Svetlana Durdevic

Head of Systemic Risk Foresight & Readiness at Danske Bank

Speaker

Svetlana has close to 20 years of experience in financial crime compliance and risk management across tier 1 banks in London, New York and Copenhagen. She has led large-scale regulatory remediation programmes, built cross-divisional and international teams and designed and managed risk taxonomies, particularly Sanctions and Anti-Bribery and Corruption, from an end-to-end perspective.

Her recent work focuses on mapping and institutionalising emerging and systemic risks across traditional and novel financial crime controls, including GenAI solutions and governance, digital identities and assets, accelerated payment schemes and Geopolitics.

She holds two MA degrees in EU Common Foreign and Security Policies, as well as the War Studies, from the London School of Economics and University in Rome, respectively.

She is currently residing in Copenhagen, where she enjoys local culture and sport activities, in particularly kayaking.