Speakers

Alderwoman Dame Susan Langley became Lady Mayor of London 7th November 2025, the third woman to hold the office, and the first to be styled “Lady Mayor”. The Lady Mayor is the elected head of the City of London Corporation, representing the Square Mile and serving as a powerful ambassador for the UK’s financial and professional services.

The Lady Mayor is an experienced and senior City business leader, with deep domestic and international networks in financial services, government and wider business.

As political leader of the City of London Corporation, the Policy Chairman is the principal advocate for the City as the world’s pre-eminent financial and professional services capital. Steering the work of the Policy and Resources Committee, Chris also oversees the provision of local government services for the Square Mile’s 8,600 residents and 676,000 workers.

Over four decades, Chris has led businesses across the world. A former Deputy Leader of Hertfordshire and Dorset County Councils, Chris has engaged politically at both the local and national level, and he was first elected to the Common Council of the City Corporation in March 2013.

Nik Adams was appointed as Deputy Commissioner for the City of London Police in December 2024, performing the role of National Coordinator for Economic and Cyber Crime. He transferred as a Commander to the City of London Police in March 2022 from his previous role as National Coordinator for Prevent and Safeguarding Lead within Counter Terrorism Policing.

As Deputy Commissioner, Nik is focussed on overseeing national delivery of a number of fraud functions including Report Fraud, the new national reporting service for fraud and cyber crime, the national Economic and Cyber Crime Academy and a diverse range of operational units within the City of London Police. He oversees the National Cyber Crime portfolio and is also the NPCC lead for the Financial Investigation, including money laundering asset recovery, and the NPCC lead for Electoral Malpractice.

Nik’s vision is to work with partners to disrupt the activity of criminals across the UK, and to improve the effectiveness of the policing response at a local, regional and national level, underpinned by good communication, a shared understanding of threats, risks, knowledge, information, skills and resources to develop innovative solutions. He is currently exploring some bold new approaches to our partnership response to tackling economic crime within the City of London.

Nik has been a police officer for 25 years and spent most of his service with West Yorkshire Police, working in Leeds, where he was the City Centre Commander and Neighbourhood Policing lead for South Leeds before his move into Counter Terrorism Policing. 

Rachel Delhaise is Chief Sustainability Officer at Convex Insurance with responsibility for developing and implementing the sustainability strategy across the group. Prior to joining Convex in April 2021, she was Chief Risk Officer of Starstone Group for six years where she developed and led the risk function across five operating entities. Rachel has 30 plus years of experience in the insurance sector, with over 20 years spent with Guy Carpenter, part of Marsh and McLennan Corp, latterly as Managing Director of the firm's capital markets arm, GC Securities.

As part of her sustainability work within the insurance sector, Rachel is Chair of Climatewise Management Committee and a member of the Operating Committee of the Insurance Development Forum, where she co-chairs the Risk Modelling Steering Group She is also currently a Non-Executive Director of Envelop Risk, a specialty cyber underwriting managing agent. Rachel has completed University of Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership (CISL), Business Sustainability Management and Sustainable Finance courses.

Responsible for establishing and executing Citi’s core technology strategy, supporting all of Citi’s businesses across Markets, Services, Banking, Wealth, US Personal Banking, Risk, Finance, and Functions.

David leads a group of engineers, architects, and strategists focussed on scalable systems development, cloud and data architecture, systems modernisation, developer productivity, emerging technology, and the use of AI at scale. Prior to this David led the Engineering and Architecture function for the Institutional Clients Group, and has a background in Markets Technology across Risk, Market Making, and Derivatives.

David has a Masters in Computer Science from Imperial College, and an undergrad in Neuroscience from UCL. David lives in London, UK with his wife and two sons.

Pravina Ladva started her career at Abbey National/Santander, gaining experience in the financial technology sector, with responsibility for various areas from strategy to delivery and financial results. She joined Barclaycard in 2008, where she held various roles including COO Digital Marketplace and CIO Barclaycard Business Solutions. During this time, she led B2B and B2B2C technology and change teams, as well as the build and launch of a digital marketplace platform in the UK.

Pravina Ladva joined Swiss Re in 2017 as Chief Technology and Operations Officer for iptiQ, and in July 2020 assumed the role of Swiss Re Group Digital Transformation Officer. She was appointed Group Chief Digital & Technology Officer and member of  the Group Executive Committee as of January 2022.

Pravina continues to serve as a Non-Executive Director working with companies focused on property, infrastructure, civil-engineering, and planning.  

Andrew McDougall is Group Head of Geopolitical Risk for Barclays and advises Barclays Board and executive leadership on global affairs. He joined Barclays from the UK Foreign Office, where he gained extensive experience working on some of the most important global issues over the past two decades.

Andrew's particular expertise is Europe, Russia, and China, but also worked closely on Iran and South Asia (India/Pakistan/Afghanistan) earlier in his career. His final posting was in Brussels (Political Counsellor in the UK Mission to the EU and NATO) but he also served in Switzerland, India, and the Middle East. As a British Army officer, Andrew served in Northern Ireland, the Balkans, and Iraq, before joining the Foreign Office. He read Law and International Relations at university. 

Perry was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Flood Re in March 2025. Flood Re is a joint initiative between the Government and insurers. Its aim is to make the flood cover part of household insurance policies more affordable.

He’s an actuary with 30+ years in financial services in roles including CEO, CRO and Group Chief Actuary. He’s held directorships in UK, Bermuda, Ireland, India, South Africa, Malta and Luxembourg, and been on the Council of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.