Frank Aldenhof
Director, Deutsche Bank AG, Germany; in charge of ESG Client Solutions in Corporate Banking for MNC clients; over 15 years’ previous experience in the Institutional Cash & Trade business, covering banks in Europe, Central Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Innesa Amirbekyan
Head of Financial Institutions and Trade Finance at ID Bank CJSC, Armenia. Experienced trade finance and international banking professional with 20+ years in leading Armenian banks, specializing in import/export finance and trade finance business development. Accomplished speaker and panelist at international conferences, delivering internal and external trainings and workshops. ICC NC Armenia Executive Board member, Chair of ICC Banking Commission Armenia, and member of ICC Task Force on Bank Guarantees. Member of BAFT Trade Finance and Payment committees.
Neil Chantry
Independent Consultant on Trade Finance & Compliance, UK. 40 years with HSBC - on the international executive staff, serving countries in the Middle East & East Africa, on the UK Group executive staff, specialising in Trade Finance operations, procedures, finance, compliance. Recently, consultancy with Standard Chartered Bank. Neil held many ICC positions, e.g. Former Chair, Wolfsberg Group Trade Finance Committee; Joint Wolfsberg Group; Financial Crimes & Anti-Terrorist Financing Group; ICC & BAFT drafting group for the “Compliance Principles Paper; former Chair of the Executive Committee;
Vera Economou
Vera Economou leads the ESG Group Competence Center and coordinates corporate ESG experts across RBI’s Network Banks. She manages green and social bond frameworks supporting Green and Social Bonds of RBI Network Banks in CEE. With international experience as a business consultant in Hong Kong for 4 years, she joined RBI in 2011. She holds a master’s degree in quantitative Assets and Risk Management , an MBA in Finance and is CESGA certified ESG analyst from EFFAS. Through ESG services to Financial Institutions, she facilitates customers’ transition to responsible and sustainable business models, provides guidelines on portfolio screening for sustainable transactions, ESG customer assessment, and develops measures to increase staff awareness and brand recognition.
Gabriele Katz (invited)
Director, Deutsche Bank AG, Germany; in charge of Global Transaction Banking in Product Management for the Documentary Trade Business for Europe & MENA; has a more than 25 years’ experience in the LC and BG business. Member of the ICC Germany Banking Committee;
Nelli Kocharyan
Head of Financial Institutions and International Banking Relations at Converse Bank CJSC. Covering international relations, correspondent banking and trade finance business at Converse Bank CJSC, Armenia. With 14 years’ of banking experience in trade finance, cash management, funds raising and KYC evaluation basics. Certified in International Trade and Finance by London Institute of Banking and Finance (LIBF), holder of ICA Certificate in KYC and CDD, as well as ICA Specialist Certificate in Trade Based Money Laundering extended by International Compliance Association.
Glenn Ransier
Head of Documentary Trade and SBLCs, Wells Fargo, USA; Glenn is furthermore one of the Technical Advisors of the ICC Banking Commission; He maintains strong ties to domestic and global trade communities; has been actively involved in trade finance for more than 35 years;
Christina Elisabeth Seierup
Vice President, Trade Finance Operations, Dankse Bank AS, Denmark; Member Danish Banking Committee. Since 2010 Head of Training & Education for Trade Finance, Danske Bank Group - responsible for corporate Trade Finance and related subjects as AML trainings; She joined Danske Bank A/S in 1985 and has been working with International corporates since 1989;
Evgeniya Sharkova
Evgeniya Sharkova has been leading the RBI Trade Finance Sales Team since 2022. She oversees driving the end-to-end sales process of conventional and sustainable Trade Finance solutions from pitch to closing for corporate and institutional clients, implementing sales and marketing initiatives. Evgeniya has over 15 years of experience in corporate and investment banking, origination and client coverage, business development, and sales management. She started her career at VTB Bank and joined RBI Group in 2010.
Lorna Strong
Deputy General Counsel for HSBC Global Trade and Receivables Finance (GTRF) acts as the primary legal advisor for GTRF's operations globally; advising GTRF and playing a role in shaping HBSC's contribution to regulatory and policy debates on trade finance.
Andrea Tang
Legal Services Director at FIATA, the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations, Switzerland. In addition to being responsible for legal matters across the Federation, she oversees the Federation’s work across the various modes of transport (air, maritime, rail, road), as well as trade facilitation and customs. She is a qualified lawyer and was admitted to the Bar of England and Wales, following which she completed her Master studies in International Law. In addition, she holds a Certificate in Insurance (CII) from the Chartered Insurance Institute.
Oscar Tiberg
Lawyer at Chouette, Sweden. He is specialised in transportation law, insurance law and international trade law. He has a wide range of experience as legal counsel, insurance lawyer and in-house counsel. He has worked with and for both very small and very large companies and has acted in court as well as arbitration proceedings both in Sweden and elsewhere. He also has significant experience from contract negotiations and drafting. In his role as in-house counsel he has often been involved with company formation and other matters of general corporate law. He is also well versed in competition law.
Mireille Troosters
Head Expert Trade Finance at KBC Bank Belgium, Board Member of ICC Belgium. Mireille started working in KBC bank in 1992 and switched to Trade Finance in 2005, as a Trade Finance Officer (a commercial job), then as Head of Operations Documentary Credits. In 2015 she switched to being Risk Manager Trade Finance and today is combining this with being Head Expert trade finance again.
Martin Wolfbauer
International Legal Department of STRABAG Group (CML). Martin is an Austrian and New York qualified lawyer. In STRABAG’s legal department he is in charge of guarantees in international projects. He gained extensive experience in reviewing, drafting and negotiating guarantees for major construction contracts in various countries but also advises and supports STRABAG entities in litigation and arbitration proceedings related to guarantees. Martin holds lectures on international law and securities.
