Douglas Bongartz-Renaud has 36 years of experience in financial markets, risk management, training and consulting for banks in Asia and the EMEA regions. He retired from ABN AMRO Bank in 2011 and moved from Amsterdam to Asia, where he continues to work with banks in the areas of Basel framework implementation, ALM, market and counterparty credit risk management, financial products and treasury trading development and training. In addition to consulting, Douglas designs and delivers detailed training workshops for clients and is a frequent speaker and trainer at risk management conferences and for trade associations such as ISDA, PRMIA, GARP and the ACI. He has delivered workshops on a range of subjects, including Basel 3, funds transfer pricing, liquidity risk management, strategic balance sheet management, credit value adjustment and counterparty credit risk, and currency options trading and structuring. During his 26 years at ABN AMRO, Douglas was based in the Netherlands where in his last position he was a principal in ABN AMRO’s Risk Advisory Services business and established the market risk and treasury advisory practice. He and his team worked with over 30 client banks in Asia and MENA.

Prior to this, he was involved in risk management to structure and accelerate the process of complex derivative products development, validation and introduction. He was extensively involved with ABN AMRO’s preparation and implementation of the Basel capital framework, working on Basel 3 and on CVA pricing, management and capital planning in 2011. Previously, Douglas held the positions of global head of currency derivatives and global head of rate derivatives and structured products at ABN AMRO and was responsible for building the bank’s front-office financial products development group. Prior to joining ABN AMRO, Douglas worked for the former Continental Bank in London, Chicago and New York, and for two years with Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH). During these periods, he was involved in credit analysis and lending, swaps structuring and trading at Continental and with corporate transaction structuring and FX advisory at BBH. Douglas holds a Bachelor of Arts and MBA (quantitative finance) degrees from the University of Chicago, and the FRM certification from GARP. He served on the board of directors of ISDA from 1994–2008, and was the secretary of the board from 1998–2004.

Sujatha Sekhar Naik is the Chief Executive Officer of SIDREC. Sujatha is seconded from the Securities Commission, Malaysia, where her last position was Deputy General Manager and the Head of Investor Affair & Complaints. Sujatha led the team responsible for the development and implementation of SC’s investor education strategy and the management of complaints relating to market misconduct. Her previous work in the Commission has included advisory and reform work where she was involved in a number of the Commission’s developmental initiatives including the demutualisation of the Malaysian exchange, Bursa Malaysia in 2004. She was also involved in the development and implementation of policies to help strengthen the quality of the market players in meeting the challenges of a disclosurebased regime. Sujatha has represented the Commission as a presenter and panelist at international and domestic forums on the subject of investor education and other capital market issues. She represented the Commission on a number of interagency committees in Malaysia and was also a member of the Advisory Board of the International Forum of Investor Education (IFIE). Prior to joining the Securities Commission in 2001, Sujatha had gained experience both in practice and as an in-house legal counsel. She obtained her degree in Law from the University of London and was called to the Bar England and Wales in 1989 and re-qualified with the Law Society of England and Wales as a Solicitor in 1990. She was also called to the Malaysian Bar in 1998.

Madzlan Mohamad Hussain is a partner and the head of the Islamic Financial Services Practice Group for Zaid Ibrahim & Co. (a member of ZICOlaw), a regional law firm with a presence in Australia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. He is recognized as a leading Islamic finance lawyer in various publications including Legal 500, IFLR 1000, Chambers & Partners, Islamic Finance news’s legal supplements and Euromoney’s Expert Guides. He started his career with the firm in 1998 as a trainee associate. Madzlan’s engagements include advising government authorities on the Islamic finance prudential framework and advising financial institutions on the legal and regulatory compliances for their Islamic finance operations; standardization of Islamic finance documentation; structuring and designing Sharīah compliant financial products; handling Islamic corporate financing transactions; and issuance of Islamic securities/Sukuk. Between 2004 and 2010, Madzlan served the IFSB, an international standard-setting organization for the prudential regulations of the Islamic financial services industry, based in Kuala Lumpur. At the IFSB, he was particularly responsible in overseeing the development of the prudential framework for corporate governance practices for all segments of Islamic financial services and was instrumental in spearheading its initiatives in addressing legal issues in Islamic finance. He returned to ZICOlaw as a partner in February 2010. Madzlan holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) degree from International Islamic University Malaysia and a Master of Science degree in Islamic economics, banking and finance from Loughborough University in the UK.