Following a mission as Advisor to the Finance Minister in Valetta before and during the 2017 Maltese EU Presidency, Hugo Woestmann now works as an Independent Director. 

Prior to that, and after five years in the private sector, he filled several functions during his time at the European Investment Bank, dealing i.a. with the Bank's organisation  and processes, resource planning, medium-term strategy and business plans.  He finished his career in the Bank in 2016 as Deputy Director General and corporate secretary, having served the Bank’s Governing Bodies during times of several capital increases and EU enlargements, restructurings of the Board of Directors and
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Maurice Bauer is an alderman of the City of Luxembourg since August 2019, after having been municipal councilor of the City of Luxembourg since 2011.

He is currently Secretary General of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange since January 2014 and joined the LuxSE in 2008 taking up the legal and compliance department.

Before joining the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, he was for six years Secretary General at CETREL. Previously.  He began his training as a lawyer at Schiltz & Schiltz law firm before joining the Dexia-BIL Group as a legal advisor.

On behalf of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, he is in charge of coordinating the works of the working group that  developed  the X Principles of Corporate Governance of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and member of the CSSF expert group on corporate governance.

He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Foundation “Maison de la Porte Ouverte”, an organization that takes care of abused and disadvantaged children and women as well as of immigrants.

Maurice Bauer is a master in law, graduating in 1997 at the Robert Schuman University of Strasbourg after his secondary education at the Lycée de Garçons in Limpertsberg. During his studies, he worked as a journalist at the European Parliament and at the Council of Europe.

Jed Grant, CEO of KYC3, is a Regtech leader and decentralized systems architect who was named one of the top 200 FinTech Leaders in Europe by LATTICE80 in March of 2018. He is also an investor in and developer of decentralized regtech solutions.

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Jed founded KYC3 in 2014 to leverage  big data machine learning for KYC/AML. In 2008, Jed was also a founder and partner of Sandstone SA, a boutique private intelligence firm based in Luxembourg. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Luxembourg, lecturing on KYC/AML.

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In the blockchain space, Jed is the founder of Peer Mountain, a blockchain based information exchange ecosystem for compliant commerce. He is also a founder of two blockchain non-profits,  the Luxembourg Blockchain and DLT Association and Infrachain. 

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Throughout his career Jed has worked and partnered  with many of the best minds in the fintech space including Professor Jorge Sanz (Luxembourg Institute in Science and Technology), Professor Thomas Engle (specialist in security and crypto research), and Jacques Santer (9th President of the European Commission).

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In his pre-entrepreneurial career Jed was  a senior civilian officer in NATO and then served  as CTO of Artemis Information Management.

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Nadia Manzari is the founder and a partner of Manzari Legal, a Luxembourg law firm focusing on tech law, financial services, FinTech, AML/CTF, regulatory, compliance and innovation.

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​Prior to founding her own firm, Nadia was a Partner at Schiltz & Schiltz, a firm she joined in 2018.  She started her career in 2001 at the  Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), where she left as Head of the Innovation, Payments, Markets Infrastructures and Governance Department.

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She is a regular speaker at national and international conferences covering payment services, financial technologies, remuneration policies and corporate governance.

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Nadia is a lecturer for Fintech and Digital Finance law and regulation in the Master in Finance and Economics (MScFE) and for Tech law at the University of Luxembourg in the Master in Space, Communication and Media Law.

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She graduated in law from the University Robert Schuman in Strasbourg and holds a master degree in private law (maîtrise en droit privé, mention “droit des affaires”) as well as a postgraduate DJCE diploma (Diplôme de Juriste Conseil d’Entreprise) degree with a focus on German-French business law. She holds the Certificate in Corporate Governance of INSEAD and is an ILA certified director.

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Krisztina Szenci is a Sustainability Senior Manager at PwC Luxembourg with over 15 years of work experience in sustainability consulting and in banking. 

Since 2016, Krisztina has been active developing ‘sPwC Luxembourg agenda on sustainability strategy. Krisztina specializes in sustainability strategy transformation, sustainability reporting & assurance with a special focus on climate change (net zero and ESG upskilling). 

Since October 2020, Krisztina is seconded part-time to the World Economic Forum supporting the WEF-IBC reporting framework project team. The WEF-IBC team is promoting the adoption of the stakeholder capitalism metrics to be implemented to drive a systemic change and a global convergence in the non-financial reporting. 

Since 2022 Krisztina is also seconded to the PwC global ESG upskilling team, working on a global ESG curriculum for both internal staff and for clients.

She is the Luxembourg country expert for SDG reporting to assess the extent to which companies are embedding the SDGs within their core business strategies and how they are reporting on it on target level. 

Krisztina has several years of working experience with the European Institutions, particularly the European Court of Auditors and the European Investment Bank where,  as an external consultant, she has worked on projects related to Sustainable Urban Development, Energy Efficiency/Renewable Energies, a.o.

