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Advisory BoardReflecting OMFIF’s growing activities and geographical reach, the Board has been split up into six sub-groups: Education, Editorial & Commentary, Banking, Capital Markets, Research & Economics, and Public Policy. The Advisory Board is headed by Professor Lord Meghnad Desai. Songzuo Xiang, Frank Schiedig, and John Nugée are Vice-Chairmen. * Chairman ** Vice-Chairman
 Professor Lord Meghnad Desai, chairman of the Advisory Board, is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics which he joined in 1965 and where he established the Centre for the Study of Global Governance in 1992. His research interests include economics, international political economy, economic history, South-Asian studies and globalisation. Desai gained his Economics. BA and MA at Bombay [Mumbai] University and carried out his doctorate at University of Pennsylvania. Among his honours are Bharat Gaurav (Indian Merchants Chamber 2002), Pravasi Bharatiya Puraskar (Government of India and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry 2004). Desai has authored or edited 20 books and written 200 articles for academic journals and books. He contributes to newspapers in the UK and India. Recent books include Marx's Revenge: The Resurgence of Capitalism and Death of Statist Socialism; Nehru’s Hero: Dilip Kumar in the Life of India; Development and Nationhood: Essays on the Political Economy of South Asia; and The Rediscovery of India.  John Adams was previously a Bank Supervisor, and Manager for China at the Bank of England (1973-1992), and then Adviser for China at West Merchant Bank, a London investment bank specialising in power sector financing(1992-1994). He was also Technical Director of the British Council’s China Financial Sector Training Scheme (1999-2004), which placed 229 Chinese bankers on work experience in London.
He is currently Director of China Financial Services and HR China, and Senior Adviser for China to the Chartered Securities & Investment Institute.
He has written a number of books and reports on China, including a survey of gold jewellery and gold-mining for the World Gold Council, and a review of China’s electricity sector, as well as editing an English-Chinese Dictionary of Finance.
 Katinka Barysch is deputy director of the Centre for European Reform (CER), and she also runs its research programmes on Russia and Turkey. Barysch has written extensively about economic and political transition in Central and Eastern Europe and about all aspects EU enlargement. She also works on European economic reforms, globalisation, the euro, energy question and EU institutional change.
Barysch has acted as an advisor to the EU Select Committee of the House of Lords, the World Economic Forum and other organisations, EU governments and a number of financial institutions and business federations. She regularly comments on European developments in the media, and she was twice nominated for the Rybczynski Prize of economic writing by the Society of Business Economists. Barysch joined the CER in July 2002. Before that, she was an analyst and editor for the Economist Intelligence Unit in London, specialising in Eastern Europe and Russia. Until 1998, she worked as a consultant in Brussels, where she was also involved in formulating the European Commission's strategy towards the East European candidate countries.
 Mario Blejer, vice chairman of Argentine mortgage bank Banco Hipotecario, is former Director of the Centre for Central Banking Studies at the Bank of England (2003- 2007) and was Governor and Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Argentina in 2001-2002. Blejer is Visiting Professor of Economics and Business at San Andrés University in Buenos Aires, and is on the boards of Argentine petroleum company YPF and real estate investment group IRSA. He is on the advisory board of the international economics programme of the Royal Institute of International Affairs and a panel member on the world economy & finance research programme at the Economic & Social Research Council, London. After studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the University of Chicago, Blejer worked for 21 years at the IMF in the Asian, European, Monetary and Exchange, Fiscal and Research Departments. He was Walter Rathenau Professor of Economics at the Hebrew University, assistant professor for economics at Boston University, associate professor of economics and international business at New York University Graduate School of Business, Senior Advisor at The World Ban Europe and Central Asia Region and Visiting Professor of Economics at Central European University, Budapest.
 Frits Bolkestein studied mathematics, philosophy, Greek and economics at the Universities of Oregon, Amsterdam and London. In 1965 he received his master’s degree in law at the University of Leiden. From 1960 to 1976 Bolkestein held several posts within the Shell Group in East Africa, Central America, Indonesia, London and Paris. He started his political career in 1978. For many years Bolkestein served as a Member of Parliament for the VVD, the Dutch Liberal Party. He was minister of Foreign Trade and Minister of Defence. In 2003, he received an honorary doctorate in law of the University of Bradford. In 2004, he became a visiting professor in ‘Intellectual Backgrounds of Political Developments’ at the Universities of Leiden and Delft. He was a member of the European Commission from September 1999 until November 2004, responsible for the internal market, taxation and the customs union. At present, Bolkestein is president of the Telders-foundation, the think-tank connected with the VVD, member of the supervisory board of the Central Bank of The Netherlands and non-executive director of Air-France-KLM. He runs a one-person think-tank in Amsterdam on political and economic issues.
 Paul Boyle was the first Chief Executive of the Financial Reporting Council from 2004 until 2009 - the UK’s independent regulator responsible for promoting confidence in corporate reporting and governance. He led the establishment of the International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators and served as its chairman or vice-chairman from 2006 until 2009. Before joining the FRC Boyle was a member of the leadership team at the UK Financial Services Authority, serving as chief operating officer from 2000 until 2004.
In earlier stages of his career Boyle had senior financial management roles in WH Smith Group and Cadbury Schweppes. He trained as a chartered accountant with Coopers & Lybrand and worked with the firm in the UK, the US and Turkey. Boyle is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and served as a member of its Council from 1990 until 1996. He holds a degree in Accountancy from the University of Glasgow and in 2010 was appointed as an Honorary Professor in the University’s Department of Accountancy and Finance. He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2010.
