GodFrey N. Nti

IASE Vice Chairman of the Board

Godfrey Nti is an Entrepreneur, Business Leader, Strategy Consultant and an International Speaker. He has held various leadership positions throughout his 22 year working career. Currently he is the Executive Director of GNN Strategy Consultants as well as Managing Director of The Leads People Marketing Strategy Pty Ltd – both entities specialising in providing holistic strategy advice to companies. He also holds a couple of directorships throughout Africa: he is an independent non-executive director on the board of three companies and one not-for-profit organisation.

Prior to Godfrey’s current roles as stated above, Godfrey was Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Planning Institute of Southern Africa (FPI) from 2009-2018. During this time, he also held the position of Chairman of the CEO Committee of the Global Financial Planning Standards Board (FPSB), a global standard setting body for the financial planning profession. Furthermore, he was the Group Accountant of National Investment and Savings Bank from 1999 – 2000 and then Financial Director of De Montfort University South Africa from 2001-2005.

Godfrey holds a Masters Level Professional Qualification in Management Accounting and is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK. He also holds a Higher Diploma in African Political Economics from the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute, University of Pretoria.

Karim Zouhdi

IASE Executive Secretary

Born in Tossa de Mar, Girona. He is a certified financial planner and financial analyst with +16 years professional working experience. He is an active member of the Instituto Español de Analistas Financieros (IEAF). At international level he held relevant positions such as Executive Manager of the European Financial Planning Association (EFPA). Karim has significant experience as consultant on the domains of European cross border regulatory affairs, asset and wealth management and corporate and institutional international relations.

He is involved in a global multicultural finance and ESG environment in direct contact with key opinion Leaders, international regulators and regional and multilateral entities.

Karim holds a University degree in Translation and Interpreting and also in International Studies both from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB). He also holds a Master’s degree in Banking and Finance from the Business School Barcelona (UPF).

Prof. Charles W Munn

Chairman of the Ethics Committee

Charles Munn is a Scottish banker and academic. Currently he serves on the board of the European Financial Planning Association and is chairman of the Erskine Cunningham Hill Trust, a charitable foundation.

From 1988-2007 he was Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland. While in that role he served a term as President of the European Bank Training Network and became chairman of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education in Scotland. He also co-wrote ‘Ethics, Integrity and Reputation’ a handbook for bankers. His other writings on the subject of business ethics have been published internationally.

He is the author of seven books on the development of Financial Institutions. His latest work is ‘Minister of Money’ a biography of Rev. Henry Duncan, founder of the savings bank movement.

He has served on the boards or committees of a number of professional bodies including the Customer Contact Association, the Chartered Insurance Institute and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.

He is an honorary professor in the Universities of Glasgow and Dundee. In his spare time he plays golf at Aberdour and ST Andrews.

Andreea Voinea

Chief Human Resources Officer, BCR, Erste Group

Andreea Voinea managed two of the largest people transformation programs in Romania and one of the largest in Central and Eastern Europe.

Dynamic leader with strong business acumen, Andreea was responsible to support the Board of OMV/Petrom in the process of designing the people transformation strategy and to represent shareholders’ interests in relation to selected groups (employees, union leaders, authorities, general public, mass media).

Andreea is currently coordinating the People strategy design and deployment for BCR Group Romania, including BCR Bank Romania and 10 other BCR/Erste subsidiaries, supporting BCR Board to translate business strategies into people change initiatives.

With over 20 years (out of which 15 in Banking) of progressive international experience in mature and emerging markets, Andreea had held positions such as Head of Reward, Group Central Functions for Barclays Plc in London, Senior Consultant for Towers Perrin in London, New York and Bruxelles, as well as Associate Director in Global Equities Division for Deutsche Bank Securities in New York.

Andreea graduated from the Academy of Economic Studies, Faculty of International Business and Economics Bucharest, and holds an MBA degree from Tulane University – A.B. Freeman School of Business.

Currently, Andreea is the Elected President of HR Club Romania, the leading association of HR professionals in Romania, founding member of Romanian Education Trust and Romanian Business Club from UK, and member & alumni of Aspen Leadership Forum.

Jacqui Grove

Advocate Jacqui Grove is a qualified professional with over 17 years’ experience and knowledge that is transferable over a number of faculties. However, her professional focus has for many years been on governance and compliance related activities.

She has held various senior management and advisory positions in a number of sectors, from large matrix organizations to non-profit entities, and has worked in private practice.

In these roles, Jacqui has focused on guiding, shaping and influencing the formulation and simplification of governance best practice philosophies, policies and strategies to ensure alignment and support of strategy and business enablement. Her expertise span governance, compliance and ethics and she champions the business case for ethical conduct, good governance and good corporate citizenship. Jacqui’s roles also included the development and management of professional standards, codes of conduct, disciplinary regulations and processes relating to member conduct, ethics- and forensic investigations, policy and regulatory development and related litigation matters.

