Speakers

April 9: Speakers and session

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URSULA SCHMIDT
BOARD MEMBER, INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR, SPEAKER & AUTHOR
TITLE: GOVERNING ANTI-FRAUD MANAGEMENT ACROSS ALL DEFENSE LINES

Ursula Schmidt is former Executive Vice President in Audit & Compliance for RTL Group, having led for many years the international group´s Internal Audit and Compliance practice. She held senior positions in strategy and controlling at RTL Group and served as chairman of the audit committee of Channel Five in the UK.
Ursula is a Board member of the IIA Luxembourg and serves as an independent non-executive director on several boards in Luxembourg. She is a regular conference speaker and publishes extensively.
She received the Internal Audit Beacon Award. Earlier, Richard Chambers acknowledged her as one of the “top leaders in the profession to follow in 2023”.

KEVIN AYTAP
SEASONED CISO. INDEPENDENT ADVISOR.
TITEL: EN CISO’s DILEMMA

Kevin Aytap är en erfaren ledare inom säkerhet med över två decennier inom nischen. Tidigare CISO på Avanza, Sveriges Riksbank och banken SEB, har han arbetat med att utveckla och implementera säkerhetsstrategier för att möta det ökande cyberhot landskapet. Som sakkunnig och förespråkare för starkare cybersäkerhetspraxis har Kevin en unik inblick i de utmaningar och strategiska överväganden som dagens CISO står inför. Under sitt tal, “CISO dilemma,” kommer han att resonera kring hur CISO rollen utvecklats och diskutera balansen mellan ledarskap, affärsmål och de incitament som styr beslutsfattande i en snabbt digitaliserande värld.

JAN OLSSON
ÅRETS SÄKERHETSPROFIL 2022, KRIMINALKOMMISARIE, POLISEN
TITEL: CYBERKRIMINALITET – KAN MAN ENS SKYDDA SIG?

Jan Olsson, Kriminalkommissarie, Polisen. Jan har arbetat som polis i drygt 30 år och under 15 år med internetrelaterad brottslighet bl.a. som nationell expert inom bedrägerier. Han var med och startade Nationellt Bedrägericentrum, NBC, men arbetar sedan 6 år tillbaka med förebyggande insatser och som verksamhetsutvecklare på Nationellt IT-brotts Centrum (Noa) / Swedish CyberCrime Center (SC3).

Som expert inom cyberkriminalitet och annan internetrelaterad brottslighet samt hur man enkelt kan minimera riskerna som privatperson och företag från att bli angripet har Jan som talesperson för ämnena inom Polismyndigheten deltagit i bokstavligen 1000-tals intervjuer i allt från TV och Radio till tidningar de senaste 15 åren.

PARUL SHARMA
GENERALSEKRETERARE PÅ INSTITUTET MOT MUTOR 
TITEL: FÖRHÅLLANDET MELLAN KORRUPTION OCH ESG/HÅLLBARHET

Parul är hållbarhetsexpert, människorättsjurist samt författare och kommer närmast från Academy for Human Rights in Business. Dessförinnan har hon bland annat arbetat vid Sandvik AB som Global Head of CSR Auditing Suppliers och vid Stora Enso som Vice President Sustainability. Hon har dessutom innehaft rollen som Head of CSR Compliance vid Advokatfirman Vinge där hon var ansvarig för att bygga upp antikorruptionsprogram samt lett regeringens Agenda 2030-delegation. Hon har lång erfarenhet av att stötta näringslivet i hållbarhetsfrågor. Idag är Parul Sharma Generalsekreterare på Institutet mot Mutor.

MATTIAS ENGSTRÖM
HEAD OF HUMAN THREAT INTELLIGENCE, TRUESEC
TITEL: INSIDERHOT OCH HUR DU SKYDDAR DIN ORGANISATION

Mattias Engström leder idag arbetet med att motverka mänskliga säkerhetshot – så kallade Insiders – som Head of Human Threat Intelligence. Han har tidigare varit kansliråd i Regeringskansliet, Statsrådsberedningen och chef för centrala Säkerhetsskyddssektionen. Mattias har även varit biträdande chef för Informationssäkerhetsavdelningen/Cyberavdelningen vid FRA samt officer i Försvarsmakten med inriktning mot underrättelse- och säkerhetstjänst. Mattias är specialiserad inom HUMINT – informationsinhämtning genom interaktion med mänskliga källor, och är bland annat certifierad förhörsledare. Mattias har även en bakgrund inom organisations- och verksamhetsutveckling och är idag vid sidan av operativa insatser verksam som föreläsare och lärare.

EMELIE MORITZ
CEO AT SAFELLO
TITLE: CRYPTOCURRENCIES IN A REGULATED ENVIRONMENT

Emelie is CEO at Safello, the leading cryptocurrency exchange in the Nordics. She has 8+ years experience within the financial industry from Carnegie Investment Bank and Avanza Bank. Emelie got a Master’s degree of Law from Uppsala University.

