PANEL DISCUSSION: Getting the right data: the how and where with the why | Kisaco Research
  • Determining what data is important and why
  • Identifying data blind spots and how to fill them
  • Overcoming weaknesses of historical climate and nature data
  • Where and how to obtain high quality and usable data
Session Topics: 
Stress Testing, Data and Models
Speaker(s): 
Moderator

Author:

Suresh Sankaran

Head of Model Risk Governance
Metro Bank

Suresh Sankaran is the Head of Model Risk, Validation, & Governance at Metro Bank, where he oversees all aspects of model risk and other risk-related governance. He advises on factors that senior management and Board should collectively consider when overseeing the bank’s model governance and risk management framework and policies. He is responsible for the independent validation of all bank models and is also accountable for regulatory liaison on all matters relating to model risk.  

Suresh has over 30 years’ experience in the realm of strategic consulting, compliance, audit, and risk management. He has held leadership roles managing several facets of risk management, most notably credit, liquidity, and balance sheet management.

Suresh has advised banks, governments, and other financial services organisations on all facets of risk management, and has acted as a second pair of eyes to assure the soundness and financial sustainability of client portfolios.

 Suresh is a ranking Chartered Accountant, and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance & Accountancy. He has diverse interests including Indian Classical Music, Skydiving, P G Wodehouse, and Pink Floyd.

 

Suresh Sankaran

Head of Model Risk Governance
Metro Bank

Suresh Sankaran is the Head of Model Risk, Validation, & Governance at Metro Bank, where he oversees all aspects of model risk and other risk-related governance. He advises on factors that senior management and Board should collectively consider when overseeing the bank’s model governance and risk management framework and policies. He is responsible for the independent validation of all bank models and is also accountable for regulatory liaison on all matters relating to model risk.  

Suresh has over 30 years’ experience in the realm of strategic consulting, compliance, audit, and risk management. He has held leadership roles managing several facets of risk management, most notably credit, liquidity, and balance sheet management.

Suresh has advised banks, governments, and other financial services organisations on all facets of risk management, and has acted as a second pair of eyes to assure the soundness and financial sustainability of client portfolios.

 Suresh is a ranking Chartered Accountant, and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance & Accountancy. He has diverse interests including Indian Classical Music, Skydiving, P G Wodehouse, and Pink Floyd.

 

Panellists

Author:

Sébastien Burgess

Senior Principal Solutions Architect
Jupiter Intelligence

Seb Burgess is a Senior Principal Solutions Architect focused on solution implementation and project management.

Mr. Burgess is a Senior Principal Solutions Architect focused on solution implementation and project management and a subject matter expert on physical risk screening exercises for capital-intensive infrastructure operators and EMEA-based financial services clients. 

Prior to joining Jupiter, Mr. Burgess worked at Urbint, a utility field risk management company where he led product roll-outs and adoption strategies for a number of major US-based utilities. Mr. Burgess also worked at Carto, a spatial analysis and location intelligence company.

Mr. Burgess started his career in Mexico City as an environmental planner where he also founded his own cartography and data visualization company.

Mr. Burgess has a B.S. in Conservation and Natural Resources Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.

 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastienburgess/

Sébastien Burgess

Senior Principal Solutions Architect
Jupiter Intelligence

Seb Burgess is a Senior Principal Solutions Architect focused on solution implementation and project management.

Mr. Burgess is a Senior Principal Solutions Architect focused on solution implementation and project management and a subject matter expert on physical risk screening exercises for capital-intensive infrastructure operators and EMEA-based financial services clients. 

Prior to joining Jupiter, Mr. Burgess worked at Urbint, a utility field risk management company where he led product roll-outs and adoption strategies for a number of major US-based utilities. Mr. Burgess also worked at Carto, a spatial analysis and location intelligence company.

Mr. Burgess started his career in Mexico City as an environmental planner where he also founded his own cartography and data visualization company.

Mr. Burgess has a B.S. in Conservation and Natural Resources Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.

 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastienburgess/

Author:

Adrien Firmenich

Founder
Quantifying Nature

Adrien Firmenich

Founder
Quantifying Nature

Author:

Dr Claire Burke

Head of Science
Climate X

After completing a PhD in astrophysics, Dr Claire Burke turned her attention back to Earth to help solve the biggest challenges society has ever faced – climate change. She has more than a decade of interdisciplinary experience, bringing expertise from physics, computer sciences and natural sciences together to solve problems previously considered impossible.

 

Claire has worked at the Met Office and multiple universities, and has collaborated with large NGOs including the WWF and the Institute of Physics. Her work and ability to communicate science to a non-specialist audience has been recognised with awards from the IoP, the British Science Association and the UK Government.

 

Claire now leads the science team at Climate X where she develops quantitative climate risk solutions, based in robust science, which are geared specifically towards the finance sector.

Dr Claire Burke

Head of Science
Climate X

After completing a PhD in astrophysics, Dr Claire Burke turned her attention back to Earth to help solve the biggest challenges society has ever faced – climate change. She has more than a decade of interdisciplinary experience, bringing expertise from physics, computer sciences and natural sciences together to solve problems previously considered impossible.

 

Claire has worked at the Met Office and multiple universities, and has collaborated with large NGOs including the WWF and the Institute of Physics. Her work and ability to communicate science to a non-specialist audience has been recognised with awards from the IoP, the British Science Association and the UK Government.

 

Claire now leads the science team at Climate X where she develops quantitative climate risk solutions, based in robust science, which are geared specifically towards the finance sector.