Ian Johnston was appointed Chief Executive of the DFSA in September 2022. He previously served as the DFSA’s Chief Executive from 2012-2018. A lawyer by background, Ian had several senior executive roles in the private sector, including as CEO of one of Australia’s major trustee companies.

The second half of his career being in regulation, Ian was an Executive Director at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission; Special Advisor at the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission; and since 2019, consulting to and advising a number of financial regulators in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

Natalia joined Bloomberg 9 years ago as a fixed income derivatives market specialist, and held a number of specialist and sales leadership roles before moving to head Bloomberg’s sell-side & asset owners index franchise in EMEA.

Prior to Bloomberg, Natalia worked as a risk analyst and senior rates trader in European Banks, covering developed and emerging markets alike, and most recently was head of periphery government bond trading at UBS. Natalia holds a MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics.

Hafid is currently the Head of Market Risk Management at First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) that he joined in 2014. Prior to joining to FAB, Hafid spent 8 years at BNP Paribas London where his last position was Global Head of IR&FX Valuation Models’ validation team. Prior to that, he worked as quantitative risk analyst at Credit Agricole Paris covering Interest Rates and Equity products.  Throughout his career, Hafid worked in diversified areas & projects covering market and model risk.
 
Hafid graduated from Ecole Nationale des Ponts & Chaussees Paris and holds a Master degree in “Probability & Finance” from Pierre & Marie Curie University, Paris.

Sallianne Taylor is EMEA Head of Government Relations at Bloomberg.

The Government Relations team advocates for Bloomberg, Bloomberg’s clients and stakeholders within the global regulatory and government space. Prior to joining the team Sallianne spent two years on secondment at His Majesty’s Treasury working on the Wholesale Market Review which concentrated on reforms to the UK’s Capital Markets following its exit from Europe.

Sallianne joined Bloomberg in 1989 and has held positions within Sales, Trading Solutions and Product Development. Prior to her time at His Majesty’s Treasury, she led the Market Structure Strategy team which was a natural progression from Global Manager of Exchange Business Management where she oversaw Bloomberg’s relationships with the exchanges and trading venues. Sallianne holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in French and Italian from Royal Holloway and Bedford New College (University of London). She represents Bloomberg on the executive committee of FISD (Financial Information Services Division of the Software & Information Industry Association) and is on the board of FISD’s parent company, SIIA (Software & Information Industry Association). Sallianne was named Woman of the Year at the inaugural Waters Women in Technology & Data Awards 2018 and in the same year recognised as one of Top 100 Most Influential Women in Finance in Europe by Financial News. 

Rachid Lassoued is currently Bloomberg’s Global Head of Financial Engineering & Risk and focusing on enterprise valuation and risk products (Independent Valuation with BVAL Derivatives, Market Risk, SIMM, XVA and Credit Risk). He joined Bloomberg L.P. in 2009 to globally create, build and head its Financial Engineering group. The Financial Engineering group is focusing on Cross Asset OTC Derivatives and Structured Exotics Quantitative Solutions (independent valuation, pricing and risk services) for Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific. Prior to joining Bloomberg L.P. he worked at Societe Generale Securities for seven years where he built and headed the client facing EMEA Cross Asset Financial Engineering group in charge of value added services (independent valuation, performance and risk services). Prior to that, he held various positions at top tier institutions as front desk quantitative analyst dealing with Interest Rates, FX and Equity exotics pricing and hedging.

Thomas Labbe is a Regulatory Product Manager covering EMEA & APAC regions. He is working closely with clients to understand their regulatory challenges and develop corresponding solutions. Prior to joining Bloomberg in 2016, Thomas worked for 15 years at Morgan Stanley and 2 years at Jefferies in London as a trader in rates and credit products.

Mark Lewis is the Head of Product Management for Corporate Treasuries at Bloomberg. He leads the team responsible for delivering the treasury and risk management solutions. A qualified member of the Association of Corporate Treasurers, he has over thirty years of experience in the sector. Prior to arriving at Bloomberg in 2013 he worked in the Treasury departments of several firms including the logistics services company TNT, EMI Music and Metal Box Packaging. More recently, he served as director of Baering Consulting, and Head of Product Management at Wallstreet Systems.