- We created the Oxford Bank Governance Programme to equip senior leaders at banking organisations and other related financial institutions to address the modern challenges that financial institutions are facing in understanding of the changing regulatory landscape and the challenges that banks face within that landscape and how to interact with their regulators to even more technical aspect around risk management and how to address particular risks and the systems and models around those risks.

- It's been wonderful to gain new perspectives and also just to chat to colleagues from around the world about challenges that are common. Coming from the continent that we do, I think often we do think that our scenarios are unique, but understanding that we are all, as a banking fraternity, globally facing similar challenges and working towards the same goals has in fact been quite inspiring for me.

- In my part of the programme, what I try to teach them is some of the basics of how technology trends are affecting industry. So we teach them about the way that digital platforms work, and we take examples from other industries, healthcare, education, transportation, and try to really understand why is it that we see such a big tech presence in those industries. And then we take those concepts into finance and look into how that might look like in finance, give examples of some of the trends of data-driven companies coming into finance. We recognise how regulation is changing and making data much more democratic to share within finance and then ask ourselves, in this world, how do we compete?

- The participants will take away a wide range of skills in the areas of bank strategy, risk management, organisational behaviour, regulation, and the legal aspects of bank governance.

- I do have the unique privilege of being in the courtroom, the boardroom, and the classroom, and I will be taking back the knowledge to the classroom to also discuss with my students and to the boardroom to now focus a whole lot more on sustainability issues from a practical perspective, giving some of the key highlights that have come out of this programme, particularly about the purpose for which a company is. I think the programme is structured to the needs of bank board members, and I feel really privileged to be part of this.

- We bring in climate scientists from our Environmental Change Institute. We can bring in economists and social scientists from other parts of the university to really bring a well-rounded view of the challenges that banks and other financial institutions face today. And these challenges really require interdisciplinary thinking, thinking out of the box, and trying to put the different pieces of the puzzle together to come up with solutions that put them on a path to success.

- Oxford, because of it's location outside of a major financial centre and being a world class university provides a a conducive atmosphere for the exchange of information between students and teachers and between professionals that are coming to learn and update their knowledge about their various professional activities. And so we think for bank governance, this is particularly important. The UK is a major international banking hub based in London and the Said Business School teaches banking and finance and provides the type of academic programmes that are relevant for not just students, but also for practitioners who are coming back to update their skills and to develop new knowledge and understanding of global markets.

- The questioning that is happening, the information presented, the different perspectives have certainly challenged some of my own thinking and have equipped me as well to really respond to some of the rhetoric, the conversation, the positions from a policy and other perspective that we have to deal with on an ongoing basis.

- I've definitely benefited from attending with a such a diverse cohort. We come from very different countries and different markets as well. So learning from a more developed market, especially being from an emerging market, has been so beneficial for me.

- Beyond the classrooms, we've forged such close network of friendships over the past three days only, and the last night was a blaster. I don't want to take you through the details, but we had all different people come out of their element and we built great friendships, showing photographs of their family and having nightcaps. And it was really beautiful, good interaction with the faculty and with our colleagues from around the world.

- The programme has been really enjoyable. I do think that one week is not long enough, and I do wanna encourage future female bankers as well as current board of directors to come and join us at the programme to enhance your vision and enhance your learnings and what you can bring into your organisation.