Dorothee Ancira

Head of Internal Validation at Santander UK

Speaker

Dorothée is Head of Internal Validation at Santander UK, where she leads a team of quantitative specialists responsible for the independent validation of models across the bank. Her remit spans credit, financial and non-financial risk models, as well as the full portfolio of AI models, providing independent assurance over model performance, limitations and risk.

With two decades of experience in financial services, Dorothée has held senior roles across enterprise risk, structural risk, model development and analytics. Her broad experience gives her a cross-disciplinary perspective on the evolving challenges of model risk management, particularly as financial institutions adopt increasingly sophisticated analytical and AI-driven solutions.

Dorothée holds a BSc in Actuarial Science from ITAM and an MSc in Decision Sciences from the London School of Economics and Political Science.