BIM 2019: About Our Speakers

1^st Panel: Introducing Sustainable Finance

Martin Špolc

Head of Unit - Sustainable Finance and Fintech, DG Fisma, European Commission

Martin Špolc is the Head of the Sustainable Finance and Fintech unit in the European Commission's Directorate General for Financial Services. Prior to his current role, he was the Head of the Capital Markets Union unit, the Economic analysis unit, Deputy Head of the Banking unit and Assistant to the Director General, directly involved in developing the Banking Union and other key projects in the area of financial services aiming at restoring financial stability since the crisis. Before joining the Commission, he had worked at risk management consultancy and the banking sector. He is the holder of the CFA and FRM designations and member of the CFA Institute and Global Association of Risk Professionals.

Slavka Eley

Head of Banking Markets, Innovation and Products, European Banking Authority

Slavka Eley was appointed Head of the Supervisory Convergence Unit within at the EBA in February 2013. She has been responsible for the EBA's work on the common EU supervisory policy and convergence, including EU common SREP, efficient supervisory cooperation and recovery planning framework.  Since 1 March 2018 she is the Unit Banking Markets, Innovation and Products, which has a leading role in the EBA work on innovation and Fin Tech, market access and authorisation, and capital market union. She leads the EBA work on sustainable finance and participates on the work of the Technical expert group on sustainable finance.

She chaired different working groups at the EBA as Sub-group on Risk Assessment Systems mandated to develop the common SREP framework and the Sub-group on Supervisory Convergence.

Prior to joining the EBA Slavka worked for the National Bank of Slovakia where she held a number of roles in supervision and prudential policy.

She holds a MBA in general management from the City University of Seattle and a Master degree in Mathematics, Physics and Education from the Comenius University Bratislava. 

2^nd Panel: Climate Risk, Prudential Regulation and Supervision

Marek Mora

Deputy Governor, Czech National Bank

Marek Mora became a member of the Bank Board of the Czech National Bank on 13 February 2017. The President appointed him CNB Deputy Governor with effect from 1 December 2018.

After graduating in international trade from the University of Economics, he worked briefly in the Czech private sector. He then completed his postgraduate studies in economics in Saarbrücken and Hamburg and taught at the University of Leipzig. In 1999 he was awarded the title of “Young Economist of the Year 1998”. In 2003 he joined the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission and three years later started to work for the Czech public administration. He was Deputy Minister of Education for almost a year and then spent two and a half years at the Government Office – first as a deputy to the Deputy Prime Minister, later as Minister for European Affairs and then briefly as an adviser to Prime Minister Jan Fischer. From 2010 he worked at the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union – initially as the head of the Cabinet of the Secretary-General of the Council and from February 2016 as the head of the Budget, Tax and Regional Policy Directorate. 

Slavka Eley

Head of Banking Markets, Innovation and Products, European Banking Authority

Slavka Eley was appointed Head of the Supervisory Convergence Unit within at the EBA in February 2013. She has been responsible for the EBA's work on the common EU supervisory policy and convergence, including EU common SREP, efficient supervisory cooperation and recovery planning framework.  Since 1 March 2018 she is the Unit Banking Markets, Innovation and Products, which has a leading role in the EBA work on innovation and Fin Tech, market access and authorisation, and capital market union. She leads the EBA work on sustainable finance and participates on the work of the Technical expert group on sustainable finance.

She chaired different working groups at the EBA as Sub-group on Risk Assessment Systems mandated to develop the common SREP framework and the Sub-group on Supervisory Convergence.

Prior to joining the EBA Slavka worked for the National Bank of Slovakia where she held a number of roles in supervision and prudential policy.

She holds a MBA in general management from the City University of Seattle and a Master degree in Mathematics, Physics and Education from the Comenius University Bratislava.  

David Rozumek

Senior Financial Sector Expert, International Monetary Fund

David Rozumek is a Senior Financial Sector Expert in Financial Supervision and Regulation Division of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department. Before taking this position, David worked for one year as a bank supervision and regulation advisor in Bosnia and Hercegovina on an IMF project.

 David is an expert in supervision and regulation, with 18 years of experience in the area. Until 2017, he was managing the Supervision Department of the Czech National Bank for more than nine years, having in portfolio supervision of banks, insurers, pension funds, collective investment schemes and other systematically important financial institutions. Until 2008, he took several roles in managerial and expert positions in banking and capital market supervision.

