FERMA European Risk Management Seminar 2018

Founder and Managing Director at Lineon, in charge of Strategic consulting on cybersecurity and R&D director, I provide awareness and advices mainly on: cybersecurity governance and strategy, cybersecurity risk financial exposure assessment, data privacy governance and management, cybersecurity incident detection (SOC with SIEM or Big Data Analytics) and business continuity and recovery.

From 1994 to 1997, I held a position as security and safety auditor for industrial environment then I move in various IT companies where I was in charge of IT support and project management for industrial clients. I have been working in cybersecurity since 2000 and exploring all the field’s competencies like audit, architecture design, SOC implementation and operation and cybersecurity consulting. With two partners, we set up Lineon in 2011. Aside from my managing and consulting activities, I participate in workgroups and seminaries within the CLUSIF and the IRT SystemX.

Laurent BERNAT is policy analyst at the OECD Secretariat in the Digital Economy Policy Division. He works on digital security and privacy risk.

Laurent supports the activities of the Working Party on Security and Privacy in the Digital Economy (SPDE) and Committee on Digital Economy Policy (CDEP). He led the development of the 2015 OECD Recommendation on Digital Security Risk Management for Economic and Social Prosperity which forms the basis for current OECD work to develop statistical indicators of digital security risk management practices in business. Laurent is also working on the revision of the 2008 OECD Recommendation on the protection of critical information infrastructures. Laurent worked on many different trust-related policy issues including national cybersecurity strategies, digital identity management, RFID, cryptography policy and the protection of children online.

Prior to joining the OECD in 2003, he worked at the French data protection agency, the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL) and was associate director in an Internet consulting firm. Laurent Bernat has a master in political science and international relations.

Sebastian Bregning is Head of Captive Operations and Risk Analytics for A.P. Møller – Mærsk.  He has 20 years of experience within insurance and risk management, including leadership, portfolio management, risk mitigation, compliance, underwriting and claims handling. Sebastian holds degrees from universities in Switzerland, Denmark and the United States in finance, insurance and law. 

Tobias is a dynamic risk professional with advanced knowledge in insurance disciplines based on
international standards.  He holds the position of group experte at E.ON with a special focus on cyber and previously was the insurance specialist for the BASF Group.  He's got a strong ability to combine a strategic with an organizational approach and people as well as record of implementing compliant conform international insurance programs in different industries.

Gilbert Canameras is Secretary General of FERMA, the Federation of European Risk Management Associations, since 2015. He was President of French risk management associations AMRAE from 2011 to May 2015.

Gilbert Canameras was Group Risk and Insurance Chief Office and Vice President Finance for Eramet Group (metals and mining). In April 2015, he was appointed special advisor to the group on insurance matters. Gilbert began his career with French media companies and in medical research. From 1980, he worked in a number of industry sectors in finance and risk functions. Gilbert joined Eramet in 2002 to ensure implementation of the corporate functions of treasury, funding, insurance and risk management.

Moderating: Risk mapping in CSR - could it become mandatory?

Philippe Cotelle is the Head of Insurance and Risk Management of Airbus Defence & Space since 2014, gathering all Airbus activities in Space, Defence and Military Transport Aviation belonging to the former Divisions Astrium, Cassidian and Airbus Military.

Since 2006, he was in charge of Insurance Risk Management for Astrium, gathering  the Space activities of Airbus including the 3 business units EADS Astrium Satellites, EADS Astrium Space Transportation and EADS Astrium Services.

Since 2004/2005 Philippe Cotelle was in charge of the Risk Management and Insurance of major programs such as Paradigm, the largest UK MOD PFI contract and the first of the space industry,

or Satcom BW, the procurement of a turn key military communication system and services for German Bundeswehr . He was also leading the negotiation for insurance and risk management with the European Commission in the name of the European Consortium bidding for the Concession of the Galileo project.

From 2000 to 2004, he was Senior Space Risk Underwriter at SCOR one of leading company of the space insurance market. He was member of the Space Study Group of the Federation Francaise des Sociétés d’Assurance (FFSA) and representative of the French Reinsurance Association at the IUAI.

Philippe Cotelle is graduated Engineer from Ecole Nationale Superieure de l'Aeronautique et de l'Espace and Executive MBA from Essec & Mannheim 2007.

Speaking at Cybergeddon or manageable risk? and moderating Quantification of risks on Tuesday 9 October

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Aurélie holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Environmental Management and Sustainable Development and a Master's degree in Environmental Sciences in partnership with the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris and the University of Rennes.

