Lourenco Miranda
Dr. Lourenco Miranda is the Regional Head of Environmental & Social Risks, and Model Risk at the Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Bank. He joined the Bank in New York in February 2016 as Managing Director Head of Capital Planning, Assessment and Review (CCAR). Prior to SocGen, within his 24 years of financial industry experience, Dr. Miranda has held multiple leadership positions in Risk Management and Finance at internationally active Financial Institutions in multiple regions and in more than 50 countries and regulatory jurisdictions. In the academic world, for the past 30 years, Dr. Miranda has held faculty positions in multiple academic centers worldwide in the fields of Risk Management and Quantitative Finance; has been in the board of international academic and professional institutions and a regular speaker at major international conferences. Currently, Dr. Miranda has been an Adjunct Professor and has lectured risk management, stress testing, machine learning and data science at Fordham Gabelli School of Business in NYC. Besides that, Dr. Miranda is a published author of academic and professional articles, and book chapters. Lourenco holds a PhD in Statistical Physics applied to Quantitative Financial Risk Modeling.
Moez Hababou
Moez Hababou heads Model Risk Management for BNP Paribas US for the Credit, Financial Security, and Capital Planning workstreams. He is responsible for all model validation activities in the areas of Wholesale Credit, CCAR, and BSA/AML. More recently, he is focusing on best ways to account for climate risk in credit risk management and validating machine learning models. Prior to his current role, Moez Headed CCAR Modeling for CIB BNPP US. Moez held similar analytical and modeling roles at UBS Wealth Management, Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland. Moez has also numerous publications in academic journals. Moez holds a Ph.D. in Management Science from York University (Toronto, Canada) and a Master degree in Finance from Laval University (Quebec City, Canada)..
Kathleen Price
Leah Daly
Leah Daly is Senior Director, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) for Santander US. In this role she leads the development and implementation Santander’s US ESG strategy, which includes reporting and disclosures, ESG governance, enterprise sustainability initiatives and development of green finance opportunities in partnership with businesses. Leah’s experience includes ESG, enterprise risk management, corporate governance and public policy.
Leah was previously a principal at Tapestry Networks where she worked closely with board and committee chairs on a variety of complex topics facing the Top 30 global banking and insurance institutions.
She currently serves as National Co-Leader for Santander’s Embrace (LGBTQ+) Employee Resource Group and head of the governance committee at Wondermore, a Boston-based literacy non-profit.
Leah earned her Masters in Public Policy from the LBJ School at the University of Texas as Austin and holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College.
Matt Kaczmarek
Jim Costa
James Costa is Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer of Banner Bank. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing the company’s risk and compliance functions as well as the Bank’s interactions with industry regulators. He is also a member of the Bank’s Executive Management Committee.
Prior to joining Banner, Costa served as Chief Risk and Chief Credit Officer for TCF Financial a regional bank where he managed all credit and risk functions as well as operations. At TCF Jim managed the enterprise integration of the merger equals between Chemical Bank and TCF. Prior to TCF, Jim held executive leadership positions in risk, credit and lines of business as EVP at PNC Financial and Head of Enterprise Credit Strategy at Wachovia Corporation, now Wells Fargo. Jim has been active in financial services for almost 30 years with focus areas including enterprise strategy credit risk, and regulatory relations.
Jim earned his bachelor’s degree from Ohio State University and conducted his doctoral studies from the University of Minnesota. Jim is a veteran of the US Air Force. In Minnesota, Jim is active in community organizations to include Habitat for Humanity, Humane Society and The University of Minnesota Center for Children’s Cancer Research. Jim is also an advisory board member for the Midsize Bank Coalition of America.
Gurpreet Sodhi
Deniz Senturk
Deniz is the Head of Analytics and Chief Risk Officer, supporting Global Treasury, at State Street Corporation (SSC). In her role as Head of Analytics, Deniz is focused on providing quantitative solutions consisting of Predictive Analytics and Business Intelligence (data analytics, reporting) for business lines across the bank. In parallel, she is also responsible for risk oversight of Treasury’s activities, which includes managing the investment portfolio, asset-liability risk, liquidity risk, funding and liability pricing, and capital structure, in her role as CRO for Treasury.
Prior to her current role, Deniz was the Head of Model Risk Management at State Street for three years and headed up Model Risk Management within GE Capital for 3+ years before joining State Street in 2015. Deniz’s 15 year tenure at GE also included leading the marketing analytics teams as well as the research teams within GE Global Research Center. During her time at GE, she published 15+ patents and 20+ research papers on advanced statistical techniques used in risk and finance.
Deniz’s areas of functional expertise include compliance and control functions, credit, treasury, market and model risk management in addition to risk analytics, marketing analytics and business strategy management. She also served as an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Business, Fordham University for three years.
Deniz holds a Ph.D. in Applied Statistics from University of California, Santa Barbara and a B.S. in Physics from Bogazici University (Turkey).
Chandra Khandrika
Chandra Sekhar Khandrika is Head of IA Model risk management at Citi Bank. He has 20 years of industry experience in Risk and Control areas including Risk Management, Independent valuation, and audit at global Investment banks. His interests are in the intersection of financial risk and climate risks. He is interests in the nexus of climate risk regulatory landscape and low carbon economy transition. Specifically, embedding climate risk management framework, stress testing, scenario analysis and disclosures. Low carbon economy transition and adaptation and mitigation strategies leveraging clean technologies.
Ahmed Elcott
Ahmed Elcott is an executive vice president and the head of Climate Risk at Wells Fargo where he leads the firm’s climate risk initiative. In this role, he leads the integration of climate risk into the firm’s overall risk management framework.