Name
Leigh Bates
Job Title
Partner, Data & Analytics Lead
Company
PwC UK
Speaker Bio
Leigh is an experienced Partner leading PwC’s Financial Services Data Analytics practice, specialising in risk and regulatory compliance data analytics. Leigh is also the UK risk practice leader for Artificial Intelligence (ML & GenAI) across all industry sectors.
He brings over 25 years of experience data management and advanced analytics, with specific expertise in regulatory data management, Chief Data Office advisory, data analytics strategy and AI. Over his career Leigh has focussed on leading innovative, data analytics solutions to solve important business issues for clients. More recently Leigh has led the development of Generative AI to optimise risk management and internal audit reporting alongside developing accelerators to support clients with their safe and trusted adoption of AI.
- Leigh has led many Responsible AI governance programmes over the past 5+ years with clients to establish important governance, controls and guardrails for the safe and trusted deployment of AI models and solutions and delivery measurable business value;
- More recently Leigh has led engagements with global banks to enhance AI governance and controls for GenAI LLM models and solutions, including the risk triage of GenAI business use cases and evaluation of risk and value. This includes the use of GenAI in applications such as Microsoft Copilot;
- Leigh is the lead Partner for a global enterprise data management transformation FED/OCC consent order programme covering data policy, minimum standards and procedures, EUC policy, DQ issue management, compliance metrics, process driven compensating measures and closure evidence, data risk taxonomy and regulatory programme management;
- He has led numerous data privacy and protection programmes for banks and asset managers which included data discovery and mapping of PII data, privacy by design, lawfulness and processing and third-party management;
- For a large global investment bank, he led the innovative implementation of a group wide data driven market risk programme to optimise a market risk calculation and reporting process to deliver intra-day results, using machine learning and in memory analytics;
- Leigh has overseen a number of global banks transaction reporting compliance obligations through detailed analysis of process, controls and data completeness and accuracy of submissions, in areas such as MiFID II, EMIR, DFA.
He brings over 25 years of experience data management and advanced analytics, with specific expertise in regulatory data management, Chief Data Office advisory, data analytics strategy and AI. Over his career Leigh has focussed on leading innovative, data analytics solutions to solve important business issues for clients. More recently Leigh has led the development of Generative AI to optimise risk management and internal audit reporting alongside developing accelerators to support clients with their safe and trusted adoption of AI.
- Leigh has led many Responsible AI governance programmes over the past 5+ years with clients to establish important governance, controls and guardrails for the safe and trusted deployment of AI models and solutions and delivery measurable business value;
- More recently Leigh has led engagements with global banks to enhance AI governance and controls for GenAI LLM models and solutions, including the risk triage of GenAI business use cases and evaluation of risk and value. This includes the use of GenAI in applications such as Microsoft Copilot;
- Leigh is the lead Partner for a global enterprise data management transformation FED/OCC consent order programme covering data policy, minimum standards and procedures, EUC policy, DQ issue management, compliance metrics, process driven compensating measures and closure evidence, data risk taxonomy and regulatory programme management;
- He has led numerous data privacy and protection programmes for banks and asset managers which included data discovery and mapping of PII data, privacy by design, lawfulness and processing and third-party management;
- For a large global investment bank, he led the innovative implementation of a group wide data driven market risk programme to optimise a market risk calculation and reporting process to deliver intra-day results, using machine learning and in memory analytics;
- Leigh has overseen a number of global banks transaction reporting compliance obligations through detailed analysis of process, controls and data completeness and accuracy of submissions, in areas such as MiFID II, EMIR, DFA.