 Nicholas Bray is an independent communications consultant and journalist based in Paris. He specialises in helping international companies and institutions develop effective communications strategies and teaches reporting and writing techniques at the Sciences Po’ School of Journalism.
From December 1998 to July 2010, Bray headed the media relations department of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Before that, he covered politics, business and finance in a succession of European countries. Between 1976 and 1980, Bray was economic and financial correspondent for Reuters in Italy. In 1980, he moved to Brussels, where he was chief correspondent for Reuters covering the European Community, NATO and Belgium. Bray joined The Wall Street Journal Europe in 1983 as its Paris correspondent, and in 1986 he moved to Madrid to cover Spain and Portugal. Between 1991 and 1998, he covered European banking and economic affairs for The Wall Street Journal from London. In his spare time, Bray works on behalf of non-profit organisations dedicated to promoting contemporary art in the Basque Country, in South-West France, and to raising awareness of modern Turkey in support of its application to join the European Union. He was educated at Oxford and Vienna Universities and at the School for Oriental and African Studies in London.
 Albert Bressand is the Aristotle Onassis Professor of Practice in International and Public Affairs at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and Executive Director of Columbia University's Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy. Formerly, Dr. Bressand headed the Global Business Environment department in Royal Dutch Shell's global headquarters in London from 2003–2006. From 2005 to 2009, Bressand was Special Adviser to Andris Piebalgs, the EU Energy Commissioner in Brussels.
Previously, Bressand was managing director and cofounder of Promethée, a nonprofit, Paris-based think tank specialising in the emerging global networked economy and its implications for corporate strategies, capital markets, and international economic relations. He also served as Economic Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of France and held key positions with the French Institute for International Relations and the World Bank. Bressand is a member of the faculty of the World Economic Forum, and as a member of the Oxford Energy Policy Club at St Antony’s College, he serves on the Board of the New York Energy Forum, on the Steering Committee of the Sovereign Wealth Funds initiative of Chaire du Développement Durable at Université Paris-Dauphine and on the Advisory Council of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy at Columbia.
 Laurens Jan Brinkhorst currently serves as Professor in International and European Law and Governance at the University of Leiden. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Salzburg Global Seminar, originally an American institution of higher learning located in Austria. He is senior adviser to the European Space Agency and is a coordinator of the European Commission for a Trans European Network. Mr. Brinkhorst has had a long political, European and academic career. He was recently Minister of Economic Affairs and Minister of Agriculture. He was also a member of the Netherlands and European Parliaments. Earlier in his life, he served as Deputy Minister of European Affairs. With the European Union he served as EU- Ambassador to Japan and was subsequently DG for Environmental and Nuclear Safety. In academia he has held chairs at Groningen, Leiden and Tilburg Universities.
 Nick Butler is a Visiting Fellow and Chair of the King's Policy Institute at King's College London. He is also energy policy adviser at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, and a Senior Adviser to Coller Capital and to Corporate Value Associates. From 2007 to 2009 he was Chairman of the Cambridge Centre for Energy Studies. He was a special adviser to the former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown from 2009-2010. He is a non executive Director of Cambridge Econometrics and a Trustee of Asia House. Butler graduated in economics from Cambridge University before joining British oil firm BP in 1977, ultimately becoming Group Vice-President for Strategy and Policy Development. He is a member of the Fabian Society, and has been treasurer of the organization since 1982. He is a former chairman of the Young Fabians. He was Chairman of the Centre for European Reform which he co founded with David Miliband from 1994 to 2009, a member of the President's International Advisory Board at Yale University, and a founder member of British American successor generation project.
 Hon Cheung is the Regional Director for the Official Institutions Group at State Street Global Advisors and has responsibility for developing relationships with central banks, sovereign wealth funds and other government agencies in the Asia Pacific region. Cheung joined State Street Global Advisors in 1996 and has served senior roles in the London, Hong Kong and Singapore offices.
Cheung works closely with stock exchanges, regulators, government bodies and other institutions in Asia to advise on investment matters, particularly in relation to reserve management, bond market development and exchange traded funds. During his career in Asia, Cheung has been involved in many of the milestone projects in the region such as the Tracker Fund of Hong Kong; most recently, he led the team that designed and manages the ABF Pan Asia Bond Index Fund which was successfully launched by Asia’s central banks. Cheung holds a degree in Mathematics from Imperial College London and the Diploma in Mathematical Statistics from Cambridge University. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, sits on the independent index committees for a number of index providers and is on the board of directors of the Asia Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association.
 YY Chin (Chin Yuen Yin) was a career Banker having worked in Malaysia, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Germany, Singapore and China.
Chin's last role in a bank was as Head of Group Consumer Financial Services Division, OCBC Bank. Under his leadership, OCBC Bank was accorded the award “Asia Pacific Retail Bank of the Year 2005” by Retail Banker International, formerly published by the Lafferty Group. Tired of Corporate life, Chin left the banking Industry to pursue his hobby of photography and adventure travel. During his break from Banking, he also wrote a book, whose proceeds were donated to charities in Malaysia, Singapore and Zambia. Upon the completion of the charity project Chin joined Texas Pacific Group, an American Private Equity Company from Fort Worth , Texas in 2007 and left them at the end of August 2009. He now works as a freelance consultant in leadership, organisational change and Consumer Banking. Chin continues to be a Director of CIMB Thai Bank in Thailand.
