Insights

Gilly Lord
Head of Assurance Strategy and Transformation, PwC UK

The Dog That Didn’t Bark: who’s to blame when there is corporate failure?

Tuesday 22 Jan | 18.00-19.00
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, NAB.

Gilly is a PwC UK partner and chartered accountant.  She is a practising audit partner and is also head of PwC’s London Top Tier Assurance practice.  She is Chair of the ICAEW’s Audit and Assurance Faculty and is a Council Member at the ICAEW.  

As head of London Top Tier Assurance, Gilly leads a group of 38 Partners and 800 assurance professionals in the delivery of high quality assurance work to PwC’s largest listed clients. This work includes statutory audit work and non-statutory assurance work covering many different types of risk. Gilly also leads for the firm on issues of assurance regulation and public policy.  

Gilly has been PwC UK’s Head of Audit Strategy and Transformation, and PwC UK’s Head of Regulatory Affairs. As well as more than 20 years of large listed external audit experience, Gilly has also been a Partner in PwC’s Financial Services regulatory team, leading regulatory investigations (s166s) and advising banking clients on the impact of regulation. This included time spent seconded to the FSA reviewing supervisory strategy for high impact firms.  

Peter Kernan
Managing Director and Global Criteria Officer, S&P Global Ratings

An Overview of S&P Global Credit Ratings

Tuesday 26 Feb | 18.00-19.00
Old Theatre, Old Building

Peter Kernan is a Managing Director and a member of S&P Global Ratings Methodologies group Centre of Excellence. In this role Peter is responsible for criteria development and developing solutions to address complex global credit risk analytical issues across different asset classes. Peter is also one of S&P Global Ratings subject matter experts in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) analytics and has an extensive background of research, public speaking and publishing in the credit risk and ESG spaces. Peter was formerly the Global Criteria Officer for Corporate and Infrastructure Ratings at S&P Global Ratings in which role Peter oversaw the development of all criteria applied to rate corporate and infrastructure entities globally. 

Peter was previously the Head of S&P Global Ratings EMEA Utilities team and the Chairman of S&P Global Ratings Global Government Related Entity focus team. Peter has also held roles as the Head of S&P Global Ratings EMEA Telecommunications and Cable team and EMEA Diversified Industries team which provided ratings and analytics for companies in the investment holding company, forest products, business services, paper and packaging, transportation and building materials sectors.

Peter joined S&P Global Ratings in 1998 as a telecom and cable analyst having worked for Societe Generale as a loan officer and HSBC in leveraged buy-outs and acquisition finance. Peter holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from University College, Dublin and a Master’s Degree in Business Studies from The Graduate School of Business at University College, Dublin with a specialization in financial services. 

Reception to follow events from 19.00
Foyer outside the Sheikh Zayed Theatre (22 Jan) and the Atrium, ground floor Old Building (26 Feb)

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