She started in 2003 in the industry as environmental engineer at Lafarge in Morocco, then at Vicat where she set up the first environmental management system ISO 14001v2004 certified, then integrated Quality, Safety, Environment. From 2006 to 2008, she was with the Suez Environnement Group, as Quality, Safety and Environment Manager of its STAR subsidiary, based in the Réunion Island and for the Indian Ocean region. In particular, she implemented ISO 9001 and 14001 quality management and environmental management systems at the Mayotte landfill and also obtained the INRS Safety Medal for the efforts made to improve the Health and Safety work conditions within the company.

Since 2008 in the insurance industry, first as an environmental risks underwriter at Axa Corporate Solutions, she joined in 2011 Ace (now Chubb) where she held the roles of environmental risks senior underwriter then Environmental risks line Manager until March 2018. She focused on offering its Insureds optimal solutions in terms of wording but also services such as prevention, crisis management and loss first class dedicated offer.

In June 2018, she joined the XL Catlin team as a senior environmental risks underwriter and Client and Distribution leader.

Shannan is a member of Aon’s Global Broking Centre (Financial & Professional Services) in London and specialises in product development and innovation in the London market, including Aon GBC wording, Aon Amendatory Endorsements, cyber focused training, client/ prospect risk analysis.

She focuses on a variety of Professional Liability placements including: Miscellaneous Professional Liability, Cyber Liability, Technology Errors & Omissions and Media Liability. She also specialises in placing complex Cyber coverage programmes for first-time buyers.

Shannan often participates at international panel discussions on cyber insurance.

After studying psychology at Manchester University, Paul Gisby qualified as a chartered accountant and chartered tax adviser and spent 20 years in the North West of England working in private practice. As a general practice partner, he gained a wide experience of accounting, auditing, and providing financial advice.

After moving to Brussels, he joined Accountancy Europe - an international organisation representing nearly 1 million professional accountants through its 50 member bodies, in all sectors of the profession.

His primary focus is on tax policy and he is Accountancy Europe’s designated alternate for the European Commission’s Tax Good Governance Platform. He uses his long experience of SMPs to contribute to the Accountancy Europe’s SMP Forum, which promotes the views of the small and medium-sized accounting practices and of their SME clients.

He leads Accountancy Europe’s work on public sector accounting standards and is a member of the Consultative Advisory Group of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board. Apart from being involved in financial reporting issues, he is also responsible for Accountancy Europe’s ESG Reporting activities.

After obtaining a Master of Science in Engineering from Helsinki University of Technology in 1991 Tapio started his career as an underwriter for Enterprise Fennia. In 1994 he then became Risk Manager for an international paper machinery manufacturer Valmet Corporation. In 1998 he obtained an MBA from Nottingham University Business School and moved to Business Risk Consulting at Arthur Andersen, as Senior Manager. From 2001 to 2006 he was Senior Manager at Aon Finland before being named to his current post as Director of Risk Management at UPM-Kymmene Corporation. His main responsibility is the ERM process at the corporate level and he is also managing some global insurance lines.

Tapio has been a board member of FinnRima since 2007 and was the president of the Finnish association from 2013 to 2017. He is a member of the Ferma board since 2017.

Speaking at: Securing our future through responsible business conduct on Monday 8 October

Rodney Irwin is the Managing Director of Redefining Value and Education at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in Geneva.  In this role, Rodney is responsible for a program of projects designed to advance the measurement and valuation of ESG impacts and dependencies on business.  The objective is to mainstream ESG considerations at investor grade levels of accuracy into business decision making by taking ESG  into the mainstream corporate reporting thus improving investor capital allocations.  He is the link between WBCSD members and standard / regulation setters and he is leading projects in enterprise risk management, assurance, materiality, integrated and mandatory reporting.  In addition, he is the course director of WBCSD’s Leadership Program and leads WBCSD work on education and manages the relationship with  WBCSD’s education partners.

He holds a degree in Economics, a master’s degree in management and a Doctorate where he researched comparative corporate governance and its interrelationship with ethical decision making and reporting at ISM Paris.  Rodney has also completed the Masters in Sustainability Leadership at Cambridge University as a member of the inaugural cohort in 2012.