 Neil Courtis is currently Director of Sensible Media and a Board Member for sponsorship development at INSEAD Alumni Association. Courtis formerly worked in Business Development at OMFIF. Until 2006 Courtis was executive editor and head of business development of Central Banking Publications, a financial publishing company, prior to its sale to Incisive Media. He is the editor/author of numerous articles and books on central bank finances, governance and management and on banking supervision. He edited The Financial Regulator journal for six years and has written articles for the Financial Times, the Daily Telegraph and the London Evening Standard. He is the founder of an online training company and has an MBA from INSEAD business school in France.
.JPG "John Cummins Picture") John Cummins, as Group Treasurer, manages the treasury function for the Royal Bank of Scotland Group. He is responsible for the management of the Group’s capital, liquidity, and structural FX & interest rate risk and his role also includes responsibility for funding the Group balance sheet, and the management of the Group’s capital and resources policies.In his previous role Cummins managed the Treasury function for Standard Life Assurance Group. He also filled the role of Finance Director, Standard Life Bank on an interim basis. In 2006 John was appointed Director of IFFIm, a AAA rated development institution. The IFFIm Board is responsible for the management of the International Finance Facility for Immunisation Company (IFFIm), registered as a UK Charity. The IFFIm has raised over $2bn for vaccines in the developing world. Cummins holds an MA in Modern History from Oxford University and an MBA from Bradford University. He completed the Corporate Finance Course at London Business School and attended the Risk Management in Banking programme at INSEAD.
.bmp "Jon_Davis2") Dr Jon Davis is a lecturer of contemporary British Government at Queen Mary, University of London, teaching courses entitled 'The Blair Government', 'Cabinet and Premiership' and 'The Hidden Wiring'. He is also Associate Director of Corporate Affairs at Queen Mary. Davis had his PhD thesis published in 2007 as 'Prime Ministers and Whitehall, 1960-74' and is currently writing 'New Labour in Government' with John Rentoul of The Independent on Sunday for Oxford University Press, due for publication in 2012. Davis is Executive Director of the Mile End Group. He worked a total of five years in investment banking, at Hambros Bank, JP Morgan and Paribas, and spent a year in the Modernising Government Secretariat of the Cabinet Office in 2000.
 Darrell Delamaide is a writer and editor based in Washington, who has written about central banking and the international political economy for more than 30 years. He keeps an especially close eye on the policies of the Obama administration and the Federal Reserve Board through a weekly column for US-based MarketWatch. Delamaide studied philosophy and literature at St. Louis University and the University of Munich (Fulbright Scholarship) and went on to obtain a master’s degree at Columbia University’s School of International Affairs.
Delamaide has specialised in business and finance over a long career, writing on economics, banking, capital markets and regulatory affairs. for Barron’s, Dow Jones, Institutional Investor, Euromoney, International Herald Tribune and Bloomberg and has also had spells at America Online, United Communications Group and Newsdesk Media. Delamaide has published three books - a financial thriller Gold and two books on economics and business Debt Shock and The New Superregions of Europe – and is working on an historical thriller about Deutsche Bank and the building of the Baghdad Railway. He is also a member of the OMFIF Board of Contributing Editors.
 Natalie Dempster joined the World Gold Council’s Investment Research and Marketing team in 2006. Her responsibilities included augmenting the strategic case for gold in investment portfolios, catering for the needs of private banking professionals, family offices and endowments, institutional investors and their respective advisors. In late-2009, Dempster became a member of the Government Affairs unit, which is responsible for all programs worldwide involving central banks, governments and regulatory authorities. Natalie is responsible for the research this unit produces and commissions. She also plays a key role in the active dialogue the unit maintains with central bankers, multilateral agencies and government regulators. Dempster has 10 years experience as an economist and has worked as a financial markets economist on the trading floors at The Royal Bank of Scotland and JP Morgan Chase. She began her career as a foreign-exchange trader at JP Morgan Chase on the emerging markets desk. Natalie holds a BSc in Economics from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London and an MBA from City University Business School (CASS), London.
 Stephane Deo is Head of European Economic Research at UBS. Stephane joined the UBS eurozone economic team in 2001 as an economist and was responsible for the coverage of France, Italy and the Benelux. Before joining the bank, Stephane spent four years with Goldman Sachs - two years in Paris as a French economist and two years in London covering the eurozone economy. He has also worked with the OECD. Stephane holds a PhD in finance, a DEA in economics and a diploma from the HEC School of Business. His education was completed with a post-doctorate year at the Haas School for Business (UC Berkeley).
 Vladimír Dlouhý is a graduate of the University of Economics in Prague. In 1977-78 he completed an MBA programme at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, and from 1980 to 1982 pursued postgraduate studies in mathematical statistics and probability at Charles University in Prague. After completing his studies at the University of Economics in Prague, he was engaged at the university as an assistant lecturer in the Department of Econometrics. In 1984 he became a founding member of the Institute of Forecasting of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, where at first he worked as a researcher, later assuming the post of Deputy Director. He served as Minister of the Economy of the Czechoslovak Federal Republic (1989 - 1992), and fras Minister of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic (1992 - 1997). He was a member and later Vice-Chairman of the Civic Democratic Alliance and a Member of Parliament. From September 1997 until the present he has been working as an International Adviser to the investment bank Goldman Sachs.
 Jonathan Fenby, an international political and economic analyst with a particular focus on China and France, is a founder and Director of China Research at the analytical service Trusted Sources.
Fenby has held a string of top journalistic posts, editing The Observer in 1993-1995 and the South China Morning Post in 1995-2000, during the return of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty. He earlier held senior positions at The Guardian, The Independent and The Economist and edited Reuters World Service. Fenby's books include The Penguin History of Modern China, Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the China He Lost; Dealing with the Dragon: A Year in the New Hong Kong; Seventy Wonders of China; Dragon Throne; and Alliance: How Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill Won One War and Began Another. Fenby’s biography of Charles de Gaulle will be published in June 2010. He was made Commander of the British Empire in 2000 and a Knight of the French Order of Merit in 1991.
