Sixth ECB Forum on Banking Supervision 2025 – Speakers

Mr Arnold has worked for the Financial Times since 1999 and been the FT’s Frankfurt bureau chief since 2019. During his two decades at the FT, he has also worked in London, Paris and New York. Previous roles include banking editor, deputy companies editor, Paris correspondent and private equity correspondent.

As the FT’s private equity correspondent he won the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association award of correspondent of the year and was shortlisted for scoop of the year at the Business Journalist of the Year awards.

He received a masters degree in journalism from Goldsmith College in London and an undergraduate degree in French and Politics from Leeds University.

Her focus lies on the European Capital Market Union from a private investor’s perspective.

Ms Benner-Heinacher held several mandates in German supervisory boards of DAX and M-DAX companies. Besides, she is active as Senior Advisor for Foreign Affairs at DSW, the leading shareholder association in Germany. At DSW, she is responsible for addressing corporate governance and shareholder issues including topics related to the Shareholder Rights Directive 2, delisting and collective redress.

Ms Benner-Heinacher is an attorney with a focus on banking and securities law representing the interests of minority shareholders at the level of the EU. She is a member of a consultative group at the European Securities and Markets Authority in Paris.

She is a member of the Group of Central Bank Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS) of the Bank for International Settlements. 

Claudia Buch was the Vice President of the Deutsche Bundesbank from May 2014 to December 2023, and before she was the President of the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH), professor of economics at the Universities of Magdeburg and Tübingen, and member of the German Council of Economic Experts. 

She worked for the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, was awarded a doctoral degree and a habilitation (German post-doc degree) by the University of Kiel, and she studied Economics at the University of Bonn.

From 2019 until 2024, he was chairman of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, and he is now coordinator of the Renew Europe group within this committee. He is also a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.

Mr Canfin was Director General of WWF France from 2016 to 2019.

From 2014 to 2015, he was Senior Climate Advisor at the World Resources Institute ahead of COP21 in Paris and co-chaired the Commission on Innovative Climate Financing.

In 2012, Mr Canfin was appointed Minister Delegate for Development at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, having previously served as an MEP for the Green Party from 2009 to 2012.

She is a growth-leader and entrepreneur with almost 20 years of experience in financial services.

Before joining Revolut in December 2023, she was CEO of Molo, the UK’s first digital mortgage lender, a company which she founded in 2017 and grew successfully to exit in 2023.

Previously Ms Carlesi had held several senior roles in some of the largest banks in Europe, including Deutsche Bank and Barclays. She started her career in consulting and private equity at McKinsey & Co. and Bridgepoint Capital between London and Milan.

She holds a PhD in Banking and Finance from the University of Rome, MBA (Hons) from Columbia University, Diploma from Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Ms Carlesi was nominated a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2014.

She focuses on international coordination and supervisory policy, representing the ECB globally.

Previously, Ms Donnery spent much of her career at the Central Bank of Ireland, where she held several senior roles, including Deputy Governor - Central Banking and Deputy Governor - Financial Regulation. She also served as Acting Governor of the Central Bank in 2019 and was deeply involved in both domestic and international central banking, financial regulation, and supervision.

Ms Donnery has chaired numerous international committees, including the ECB High-Level Group on Non-Performing Loans and the European Banking Authority Consumer Protection Group. She has also been a co-chair of the Financial Stability Board’s Working Group on Open-ended Funds.

Before her central banking career, Ms Donnery lectured in economics at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. She holds a B.A. in Economics and Politics and an M.A. in Economics from University College Dublin, as well as a Diploma in Company Direction. She was admitted as a Chartered Director by the Institute of Directors in London in 2019 and appointed Adjunct Professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin in 2020.

He was re-appointed to this role in January 2025, having served in the role previously from 2017 until 2022. As Minister for Finance, he is also Ireland’s Governor of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group.

In the interim he served a second term as Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (2022-2025), having served his first term from May 2016 until June 2020.

Minister Donohoe was first elected President of the Eurogroup of Finance Ministers in July 2020 for a two-and-a-half-year term. He has been re-elected twice; in December 2022, and for a third term in July 2025. In this role, he is also the Chairperson of the Board of Governors of the European Stability Mechanism.

From July 2014 until May 2016, he served as the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport. He also held the position of Minister for European Affairs at the Department of An Taoiseach and the Department of Foreign Affairs from July 2013 - July 2014.

Minister Donohoe was first elected as a Teachta Dála (T.D. – Member of the Irish Parliament) in February 2011 for the Dublin Central constituency. Prior to this he was a member of Seanad

Éireann (the Senate), from 2007 until 2011. He also served as member of Dublin City Council from 2004 until 2007.

