City Week 2023 | City & Financial Global | 23 April 2023 | Guildhall, 71 Basinghall St, London EC2V 7HH, UK

It brings together more than 1,000 top-level senior decision-makers from UK and overseas financial institutions for a comprehensive programme of cutting-edge presentations, panel discussions and networking. Like previous editions, this year’s forum will feature many well-known names from the global financial services industry, the world of politics and the international regulatory community.

The programme reflects the boardroom agenda of leading financial institutions from across the world. The three main themes are:

2023 Speakers

H.E. Abdullah bin Touq Al Marri
Minister of Economy, UAE Government

Jessica Alsford
Chief Sustainability Officer and CEO of the Institute for Sustainable Investing, Morgan Stanley

Bridget Beals
Partner, Co-Head of Climate Risk and Decarbonisation Strategy, KPMG in the UK

Najat Benchiba-Savenius
Founder and Director, Gazelle Advisory Group

Joumanna Bercetche
Anchor, CNBC

Sarah Breeden
Executive Director, Financial Stability Strategy and Risk, Member of the Financial Policy Committee, Bank of England

Lord John Browne of Madingley
Chairman, BeyondNetZero

Eva Cairns
Head of Sustainability Insights & Climate Strategy, abrdn

Giulia Carbone
Director of the Natural Climate Solutions Alliance, World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Bruce Carnegie-Brown
Chairman, Lloyd’s of London

Alice Carr
Executive Director for Public Policy, GFANZ

James Close
Head of Climate Change, NatWest Group

David Craig
Co-Chair, Task Force for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)

Nadia Fettah Alaoui
Minister of Economy and Finance, Kingdom of Morocco

Sir Douglas Flint CBE
Chair, abrdn

Sonja Gibbs CFA
Managing Director and Head of Sustainable Finance, The Institute of International Finance (IIF)

Nezha Hayat
President, Moroccan Capital Market Authority

Paul Henninger
Partner, Head of UK Connected Technology & Global Lighthouse, KPMG in the UK

Jonathan Herbst
Global Head of Financial Services, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP

Daniel Hirschfield
Senior Knowledge Lawyer, Taylor Wessing LLP

Ingrid Holmes
Executive Director, Green Finance Institute

Emma Howard Boyd CBE
Chair, Green Finance Institute, Global Ambassador, Race to Resilience & Race to Zero

Michael Izza
CEO, ICAEW

John Keppel
Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO), Zurich Insurance UK

Rick Lacaille
Global Head of ESG, State Street

Sue Lloyd
Vice-Chair, International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB)

The Lord Mayor Nicholas Lyons
Mayor of the City of London

Sherry Madera CFA
Senior Vice President, Public Policy and Government Affairs, Mastercard; Chair, Future of Sustainable Data Alliance (FoSDA)

Stephanie Maier
Global Head of Sustainable and Impact Investment, GAM Investments

Laura Mason
CEO, Legal & General Capital

Annette L. Nazareth
Chair of the Integrity Counsel, Voluntary Carbon Market

Lawrence Paramasivam
Senior Executive Director, Policy & Legal, Financial Services Regulatory Authority, ADGM

William Pazos
Co-Founder & Co-CEO, AirCarbon Exchange

Baroness Penn
Parliamentary Secretary, HM Treasury, Co-Chair of the Transition Plan Taskforce

Graeme Pitkethly
Chief Financial Officer, Unilever

Tom Pringle
Partner, Joint Head of Financial Institutions and Services Sector, Gowling WLG

Jan Putnis
Head of Financial Regulation Group and co-Head of Financial Institutions Group, Slaughter and May

Odile Françoise Renaud-Basso
President, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

Sacha Sadan
Director of ESG, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

Wayne Sharpe
CEO & Founder, Carbon Trade eXchange (CTX)

Tanya Steele CBE
CEO, WWF UK

Roslyn Stein
Head of Climate and Biodiversity, AXA Group Sustainability

François Villeroy de Galhau
Governor, Banque de France

Margot von Aesch
Head of Sustainable Investment, Schroders

Dr. Steve Waygood
Chief Responsible Investment Officer, Aviva Investors

Elree Winnett Seelig
Global Head, ESG, Markets, Citi

Bill Winters
CEO, Standard Chartered Bank

Dr. Simon Zadek
Executive Director, NatureFinance, Secretariat Co-Lead, Taskforce on Nature Markets and Senior Advisor, Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)

Nik Adams
Economic Crime Portfolio Lead, National Coordination of Economic and Cyber Crime, City of London Police

Dr. King Au
Executive Director, Hong Kong’s Financial Services Development Council (FSDC)

Tim Bailey
Vice President of Global Sales, Red Date Technology

Sinchan Banerjee
Head of Digital Assets Consulting, KPMG in the UK

Russell Barlow
Global Head of Alternatives, abrdn

Ami Ben-David
Co-Founder and CEO, Ownera

Justin Cash
Online Editor, Dow Jones, Financial News

Melvin Deng
CEO, QCP Capital

Adam Farkas
Chief Executive, Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME)

Emmanuel Givanakis
CEO, Financial Services Regulatory Authority, ADGM

Christy Goldsmith Romero
Commissioner, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

Scott Guthrie
Executive Vice President, Cloud + AI Group, Microsoft

Blair Halliday
Managing Director, UK, Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

Patrick Hansen
Director of Policy & Strategy for Europe, Circle

Emma Henshaw
Global Investigator, TRM Labs

Charlotte Hill
Partner, Taylor Wessing

Francesca Hopwood Road
Centre Head, Innovation Hub, Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Linda Jeng
Chief Global Regulatory Officer and General Counsel, Crypto Council for Innovation