Jacqui holds an LLB degree and is an Advocate of the High Court of South Africa. She is also concurrently undertaking two internationally recognised post-graduate qualifications in view of attaining CGIS Chartered Governance Professional and CGIS Chartered Company Secretary designations. She is a panel member of the Arbitration Foundation of South Africa and a member of the Institute of Directors in South Africa (IoDSA), including serving as the Chairperson of the IoDSA Disciplinary Panel, a forum for the adjudication of member conduct.

Jacqui lives in Gauteng, South Africa, with her husband on their smallholding with a healthy variety of rescued farm animals and pets. She enjoys exploring South Africa’s beautiful nature reserves in her free time.

Jacqui’s detailed career overview is available on request.

Philip Nieuwenhuijs

Philip Nieuwenhuijs has worked as an independent private wealth advisor since 2011. He has gathered professional experience in the investment banking field with Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. and Julius Bär after graduating with a degree in international business administration. Next to his expertise in private banking and investment analysis he has obtained practical knowledge transforming the tourism industry of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas into a more sustainable and eco-friendly tourist destination.

John Song

John H. Song is a global visionary business architect focusing on global transformation through sustainable, smart, green and strategic transformation of economies, business ecosystems and enterprises. With experience over 32 years in industrial visioning, strategic enterprise management, integrative business-technology architecture design and implementation, enterprise ICT systems implementation, and global collaboration and project management, he worked and served for global enterprises and institutions, including IBM, Business Consulting Services, TELUS, Samsung, Hyundai, Fujitsu Consulting, Green Climate Fund(GCF) and various enterprises over vast landscape of industries and international fields. He currently leads global programs for smart green innovation at Global Research and Development Business Center(GRC) of Seoul National University as Deputy Director.

He architected and is actively implementing the Framework of Breakthroughs(Sense, Structure, Stream, Scalability and Speed) and 4 Holistic Dimensions of Transformation (Inspiration, Innovation, Integration and Implementation) through dynamic collaboration and strategic engagement with global institutes and business leaders.

Mario Spatafora

Prof. Mario Spatafora is the General Secretary of Effebi Association and the European Projects Coordinator within EFFEBI Association, responsible for identifying project ideas and appropriate Partnerships. He has been Professor – by the Department of Training Sciences at the University Roma Tre – in organisational development with a specific course on the European instruments for the long-life learning (EQF/ECVET/EQARF). Previously, after a brief working experience in the Study Department of the European Commission in Luxembourg, he worked for ABI – the Italian Banking Association – and was in charge of the General Secretariat and then of the Organisational Development and Human Resources Department.

Úrsula Ruiz

Ursula Patricia Ruiz Vásquez is a Peruvian lawyer and holds a master’s in management and Public Policy. She has work experience in both public and private sectors in Peru and abroad. She is also a specialist in Integral Sustainable Development and has strong knowledge in non-profit organizations. Ursula teaches about Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Law at ESAN University in Peru.

Adalberto Méndez López

Adalberto has a law degree from the Universidad La Salle, CDMX and postgraduate studies at the İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi in Istanbul, Turkey; he holds a Master's degree in International Legal Studies and a Specialisation in International Human Rights Law, both from the American University Washington College of Law, in Washington, D.C. He is currently a Doctoral Candidate at the Escuela Libre de Derecho, CDMX.

In the private sector, he has worked as a corporate transactional and arbitration lawyer at the law firms Lee Anav Chung White Kim Ruger & Richter, LL.P., Santamarina y Steta, S.C., and Ogarrio Daguerre, S.C., as well as Country Representative for Mexico, of the New York-based ethical tourism company Justice Travel, Inc. In 2013, he served as legal advisor at the Diplomatic Mission of Mexico to the OAS in Washington, D.C.; as Director of Attention to Disability at the National Human Rights Commission from 2015 to 2018; Director of Liaison and Evaluation of Delegations of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) from 2018 to 2019, and parliamentary advisor and head of office in the Senate of the Republic from 2019 to 2020. Adalberto has been a consultant for international agencies and foreign governments in 17 countries, including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in the Dominican Republic, as well as the Foreign & Commonwealth Office of the Government of the United Kingdom in Colombia and Venezuela, and the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights of the OAS in Mexico, Honduras and Panama.

Currently, he is a postgraduate professor at the Law School of the Universidad Panamericana and the Escuela Libre de Derecho, he served as Business & Human Rights Counsel in Mexico, at the international law firm ECIJA, where he is currently Global Partner in charge of the area of Business, Human Rights and CSR, as well as Director of the firm's Pro-Bono.

Gabriela Hartescu

Chairwoman of the Academic Committee. BoD Representative.

Gabriela has over 20 years of experience in the field of professional training and academic education in finance and banking, having held various managerial positions and responsibilities both in Romania and at the European level: Chief Executive Officer at the Romanian Banking Institute (RBI), member of the Board of Directors and Chairperson of Triple EEFCB Committee at the European Banking and Financial Services Training Association (EBTN), etc. She is also a senior trainer and delivers seminars on international trade finance.