Minister Donohoe has served as the Chair of Ireland’s Future in Europe Oireachtas Sub-Committee, as well as a member of the Committee of Public Accounts. He has also served as the Vice-Chair of the European Affairs Committee and, as a Senator, he served as a member of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport.

Minister Donohoe is a graduate of the Trinity College Dublin, with a degree in Politics and Economics and he attended St. Declan’s Christian Brothers School.

He co-chairs the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Risks of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.

Mr Elderson previously served as Executive Director of De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB). At DNB he held several senior positions before joining its Governing Board in 2011.

Before joining DNB in 1999, he worked as a lawyer specialising in EU competition law.

Throughout his career, Mr Elderson has stressed the importance of climate and environment related considerations for the financial sector and for supervisors and central banks.

He founded and chaired the Dutch Platform for Sustainable Finance from 2016 to 2020 and from 2018 to 2022 he served as the first Chair of the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), a network he helped creating and expanding.

Mr Elderson graduated in Dutch law at the University of Amsterdam in 1994 and obtained an LL.M. Degree at Columbia Law School, New York, in 1995. He also studied various courses at the University of Zaragoza, Spain.

In December 2023, her responsibilities expanded, and she was appointed as the International Head of Commercial Banking.

Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Ms Gallagher was Deutsche Bank’s Head of Global Securities Services and Chief Country Officer for Deutsche Bank Ireland, having held leadership roles with the company for over 15 years. Previously she worked in Debt Capital Markets for both Merrill Lynch and Barclays Capital in New York and London.

Ms Gallagher is active across the financial services industry and more broadly. She is a board member of the Gate Theatre and was appointed in 2024 by the Irish Government to be the Chair of Women in Finance Charter Committee. Previously she was President of the Institute of Bankers, Chair of the Banking & Payments Federation, as well as a board member of the American Chamber of Commerce.  

Ms Gerken also chairs the PRA’s main executive committee taking decisions on supervision, policy and risk issues, and is a member of the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision.

From 2020 to March 2024, Ms Gerken was Executive Director for Insurance Supervision, leading the implementation of the PRA’s Solvency UK reforms. Her previous Director roles include Prudential Policy and Supervisory Risk Specialists. In Prudential Policy, she led teams working on insurance policy development and policy areas spanning both banking and insurance sectors, such as accounting, disclosure and the capital framework, governance and individual accountability, operational resilience and policy strategy and implementation. In Supervisory Risk Specialists, she led teams assessing banks’ financial and operational risk and resilience and was responsible for delivery of analysis for the annual concurrent stress test of the UK banking system, and development of the Bank of England’s stress testing approach.

Her previous experience includes leading risk specialist divisions and teams supervising a range of banks, investment banks and insurance groups. Ms Gerken started her career in commercial banking and credit risk management.

She has presented and produced Euronews’ Real Economy programme, interviewing key decision makers including Heads of State, Finance Ministers and EU Commissioners.

Previously, she was a producer for BBC World TV and a newsreader for BBC Radio. She has also been a news anchor for France 24, a reporter for Reuters TV in London, covering political events at Westminster and a reporter for EuroparlTV in Brussels, interviewing MEPs and explaining new legislation. She started out producing financial news bulletins for ITN’s online news and as reporter and presenter in UK regional TV.

Ms Lloyd specialises in helping EU organisations raise awareness of their work by training their senior leaders and experts. 

From 2020 to 2025, he was Board Member and Director of Resolution Planning and Decisions at the Single Resolution Board.

He has worked in financial regulation and supervision for more than 20 years. He was the Director of Legal Services and Chief Legal Counsel at Banco de Portugal, where he has also previously served as Deputy Director of the Prudential Supervision Department. A Portuguese national, he was the Minister of Finance’s Chief of Staff between 2011 and 2013, and has worked in the European Central Bank and PricewaterhouseCoopers. From 2012 to 2015, Mr Machado was a non-resident member of the European Investment Bank’s Board of Directors.

He holds a law degree from the Lisbon School of Law and has done post-graduate studies in European Law at the European University Institute. 

Between 2007 and 2014 Mr Mijs served as CEO of the Dutch banking association Nederlandse Vereniging Van Banken. During this tenure he transformed the NVB into a modern industry association, positioning it as the key representative of the banking sector in the wake of the financial crisis.

Mr Mijs studied law at the University of Leiden, specialising in European and international law. After his studies he worked at the International Court of Arbitration in The Hague. In 1993 he joined ABN AMRO in Amsterdam before moving to Brussels to head up the bank’s EU liaison office. He moved back to The Hague in 2002 where he became the head of Government Affairs for ABN AMRO.

Mr Mijs is a member of the Advisory Board of Leiden Law School and the industry chair of the European Parliamentary Financial Services Forum. He is also a board member of the Salzburg Global Forum and the Dutch Royal Automobile Club.