 Stewart Fleming is Associate Fellow at Chatham House, focusing on the European Economy in their international economics programme. He has written extensively on international monetary and economic policy since the 1970s, combining coverage of day-to-day developments during the credit crisis with analysis of longer-term issues such as the decline of the dollar and the rise of emerging economies. Fleming pays particularly close attention to comparative analysis of the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve Board.
As US Editor, New York correspondent and Frankfurt correspondent for the Financial Times between 1976 and 1990, Fleming covered some of the major landmarks of the post-war economic landscape. A graduate in economics of Cambridge University, he started his career as economist and stock analyst at Prudential Assurance. Fleming has also worked for Evening Standard, The Guardian, Institutional Investor and New Statesman. Between 2003-2008, based in Brussels, he wrote on international economic policy issues for European Voice, the Brussels-focused weekly publication owned by The Economist. He is also a member of the OMFIF Board of Contributing Editors.
 Trevor Greetham joined Fidelity in January 2006 as Asset Allocation Director and Portfolio Manager for the multi asset funds in the Investment Solutions Group (ISG). As Director of Asset Allocation he leads the Tactical Asset Allocation process, which is a key part of the ISG's investment process. Trevor began his career with UK life insurer Provident Mutual. He holds an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge University and is a qualified actuary.
 GAO Haihong is a professor and director of the Section of International Finance, director of the Research Center for International Finance, Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). She led a number of research projects sponsored by China's Ministry of Finance and China’s social science fund. She is the standing director of the council of China Society for Finance and Banking, the council of China Society of World Economy and director of the council of China International Finance Society. She was a visiting scholar at the University of California at Davis, US, under the Ford Foundation Scholarship. She is also a past recipient of the British Council Scholarship and the World Bank Youth Fellowship. She obtained her BA and MA degree in Economics from Peking University in China, and MSc degree in International Money, Finance and Investment from Durham University in the UK. Professor Gao’s recent publications include: Globalization and China: Theory and Trends (with YU Yonding and LU Aiguo); Conditions for the RMB to become an International Currency (with YU Yongding); Global Dollar Standard: Challenges for Asian Financial Integration (edited); The RMB Exchange Rate: Policy Options and Risk Prevention from Global Perspective.
 Steve H. Hanke is a Professor of Applied Economics and Co-Director of the Institute for Applied Economics and the Study of Business Enterprise at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore; a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C.; a Distinguished Professor at the Universitas Pelita Harapan in Jakarta, Indonesia; a member of the National Bank of Kuwait's International Advisory Board (chaired by Sir John Major); a member of the Financial Advisory Council of the United Arab Emirates; and a columnist at Forbes magazine. In the past, Prof. Hanke taught economics at the Colorado School of Mines and the University of California at Berkeley. He served as a Senior Economist on President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers in 1981-82; as a State Counselor to the Republic of Lithuania in 1994-1996 and to the Republic of Montenegro in 1999-2003; and as an Advisor to the Presidents of Bulgaria in 1997-2002, Venezuela in 1996-96 and Indonesia in 1998. Hanke played an important role in establishing new currency regimes in Argentina, Estonia, Bulgaria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ecuador, Lithuania and Montenegro. He has also advised the governments of many other countries, including Albania, Kazakhstan and Yugoslavia. In 1998, he was named one of the twenty-five most influential people in the world by World Trade Magazine. Dr. Hanke is a well-known currency and commodity trader. Currently he serves as Chairman of the Richmond Group Fund Co., Ltd. in Richmond, Virginia. He is also Chairman Emeritus of the Friedberg Mercantile Group, Inc. in Toronto. During the 1990s, he served as President of Toronto Trust Argentina in Buenos Aires, the world's best performing emerging market mutual fund in 1995. Prof. Hanke's most recent books are Zimbabwe: Hyperinflation to Growth and A Blueprint for a Safe, Sound Georgian Lari.
 Dick Harryvan has had an extensive career at Dutch ING Group, where he was a member of the executive board and chief executive of ING Direct before taking early retirement in January 2010. He maintains three board positions at ING Direct in the US, Canada and Germany.
Harryvan started his career with ING as a management trainee at Nationale-Nederlanden in 1979. From 1980-1989, he held various management positions in ING’s US and Canadian insurance businesses. In 1989, Harryvan moved back to the Netherlands and was appointed a manager of the International Division of Nationale-Nederlanden. In 1993 followed the appointment as general manager Bancassurance at the International Division of Amsterdam-based ING Bank. From 1995-2006, Harryvan served as general manager of ING Direct where he was chief financial officer/chief risk officer of ING Direct globally. He holds a degree in business economics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, majoring in finance.
 Carl Holsters is Honorary Chairman of the Belgian Postbank, Chairman of the Lafferty International Post Bank Council (IPBC) and sits on several boards. He runs his own consulting/advisory business specialising in retail financial Services.
For the last four years of his career Holsters served as a Member of the Executive Committee for the Belgian Post Group, in charge of Retail and Financial Services, as well as Chairman of the Board of the Belgian Postbank. Previously, Holsters held senior positions with AXA Bank, where he was Chief Executive Officer and AXA Investment Managers where he was Head of Global Marketing and Head of Southern Europe, based in London. This follows an extensive career at Citibank/Citicorp where Holsters held a variety of positions including General Manager for Diners Club in Greece, Executive Director for the Consumer Banking Division of Citibank Savings in the UK and Head of Personal Banking for Citibank, based in Milan, Italy. Holsters also served as General Manager for Anhyp nv, where he was President of the Executive Committee.
