Katarina is an experienced subject matter expert in the economic crime prevention space. As the Head of Regulation and Policy at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, she focuses on anti-money laundering, fraud, identity, payments, and credit risk decisioning. With over 14 years of experience in field of economic crime and risk management, Katarina has previously worked as a practitioner and consultant at PwC before joining LexisNexis Risk Solutions.

As a member of the strategic planning team, Katarina analyses regulatory dynamics and changes that impact the market, helping to build strategies driven by regulation. She is responsible for the economic crime aspect, focusing on the UK and Ireland while considering global trends that influence domestic markets.

In her role, Katarina represents LexisNexis Risk Solutions in front of regulators, trade bodies, and media. She creates thought leadership content and speaks at conferences and trade shows, sharing her expertise and insights on economic crime and regulatory matters. Katarina serves as the Board Chair of Open Identity Exchange (OIX), advocating for technology that supports accessible and effective compliance.

A Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) since 2016, Katarina is based in London. Originally from Croatia, she takes pleasure in engaging with industry practitioners across a wide array of markets and territories.

Paul is focused on developing a perspective as to how Mastercard engages with and enables reusable identity ecosystems globally which includes working with regulators and industry partners across the globe.  He serves as a subject matter expert in authentication and reusable identity and helping support bringing this new opportunity from theory into the real world.  He is responsible for ensuring that MasterCard’s products are well positioned to help our customers meet local regulatory requirements and has driven our Identity Solution in India based on Aadhaar and licensed from the UIDAI.

Previously he was Global Product management of MasterCard's Authentication solutions including SecureCode & Identity Check and played a key role in the developing global authentication strategy for MasterCard Worldwide.  He also represented Mastercard surrounding PSD2 and the Regulatory Technical Standard on Strong Consumer Authentication. Paul has extensive experience in the rapidly evolving Card Not Present (CNP) payment arena including Identity, the security of payments and transactions.

Paul joined MasterCard in June 2005.  Before joining MasterCard he spent 26 years in the banking industry with HSBC in the UK undertaking a number of roles and key management positions.  During his time with HSBC he delivered a global Internet Payment Gateway solution for HSBC and was instrumental in developing their products and services surrounding Card ePayments and Security.

Paul has volunteered his experience in support of education including various governor roles including that of the Chair of Governors and he lives in West Yorkshire, UK with his wife and two children.

My experience in work with various organisations across data, application and infrastructure architecture, my leadership of technical standards in the OpenID Foundation, as well as direct implementation experience ofcustomer and workforce identity systems all give me a solid foundation to contribute from.

I am interested in the tensions between matters of privacy and protection of end-users and the challenges of commercial and governmental use, and misuse of data as well as the interplay between policy matters and the technology delivery.

Finally with my owner/founder role and entrepreneurial tendencies I can offer a start-up perspective that will allow me to represent that communities' interests and enhance the OIX a broad range of viewpoints.

David is the Co-Founder, Chief Executive and Platform Architect of Mydex Data Services Community Interest Company that delivers a Safe Secure Cloud encompassing digital identity, personal data exchange and reference data services that is live and certified and working across the public, private and third sector for the last 17 years.

David is the former Director of Strategy and Marketing at  Northgate Public Services  and Group Development Director at  Computacenter plc , David has over 40 years private and public sector experience in mission critical systems development, software architecture design and engineering, proposition development, innovation and commercial management. David leads for Mydex CIC on its Programme engagement with UK Government and key collaborative programmes relating to Identity, Identity Assurance and Personal Data Empowerment. Mydex and David have been OIX Members for over 10 years.

Debora Comparin is Standardization Expert at Thales Digital Identity & Security, founder and chair of the OSIA Initiative, co-founder of SIDI Hub and Advisory Board member of the Linux Foundation Europe.

She is a strong advocate for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16.9 ‘Identity for all by 2030’ and in 2019 founded the OSIA initiative, a public-private sector partnership to build interoperability for national identity infrastructures. OSIA is recognized as an International Telecommunication Union (ITU) standard by its 193 governments.

Today, Debora oversees the initiative, guiding its open source reference implementation developed in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

In 2023 Debora co-founded SIDI Hub, a platform for standard organizations, governments and non-profits to define a solution for cross-border digital Identity interoperability.

She started her career as graduate engineer at SAFRAN where she acted as the seconded representative at the Aerospace Growth Partnership (AGP), a public-private sector partnership between the UK government and the industry established to secure the future of the UK aerospace sector.

She frequently speaks on the interplay of standardization with open source software in the context of digital government infrastructures, open standards for digital identity, and interoperability.

She holds an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from University of Padova and a Business Strategy & Consulting qualification from Imperial College.

+20 years of experience at British Airways before joining IAG in 2014. As part of the group Digital Business Transformation team, I am responsible for our Automation Strategy. For our operation this means robotics, autonomous vehicles and AI. For the customer, the problem to solve is Identity.

Director - Global Head of Access Managment | Digital Identity| Open Banking

Michael has a vast array of experience within IT infrastructure, Solution Architect, Consultancy roles and Outsourcing most recently working in the new world of Open Banking as External Regulatory Technical Lead Architect for Barclays.

He's lead the solutioning of some of the largest outsourcing deals in the world to designing large highly resilient and secure banking systems. Working with top Formula 1 teams and helping to modernising the architecture and vision of Barclays as part of continuous improvement.

Having moved into Barclays New Ventures arm, he's now looking at opportunities across the Financial Services Sector.

Nick has an expert knowledge of the Identity industry: its’ challenges, requirements and solutions spanning a variety of different sectors (e.g. government, finance, age related); and using different ID techniques from D2C2B Digtial ID to B2B ID Services.

He has over 30 years’ experience in strategic innovation and is renowned for finding practical ways to drive real change by bringing new ideas and products to market.

Nick was previously Director of ID and Fraud solutions at Experian where he was responsible for the strategic development of Experian’s fraud and identity solutions for both the public and private sectors. Prior to that Nick was a director of a company providing global solutions within the broader Criminal Justice arena and he has also worked for IBM in the healthcare and utilities sector. He has a degree in Computer Science.

Gareth Narinesingh is a digital identity evangelist with a strong conviction that reusable identity will transform peoples’ lives for the better. He has recent experience of digital identity sales and product management and before this built his career in regulatory consulting, FCA supervision and various market roles in banking. Gareth’s key objective is to work across the OIX membership to promote digital identity through a unified voice, to enable early-stage ecosystems and use cases to be built and adopted under robust trust frameworks.

Communications & events specialist with over 25 years experience.

OIX PR Manager

Highly experienced communications professional with over 20 years of experience in developing and delivering strong strategic communications programmes. I have worked directly with leadership teams, managing expectations and securing support, while mapping out communications strategies aligned to commercial objectives. 

Sophie is a DPhil student at the Oxford Internet Institute and a freelance researcher. Her doctoral research examines how normative conceptions of citizenship embedded in government digital identification platforms shape access to rights, resources, and political participation. Sophie has also conducted freelance research with organisations including UNHCR, the European Centre for Privacy and Cybersecurity, the Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy, and Harvard Berkman Klein Centre for Internet & Society. Her expertise lies in the social and ethical implications of digital technology use in the contexts of migration and humanitarianism.