Between 2011 and 2018, Mr Mijs held various institutional roles within the international and European financial and banking community: chairman of the International Banking Federation, chairman of the Executive Committee of the EBF, and chairman of the Board of Euribor, now known as the European Money Market Institute.

Mr Orcel began his career in 1987 at Midland Montagu in fixed income. He moved to Goldman Sachs in 1988 and he joined The Boston Consulting Group in 1990.

From 1992 to 2012, he worked for Merrill Lynch (then Bank of America), covering a number of senior positions from wealth management to global markets and financial institutions management.

In 2012, Mr Orcel joined UBS as a member of the Group Executive Board and then President of the Investment Bank. He became Chief Executive Officer of UBS Limited and UBS AG London Branch in 2014 and member of the Board of UBS Americas Holding LLC, as well as senior contact for US and Australia industry regulators in 2016. He was also a member of the Board of UBS Optimus Foundation, senior sponsor and leader for Diversity and Talent Development in the Investment Bank and the UK.

In April 2021, Mr Orcel was appointed Group Chief Executive Officer of UniCredit. In addition, he was also appointed Head of Italy in July 2022. The board of the UniCredit Foundation appointed him as Chairman in July 2022. In December 2023, Mr Orcel was appointed Chairman of HypoVereinsbank - UniCredit Bank GmbH.

Before her appointment in 2022, Ms Osman spent 13 years reporting on European banks and banking regulation for Handelsblatt. Earlier in her career, she wrote for the Financial Times Deutschland, covering bond and foreign exchange markets as well as the role of rating agencies during the financial crisis.

She previously worked in the financial markets department of Börsen-Zeitung and in the business editorial team of the German Press Agency (dpa) in Frankfurt.

Ms Osman is the author of the specialist book „Basiswissen Bankenaufsicht“ and regularly moderates events hosted by Handelsblatt.

Mr Pinto has spent his career at JPMorgan Chase and its predecessor companies. He rose through the Markets businesses, eventually becoming the head of Fixed Income Markets in 2012. He also served as CEO of the Europe, the Middle East and Africa region from 2011 to 2017.

Mr Pinto was made Co-CEO of the Corporate & Investment Bank in 2012, becoming sole CEO in 2014. In 2018, he was named Co-President and Chief Operating Officer of JPMorgan Chase. He became sole President and COO in 2022.

He assumed the role of Vice Chairman on 1 July 2025 and continues to work with the CEO and other senior executives on key projects, client relationships and complex issues facing the firm.

Mr Pinto is a member of the Board of Directors of Johnson & Johnson and of the Institute of International Finance.

Ms Schmidt is a Senior Analyst and Managing Director at Autonomous Research in charge of the equity research coverage of Spanish and Italian banks. She is a founding member of Autonomous, a financial specialist research franchise launched in 2009 and now part of Bernstein.

Ms Schmidt has over 20 years of experience in financials. At Merrill Lynch and Fox-Pitt, Kelton, she covered banks in central and eastern Europe, including German, Austrian and Benelux banks. She started her career in Citigroup's Financial Institutions Group dealing primarily with insurance M&A.

Ms Schmidt received a BA (Hons) in European Business from Portsmouth Business School and a Diplom-Betriebswirt degree from Fachhochschule Münster in Germany.

Mr Thedéen is a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements and Chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. He is also a member of the General Council of the ECB and a member of the European Systemic Risk Board. Further, Mr Thedéen is Governor for Sweden in the International Monetary Fund, Board Member of the Nordic-Baltic Macroprudential Forum and Board Member of the Toronto Centre for Global Leadership in Financial Supervision.

Between October 2015 and November 2022, he was Director General of the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finansinspektionen). He has also been Board Member of International Organisation of Securities Commissions and Chair of its Task Force on Sustainable Finance, vice chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority and co-chair of the Nordic-Baltic Macro Prudential Forum.

Mr Thedéen holds a degree of Master of Science in Business and Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Mr Yuen is in charge of the full range of banking policy, supervision, conduct, and enforcement issues.

He joined the HKMA in 1996 as Head of Administration and has taken up different responsibilities including research and liaison on China economic and market development issues before being appointed Head of Banking Supervision in 2000. He took the positions of Executive Director (Banking Development) in July 2004, Executive Director (Banking Supervision) in June 2005 and Executive Director (External) in July 2008. He was appointed to his present position in January 2010.

He has been playing an active role as member of the Financial Stability Board’s Standing Committee on Supervisory and Regulatory Cooperation. He is also a long-serving member of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and has been appointed Co-Chair of the Committee’s Policy and Standard Group in January 2021. He chaired the Committee’s Supervision and Implementation Group from September 2018 to December 2020.