Holsters is a Retail Banking Member of the Retail Marketing Foundation at the Vlerick School of Management (Ghent, Belgium) and a member of the organizing Board of the Montreaux Direct Marketing Symposium. He is also a founder member of the Lafferty International Retail Banking Council.
 Frederick (Freddy) Hopson is a banker and financial services practitioner with financial advisory, asset management and transaction management skills and 30 years in proprietary trading and investing at all levels. He specialises in cross-border deals making use of his long experience of international finance, his wide network of international business contacts and his expertise in negotiating sophisticated solutions for the most complex questions. Hopson joined London and Oxford Group after 20 years at Hessische Landesbank in Frankfurt, 10 of which were as member of the management board in charge of global trading operations and a multi-billion dollar portfolio of tradable assets. Previously Hopson was at Vickers da Costa Luxembourg and Dresdner Bank, where he was the in the first wave of German bankers actively to trade interest rate futures. Hopson has experience of multinational finance service and advisory teams, he has lived in five European Countries and speaks four languages fluently.
 Dr John Hughes is Robin Humphreys Fellow, Institute for the Study of the Americas, School of Advanced Study, London University. He is also Commissioner of the Marshall Scholarships Programme, Chairman at LatAmConsult, and trustee of Canning House and Atlantic College. Beginning his career in the Diplomatic Service in 1973, Hughes went on to become British Ambassador to Argentina (2004–2008), non-resident British Ambassador to Paraguay (2005- 2008), British Ambassador to Venezuela (2000-2003). Hughes has had overseas postings with the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in Oslo (Deputy Head of Mission), Washington (Press), Santiago (Head of Political Section), Madrid (Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe - UK rep on Economic Basket). He has also served as Head of Aviation and Maritime Dept, Head of Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe Unit, Research Analyst on USA & Canada and Change Manager. On secondment from the Diplomatic Service, he was Vice-President for International Relations, Shell (2003-2004), worked in the Strategy & Planning Department of BAE Systems (1999), and on the Middle East in the Cabinet Office (1979-1981). Hughes was awarded a BSc Econ from the London School of Economics, MA from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, and PhD from the University of Cambridge.
 Matthew Hurn is Executive Director, Group Treasury for Mubadala Development Company, the strategic investment arm of the Abu Dhabi Government with assets under management of more than $24bn. In his current role, Hurn has responsibility for treasury and corporate funding, financial risk management, tax, insurance and investor relations.
Prior to joining Mubadala, Hurn was the Group Treasurer of DSG international plc (formerly Dixons Group) where he developed the company’s treasury framework and strategy to accommodate their overseas expansion. Hurn has worked in the treasury industry for almost 20 years in both the public and private sector including working with companies such as Otis (part of United Technologies, a Fortune 500 company) Hurn is President of the Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) and was awarded fellowship in 2009. He is also Chairman of the Association of Corporate Treasurers Middle East and was recognised by Euromoney as of the top 50 Treasury professionals in Europe in 2008.
 Harold James is Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University and Marie Curie Professor at the European University Institute, Florence. One of the foremost scholars on international money and economics, he has lectured, written and taught widely on the history and practice of central banks and official monetary institutions.
James was educated at Cambridge University and was a Fellow of Peterhouse before coming to the US in 1986. His books include: The German Slump: Politics and Economics 1924‑1936, International Monetary Cooperation since Bretton Woods, Monetary and Fiscal Unification in Nineteenth Century Germany, The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression, The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War Against the Jews, Europe Reborn: A History 1914-2000, Family Capitalism, The Roman Predicament and The Creation and Destruction of Value. In 2004 James was awarded the first Helmut Schmidt Prize for Transatlantic Economic History, and in 2005 the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Writing on Economics. He is working on an official history of European economic and monetary union. He is also a member of the OMFIF Board of Contributing Editors.
 Roel Janssen is a Dutch financial journalist and author of thrillers. For over thirty years he has written for NRC Handelsblad, a leading Dutch daily, about economic and financial affairs, fiscal policies and the euro. For a decade he wrote leaders and columns about these issues.
Before Janssen started as editor international economic affairs, in 1983, he was the correspondent of NRC Handelsblad and NOS, the Dutch public broadcasting news, in South America, based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Janssen has written several books on economic issues, one of them with Rick van der Ploeg, currently a professor of economics at Oxford University. In 1997 Janssen's first financial thriller appeared. It dealt with speculation on the eve of the introduction of the euro. Two years later he published a thriller about counterfeits of euro bank notes. In 2007 he won the Dutch national prize for the best mystery book of the year, the ‘Golden Noose’, a thriller that dealt with money laundering. Currently, he is working a book about historic financial scandals and speculative manias in the Netherlands.
Sir Paul Judge is a British businessman and politician. He is Chairman of Schroder Income Growth Fund plc, a director of ENRC plc, of the United Kingdom Accreditation Service, of Standard Bank Group Ltd of Johannesburg and of Tempur-Pedic International Inc. of Kentucky and a member of the Advisory Boards for Barclays Private Bank and for Abraaj Capital of Dubai. His honorary appointments include being an Alderman of the City of London, President of The Chartered Institute of Marketing and of the Association of MBAs, Chairman of the Enterprise Education Trust, of Digital Links International, of the Marketing Standards Board, of St Dunstan's College, of the British–North American Committee and of the Wharton Board for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Deputy Chairman of the American Management Association and of the Royal Society of Arts (Chairman 2003–06), a Special Adviser to the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) and a member of the Council of the Crown Agents. He is on the Advisory Board for HEC in Paris and for the Athens University of Economics and Business. He was the principal benefactor of the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge. He is also the UK chairman of the British-North American Committee.
