Experts Commission, the Central Capital Market Committee, and the Steering Committee of the “Central banks and Supervi-sors Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS)”. Prior to her current responsibilities she held several positions at the KfW Banking group, e.g. Head of Banking Sector Restruc-turing and Head of Auditing, Risk Management, IT and Major Projects. Before that she worked as a senior adviser at the Federal Ministry of Finance. She was born in Schleswig in 1970. Sabine Mauderer graduated in law, holds a PhD by the Osnabrück University and an Executive MBA by the ESSEC & Mannheim Business School.

Michael Pieper
Director, Sustainable Finance Leader Germany, Deloitte

Michael joined Deloitte in October 2017 as a Director in Frankfurt. He is serving financial institutions on strategy, sustainability, risk management, digitization and regulatory compliance in Europe. Michael leads the Non-Financial Risks initiative in the Deloitte Banking Union Center Frankfurt and is part of the industry-wide Technical Expert Group on Non-Financial Risk. Since October 2019, he also leads the German Sustainable Finance initiative. Prior to joining Deloitte, Michael was working at McKinsey & Company where he served financial institutions across Europe, the Americas and Asia. At McKinsey, Michael was also member of the global risk management practice and the firm’s corporate and investment banking practice. Michael holds a PhD in Quantitative Finance and an MSc in Physics from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Alan Smith
Senior Advisor – Climate and ESG Risk Management at HSBC

Alan Smith is Senior Advisor – Climate and ESG Risk Management, HSBC. He is a member of HSBC’s Climate Business Council whose remit is to develop the Group’s sustainable finance strategy and he co-chairs the HSBC Climate Risk Oversight Forum which is shaping the Group’s Risk Management for Climate Risk. He is an active member and advisor to The Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment (CCRI), a United Nations Climate Action Summit and COP26 flagship initiative, which represents the commitment of the global private financial industry, in partnership with key private and public institutions, to foster the more efficient integration of physical climate risks in investment decision-making. Prior to his current role, to which he was appointed to on 1 April 2020, Alan was Global Head of Risk Strategy and Chief of Staff to the Group Chief Risk Officer at HSBC and a standing attendee of the Group Risk Committee to the HSBC Board from 2016 to 2020. Alan joined HSBC in 1994 and has worked with HSBC for over 26 years in a variety of senior finance, risk and capital management and investment banking roles in London and in Saudi Arabia. Prior to HSBC, Alan, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, worked with KPMG London where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. Alan is a Church Commissioner of the Church of England and a member of their Audit and Risk Committee; a Trustee of the Global Association of Risk Professionals; and sits on the Advisory Board of the Centre for Risk Studies at Cambridge University’s Judge Business School. In 2015, he co-authored his first book, “Dreaming a Nation”, which won a Frank Collymore Literary Award in Barbados.

Jean-Jacques van Helten
Visiting Fellow, European University Institute, Florence School of Banking and Finance
Module coordinator

Jean-Jacques van Helten is a Visiting Fellow at Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies & the Florence School of Banking and Finance, part of the European University Institute. He is formerly a Managing Director & Chief Risk Officer, EMEA for the Bank of Montréal Financial Group (‘BMO’) and more recently a Non-Executive Director on the Board of BMO Europe plc. Responsible for Market, Liquidity & Operational Risks and Credit Risk Analytics, Jean Jacques has also been responsible for bank recovery and resolution planning, Enterprise Risk Management, corporate and commercial lending and credit management, implementation of ICAAP and ILAAP and liquidity risk management processes and procedures including stress testing. He has worked variously in a range of C-level risk and capital markets business roles in investment banks in Europe, Australia, Asia and the UK. Jean Jacques holds a PhD in economics/economic history from the University of London and has studied at the Goethe and Freie Universities in Frankfurt & Berlin.

Wilhelm Koch
Director, Deloitte

Wilhelm Koch is Director in Risk Advisory at Deloitte in Munich. He is formerly the Group Head Non-Financial Risk Management at Erste Group Bank AG Austria, member of the Supervisory Board at Banca Comerciala Romana S.A. (BCR) and member of the Board of Directors Erste Reinsurance S.A Luxembourg. Specialized in None-Financial Risk Management inclusive Sustainable Finance Management, with substantial experience in business operations and effective risk-return management, based on sustainability / triple bottom line, across global institutions. Proven track record in reputational risk management, steering and implementing governance models, reducing operational cost, as well as process and control optimization with improving productivity. He has worked in various senior risk management roles as advisor as well as in global institutions including Deutsche Bank AG as Chief Operating Officer ORM & Head ORM Europe Middle East and Africa. Wilhelm is a Diplom-Ingenieur Business Administration & Engineering, Cologne in Germany and studied at the ETP School of Management & Technology, Berlin.