ING Groep N.V. announced that Andrea Cesaroni will be appointed chief risk officer of ING. Andrea has been the head of Integrated Risk at ING since 2022 and additionally took on the role as head of Risk ad interim since 24 February 2026, reporting to the CFO, when former CRO Ljiljana Cortan took on her new role as head of Wholesale Banking. As announced earlier, Ljiljana Cortan will at the same moment step down from the Executive Board.
Andrea joined ING in 2022 as head of Integrated Risk with overall responsibility for the risk management policies, frameworks and governance, including ESG risk, risk modelling and capital adequacy process. He has also been overseeing ING?s day-to-day risk management activities as head of Risk ad interim since 24 February 2026. Andrea has over 25 years of experience in financial services and risk management.
He joined ING from UniCredit, where he was head of Group Financial Risk and later head of Group Risk Models & Credit Risk Governance, where he was responsible for credit and financial risk analytics as well as group-wide credit policies and lending guidelines. Before joining UniCredit he was a consultant at Deloitte and Arthur Andersen. Andrea is Italian and holds a Bachelor?s in Economics from the University of Rome and an MBA from the University of Bologna Business School.
