Anita D. Millar

Anita Millar's expertise in risk management is rooted in her training at the TD Bank Financial Group (in Toronto), where she was involved in estimating counterparty credit risk on derivative transactions. In 1997 she moved to London and joined NatWest Markets (and then Greenwich NatWest), where up to 2000 she led the counterparty risk team through the various challenges presented by a changing product offering and organisation structure. Over that time she also ensured NatWest's inclusion in the Basel II debate through her active participation in industry steering committees and national and international working groups. This regulatory development work continued from 2000 to 2002, when in the post-takeover period she represented all aspects of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group's views on the Basel Capital Adequacy Reform (Basel 2).

Anita Millar launched ADM in 2003, and worked on a series of Basel 2 and MiFID-related risk and regulatory projects both inside and outside the UK for ADM's own clients and as a sub-contractor to top tier consultancies.

In 2008 Anita Millar took a role at Northern Trust, where she designed, developed and implemented a suite of risk audits. In 2009, Anita Millar re-launched ADM Risk, Regulation & Strategy with an expanded service and product offering which resulted in ADM being contracted to manage a number of industry projects on behalf of the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME). These involved ADM working with AFME's membership to develop and communicate its position on a number of Basel 3 / crisis management initiatives relating to the Basel Committee's capital and liquidity proposals, prudential aspects of the developing debate on systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs), and the role that enhanced supervision and contingent capital and Bail-in could play in responding to the systemic concerns of the G20.

In addition to her accumulated knowledge and experience in the risk and regulatory arenas, Anita Millar has an extensive academic background in international affairs. Educated in Canada, she has two independent Masters degrees – one in Economics from the University of Toronto, and one in International Affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA) at Carleton University.