Kristin N. Johnson
Commissioner, CFTC

Ian Johnston
CEO, The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA)

Emma Joyce
Chief Executive Officer, GBBC Digital Finance

Etay Katz
Partner, Financial Services Regulation, Ashurst

Candace Kelly
Chief Legal Officer and Head of Global Policy and Government Affairs, Stellar Development Foundation

Arjun Kharpal
Senior Technology Correspondent, CNBC

Professor Dr. Sébastien Kraenzlin
Director and Head of the Banking Operations, Swiss National Bank

Xavier Leroy
Senior Funding Officer, European Investment Bank (EIB)

Mathew McDermott
Global Head of Digital Assets, Goldman Sachs

Tracey McDermott CBE
Group Head of Conduct & Financial Crime, Standard Chartered Bank

Phil McInerney
Detective Chief Inspector, National Cybercrime & Dark Web Coordinator, National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC)

David Mercer
CEO, LMAX Group

Richard Muirhead
Co-founder and Managing Partner, Fabric Ventures

Katey Neate
Managing Director, Chief Risk Officer, Securities Servicing and Digital, BNY Mellon

David Newns
Head, SIX Digital Exchange

Benedicte Nolens
Head, BIS Innovation Hub

Sarah Pritchard
Executive Director, Markets, Financial Conduct Authority

Brian Quintenz
Head of Policy, a16z crypto

Barnabas Reynolds
Head, Global Financial Institutions Advisory & Financial Regulatory Group, Shearman & Sterling

Nicole Sandler
Head of Digital Policy, Barclays

John W. Schindler
Secretary General, Financial Stability Board (FSB)

David Schwimmer
CEO, LSEG

Previn Singh
Head of Digital Assets and DLT Centre of Competency, Credit Suisse

Lex Sokolin
Chief Economist, ConsenSys

Eva Szalay
Cross-Asset Reporter, Bloomberg L.P

Vasant Viswanathan
Co-Head, Digital Assets, Citi Global Markets

Andrew Weir
Senior Partner, Hong Kong & Vice Chairman, KPMG China, KPMG

Swen Werner
Head of Digital Custody, State Street Digital

Lawrence Wintermeyer
Chair of the Board, GBBC Digital Finance

Anthony Woolley
Head of Business Development and Marketing, Ownera

Jenna Wright
Managing Director, LMAX Digital

Xiao-Xiao Zhu
Digital Operating Partner & Blockchain Lead, KKR

Xiaonan Zou
Head of Innovation and Digital Assets, UBS Group Treasury

Caroline Butler
CEO of Digital Assets, BNY Mellon

Dr. Damian Paul Cassar
Senior Legal Officer, Malta Business Registry

Victoria Cleland
Executive Director for Banking, Payments and Innovation, Bank of England

Charlotte Crosswell OBE
Chair, Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology (CFIT)

Feargal De Burca
Partner, Markets and Technology, KPMG in the UK

Daniel Doll-Steinberg
Co-founder, EdenBase.com

Ángel Estrada
Member of the Board of the European Banking Authority (EBA), Director General, Financial Stability, Regulation and Resolution, Banco de España

Sam Everington
CEO of Engine, Starling Bank

Dr. Peter T. Golder
Managing Director, Head of Group Digital Assets, London Stock Exchange Group

Chris Hayward
Chairman of Policy and Resources, City of London Corporation

Henk J. Hoogendoorn
Chief Financial Sector Officer, Qatar Financial Centre

Lord Dominic Johnson of Lainston CBE
Minister for Investment, Department for Business and International Trade

Rob Jones CBE
Director General, National Economic Crime Centre and Threat Leadership, National Crime Agency

Pravina Ladva
Group Chief Digital and Technology Officer, Swiss Re

Mandy Lamb
UK Managing Director, Visa

Scott A. Lucas
Managing Director, Head of Markets DLT, J.P. Morgan

Professor Carsten Maple
Turing Fellow, The Alan Turing Institute; Professor of Cyber Systems Engineering, University of Warwick's Cyber Security Centre (CSC); Principal Investigator, NCSC-EPSRC Academic Centre of Excellence, Cyber Security Research

Tony McLaughlin
Managing Director, Emerging Payments and Business Development, Treasury and Trade Solutions, Citi UK

Scott O’Malia
CEO, ISDA

Prakash Pattni
Managing Director, Financial Services Digital Transformation, IBM

Senior Representative
National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)

Bradley Rice
Partner, Financial Services Regulation, Ashurst

Emily Shepperd
Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director, Authorisations, Financial Conduct Authority

Basak Toprak
Executive Director, EMEA Head of Coin Systems, Onyx by J.P. Morgan

Eric Van der Kleij
Co-founder, EdenBase.com

Bob Wigley
Chairman, UK Finance

2023 Sponsors

PLATINUM:
• KPMG

GOLD:
• Abu Dhabi Global Market
• Ashurst
• LMAX Group
• Ownera
• Taylor Wessing

SILVER:
• Carbon Trade Exchange
• FinanceMalta
• Shearman & Sterling

BRONZE:
• FSDC
• LSEG
• Norton Rose Fulbright
• Qatar Financial Centre
• SDX
• Slaughter and May
• Swiss Re Group
• TRM

COFFEE BREAK SPONSOR AND EXHIBITOR:
• Persefoni’s Climate Management & Accounting Platform

DRINK SPONSOR:
• Gowling WLG