- Measuring uncertainty in models
- Exploring the uses of scenario expansion, forecasting, and further stress testing to validate models
- The evolution of climate risk – how it’s going to revise validation techniques
- Managing the actions of model validation findings
Mehdi Esmail
Mehdi Esmail is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Validmind, a VC-backed startup focused on simplifying Model Risk Management for Financial Services. He has over a decade of experience in data, analytics, and risk management for the Financial Services industry, having served as both an operator working with the Chief Data Officer at American Express, and as a consultant for Fortune 100 Financial Services companies.
Sebastian Ptasznik
Sebastian in the Head of IFRS9 and Non-Credit Risk Validation at Close Brothers at Close brothers Group. He is an experienced leader with over 14 years of experience in quantitative analytics working with tier 1 banks (Barclays, HSBC, NatWest, Lloyds, Westpac,), leading advisory and technology companies (Palantir Technologies, Accenture). He has a proven track record of delivering complex analytical projects while working across multiple locations (London, NYC, Sydney, Singapore, San Francisco, Toulouse, Warsaw) with geographically dispersed teams. He has an academic background in econometrics/statistics and specialises in credit risk modelling, model risk management, machine learning/artificial intelligence, management consulting, and business development. He has a strong grasp of emerging technologies and state-of-the-art modelling methodologies.
Manuele Iorio
Dimitrios has 15 years of Banking experience in various Quantitative Modelling roles, most recently as the Head of Model Risk Measurement at Barclays, where he focuses on developing approaches to assess model uncertainty for the key risk metrics of the Bank. Prior to that, he worked at Deutsche Bank where he led various teams within Counterparty and Market Risk model development and then within Model Risk Management, incl. Model Validation, Framework design and Technology for model testing platforms. He holds an MSc and BSc in Finance from The London School of Economics and the University of Macedonia, Greece respectively.
William Durham