 William Keegan, senior economics commentator at The Observer, has been analysing government and central banking performance for several decades. He was previously with the Bank of England’s Economic Intelligence Department and before that was Economics Correspondent of the Financial Times.
Keegan has sat on a range of advisory committees, including the BBC Advisory Committee on Business and Industrial Affairs, the Employment Institute Council and the Department of Applied Economics Advisory Board, University of Cambridge. He is visiting Professor of Journalism at Sheffield University and a Governor of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. Keegan was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. Keegan's books include 2066 and All That, The Spectre of Capitalism, Mrs Thatcher’s Economic Experiment, Mr Lawson’s Gamble, Britain Without Oil, and The Prudence of Mr Gordon Brown. He is also the chairman of the OMFIF Board of Contributing Editors.
 Mumtaz Khan was formerly the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of EMP Bahrain and has been based in Bahrain since 1999. He established the US$730 million Islamic Development Bank Infrastructure Fund, of which he was CEO. Khan was previously a Managing Director at EMP Global in Washington D.C. For three years, Khan was based in Hong Kong as Resident Partner and Manager of Asian operations of the US$1 billion AIG Asian Infrastructure Fund. Prior to that, he was with the International Finance Corporation (“IFC”) for 13 years, where he was a Manager in the Asia Department based in Washington D.C. and Resident Representative based in Jakarta, responsible for investment in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Khan is a founder shareholder of the Islamic Bank of Asia in Singapore. He is also Economic Advisor to the World Islamic Economic Forum Foundation (WiEF).
 Joel Kibazo, a former diplomat and journalist, is the founding partner of JK Asssociates, a London based public affairs consultancy focused on Africa. He was previously official Spokesperson and Director of Communications and Public Affairs at the Commonwealth Secretariat for six years.
During the 1990s, Kibazo was a journalist on the Financial Times. He was a reporter and presenter of many radio and television programmes for the BBC. He holds a BA in Social Sciences, an MA in International economics and economic development and an MBA (international business and marketing). Kibazo is an Associate Fellow on The Africa Programme at Chatham House, a committee member of the Centre for the study of African Economies at the University of Oxford, The Royal African Society, London, and the Caine Prize for African Literature. He is on the judging panel of the CNN Africa Journalist of the Year award. He is also a member of the OMFIF Board of Contributing Editors.
David Kihangire is Executive Director of the Research Function at the Bank of Uganda. He was appointed to the post in May 2008 and ensures that monetary and macroeconomic stability are maintained. Kihangire has worked at the Bank of Uganda for some time, overseeing the Research Department in the three years prior to 2008. Kihangire is currently a Member of the Board of the Economic Policy Research Centre at Makerere University, and of the Uganda Bureau of Statistics amongst many other roles and responsibilities. Kihangire has an international academic pedigree having obtained his bachelors at Makerere University, Uganda; his masters at Dalhousie University, Canada; and his PhD from the University of Bradford, England.
 John Kornblum is a Senior Counsellor at Noerr Law firm. He is one of the leading American experts on Europe and transatlantic relations. Drawing on both diplomatic and business experience Kornblum exhibits a unique combination of experience and knowledge which he can apply in a variety of situations. As United States Minister to Berlin in 1987, Kornblum conceived Ronald Reagan's historic speech at the Bradenburg Gate. He later served as Deputy Ambassador to NATO and US Permanent Representative to the OSCE in Vienna. As Assistant Secretary of State in Washington, Kornblum was deputy negotiator of the Dayton Agreement and later US special envoy to the Balkans. He was the senior US negotiator for preparation of the CFE negotiations and for the staged enlargement of NATO and the European Union. He served as American Ambassador to Germany from 1997 to 2001. Kornblum was chairman for Germany of Lazard Freres from 2001 to 2009. He has been with Noerr since 2008 and fulfills advisory mandates with several other international companies. He has been a member of numerous private and public boards, including Bayer AG, Thyssen-Krupp Technologies, Motorola Europe, the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany, Russell Reynolds Associates, the American Academy in Berlin, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin and the Deutsches Institut fur Community Organizing. Kornblum appears often in the press and electronic media in both Europe and the United States.
 Pawel Kowalewski PhD is Director of the Euro Area Integration Department at the National Bank of Poland (NBP). Following his master at the University of Gdañsk (1996), he joined the first independent think tank in Central and Eastern Europe, the Gdañsk Institute for Market Economic, which was co-founded by Janusz Lewandowski, current European Commissioner for Financial Programming and Budget. In 2000 Kowalewski completed his PhD under the tuition of Prof. Edmund Pietrzak, which was followed by a brief spell as lecturer at the University of Gdañsk.
In 2002 Kowalewski left Poland for Austria, where he worked for the Vienna Institute for International Studies (in cooperation with the OeNB) and the Vienna University for Economics and Business Administration. In 2004 he returned to Poland and joined the Ministry of Finance, where upon the request of Minister Miroslaw Gronicki, he was requested to unify the foreign and domestic departments into one single department of public debt. During his tenure, Poland was the only second country to issue 50Y bonds denominated in euros. In 2006 Kowalewski left the Ministry of Finance and focused on research on the GCC and oil industry and public debt management. He joined the NBP in January 2008.
