GARP 2026 European Financial Risk Symposium

Helena Coe is a Policy Manager in the CBI’s UK Competitiveness team and Adviser to the Chair. She leads the CBI’s work on resilience, defence, economic and national security, with a focus on strengthening the UK’s global competitiveness, investment environment and long-term resilience.

Helena co-leads the CBI’s UK Competitiveness Committee, working with senior business leaders on the policy priorities shaping the UK’s growth and competitiveness. She previously worked across international and regional policy at the CBI. Before joining the CBI, Helena worked in economic development and inward investment in the East of England. She read International Relations at Durham University.

Myles is the Risk and Compliance Lead for Product & Innovation, and Data & Analytics at BNY, where he provides strategic risk leadership across the firm’s innovation agenda. He partners with product, technology, and business leaders to develop risk frameworks that support the design, commercialisation, and scaling of new capabilities across digital assets, data, and modern market infrastructure. His expertise lies in navigating the evolving risks associated with digital assets and the technologies underpinning them, helping the business balance innovation with regulatory expectations and sustainable growth. He brings more than twenty years’ experience across global financial services, with roles spanning risk, compliance, and governance across both traditional markets and digital asset ecosystems. Myles holds an M.Sc. in Risk Management from University College Dublin and a B.Sc. in Management (Finance) from Trinity College Dublin.

Panayiotis Dionysopoulos joined ISDA in March 2014. He is the Global Head of Financial and Enterprise Risk at ISDA leading work across financial risk, capital and enterprise risk frameworks. His work takes a cross-product, cross-risk view of the trading book to drive more consistent risk management, greater capital and liquidity efficiency, and closer alignment between industry practice and regulatory frameworks.

His team produces industry papers and quantitative analysis on derivatives policy and is closely engaged in the global implementation of Basel III and related reforms. The remit also extends to emerging areas — sustainable finance, digital assets and tokenisation — where they intersect with trading book and enterprise risk.

Before ISDA, Panayiotis was a Treasury Manager at RBS, focused on capital management and Basel III implementation, having begun his career in Product Control at ABN AMRO.

He holds an MSc in Accounting & Control from Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), the INSEAD Executive Certificate in Global Management and is a CFA charterholder Investor Intelligence and Academic Partnership at Amundi Investment Institute and Managing Director of Institut Louis Bachelier. She conducts research on portfolio choice, with a focus on sustainable and household finance, pensions and the impact of financial technology, advising the strategic decisions of institutional investors and the design of investment solutions for retail clients. Marie is the Chairman of Inquire Europe, Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the European Savings Observatory, a member of the expert group advising the ESMA Risk Standing Committee and a member of several scientific councils, such as the French supervisory authority ACPR, the European Capital Market Institute of CEPS and the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). She is also a senior associate researcher with Université Libre de Bruxelles and serves as Editorial Board member of the Financial Analyst Journal. A frequent speaker at international conferences, her scientific articles have been published in academic journals and her work has been featured in several news outlets including the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal. Marie holds a PhD in Economics from Université Paris X and graduated from ENSAE.

Christopher Donohue is the CEO of GARP. Previously, he served as Managing Director of the GARP Benchmarking Initiative, a data analysis utility for financial services companies to aggregate and analyze sensitive data, and leader for GARP’s Educational and Research Programs, where he supervised all of GARP’s educational and research programs, including the FRM® Certification. He earned a Ph.D in Operations Research from the University of Michigan and in his free time enjoys playing ice hockey.

Prior to joining GARP, Donohue’s roles include hedge fund partner responsible for the development of asset allocation tools for pension funds and automated trading systems; director in the Global Research Center at Deutsche Asset Management, leading product research and development; and Director of Optimization Technology at Alphatech, a technology and research defense contractor, where he led algorithm development for intelligence aircraft path planning and sensor scheduling systems.

Adam Farkas is the Chief Executive Officer of AFME. He joined the Association in February 2020 and is responsible for shaping its overall strategy. Adam was also appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA) in March 2022, coordinating industry views on key global regulatory issues. Adam also sits on the Board of TheCityUK, an industry-led body representing UK-based financial and related professional services.

Before joining AFME, Adam was the Executive Director of the European Banking Authority (EBA) from April 2011 until the end of January 2020 where he managed the organisation’s daily operations and led the implementation of its regulatory work programme. Between 2011 and 2019, he represented the EBA on the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. Prior to joining the EBA, he acted as the Executive Chairman of the Hungarian Financial Supervisory Authority from 2009 to 2010 where he spearheaded the Authority’s response to the financial crisis. His other previous positions include CEO for Allianz Bank from 2006 until 2009 and co-CEO of CIB Bank (Intesa Sanpaolo Group) between 2002 and 2005. Between 1997 and 2001, he was Managing Director and Member of the Board at the National Bank of Hungary. Adam started his career as an Assistant Professor at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences (subsequently renamed Corvinus University of Budapest). He was also a consultant to various financial institutions in Budapest and London, including the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) between 1991-1997. Adam holds a doctorate degree in Finance from the Budapest University of Economic Sciences, and a Master’s in computer-based simulation and modelling from Sunderland University in the UK.

Jesus is the Program Director of FRTB at Société Générale. He has over 20 years of experience in Risk Management across capital market activities at major European banks and consulting firms in Spain, Germany and France. During his career he has held diverse roles, including Risk Manager of Market and Counterparty risks, as well as SME and Program Manager, overseeing the implementation of significant Market and Counterparty risk regulations. He holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, and is an FRM and SCR certificate holder. He is also the co-director for the GARP Paris Chapter.

Anne Tiedemann is Senior Team Leader for Institutional and International Affairs and Political Adviser at the European Banking Authority (EBA) in Paris, where she has worked since 2016. She leads the EBA's engagement with the European and international institutions, standard-setting bodies and stakeholders on present and emerging issues, such as competitiveness of the EU banking sector. She also leads the EBA equivalence work, which assesses and monitors the regulatory and supervisory frameworks of non-EU jurisdictions. Most recently, Anne served as ad interim Head of Governance and External Affairs.

Anne brings more than15 years of experience in EU policy and financial services, having previously served as Head of Office to an MEP with additional experience at the EU Commission and the Assemblée nationale. She has graduated from the College of Europe in Bruges and Solvay Business School. Holds both GARP certifications as Financial Risk Manager (FRM) and on Sustainability and Climate Risk (SCR).

Vathany has over 20 years of experience at DB, predominantly in Fixed Income and Currencies, where she held a variety of roles and was Global Head of FIC Structuring, before becoming the Head of Non-Financial Risk for the Investment Bank in 2022. She joined DB in 2002 as in-house counsel and moved to the front office as a structurer in 2006. Prior to DB, she worked as a lawyer at Linklaters. Vathany holds an MA in Law from Oxford University. In addition, Vathany sits on the board of UK Finance and is a member of TheCityUK leadership council and the FMSB advisory council.

Florian Weidenholzer is heading the Supervisory Policy division in the ECB.

The supervisory policy division is responsible for developing ECB policy stances and providing prudential advice to supervisory teams in areas related to banking supervision including environmental and securitization related topics.

Florian is representing the ECB in policy related committees in the BCBS, FSB and EBA.

Before taking up his role in supervisory policy he held various management positions in the ongoing supervision of significant institutions in the ECB and the Austrian Central bank.