Professionally Rodney is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland, a Certified Fraud examiner, a Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional and a Specialist member of the Institute of Risk Management UK. Rodney sits on The Council of the IIRC, is a Board Member of the Climate Disclosure Standards Board and sits on the Sustainability Council of several global businesses. Rodney is an honorary Professor in the Sustainability Faculty of Leuphana University, Luneberg, Germany; an honorary Teaching Fellow at Lancaster University Management School and an Executive Fellow at Yale School of Management. 

Nick Kitching is Chief Risk Officer of Swiss Re Europe S.A., Swiss Re's Luxembourg based carrier for reinsurance operations in Europe. 

Before joining Swiss Re in 2013, Nick worked at Aviva plc, the UK Financial Services Authority (now part of the UK Prudential Regulation Authority) and Berwin Leighton Paisner. 

In his roles, Nick has participated a number of industry bodies, particularly the CRO Forum (www.thecroforum.org) on a variety of risk management topics.  At the CRO Forum, Nick has led the work on cyber risk since 2014 including the publication of three papers 'Cyber Resilience and the role of insurance' in 2014 and 'The CRO Forum concept paper on a proposed categorisation methodology for cyber risk' in 2016. In February 2018, the CRO Forum published 'Supporting on-going capture and sharing of digital event data' following an 18 month trial by CRO Forum members of the methodology set out in the 2016 paper. 

Gaëtan is an engineer by background having qualified as a civil mining engineer at the University of Liège. He studied management and administration at the Catholic University of Louvain and risk and insurance management at the University of Mons.

Before joining Group CMI, Gaëtan worked in engineering and production for Group Lhoist. He then joined Insurance Company AG and held various roles linked to corporate risks before moving to Group InBev as risk and insurance manager for BeNeLux and France. He joined Group CMI in 2007.

Moderating: Securing our future through responsible business conduct and How ELD transormed the environmental liability insurance market on Monday 8 October

Manoelle Lepoutre is Senior Vice President, Civil Society Engagement since 2016. Before, Manoelle Lepoutre was Senior Vice President, Total Senior Executives from 2013 to 2016 and Senior Vice President, Sustainable Development and Environment from 2009 to 2013, guiding and strengthening the focus on environmental and social responsibility issues.

Manoelle Lepoutre began her career at Elf in R&D and exploration positions in Exploration & Production. In 1998 she was appointed Vice President, Exploration in Norway for Elf, then Vice President, Geosciences for Total in the United States in 2000, before moving on to serve as Vice President, Research & Development for Total Exploration & Production in 2004.

Speaking at: Securing our future through responsible business conduct on Monday 8 October

Arthur Lu is the Head of Global Environmental Impairment Liability, part of the Chief Underwriting Office Global Liability team. His responsibilities include growing the worldwide EIL practice, and steering the global portfolio. He has been with AGCS since 2014, and is based in New York.

Arthur has spent over 20 years in the insurance industry, focusing entirely on environmental liability. His experience includes managing global underwriters and underwriting complex risk for many of the world's largest companies. Arthur earned his B.S. in Environmental Toxicology and J.D. from Whittier Law School.

John Ludlow is Chief Executive Officer at Airmic for risk management and insurance.

Under John’s leadership Airmic is continuing its strategy to integrate risk and insurance into the business and the board room, supporting the development of resilient organisations.

Previously, John was SVP and Head of Global Risk Management at InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) where he established a successful track record with 15 years in risk management leadership roles. This was preceded by 15 years of senior operational leadership in hotels, restaurants and pubs.

John is a Certified Fellow of the Institute of Risk Management and visiting fellow at Oxford Brookes University School of Hospitality Management. 

Speaking at: Risk Mapping in CSR - could it become mandatory

In this role, he regularly reports to the Group governance bodies on events, risks and related mitigation plans. He monitors the continuous improvement of the risk management processes as well as the deployment of a sound risk culture, through a community of dedicated risk managers. Always at the leading edge of innovation, Philippe also sponsors an Orange internal “Integrated universe project” gathering audit, control and risk universes in order to add value to the business, within the scope of an ISO 9001 certification..

He was previously in charge of the Group Sourcing and Supply-Chain risk management and internal control, after having joined Orange in 2002 as accounting and finance director of the subsidiary in charge of the devices’ Supply-chain.

He used to be manager at Cap-Gemini Ernst & Young, specialized in the implementation of shared services centers, and had started his professional path as finance and accounting manager and project manager in French subsidiaries of US groups.

Philippe sits at the Board of the AMRAE and has been leading the works of the ERM 360° commission for 3 years.