Adrian Codîrlașu

PhD, CFA

Adrian is a senior banker with 20 years of experience in banking and financial markets. He has been a CFA charter holder since 2006 and holds a PhD in international finance. Adrian has 5-year experience as a Senior Options Dealer with ING Bank where he helped start the bank derivatives business in Romania and over 8 years experience in risk management (market, liquidity, operational, reputational and credit risk). Previously, he has been a Senior Economist in the Research Dept. of the National Bank of Romania for about 6 years. Adrian is also an Associate Professor with DOFIN – Doctoral School of Finance, ASE. Between 2011 – 2013, Adrian was the President of the Association of Financial-Banking Analysts in Romania and for the last 13 years Adrian has been a member of the CFA Romania Board of Directors, as well as the association’s President for seven years. Adrian is Vice-President AAFBR, Vice President of the CFA Society Romania, member of ACI Romania.

Johan Aucamp

Examination Officer

Johan Aucamp, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER®, who is also a qualified assessor has a decade of experience in professional bodies= business development and in training, education & conducting licensing examinations in the financial sector. Johan has detailed knowledge of the development process of multiple choice examinations, question bank security and the practicalities around general exam management and rolling out exams online.

John Akuoko-Tawiah

John Akuoko-Tawiah is the ESG/Sustainable Finance Expert Lead for Financial Institutions (FIs)/Consultant at CHAiNT Afrique Strategic Sustainability Consulting, the Consulting arm of CHAiNT Group. He is an Environmental, Social and Governance Safeguard and Resilience Specialist with multi-sectoral experience in the development of Environment, Social Risk Assessment and Management in Ghana. John’s experience spans from 10 years of experience in Credit Management, Operational Risk, ESG Audit Protocols and assessment in Financial Institutions and developing new environmental and social safeguards procedures and policies, providing environmental and social risk management training to diverse audiences, developing and managing sustainability reporting processes

Kyungsun Park

Kyungsun Park has her Ph.D in Educational Technology. During recent years, she has done research in designing and developing competency-based curriculum/educational materials as well as teaching & learning methods for the field of invention & Intellectual Property Education. She is currently working as research professor for the BK(Brain Korea) program of Seoul National University, which is run by the government in order to develop graduate students’ competencies specialized in the field of smart cities. For the global convergence program of smart cities, she has been designing and developing curriculum, evaluation criteria, CQI(Continuous Quality Improvement) system, etc. She is an active life-long learner.

Sven Putfarken

Sven Putfarken is CEO of the MPV Finance Group in Hamburg and the IFNP Institute for Finance and Estate Planning in Berlin. He is on the board of the network financial planner e. V. and the IASE Germany e. V. and organizes events and all-day specialist conferences throughout Germany. In addition, he acts as a speaker on financial planning topics, devotes himself to the dissemination of financial planning ideas and is a fund advisor for the HANSEATISCHEN foundation fund.

He is 42 years old, married and has two children.

Ugo Rigoni

Ugo Rigoni is Professor of Financial Markets and Institutions in the Department of Management at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where he received his Ph.D. From 2014 to 2020 he has been the Dean of Ca’ Foscari Challenge School, the school for executive education of the university.

He is a member of national and international associations of university researchers and teachers in banking and finance (such as European Financial Management Association, Multinational Finance Association, Financial Management Association). He has been first President and later Member of the North East Section of the Italian Financial Advisor Register.

His main research interests are in financial institutions, behavioural finance and corporate sustainability. He has published books and articles in leading international journals, such as European Financial Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management.

Miguel Santinelli

Dr. Miguel Ángel Santinelli Ramos, has a doctorate in Public Administration, a degree he obtained with honorable mention from the Universidad Anáhuac México. He has an academic career with more than 20 years of experience, where he has held different academic positions, as coordinator of the doctorate in Innovation and Social Responsibility. Since October 2017, he has been director of the Faculty of Social Responsibility at Universidad Anáhuac México. He has been a professor teaching courses in disciplines related to Social Responsibility and Sustainability, both professionally and in master's degrees and doctorates.

He participated as an advisor in state secretariats such as the Ministry of Public Education (SEP) and the Institute of Social Security and Services for State Workers (ISSSTE). He was Technical Secretary of the Tourism Commission of the Federal District Legislative Assembly, VI Legislature and Advisor to the Special Commission on Climate Change, Chamber of Deputies, LVII Legislature, in which he participated in the development of the climate change law. He has participated in state, national and international conference committees and councils of various business and academic organizations, and has been invited as a speaker/panelist at international events in more than 5 countries.

Hyenyoung Yoon

Seoul National University in Korea

Hyenyoung Yoon is a professor for the international professional technology program at Seoul National University in Korea. Currently she is focusing on research and education of emerging technologies and the economic and social benefits of technology. Prior to this, she worked at a Korea Communications Agency as a senior researcher specialized in the ICT policy and industry ecosystem, and LG Electronics as a research engineer. She received her Ph.D. in Technology Management Economics and Policy Program from Seoul National University. Her current research and education interest is digital transformation, technology convergence and market research, smart city and the economic and social benefit of ICT convergence industry.