Marina Antoniou

Marina Antoniou specializes in global capital markets risks and controls with a focus on conduct risk, rogue trading, financial crime and trade surveillance.

She is the global head of global markets risk & control assessment at BNP Paribas.  

Marina has extensive experience working with regulators globally. In the past, she acted as lead validator, at Top Tier banks, on regulatory conduct risk programmes sanctioned by the US Federal Reserve Bank and the US Department of Justice. Marina also acted as head of Audit for Citigroup where she received the Global recognition award for her performance.  

Marina is a qualified chartered accountant and member of the ICAEW. She completed a Technology Entrepreneurship course at Harvard and studied FinTech at the University of Oxford Said Business School. Marina studied Investment Management at the London Business School and has an MSc in Economics & Finance from Warwick Business School.  

Marina is an executive committee and board member at various institutions. She is also a founding member of the Hellenic Tech Network, an ambassador for the University of Warwick Business School and the Hellenic Bankers Association.  

Marina acts as guest lecturer at Exec MBA courses and speaker at conferences globally  covering conduct risk, digital transformation, digital assets, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech and ESG.  

Marina speaks four languages and acts as a mentor for the Global Thinkers Forum. She is a multiple award winner photographer and presented her work on climate risk in solo exhibitions at the Cyprus High Commission and the Hellenic Centre in London.