Philippe Lagayette is currently Vice Chairman of JPMorgan in EMEA and Chairman of JPMorgan's Sovereigns group in EMEA. Until August 2008 he was Chief Executive Officer of JPMorgan in France. Lagayette began his career in 1970 as Inspecteur des Finances and then joined the Ministry of Economy and Finance - Direction du Tresor - from 1975 to 1981. In 1981 he was appointed Directeur de Cabinet of the Minister of Economy and Finance. Lagayette then joined the Banque de France in 1984 as deputy governor. In 1992, Lageyette was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Caisse des Depots et Consignations, the French state-owned financial group, until December 1997. Lagayette is currently President of the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, an institute dedicated to research in mathematics and physics. He is President of the French American Foundation in France, whose mission is improvement and enrichment of relations between France and the United States. Lagayette sits on the Boards of Renault, PPR and Fimalac. He is a graduate from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA).
 Lord Lamont was at the centre of British politics for many years. He was a Cabinet Minister under both Margaret Thatcher and John Major, and was a member of the House of Commons for twenty-five years.
Norman Lamont was Chancellor of the Exchequer (Finance Minister) from 1990-1993 and introduced three Budgets. He inherited the policy of membership of the ERM, which made it a difficult and controversial time to be Chancellor. This culminated in Britain’s exit from the ERM in September 1992. Many Economists have attributed much of the economic stability and low inflation enjoyed in his first years by Gordon Brown to the policies introduced by Lamont after Britain’s exit from the ERM in September 1992. These new policies included an inflation target for the Bank of England and a tough tax raising Budget in 1993. Sir Alan Walters, economic advisor to Lady Thatcher, in a letter to the Times described Lord Lamont in his “post ERM phase”…. “to be not only the most effective but also the bravest Chancellor since the war”. In 1998 Lamont published an account of his time as Chancellor under the title In Office. His book was described in the Independent newspaper as "Out of the top drawer of political memoirs". Currently Lord Lamont, as well as being a working Peer, is a director of, and a consultant to a number of companies in the financial sector. Lord Lamont was made a Life Peer in July 1998.
 Sir Andrew Large read Economics at Cambridge and joined BP straight out of University. Large graduated from INSEAD and went back to BP. Up to 1992 he also served on a number of Boards including Nuclear Electric, English China Clays and Ranks Hovis McDougall. Sir Andrew’s career then oscillated between private and public sector. His first spell of public policy was from 1992-1997 when he was Chairman of the Securities and Investments Board, predecessor of the Financial Services Authority [FSA]. During an interlude back on the private side he was Deputy Chairman of Barclays Bank from 1998-2002. During this period he was also Chairman of Euroclear, and he chaired a major project to strengthen global clearing and settlement. Finally he was asked to be Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, with responsibility for financial stability from 2002 to 2006.
Today Sir Andrew acts independently advising central banks and others on financial stability issues.
.jpg "Thomas_Laryea") Thomas Laryea is a partner in the international law firm, SNR Denton. Prior to joining SNR Denton in June 2011, he held the position of Assistant General Counsel at the International Monetary Fund. He received his legal education in England and the United States. His doctoral thesis from the University of Pennsylvania Law School is in international civil procedure. He started his legal career with Sullivan & Cromwell in New York and London. He has taught European Union Law at the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies and is a frequent speaker on international finance, debt restructuring and financial regulatory reform. Thomas' practice at SNR Denton includes advice to government and private sector clients in their dealings with multilateral financial institutions and foreign investment, with a specialty on Africa.
 Oscar Lewisohn is Chairman of Soditic Limited, director of Bank Winter, Vienna, and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers. He is a Founder Member of Cancer Research UK, London, a trustee of the Annemarie og Erling Kristiansens Fond, Copenhagen, and member of the council of Fundación Cultural Coll Bardolet, Valldemossa, Majorca. Lewisohn is a former vice chairman of the Danish-UK Chamber of Commerce, London.
After his education at Sortedam Gymnasium in Copenhagen, Lewisohn joined S.G. Warburg & Co. in 1962, becoming executive director in 1969 and deputy chairman between 1987 and 1994. He was a director of the S.G. Warburg Group between 1985 and 1995 where he had responsibilities for risk control and treasury. Lewisohn was a senior executive in the private investor division of Mercury Asset Management between 1994 and 1998. He was a director of HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) between 1997 and 2006. Lewisohn is an honorary member of Christ’s College, Cambridge, and a Knight of the Order of Dannebrog, R1, Denmark.
 Ruud Lubbers served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1982 until 1994. Prior to this, he served as Minister of Economic Affairs (incl. Energy) from 1973 until 1977 in the Cabinet den Uyl. He became a Member of the House of Representatives from 1977 until 1982, becoming Parliamentary leader from 1978 until 1982.
After his premiership, Lubbers became a Professor at John F. Kennedy School of Government and Tilburg University from 1995 until 2001, as well as International President of WWF. He became the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 2001 and served until 2005. Lubbers holds the records of being the longest serving and youngest person to occupy the office of Prime Minister of the Netherlands. In 1995 he was granted the honorary title of Minister of State and is currently Chair of the Energy Research Center (ECN); Atoms for Peace (nuclear technology); chair of the Council of the Rotterdam Climate Initiative and member of the Earth Charter Commission.
 Dr Gerard Lyons is the Chief Economist and Group Head of Global Research at Standard Chartered. He is also an Economic Advisor to the Board and a Member of the Bank’s Executive Forum. Previous roles at the Bank include Member of the Global Markets Management Team and of the Risk Management Committee.
