Elena Pykhova

Award winning risk expert, NED, author, international trainer and educator at The OpRisk company

Speaker

Elena Pykhova is award-winning risk expert, author, international trainer and educator. She is the founder of a boutique risk management consultancy, The OpRisk company, specializing in risk transformation, board and executive level advice. Elena is a renowned educator, running public and in-house training courses in the UK and internationally for world-leading organisations including the London Stock Exchange Group Academy, Euronext, Risk.net, the Moller Center Cambridge University, and the Institute of Internal Auditors. She is a thought leader and founder of a prominent industry think tank, the Best Practice Operational Risk Forum, former Director for Education at the Institute of Operational Risk and chair of the Expert Panel for the Association of Foreign Banks. Elena’s book, Operational Risk Management in Financial Services: A Practical Guide to Establishing Effective Solutions was recently translated into simple Chinese. Elena is a non-executive director at Women in GRC and Financial Crime Prevention, promoting and supporting future talent.