Niru Govender

Niru Govender is an experienced finance and risk management professional currently serving as a Partner at True North Partners LLP since July 2017, where consulting focuses on risk, finance, and strategy. Prior to this role, Niru worked at Standard Chartered Bank from 2005 to 2017, holding various positions including Senior Manager and Head of Group Operational Risk Stress Testing, where responsibilities encompassed leading operational risk stress testing and scenario analysis. Other notable roles at Standard Chartered included Head of Credit for unsecured lending and Head of Portfolio Risk Analytics in Consumer Banking. Niru began a career as a Quantitative Analyst at Standard Bank of South Africa, specializing in credit pricing and risk management models. Niru holds a Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) from the University of Cambridge, a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Advanced Mathematics of Finance from the University of the Witwatersrand, and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.