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Recently, Friis-Hasché has implemented risk management systems within both large and medium-sized Danish banks. Risk management must be integrated with a bank’s daily operations in order to be effective. His focus has been on the rating of customers, risked-based pricing, limit models, Basel II parameter estimates, solvency calculations and monitoring and reporting of risks.

Another major focus area for Friis-Hasché has been to help make companies compliant with regulations and providing sufficient documentation on the effectiveness of risk models and their implementations within daily operations. Short bio

Haldrup moved on with his career as head of the department of Credit Risk Modeling at Danske Bank. His primary objective was to manage Danske Bank’s regulatory and economic capital, covering areas like solvency, risk-weighted assets, economic credit capital and stress testing.

Currently, Haldrup is Vice President for Economic and Regulatory Capital at Danske Bank, where his area of responsibility is covering risk-weighted assets, economic capital, implementation of risk and capital in the bank's business model.

Other areas within Haldrup’s domain are implementation of risk and Basel II and addressing the new regulation of Basel III. Short bio

Before joining CEPS, Lannoo was employed in the cultural sector, working for the Italian conglomerate Ferruzzi and for a professional federation. He was also active as a freelance journalist for specialised publications.

Lannoo's areas of expertise include the European Monetary Union, banking and financial markets, financial market regulation, corporate governance; retail finance & consumer credit, and EU business policies.

He has published books and articles in specialised magazines and journals on EU, financial regulation and corporate governance. Lannoo has also spoken at several European Parliament and European Commission hearings and participated in studies for national and international bodies (EU institutions, OECD, ADB, World Bank).

Lannoo holds a Baccalaureate in philosophy and a Masters Degree in European Studies from the University of Leuven, Belgium and obtained a Graduate Degree in Modern History and International Relations from the University of Nancy, France. Short bio

Carl began his career in the Actuarial Department of life insurance company before moving on to become an assistant manager at the largest life insurance actuarial team in Malaysia at the time. Carl joined the General Insurance Association of Malaysia as Actuarial Manager in 2000 and was appointed as the CEO of ISM in 2005. Carl holds a Bachelors Degree (Hons.) in Actuarial Science and is a Chartered Insurance Practitioner (UK). Carl has also completed a Certificate in Takaful Practice in 1996 and Project Management Professional in 2008. In 2005, Carl became the first Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) from the insurance industry in Malaysia. Carl has more than 15 years of life, non-life and takaful industry experience.

Carl has had numerous speaking and training engagements in Malaysia and abroad on topics ranging from knowledge management, non-life pricing, enterprise risk management, insurance fraud and information technology. Short bio

SAS is one of the largest software companies in the world and the leader in business analytics. The customer-driven marketing strategy implemented under Sim's direction resulted in SAS UK & Ireland being the largest contributor to SAS worldwide revenues outside of its head office in the United States. In recent years, it also achieved the highest revenue growth amongst the major SAS offices in Europe.

Sim's approach to business focuses on providing the best possible strategic value to customers, which has resulted in a corporate direction that has moved SAS from being a tools provider to a provider of applications that help organisations innovate and accelerate their own success.

Sim's customer-driven approach is a result of his considerable experience at SAS, where he has worked closely with customers in a wide-variety of marketing, sales, and professional services roles.

Prior to joining SAS, Sim worked within the pharmaceutical industry as a senior consultant. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, the Institute of Directors and holds a BSc Honours degree in Applied Statistics from Sheffield Hallam University. Short bio

Previously, Kulwal was part of the SAS Global Risk Practice and responsible for providing risk solution expertise to SAS customers globally. He drove thought leadership especially in the area of how GRC should be aligned to strategy and day-to-day business execution. Kulwal also served in the pre-sales role group for SAS OpRisk Management and helped to implement performance management frameworks such as activity-based management, management dashboards, and balanced scorecard for clients across multiple industries.

Kulwal holds a bachelor of commerce in accounting and economics from the University of Mumbai and an executive master of business administration from Cass Business School.Short bio