He is also the author of 3 books related to Internal Control, published in French at AFNOR editions.      

Augusto Perez is part of Telefonica Group since 1997. He had different responsibilities, initially in Pleyade Peninsular (Telefonica inhouse broker) and afterwards in Telefonica S.A. Always within Corporate Risk and Insurance Area of the Group.

In July 2014 he was apointed director of corporate risk and insurance. This new position implies the role of Risk Manager of Telefonica Group regarding insurable risks, the affinity insurance development, as well as the management of various Telefonica´s Insurance Subsidiaries. He's a  member of the board of Casiopea Re, Telefonica Insurance and Pleyade Group (Spain, Brazil, Chile, Argentina and Mexico) as well as the president of the Spanish risk management association IGREA.

Ernst Rauch studied at the Institute for General and Applied Geophysics at the University of Munich from 1981 to 1986. After continuing his research work for another two years, he joined Munich Re's Geo Risks Research Department in 1988. Initially his work focused on earthquake risk analysis and the development of earthquake simulation models. Since the early 1990s his area of responsibility shifted increasingly to the analysis and modelling of meteorological and climatological risks.

In 2008 Ernst took on the responsibility of steering all Climate Change related activities in the Munich Re Group with focus on risk management, business development and asset management topics and became head of the newly established Munich Re think tank and strategy unit Corporate Climate Centre (CCC), which also served as a central entry and coordinating point to Munich Re on renewable energies.

Since August 2017 Ernst’s responsibility was expanded to include also Munich Re’s business development activities with public and supranational organizations under the umbrella of a “Climate & Public Sector Business Development” unit.

Annemarie Schouw has studied Mining Engineering at the TechnicalUniversity in Delft, the Netherlands and has a business graduate MBA from NijenrodeUniversity. After working in the dredging and automotive industry she became involved in the risk and insurance industry almost 15 years ago. She worked as a risk engineer for a broker and as a BI/RM consultant for a bank before joining Tata Steel Ijmuiden in 2008. She currently is employed as Manager Risk & Insurance for Tata Steel Europe.

Annemarie has been a member of the NARIM board since 2010 and president of the Dutch association until spring 2018.

Ali Shahkarami has over ten years of experience in Catastrophe Risk Management, developing models and tools for improved assessment and impact of catastrophes. With a PhD in Structural Engineering and a strong technical background, his main expertise is on the assessment and development of the vulnerability of structures among other aspects of Cat modeling.

Ali joined AGCS in 2012 to lead the Catastrophe Research team in Munich, and later moved to his current role in the XSE team in June 2018. Prior to that, he worked at the market leading company Risk Management Solutions (RMS), where he was a part of the team developing Cat models for windstorm and earthquake perils. Since joining AGCS, Ali has developed several solutions with the help of his expert team to deal with natural and man-made catastrophes at AGCS aimed to help underwriters and portfolio managers, as well as successfully creating customized products aiming to assist external clients assess their Cat risk.

Nataliya started her career with a major player within the defence and national security arena. After a couple of years in the operations department, she needed a new challenge and asked for a transfer. She moved to the Insurance Department on a whim and never looked back.

The highlight of her experience there was the risk assessment and subsequent purchase of an aviation liability policy, which covered security operations at Baghdad and Kabul International Airports. The complexity of this placement inspired her to start formal studies with the Chartered Insurance Institute in 2010.

In 2011, Nataliya moved to Save the Children, where she spent the following five years and had the privilege to work as part of the team setting up the Ebola Treatment Centre operation in Sierra Leone in 2014. This was an unprecedented and fascinating project from a risk and insurance perspective.  

After a short stint in the Public Sector in 2016/17, Nataliya returned to Save the Children in order to head the Insurance Department. Save the Children work in 120 of the most challenging countries in the world and this brings new challenges each day. Nataliya considers herself very lucky to have always worked in exceptional organizations, which present unique challenges.  

Nataliya holds a BA in International Relations, Advanced Diploma in Insurance and was one of the 18 professionals who received the first rimap certificate through examination.

Jo Willaert is in charge of the design of worldwide enterprise risk management and insurance programmes for imaging solutions group Agfa-Gevaert.

A law graduate, he spent the first part of his career in broking with companies which eventually became part of Marsh and later with Aon. He joined Agfa-Gevaert in 2001.

He is a board member of the Belgian risk management association BELRIM and President of FERMA.