Speaker

Robin Roy is a Managing Director - Middle East Governance, Risk & Compliance Leader with Alvarez & Marsal Disputes and Investigations in Riyadh. He brings 35 years of experience, including as a C-suite leader, working across the U.K. and Middle East with government entities, blue-chip financial institutions, private equity firms, asset managers and regulators. His primary area of concentration is governance, risk and compliance.

Mr. Roy’s notable engagements include building out the financial crime compliance infrastructure for the premier sovereign wealth fund in Saudi Arabia, from its beginning to over 2,000 staff in line with its growth plans; building out the governance, risk and compliance infrastructure for a start-up investment bank headquartered in the DIFC that expanded in the UAE and across Egypt, South Africa, Lebanon and London over a 10-year period; and heading and developing EMEA compliance functions for a blue-chip U.S. banking group and a blue-chip U.S. alternatives asset manager in line with U.S. group and local requirements.