 Since 2011, he was a Member of the Board of Supervisors of the EBA (European Banking Authority). David was elected twice a Member of the EBA Management Board. For three years, he was co-chairing the EBA Standing Committee on Regulation and Policy (SCRePol). He was also a Member of the EBA Mediation Panel. He was deeply involved in international cooperation, having one of the leading roles in coordination of the positions of the Central and Eastern European states.

 David holds a master and a PhD degree in economics from Masaryk University of Brno, the Czech Republic.

Mojmír Hampl

Director, Financial Services, KPMG Czech Republic

Mojmír Hampl is a Czech economist, banker and commentator with academic titles from the University of Economics in Prague and the University of Surrey in the UK. He has spent most of his working life at the Czech National Bank (CNB), which he joined as an analyst after defending his thesis before the then CNB Vice-Governor Pavel Kysilka.

After a break of four years working as an economist at Česká spořitelna and later as a member of the management of the Czech Consolidation Agency, he returned to the CNB in 2006, when he was appointed to the Bank Board. From 2008 he held the post of CNB Vice-Governor. His term expired in 2018. Throughout his working life he has repeatedly revisited the topic of money, currencies and central banks. He is known for his outspoken views on the euro and European integration. He has published more than 300 popular and academic articles on a wide variety of issues – from macroeconomics through economic history to cryptocurrencies. He has lectured all over the world, primarily on monetary policy and central banking.

Emilie Fialon

Deputy Head of Financial Regulation, BdF; member of NGFS secretariat

Emilie Fialon is Deputy Head of Financial Regulation Policy and Coordination Division at Banque de France since 2015. After graduating from Sciences Po in Paris, where she studied law and economics, Emilie Fialon joined the Banque de France in 2009. She first started as an international policy expert for the French Prudential Supervisory Authority (ACPR) where she was involved, among others, in the discussions within the realm of the Basel Committee.

During her career at Banque de France, she has been seconded as a banking prudential regulation expert at the European Commission, the European Banking Authority and the French Treasury. Since the beginning of 2018, she is a member of the Secretariat of the Network for Greening the Financial System, hosted by the Banque de France, where she is in charge of workstream 1 (on microprudential and supervisory issues).

3^rd Panel: Business Perspectives of Sustainable Finance

Armand Ferreira

Director Sustainable Finance, ING Commercial Banking

Armand Ferreira has been working for ING since 1996. After his Master in Business Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Armand joined ING as a management trainee. He has had several roles at ING and became Director of ING European Business Desk Amsterdam in 2008. After another 5 years as Senior relationship manager at ING Corporate Clients, Armand became Director at ING Sustainable Finance in 2015.

In his current role, Armand is responsible for leading ING’s corporate clients in their transition to more sustainable business. He has dialogues with clients on their sustainability strategy, energy transition and solutions to their financing needs. Armand is also member of the Taskforce Sustainable Finance on behalf of the Dutch Banking Association to contribute to the financing of the Dutch Climate Agreement. 

Antoni Ballabriga

Global Head of Responsible Business, BBVA

Antoni Ballabriga is Global Head of Responsible Business at BBVA. He reports directly to the Board of Directors. His mission is to ensure that people are systematically placed at the decision-making processes.

Co-chair of the Global Steering Committee at UNEP FI (United Nations Environmental Program for Financial Institutions) and European banks’ representative.

Chair of the Sustainable Finance Working Group at EBF (European Banking Federation).

Moreover, he is professor at ESADE Business School. Former President of DIRSE, Spanish Association of CSR Professionals and Former President of SpainSIF, Spanish Forum for Socially Responsible Investment. Antoni holds a Degree in Business Sciences and MBA from ESADE Business School. He has studied at Harvard Business School and is First Mover Fellow at The Aspen Institute.

Jan Žůrek

Eva Bučová

Senior Advisor, Wholesale Banking, ING

Eva Bučová started her banking journey in 1998 in Commerzbank Germany. Went through various banking houses such as HVB, ING, Erste Group and European Investment Bank. Diverse countries and roles within transactional, client relationship, product and risk management allowed her to accumulate versatile knowledge and international experience. She joined ING originally in 2002 and recently re-joined after more than 11 years the Client Coverage team in Prague with primary focus on strategic Structuring&Advisory and Sustainability. 

Eva enjoys business and product development, and deals origination. She finds passion in exploring human potential, psychology and talent management. She believes in team play, transparent and clear value system, and open and fair communication and management.

