- Understanding how the results from stress testing exercises should inform business decision making
- Using technology to further support informed business decision making
- Implementing successful reporting metrics and KPIs within your business
Julian Philips
Tanveer Bhatti
Tanveer is a risk manager, chartered accountant, and physicist by training. His career spans senior roles on both the sell-side and buy-side in investment banks, private banking, and asset management in London and New York. He has covered all types of financial and non-financial risks. A hallmark of his approach is a combination of analytical rigour and practical relevance.
Tanveer's interest in risk and finance is focused on the practical impact of new technologies, markets, electronic trading, modelling approaches, and data, and their ability to enable products, services, and new business models that are emerging or did not exist, or drive societal advancement. He is currently Global Head of Model Risk for a fast growing Fintech.
Monica Filkova
Monica Filkova, CFA joined Aviva in January 2022 and is Head of Climate and Nature Investment Risk, Chief Investment Office. She is Chair of the CFA UK advisory panel responsible for the Certificate in Climate and Investing, member of CFA Institute ESG Panel, responsible for the Certificate in ESG Investing, and an advisor to the CFA UK Impact and Investing Certificate Panel. Over 2022, she was also technical lead on a disclosure standards and metrics landscape assessment for the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD).
Her previous roles include Head of Market Intelligence at climate finance NGO Climate Bonds Initiative (2017-2020), and Director, Sustainable Finance at Fitch Ratings (2020). Prior to pivoting to sustainable finance, she was in property finance and debt capital markets, including Head of Structuring, Debt Capital Markets at Eurohypo as well as roles in CMBS restructuring (Brookland Partners), bank property debt exposure and policy assessments (Alvarez & Marsal) and distressed debt credit research (Chalkhill Partners), among other mandates.
Monica is a CFA charterholder. She holds the GARP Sustainability and Climate Risk (SCR) Certificate. She earned a Master of Management degree from Cornell University, USA, and a BBA from the American University in Bulgaria.
Konstantina Armata
Konstantina is a highly experienced Financial Risk professional with over 20 years career in Banking. She has in depth understanding of quantitative models spanning all key processes across investment and retail banking (e.g., Trading, Capital, Stress Testing, Provisioning, Liquidity etc) and extensive expertise in framework design and implementation.
Konstantina started her career in UBS where she performed various quantitative roles in the Investment Bank. Having spent the last 10 years as the Group Head of Model Risk Management (first at Deutsche Bank and later at Barclays), she has now turned her attention to ESG and she is currently a senior Climate Risk adviser at Citi.