Per Ola Nilsson is a seasoned risk management specialist with ADB’s office of risk management. Prior to joining ADB he was 12 years with Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. His last role at NIB was Senior Director heading up NIB’s special operations team, and a member of NIB’s management group. Before that he served in various capacities at the Swedish Export Credit Agency and in SEB, a major Swedish commercial bank.

Marian Gimeno-Arellano is a Risk Management Specialist, working at ADB’s Office of Risk Management for over 15 years. She was the Team Leader in the review of ADB’s Capital Adequacy Framework. Before joining ADB, she worked at the Central Bank of the Philippines supervising top commercial banks and branches of foreign banks in Manila. Prior to that she worked at, Ernst and Young, Manila Office handling risk-based audits of financial institutions and top Philippine corporations.