Gianluca Manca

Head of Sustainability, Eurizon Capital (Intesa Sanpaolo Group)

Gianluca Manca is the Head of Sustainability at Eurizon Capital. He serves as Chair of the Disclosure, Indices and Metrics wg at the European Banking Federation while he is Member of the EU Ecolabel Board at the European Commission. He is a member of the EFAMA Stewardship and ESG Standing Committee and a member of the Italian Banking Association’s (ABI) Sustainability Team. He served as chair of the Investment Commission and co-chair of the Asset Management working Group of the UNEPFI then joined the Business Economy Environment group of GLOBE EU at the EU Parliament. Gianluca is awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Cattolica University in Milan, Italy while he is co-head of the Business Simulation at the Executive Master in Finance SDA Bocconi University.  He was a global equities fund manager, then focused on responsible investments in late 90s and later became the head of the global RI team. At present he is the secretary of the Sustainability Committee and the Chair of the Charity Committee at Eurizon Capital. In the past 15 years he co-authored various groundbreaking papers and publications on ESG integration and climate change.

4^th Panel: Disclosures, Reporting, Rating

Carola Schuler

Managing Director - Banking, EMEA, Moody's Investors Service

Carola Schuler is a Managing Director in the Europe, Middle East and Africa banking team, based in Frankfurt. In this capacity, she is responsible for Moody’s analytical teams that rate banks primarily in the Eurozone and Central and Eastern Europe as well as non-bank financial companies across Europe and emerging markets in Middle East and Africa. Carola has extensive experience in credit analysis and managing credit professionals. Prior to joining Moody’s in 2008, Carola was a Director at the credit risk management division of Deutsche Bank where she worked in a number of different analytical and managerial functions in Germany and abroad, covering corporate finance, leveraged finance, financial institutions and sovereign risk across Europe, including time spent in Brussels (Belgium). Carola has a double German-French Diploma in Business Administration from Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft des Saarlandes (HTW), Saarbrücken / Germany and the University of Metz/ France.

Sara Lovisolo      

Group Sustainability Manager, London Stock Exchange Group

Sara Lovisolo is responsible for sustainability management and strategy at London Stock Exchange Group, with focus on policy analysis.  She is an active member of the Consultative Group of the UN-backed Sustainable Stock Exchanges initiative and of the City of London’s Green Finance Initiative. She is also co-chair of the working group tasked with setting up the Italian government-backed Sustainable Financial Centre. In 2018 she was appointed to the EU Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance. She has a Masters in Economics and has co-authored a number of publications on the impact of taxation on the cost of capital.

Pilar Gutierrez

Senior Policy Expert, European Banking Authority

Pilar Gutierrez works as a senior policy expert at the EBA, where she coordinates the EBA policy work on banks’ transparency and public disclosures, and the EBA Transparency Subgroup. She is a member of the Basel Working Group on Disclosures, where she has contributed to the development of the Basel III standards on Pillar 3 disclosures. She is also a member of the Commission’s technical expert group on sustainable finance (TEG) – Subgroup on climate change related disclosures. In the past she worked at the EBA as a senior bank sector analyst, coordinating the EBA technical work on stress testing and the EBA annual risk assessment report. When she joint the EBA, she was part of the team in charge of monitoring the colleges of supervisors for European cross-border banking groups. Prior to joining the EBA in 2011, Pilar worked for 6 years as a bank supervisor at the Bank of Spain. Before that she worked in the financial services consulting industry first in Accenture, and then as a manager in Everis. She holds a master’s degree in law and a master’s degree in business administration, both from the Comillas Pontifical University- ICADE in Madrid.

Johann Weicht

Senior Associate - Sustainability Services, KPMG Germany

Johann Weicht is a member of KPMG’s Sustainability Services practice in Germany. He provides sustainability assurance services for private sector clients and has worked with a wide range of voluntary and mandatory disclosure schemes, such as the EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive, GRI and Integrated Reporting. Johann also provides sustainability advisory services, focussing on climate change mitigation and adaptation issues as well as on sustainable finance. Prior to joining KPMG, Johann has worked at CDP (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project) and at the BMW Foundation, where he supported their impact investing and social entrepreneurship programmes. A former student of Marketing Communication, Johann has since authored several papers and course books on the intersection of sustainability communication, reporting, and reputation.