Mr.Himadri Bhattacharya

Risk Management

Himadri Bhattacharya is a risk management professional with over thirty years of experience in banking and finance in India and several countries in the Middle East. He is an experienced speaker on portfolio management, risk management, macroeconomic and regulatory issues. He began his working life in the Reserve Bank of India – the country’s central bank as a generalist. Initial years were spent in payments services and currency issuance areas. Later and between 1983 and 1990, he was in the regulatory and supervision functions with about two years’ in the interim in a large public sector bank in India. Between 1990 and 2008, he worked as a portfolio management and risk management specialist in the reserves management function of Reserve Bank of India as also in the central bank of a country in the Middle East. He ended his career in the Reserve Bank of India as the head of the reserves management unit in 2008 to join Tata Capital, which is the financial services arm of the Tata group. His current responsibilities include treasury operations, including the derivatives desk, international operations, financial advisory services and private equity. He is on the roster of external consultants of the IMF in the areas of reserves management and financial markets.

Himadri Bhattacharya holds post-graduate qualifications in Physics and economics. He is a CFA charter holder and also holds FRM certification.

Mr. John Thirwell

Risk Management and Corporate Governance - Building a Risk Management Framework

John is an acknowledged authority on business and operational risk in the UK and internationally within banking, insurance and related sectors and is a wellknown speaker and writer on risk management, regulatory and governance issues. His early career was spent in banking, initially with Barclays and Lloyds TSB, primarily as a credit risk specialist, culminating in his appointment as a Director and Chief Risk Officer of Hill Samuel Bank in 1991. He remained at Hill Samuel until December 1996, when he joined the British Bankers’ Association (BBA), as Director responsible for risk and regulatory issues. At the BBA he was particularly involved in negotiations with Government over such legislation as the Insolvency Act 2000 and Enterprise Act 2002, and led the banking industry’s initiatives to combat the Year 2000 ‘millennium bug’. He was also heavily involved, on behalf of the banking industry, in discussions with regulators, both in the UK and internationally, concerning the new Basel Capital Accord (Basel II), the EU Capital Requirements Directive and the FSA’s Integrated Prudential Sourcebook Following his work on Year 2000 and Basel II, he became a thought leader, within the banking industry and broader financial services sector, on operational risk and established and was founder Chairman of the world’s first banking industry database for operational losses. He has recently been asked by the Financial Times to co-author a book on operational risk management. Since leaving the BBA in 2003, he has continued to speak, write and advise on risk and regulatory issues. He is a currently a non-executive Director of Novae Syndicates Limited (a leading Lloyd’s of London managing agency), CX Reinsurance Company Limited, Chase Cooper International Limited (a compliance solutions company specialising in operational risk management, corporate governance and business optimisation) and non-executive Chairman of the Bankside Gallery, London..

Mr. James Creelman

Creating a Balanced Scorecard for a financial services institution
An author, educator and consultant in enterprise performance management and functional best practices, James Creelman has authored, or co-authored 20 general management reports or books, eight of which focus on the Balanced Scorecard.

Managing Human Capital in Indonesia: Best Practices in Aligning People with Strategic Goals (Azkia, Indonesia, 2009)

An author, educator and consultant in enterprise performance management and functional best practices, James Creelman has authored, or co-authored 20 general management reports or books, eight of which focus on the Balanced Scorecard.

Managing Human Capital in Indonesia: Best Practices in Aligning People with Strategic Goals (Azkia, Indonesia, 2009)

 The Finance Function: achieving performance excellence in a global economy (Business Intelligence, 2009)

 Next Generation HR Shared Services: how to take customer service, efficiency and savings to a new level (Business Intelligence, 2008)

 Reinventing Planning and Budgeting for the Adaptive Enterprise (Business Intelligence, 2006)

 Mastering Business in Asia: Succeeding with the Balanced Scorecard (John Wiley, Asia, 2005)

 Creating a World-Class Finance Function: Five Core Capabilities That Generate Added Business Value (Business Intelligence, 2005)

 Financial Shared Services: Delivering Exceptional Customer Service and Business Benefits (Business Intelligence, 2005)

 Developing the Public Sector Scorecard (Business Intelligence, 2004)

 HR Shared Services: Achieving the Business Benefits (Business Intelligence, 2004)

 Transforming Public Sector Performance (Business Intelligence, 2004)

 Building a Strategic Balanced Scorecard (Business Intelligence, 2003)

 Corporate Culture: Creating a Customer-Focused Financial Services Organization (Lafferty Publications, 2002)

Mr.Ashok Banerjee

Risk Management

Professor (Finance & Control), Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, since August, 2004. He has vast exprience in his professional career
 Professor (Finance & Accounting) Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow , 23 May,2003-30 July, 2004

Associate Professor (Accounting & Finance), Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (1 June 2000-22 May 2003)
 Professor (Finance) Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad (November 1999-May 2000)

Associate Professor (Finance) Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad (November 1995-October,1999)
 Assistant Director, Board of Studies, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (July 1993-October 1995).
 Lecturer in Accountancy in Durgapur Government College under West Bengal Education Service (February 1990-July 1993).

VISITING ASSIGEMENT:
Visiting Associate Professor, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok January,2002 term. Taught a course on “Mergers & Acquisitions”.


CONSULTING & RESEARCH:

•  Feasibility study for JK Centre of Excellence (a J K Group initiative).
  
  
•  Member of a team of consultants involved in a project on “Restructuring of Electricity Supply Industry” in Thailand (the consulting project was done for EGAT, Bangkok).
  
  
•  Engaged in SEBI-sponsored research on Indian capital markets. SEBI has signed a one-year MoU for this research.

Book:  Financial Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis, Excel Books, New Delhi.

Mr. Peter Bonisch

Corporate Governance and Risk Governance in Financial Institutions

Peter is one of the UK’s leading advisors on risk governance in financial services and other sectors. He works with boards of directors and senior executives on improving their governance processes around risk and assurance, and on enhancing and protecting corporate reputation. Peter is a former National Director of Assurance Services for Ernst & Young in New Zealand, where he was also President of the Institute of Internal Auditors. He has worked internationally with leading clients on risk management and lectures in the UK on corporate governance.

From 2008 – 2009, he was a partner in the UK’s leading corporate governance advisory firm, and was managing director of a London-based risk and assurance consultancy from 2002 to 2005. Peter is a Fellow of the Securities & Investment Institute and sits on their Advanced Operational Risk Advisory Panel. He is a regular contributor to debates on governance, risk and control in the UK and Europe. He is a director of several consulting businesses and works mainly in improving corporate and financial services firms’ performance in governance and risk management.

Dr. Garyvan Vuuren

Financial Risk

Gary began his career in science, studying at the University of Natal in South Africa where he obtained his Masters degree in astrophysics and his PhD in nuclear physics - working at the Atomic Energy Corporation for several years. After a brief stint at Goldman Sachs in London (while on a working holiday) he migrated into finance and risk management, thus beginning his second academic career. He obtained a Masters degree in market risk management and a PhD degree in credit risk management and worked as a market risk manager in South Africa's largest retail bank: ABSA. He then transferred to the risk department of Old Mutual in Cape Town: Africa's largest asset management institution and then to the UK where he worked in market risk management departments in retail and investment banks before focussing on risk assessment and management in financial institutions (with an emphasis on Basel II) at Fitch Ratings in London. He obtained the Global Association of Risk Professionals Financial Risk Manager qualification in 2004. He has delivered lectures on risk management and quantitative finance at several South African and UK universities and regularly provides training on these subjects to the industry.