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Gareth Davies has worked within the Allianz Group since 2012 during which time he has established several high performing anti-fraud units and acted as the technical lead on a number of high profile cross industry counter-fraud investigations.  Gareth has developed a reputation within the industry as an expert on insurance fraud – winning the inaugural Allianz Claims High Flyer Award in 2015 and having been shortlisted for Young Fraud Investigator of the Year at The Insurance Fraud Awards in 2016.  Since 2019, Gareth has worked as the Head of Fraud at Allianz Global, Corporate and Specialty where the work that he and his team have done in detecting and preventing international insurance fraud in the complex specialty marketplace was recognised with the team being awarded Counter-Fraud Team of the Year 2021 at last year’s Insurance Claims and Fraud Awards.

Rowena has an international career in banking and FSIs, working in Singapore, Hong Kong, Manila, Warsaw and London in transformational change roles and start-ups.

As the founding CEO of Stanchart’s newest subsidiary in Poland, she established Eastern Europe’s premier cyber security centre of excellence as well as the entire physical and operational infrastructure and a highly tuned branding program.

Now Rowena is leading the digital transformation program for Europe-Americas. She is a Board Director of Standard Chartered Poland as well as the SC Ventures fintech Let’s Bloom, a tribunal panel member of the Financial Reporting Council and an Ambassador for the Women in COO Community.

Emily Campbell-Ratcliffe is Head of AI Assurance at the UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). Emily leads DSIT’s efforts to support the growth of an ethical, trustworthy, and effective AI assurance ecosystem in the UK, a key pillar of support for realising the UK’s AI governance framework. She represents the UK at the OECD’s Working Party on AI Governance, and is also part of the OECD.AI network of experts, contributing to their Expert Groups on AI Risk & Accountability and Compute & Climate. Emily has worked in AI policy for several years, and prior to joining government worked in the private sector on international AI governance policy. Outside of her roles she has published work on the responsible publication of AI research, and how to manage its risks.