ING Appoints Andrea Cesaroni as Group Chief Risk Officer
ING announced on Monday the appointment of Andrea Cesaroni as the Group's Chief Risk Officer. Cesaroni, who has been leading integrated risk management since 2022, has been acting in this role since February 2026.
Internal Promotion After Several Months of Interim
Andrea Cesaroni will be appointed as a member of ING's management board effective June 8, 2026. The supervisory board will propose his appointment to the ING Group's executive board at an extraordinary general meeting scheduled for July 31, 2026. This appointment will take effect following the meeting, subject to shareholder approval. The European Central Bank has already approved this appointment.
A 25-Year Career in Risk Management
Cesaroni joined ING in 2022 as the director of integrated risk management, with overall responsibility for risk management policies, frameworks, and governance, including ESG risks and risk modeling. Prior to this, he held positions as the group's financial risk manager and head of risk models and credit risk governance at UniCredit, as well as consulting roles at Deloitte and Arthur Andersen. He holds a degree in economics from the University of Rome and an MBA from the University of Bologna's business school.
Departure from the Executive Board of Ljiljana Čortan
Ljiljana Čortan, the former risk director, took over as head of the group's Wholesale Banking division in February 2026. She will leave the executive board when Cesaroni's appointment is approved by the shareholders.