NAM PHONG HO
CAE, ENTREPRENEUR, BOARD MEMBER, CFA, QIAL, CIA, CISA, CRMA
TITLE: USING THE POWER OF SCENARIO SIMULATION TO REMODEL CONTROL TESTING – A GAME CHANGER

Nam Phong Ho brings a depth of expertise in finance, risk management, and corporate governance. As a Swiss national with over two decades of leadership experience, he previously served as the Chief Audit Executive of Glencore PLC. In this capacity, he was entrusted with the critical role of overseeing the internal audit function, reporting directly to the board and senior management. His tenure at Glencore cultivated a robust understanding of governance, risk management and internal controls frameworks.

Beyond his corporate roles, Nam stands out as a beacon in ethics, integrity, innovation, and change management, reflecting not only his skills but also core values. As an entrepreneur and investor, he is at the helm of Alpha Fow Zenith, a Swiss enterprise, reinforcing his deep-rooted business acumen.

He actively serves on the boards of various organisations, providing them with strategic advice, innovative solutions and leadership to drive their success and growth.

SARA I. JAMES
PH.D, CIA, OWNER, GETTING WORDS TO WORK® AND AUTHOR OF RADICAL REPORTING

JOHN CHESSHIRE
FCIIA, QIAL, CMIIA, CRMA, CIA, CISA

TITLE: TO BOLDLY GO – COURAGEOUS INTERNAL AUDITING

With over 30 years’ teaching, writing, publishing and corporate experience in the US and Europe, Sara I. James provides report-writing training worldwide through her business, Getting Words to Work ®. She has written numerous articles on language and reporting, and spoken at national and international conferences. As a member of the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors’ Technical Guidance Working Group, Sara provides resources for members in the UK and abroad. She is the author of the bestselling Radical Reporting: Writing Better Audit, Risk, Compliance, and Information Security Reports, and was one of Richard Chambers’ 2022 Internal Audit Beacon Award winners.

John Chesshire is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors (FCIIA) and holds various other qualifications and relevant designations.

He has nearly 25 years’ experience working in the internal audit, risk management, business improvement and governance fields. He lives in Oxford in the UK, but he is rarely at home as he works with internal audit and risk management teams across the world. John is an Independent Internal Audit Committee Chair, has been Chief Assurance Officer for the States of Guernsey and runs his own training company, JC Audit Training Ltd.

John has delivered well-received training courses and seminars to 15 Institutes of Internal Auditors across the world and his other recent clients include UK-listed companies, banks, multinationals, central and local government, law enforcement, international charities, professional services companies, as well as international organisations such as NATO, the OECD, and UN Agencies.

JONAS MYRDAL
KAMMARÅKLAGARE, EKOBROTTSMYNDIGHETEN
TITEL: INSIDERINFORMATION OCH BÖRSBOLAGENS INFORMATIONSGIVNING – VILKEN ROLL OCH BETYDELSE HAR KONTROLLFUNKTIONERNA

Jonas Myrdal är kammaråklagare vid Ekobrottsmyndighetens finansmarknadskammare. Han har tidigare arbetat med finansiell reglering både på myndigheter och i finansbranschen, bl a som rättssakkunnig vid Finansdepartementet och som övervakningschef på Spotlight Stock Market.

JENNY GUSTAFSSON
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, COUNCIL ON ETHICS OF THE SWEDISH NATIONAL PENSION FUNDS
TITLE: TBD

Jenny Gustafsson grew up professionally in Handelsbanken’s Asset Management after finishing her M.Sc. of Business at Uppsala University. In 2012 she began concentrating fully on ESG analysis, launching and operationalizing updated sustainability investment strategies as well as engagement programs, leading to a role as Head of Responsible investments at Handelsbanken’s mutual fund company in 2016. In 2019, Mrs Gustafsson took on the role as Head of Responsible Investments at AMF, one of Sweden’s leading Pension Companies, with EUR 70 billion AUM. As of June 2023, she is the Executive Director of the Council on Ethics of the Swedish National Pension Funds.

EVA JOLY
POLITICIAN, LAWYER, FORMER JUDGE
TITLE: TBD

Eva Joly is a Norwegian-born French politician, lawyer and former interrogation judge. She was a candidate for Europe Écologie Les Verts in the 2012 French presidential election.

Joly is internationally known for her fight against corruption and financial crime. She was awarded the Sophie Prize 2012, according to the jury, for her “fight against a culture of greed that causes problems for people and the environment”. In 2002, she was named European of the Year by Reader’s Digest magazine.

Eva Joly has worked for many years in France, and as an interrogator she has, among other things, been in charge of exposing corruption in the oil company Elf Aquitaine and in the major bank Crédit Lyonnais.

From 2002 to 2005, Eva Joly was Special Counsellor in the Ministry of Justice with responsibility for Norway’s international work against corruption and money laundering. In the period 2005 to 2008, she was affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as head of the work against corruption and economic crime in Norway’s main partner country for development assistance.

In 2009, Eva Joly stood for election for the French Green Party and was elected as a representative in the European Parliament, where she chaired the development committee. She was thus one of the parliament’s 20 committee chairs. Joly was re-elected as a representative in the European Parliament in 2014.

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