Keynote Speaker Program Leaders

Keynote Speaker

Stefan Ingves Chairman of the Executive Board and Governor of the Riksbank

Stefan Ingves is Chairman of the Executive Board and Governor of the Riksbank. Mr. Ingves is a member of the ECB General Council and a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). He was appointed Chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in 2011. He has also been a Toronto Centre Board member since the year 2000.

He also chairs the Advisory Technical Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board. In addition, Mr. Ingves is Sweden’s governor in the International Monetary Fund. Mr. Ingves has previously been Director of the Monetary and Financial Systems Department at the International Monetary Fund, Deputy Governor of the Riksbank and General Director of the Swedish Bank Support Authority. Prior to that he was Under-Secretary and Head of the Financial Markets Department at the Ministry of Finance.

Stefan Ingves holds a PhD in economics. Stefan Ingves' term of office is six years from 1 January 2006. The General Council of the Riksbank has appointed Stefan Ingves as Governor of the Riksbank for an additional term of office of six years, from and including 1 January 2012.

Program Leaders

Clive Briault Chair, Toronto Centre Banking Advisory Board

Clive Briault has forty years’ experience in supervision, regulation and related financial sector issues. He is the Chair of Toronto Centre’s Banking Advisory Board, participates actively in Toronto Centre board meetings and discussions, and edits the Toronto Centre Notes series. He is also an adviser to a number of supervisory authorities; a consultant to the IMF, World Bank and Asian Development Bank; and a non-executive director of a financial services company in the UK. After completing an MPhil in Economics

at Nuffield College, Oxford, Clive joined the Bank of England in 1980. His roles there included Head of Monetary Assessment and Strategy (1991-1996), and Head of Capital and Wholesale Markets Supervision Division (1996-1998). He joined the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) at its formation in 1998 and was Director of Central Policy(1998-2001); Director of Prudential Standards (2001-2004); and Managing Director of Retail Markets and a member of the Board of the FSA (2004- 2008), with responsibility for the regulation and supervision of firms and groups operating in retail markets.. Clive was then a senior adviser on risk and regulation at KPMG until 2019.

David Farelius Senior Advisor, Financial Stability Department at Riksbank

David Farelius is Senior Advisor in the Financial Stability Department at the Riksbank. He has worked extensively on issues related to financial crisis management as well as macroprudential policy. He was chair of the Working Group that prepared the regional crisis simulation of the Nordic-Baltic Stability Group in 2019. He has been member of several working groups both in the Nordic-Baltic context as well as in the European Systemic Risk Board and the BCBS. Prior to joining the Financial Stability Department he worked at the Nordic-Baltic Executive Director’s Office at the IMF and was Alternate Executive Director during 2005–2006. He has also worked at the Swedish Ministry of Finance as Head of Section. He holds an MSc in Economics from Uppsala University.

Petra Lennartsdotter Senior Advisor, Financial Stability Department at Riksbank

Petra Lennartsdotter is currently Senior Adviser in the Financial Stability Department at the Riksbank. She has a broad background in central banking which includes monetary policy, financial markets and financial stability. She also has over ten years’ practical experience of working with macroprudential policy. Petra worked at the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB), the EU’s macroprudential supervisory authority, during 2010 - 2013 when the ESRB was being launched as part of the response to the 2008 financial crisis, and at the ECB during 2016- 2019. She has extensive experience from international work on macroprudential policy and financial stability issues and is currently the Riksbank representative in a several ESRB and ECB working

groups. Petra holds an MSc in Economics from Gothenburg School of Economics and Commercial Law.

Pernilla Meyersson Deputy Chief of Staff, Sveriges Riksbank

Pernilla Meyersson is currently deputy chief of staff at Sveriges Riksbank and has been at the Riksbank since 1996. Between 2013- 2015 Pernilla was based in Washington as the Alternate Executive Director of the Office of the Nordic-Baltic Constituency at the International Monetary Fund. Previously Pernilla was Director of Communications at the Riksbank, with responsibility for communication policy, communication strategy and the Communication Secretariat. Pernilla’s earlier experience include ten years within the Monetary Policy Department including being Head of the Division for Financial Market Analysis, Head of the Division for Economic Policy Analysis, and Head of EMU division. She has also been involved in providing technical assistance/cooperation to central banks of Rwanda, Ukraine, Kenya, Uganda and Vietnamn in the areas of communication and monetary policy and governance.

Jonas Niemeyer Senior Advisor, Financial Stability Department at Riksbank

Jonas Niemeyer is a senior advisor at the Financial Stability Department at Sveriges riksbank. He has been at the Riksbank since 2002 and Head of the Policy and Analysis Division between 2007 and 2012. He was the policy advisor to Governor Stefan Ingves when he was the chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision from 2011 to 2019. Jonas is also a member of a number of subgroups to the Basel Committee, including the Policy and Standards Group and the Task Force on Evaluations. Jonas holds a PhD in Finance from the Stockholm School of Economics (1994) and prior to joining the Riksbank he was an Assistant Professor in Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics. Jonas has also been involved in a number of government inquiries in Sweden tasked with different regulatory issues of the financial sector in Sweden.

Program Director

Phang Hong Lim Senior Director, Supervisory Guidance, Toronto Centre

Phang Hong Lim is the Senior Director, Supervisory Guidance for Toronto Centre. He has worked in both the financial sector and as a financial sector supervisor for over three decades.

His financial sector experience has focused on various aspects of risk management in global and regional banks, more recently in CIMB Group, where he was the group Chief Risk Officer, and Deutsche Bank, as the Managing Director for new products approval in Asia Pacific. He has been awarded Bank Risk Manager of the Year by Asia Risk.

Phang Hong has worked at the Monetary Authority of Singapore heading divisions which cover complex institutions supervision, specialist risk supervision, and internal risk management. He had also led cross-functional work on areas such as liquidity risk supervision, cross border supervision and stress testing.