Qiniso Mthembu

Group Chief Risk Officer at Johannesburg Stock Market (JSE)

Speaker

Qiniso Mthembu is the Group Chief Risk Officer of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), where she leads the Group’s enterprise-wide risk programme. A Certified Risk Management Practitioner with more than two decades of experience, her career spans enterprise risk management, governance, compliance, strategy and business operations across both the public and private sectors.

Qiniso is a speaker and thought leader who contributes to risk and leadership conversations on local and international platforms. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Chief Risk Officers Community and recently contributed to its Risk Management, Reimagined: Outlook to 2035 paper, bringing perspectives on the evolving role and practice of risk management in an increasingly interconnected and uncertain world.

She is also an active contributor to the wider risk profession, serving on the Board of the Institute of Risk Management South Africa (IRMSA) and participating in the World Federation of Exchanges Enterprise Risk Working Group and the Financial Sector Contingency Forum.

Qiniso is an alumna of Duke University’s Executive Development Programme and, beyond her executive and professional roles, is a mentor and committed community volunteer. Outside work, she is an avid ultramarathon runner and has summited Mount Kilimanjaro.