As Vice President, Risk & Compliance, Chief Risk Officer, Betsy Nelson is responsible for ensuring independent risk management of the Bank’s Banking and Treasury exposures, operational risk and information security, Environment and Sustainability Department, Procurement Policy and Advisory Department, and has administrative management of the Office of the Chief Compliance Officer.  She is a member of the Executive Committee, Management Committee, OpsCom, Equity Committee, and Chair of the Bank’s Risk Committee.  Ms Nelson joined the EBRD in March 2012 as VP of the then combined Risk and Resources.  Prior to joining the EBRD, she was the Head of Credit Department in the Risk Specialists Division of the Financial Services Authority (now PRA) in the UK.  Before this she had a career spanning 30 years at JPMorgan Chase. She has worked most of her career in Europe and the UK and has held a number of senior management positions, including Head of Corporate Banking and Head of Client Credit Management, both for the EMEA region.