President and Chief Executive Officer at BAFT, the global non-profit association responsible for providing thought leadership, advocacy, education, and a global community for organizations engaged in Transaction Banking. Oversee development of industry agenda for trade finance, cash management, liquidity, compliance, innovation and other areas affecting the transaction banking industry. Drive regulatory advocacy, establish best practices and provide training to thousands of practitioners in the transaction banking industry. Membership includes 300+ companies on 6 continents including over 85% of the world’s top 50 banks and the most influential business leaders in transaction banking.

Emmanuelle Ganne is Chief of Digital Trade and Frontier Technologies of the World Trade Organization (WTO) where she leads WTO work on Blockchain. She is the author of a recently published WTO book entitled “Can Blockchain Revolutionize International Trade?”

Dr. Rebecca Harding is CEO of the Centre for Economic Security and an independent trade economist, author, public speaker. She is a specialist in digital and sustainable trade and supply chain finance, geoeconomics and geopolitics. Her affiliations include roles as Chief Economic Adviser to the Defence Security and Resilience Bank, an Associate at Earendel Associates, a Senior Fellow at the British Foreign Policy Group and an Associate Partner in the T3i Partner network. She is a member of the Alphen Group.

Her strategic advisory business, Rebeccanomics, provides services in international trade including work on sustainable trade finance for the ITFA and the Sustainable Trade Forum. In 2022 she was awarded the “Net Zero Entrepreneur of the Year” at the annual Scale Up Group’s Enterprise Awards.

She has built three data-based technology businesses. She has held senior positions as Head of Corporate Research at Deloitte, Senior Fellow at London Business School, and Chief Economist roles at the Work Foundation and at UK Finance. She acted as Specialist Adviser to the Treasury Select Committee and advised the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Entrepreneurship. Between 2004 and 2018 she was a Director and Trustee of the German-British Forum.

Eleanor Hill is an Editorial Board Member, covering treasury, cash and payments at Trade Treasury Payments.

As Founder and CEO of Koenigsberg Insights, he brings decades of expertise across payments, treasury, and financial services, helping organisations translate complexity into clarity. He specialises in delivering actionable solutions that strengthen risk management, optimise costs, and accelerate time-to-market through scalable and resilient operational frameworks. Through Koenigsberg Insights, he provides executive advisory services, expert-witness testimony, and strategic guidance that support sustainable, long-term outcomes.

Beyond the firm, he serves on the Editorial Board of Trade Treasury Payments and on the Advisory Board of Cardlay — roles that reflect his commitment to shaping the future of financial services. At TTP, he contributes insight on liquidity, risk, and market infrastructure to advance industry education. At Cardlay, his advisory work focuses on go-to-market strategy, product positioning, and enterprise expansion.

Across all his roles, he remains dedicated to delivering clarity, innovation, and strategic foresight that help institutions navigate a rapidly evolving financial landscape.

Pamela Mar Managing Director of the Digital Standards Initiative (DSI) of the International Chamber of Commerce, based in Singapore.

The DSI is a public private partnership backed by the ICC, Asian Development Bank, World Trade Organization and the Singapore government, dedicated to accelerating the digitalization of global trade as a key driver of growth, development and inclusion. Prior to joining the DSI, Pamela was Executive Vice President for Supply Chain Futures, and then EVP for Knowledge and Applications for the Fung Group, a Hong Kong based multinational supply chain manager where she was also the first Group head of Sustainability. 

She was named one of Asia’s ten A-list sustainability leaders in 2019, and is a recognized industry leader in this area. Prior to moving to Hong Kong, Pamela was based in Shenzhen as a Director of Global Finance for TCL Multimedia Technology, the first major Chinese company to go global by buying a foreign brand.

Prior to TCL, Pamela ran Greater China for the World Economic Forum, based in Geneva for five years. Pamela was born in New York and went to university in the USA, but has spent the majority of her life abroad, with stints in Bangkok, London, Geneva and Shenzhen.

Eleonore Juliane Treu, a German lawyer, is in-house legal counsel at ICC Austria. Her day-to-day activities include international capacity building, business development and project management in Trade Finance, Letters of Credit, Bank guarantees and Arbitration.

She is a member of the “Legal Committee” of the “ICC Banking Commission”, a member of the acceptance stream of the ICC Task Force on Digitalisation and founding member of the “Regional Banking Forum CEE and Central Asia”. She frequently travels to those regions to speak on ICC’s priorities, on opportunities for capacity building and on various ICC policy agendas.

Eleonore regularly teaches at Austrian universities and has published several essays and articles. Prior to joining ICC Austria she worked at the “Institute for International Civil and Civil Procedural Law” at the University Leipzig and the Law Department of the “University of Applied Science” in Wiener Neustadt.

Richard Wulff is the Executive Director at ICISA – the International Credit Insurance & Surety Association. With over 30 years of experience as a senior (re)insurance executive, he has led business transformations across Europe, Australia, and East and Southeast Asia, specialising in turnaround management and growth. His expertise spans all areas of non-life insurance, with a focus on trade credit insurance, surety, and political risk insurance.

His leadership style emphasizes teamwork, collaboration, strategic and tactical planning, execution, and transparency with both internal and external stakeholders.

Key achievements include:

• Leading successful turnarounds at QBE, Munich Re, and the NCM Group, surpassing market benchmarks for revenue and profit growth.
•  Expanding business by introducing new products, entering new markets, and ensuring consistent execution of strategic plans.
• Establishing legal entities to enhance operational efficiency and profitability through improved structure and processes.

Geoffrey Wynne is a partner and head of Sullivan’s Trade and Export Finance Group and the firm’s London office. Recognised as one of the leading trade finance lawyers globally, Geoff advises major trade finance banks and financial institutions around the world on trade and commodity transactions in virtually every emerging market and works on structured trade transactions covering a wide range of commodities.

Geoff also acts extensively for industry bodies including BAFT, ITFA and the ICC on documentation and rules promulgated by them in trade finance. He has recently been involved with issues across the trade finance spectrum including the move towards digitising of trade documents. Geoff was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by RFIX in 2024 and is recognised as a leading lawyer by Chambers UK, the Legal 500, UK and IFLR1000.

Gwen Mwaba is a senior trade finance leader at Afreximbank, where she plays a central role in advancing sustainable financial solutions that strengthen Africa’s trade and investment landscape.

She leads new business development and strategic relationship management initiatives across the continent, drawing on deep expertise in structured trade finance and investment banking. Her work supports Afreximbank’s mandate to expand access to trade finance, deepen market participation, and deliver tailored solutions that respond to the evolving needs of African corporates and financial institutions.

Working closely with regional and international partners, Mwaba has contributed to the development of a resilient and inclusive trade finance ecosystem. Her approach combines commercial discipline with a strong commitment to economic development, positioning trade finance as a catalyst for growth, integration, and long-term prosperity across African markets.