Anoushe Sheharnaz Hassan

Global Head of Model Risk Management at Mashreq Bank

Speaker

Anoushe Hassan is the Global Head of Model Risk Management at Mashreq Bank (UAE). Her team is responsible for the end-to-end governance and validation of models used across the Bank, in line with evolving regulatory requirements. This includes defining the Bank’s Model Risk framework/policies, conducting independent validation, and managing governance throughout the model lifecycle. Before joining Mashreq in 2024, Anoushe was at Bank of Montreal (Canada) where she was leading validation teams for various model families, including Stress Testing, Regulatory Capital, Allowance, Adjudication and Behavioural models. Anoushe holds an MSc in Financial Mathematics as well as an MSc in Pure Mathematics from Western University, Canada.