Krisztina holds Master’s Degrees in Business Administration from University Maastricht (Netherlands) and Master’s Dergree in European Studies and Global Affairs from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy). She has followed number of sustainability and climate change courses from University Cambridge/ Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership Programme  and from Kite Climate School.  

Anthony Smith-Meyer is a specialist within Governance, Compliance and topics relating to organisational behaviour and company direction. He is the Founder and Managing Director of a recently launched social impact, idea creation, governance website (thegovernanceproject.org) and is the author of the undergraduate textbook “Surviving Organisational Behaviour”. After over 30 years in mainstream banking, he founded, and was Editor-in-Chief of, the Journal of Business Compliance in January 2012 until 2016. Previously Head of Group Compliance at Fortis Group and a member of the Group Executive Committee of Compliance and Control at BNP Paribas, Anthony has been extensively involved with Compliance matters since 2003. Anthony holds the Institute of Directors Diploma in Corporate Direction and is a Certified Director of the Institut Luxembourgeois des Administrateurs. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the International Compliance Association. Additionally, he is an Adjunct Professor and lecturer of International Business and Management at the European Campus of Miami University, Ohio, an independent executive lecturer and instructor in matters relating to Corporate Governance and Compliance; including delivery of Master Classes in Company Direction and Compliance Management in conjunction with ICA (UK) and Manchester Business School.

Martin Flaunet started his career as an auditor for the banking industry in Luxembourg.  Martin has been an audit partner since 2006 and has built expertise in banking and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). As part of his 26 years of experience, Martin spent 2 years in the Banking & Securities audit department of Deloitte in New York City.

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During his career supporting the banking supervisor in his capacity of banking auditor, Martin developed an expertise in the subject of corporate governance for credit institutions, especially in the context of the Single Supervisory Mechanism. Martin is the Luxembourg representative for the Deloitte Banking Union Centre in Frankfurt, a pan-European resource to meet credit institutions´ needs and requirements through a multidisciplinary team of senior and experienced professionals from the Deloitte’s Financial Services practices across Eurozone and the UK.

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As part of his internal roles, Martin is also the Chief of Ethics of Deloitte in Luxembourg chairing Deloitte Ethics Committee (Luxembourg), dedicating time and efforts to implement and develop the ethics program internally and integrity within the financial sector.

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Leading the Deloitte IFRS desk in Luxembourg, Martin is actively contributing to the initiatives related to sustainability as part of the financial and non-financial reporting for the Financial services industry. He is heavily involved in discussions on establishing global sustainability reporting standards  in order to support of transparent measurement and disclosure of information about sustainability performance through the Deloitte IFRS network.

Eila Kreivi is Chief Sustainable Finance Advisor at the European Investment Bank since February 2022.

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From April 2011 until end of January 2022, she headed the Capital Markets Department of the EIB, as its Director. Before that, she was the Head of Funding for the Americas, Asia & Pacific.

Between March 2018 and January 2022, she was an alternate member of the Board of Directors of the European Investment Fund (EIF).

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Prior to joining the financing arm of the European Union in 1995, Eila Kreivi worked at the Union Bank of Finland and Société Générale, in Helsinki and in Paris.

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She holds a Master of Science degree in Economics from the University of Abo Akademi in Finland. In addition to her native language of Finnish, she is fluent in English, French and Swedish.

Eila Kreivi chaired the Executive Committee of the Green Bond Principles in 2015-2018. She has represented the EIB at the EU High-level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance in 2017‑2018, established by the European Commission. Between 2018 and September 2020, she also represented the EIB at the European Commission’s Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance created in 2018. Since October 2020, she is a member of the Platform on Sustainable Finance, an advisory body created by the European Commission.

In July 2020, she was elected as member of the Board of Directors of the International Capital Market Association (ICMA).

Glenn Meyer is a Partner in the Banking & Financial Services practice of Arendt & Medernach. He advises banks, investment firms, payment and electronic money institutions and other professionals of the financial sector on all types of financial regulatory matters. He also handles mergers and acquisitions and asset acquisition files in the financial sector.

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Glenn has also acquired considerable knowledge and expertise in the regulatory framework relating to the combat against money laundering and terrorist financing.

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He has participated in a number of working groups of the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), and the Luxembourg bankers’ association (ABBL) on various regulatory matters.

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He is a guest lecturer at the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) in banking and financial law, at the University of Luxembourg in European banking and financial law as well as in contract law in the context of the Luxembourg bar exam. He has been a member of the Luxembourg Bar since 2001.

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Glenn Meyer holds a Master's degree in business law from the Université Robert Schuman de Strasbourg (France) as well as a DEA degree in business law from the same university.

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He is considered by clients as a “key figure” of the Banking & Finance sector in the Legal 500 guide, as well as “reactive and practical”.