Anne Leslie is Cloud Risk and Controls Leader at IBM Cloud. She has over 15 years of experience in international roles in banking and related technology businesses, spanning the intersection of financial services, regulatory policy, cybersecurity, AI, and cloud. Since joining IBM, her focus has been on accompanying financial institutions in securing their journey to public cloud and transforming their operational models to adapt to the accelerating pace of business, regulatory, and technology change. Widely known for her public speaking, Anne regularly contributes her thought leadership to industry conferences and working groups convened by supranational bodies such as the G7, Financial Stability Board (FSB), the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), and The Council for Countering Hybrid Warfare on topics such as operational resilience, emerging technology risk management, and grey-zone conflict. Co-editor of The AI Book and co-author of The RegTech Book, Anne is a recognized trusted advisor with a proven ability to establish common ground and drive outcome-oriented dialogue on complex industry issues across all layers of the public-private ecosystem.