Catherine was appointed to her current role in July 2010. She was previously Head of Credit and Market risk in the bank’s Global Markets division. Prior to moving into risk in 2002 Catherine held front line dealing roles in both the Trading and Sales areas in Global Markets, and spent several years in Corporate Lending in the RBS and BOI group. She was Head of Structured Business within the Trading Group prior to her appointment to the Credit role in GM and is very familiar with risk in complex instruments. She is a member of the EMT in Global Markets, a member of the SMT within the Risk division and participates in various senior risk committees in the Group.
In recent years Catherine has spoken at various industry conferences including GARP. CFP, Risk, Marcus Evans and GLC on a variety of risk related topics

Diederick van Mierlo is active in banking for 22 years. He started his career after he finish Law School as management trainee at ABN AMRO.
For the first 10 years he worked in varios commercial roles; after a period at Financial Restructuring and Recovery, he became responsible for the (Dutch) credit approval department.
In 2014 he was promoted as Managing Director within the Central Risk department.
Currently he is head of Credit Risk. In that capacity he is also responsible for the development of the various (Credit) Risks Models AAB uses.
Next to that, he is responsible for Credit risk Modelling and he is the Genaral Risk manager for the International Clients BL of AAB.

Thomas Ribarits holds a PhD degree in system theory and time series analysis and has spent 5 years in Academia at TU Wien and as post-doc at several European universities. In 2005 he joined the European Investment Bank (EIB) within Risk Management where he worked for some 6 years in the area of Asset Liability Management, loan pricing, interest rate risk reporting and performance measurement. In 2011, Thomas was advising and supporting the EFSF (European Financial Stability Facility), implementing a pricing model for programme loans to Ireland and Portugal at the time. He then became in charge of the pricing unit in the Credit Risk Department of EIB, covering a. o. credit risk pricing (EL and UL), loan loss reserves, watch listing and economic capital. Since 2013 he is heading the Financial Engineering and Advisory Services Division in the Treasury Department of EIB. Thomas has led research projects with University College Cork in the area of interest rate modeling and with Manchester University in the area of Economic Capital Modeling for credit risk and acted as presenter at various conferences, among which several World Congresses of the Bachelier Finance Society.

Over 15 years risk experience whereof 4 years in market risk environment and the past 10 years in the credit risk environment (UBS) with the lead in several Corporate Default Modelling projects (statistical and expert-driven). In the most recent years project lead and focused on integrated Stress Testing environment combining Derivatives, CashLoans and Collateral-positions.
Hobbies include hiking in the mountains, travelling, reading, financial markets, having a good time with his wife and friends.

Louise is Head of Risk Management and CRO at LF Bank AB Stockholm, Sweden. She is responsible for Risk control, Risk & Capital models, Capital and Liquidity Adequacy, ICAAP and Recovery plans at LF Bank.
Previously Louise was head of Group Capital at Nordea Bank, where she was responsible for the capital adequacy for the group , including all legal entities, capital planning and allocation of internal capital as well as capital and credit risk models. Louise has also been working for Citibank and PWC. She is also a member of the Group Executive Management of LF Bank
Louise has since 2011 been a member of the Banking Stakeholder Group at EBA.