Lyons has held senior roles at leading international financial firms since starting in the City 25 years ago. His previous positions include Chief Economist at DKB International, Consultant to the Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank Tokyo, Chief UK Economist at Swiss Bank Corporation, beginning his career with Chase Manhattan. He gained his PhD on testing the efficiency of financial futures markets at the University of London. Lyons is currently a Council Member of the University of Warwick, Vice Chairman of the 48 Group Club (China), Member of the Advisory Board for the Grantham Institute on Climate Change, Committee Member of the Hong Kong Association, Member of the International Council of the Bretton Woods Committee and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is on the Panel of Economic Advisors to the Mayor of London and on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Banking and Capital Markets. In previous years he has held other positions, such as Chair of the Steering Committee of the Asia Study Group at Chatham House, a Committee member of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and, in 2006, he was UK Co-Chair of the UK-Hong Kong Business Partnership. At the end of 2010, he was appointed a Fellow of the Society of Business Economists and elected to the Council of The Royal Economic Society. In early 2011 he became a member of the European Commission’s “informal network of leading China experts”. Lyons has also authored 'The Qatar 2020 Report' requested by, and presented to the Emir in February 2006 and he was the co-author of the 'Report of the Commission on the £ Sterling for the then leader of the UK Opposition, William Hague, as well as being on the Board of the `No’ Campaign. Lyons has published widely on economic and financial issues, writes regular newspaper columns and is regularly invited to speak at conferences. He has testified to the US Senate Banking Committee, the US Congress Foreign Affairs Committee and UK parliamentary Committees, and presented papers to the Commonwealth Finance Ministers Conference and spoken at the EU-China Summit in Beijing. He has an excellent forecasting record, and has topped the Sunday Times annual forecasting table twice in the past decade and is widely credited with accurate predictions ahead of the financial crisis.
 Luiz Eduardo Melin obtained his doctoral degree in International Political Economy from Essex University, in England. A career official at the Brazilian Central Bank, he is also a tenured (licensed) professor at PUC-Rio, having also taught at the Rio Branco Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He worked for Lloyds Bank International and for several Brazilian trading companies. He also acted as Chief Economic Advisor for the National Federation of Insurance Companies (Fenaseg).
In 2003 and 2004, he was Executive Director at BNDES, responsible for the Bank’s Legal and Foreign Trade divisions. He was subsequently Secretary of State for International Affairs at the Brazilian Ministry of Finance (2006-2007) and Chief of Staff at the Minister’s Office until January 2011, holding this position cumulatively with that of special Secretary of State for Financial Reforms at the same Ministry.
He has participated in several international financial negotiations, heading a large number of Brazilian delegations and missions of various natures, besides acting as personal envoy for the Brazilian Minister of Finance on several occasions.
He was a Brazilian Ministry of Finance Deputy at the G-20 during the period in which Brazil was appointed to the steering committee and, subsequently, to the Chair of that Forum. For two years he was a member of the FSB - Financial StabilityBoard on behalf of Brazil. Additionally, for four years, he led the Brazilian delegation in the Group on Financial Integration of the Union of South American Nations (Unasul).
 Mariela Mendez Prado is a full-time Professor of the Faculty of Economics, Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral in Guayaquil, Ecuador, covering financial management, capital markets, derivative instruments and investment portfolios. Mendez Prado has acted as: instructor of technical analysis in the Guayaquil Stock Market; member of the Citizen Oversight for the Settlement and Closure Procedures of Financial Sector Bankruptcy in Ecuador; tax auditor in the Internal Rental Service; economic advisor in boards of various institutional structures in strategic sectors nationwide and has planned business models with key foreign, public and private investment groups. Mendez Prado has extensive professional experience with financial analysis, developing financial valuation models for international bids and business plans for large hydroelectric projects and is alternate member of the Securities and Exchange Council 2009-2014. She is also financial specialist in the Latindadd Latin-American net, has performed securities follow-ups in GESFIBANC Barcelona, Spain and has experience in investment management of oil funds and self-management in ESPOL. Mendez Prado holds a masters in Financial Markets from the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, and is a specialist in the evaluation of the BID-EPSOL project with continuous occupational training at CEMFI - Central Bank of Spain, CIESS Mexico, KPMG ASDI-Sweden, INCAE El Salvador and SOAC U.S.A. She is a columnist in different national magazines and newspapers as well as GESTION Magazine and El Comercio newspaper. Due to her research contributions and publications, she was nominated "2009 Woman of the Year" in Fucsia Magazine, becoming winner of the People's Choice. ESPOL granted her the "2009 Academic Merit Recognition" for her career; the youngest female teacher to obtain it.
 Dr Rakesh Mohan is currently Professor of the Practice of International Economics and Finance at the School of Management and Senior Fellow in the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University. He is also Chairman of the National Transport Development Policy Committee of the Government of India, with rank of Minister of State, (non executive) Vice Chairman of the Indian Institute of Human Settlements; and Senior Adviser, McKinsey Global Institute, McKinsey and Company. Mohan is also a Non Resident Senior Research Fellow of Stanford University. Dr Mohan has researched extensively in the areas of economic reforms and liberalisation, industrial economics, urban economics, infrastructure studies, economic regulation, monetary policy and the financial sector. He is the author of three books on urban economics and urban development and co-author of one and editor of another on Indian economic policy reforms, and of numerous articles. Mohan was Secretary of the Indian Ministry of Finance, and also Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India between 2002 and 2009. In this capacity he co-chaired the G20 Working Group "Enhancing Sound Regulation and Strengthening Transparency" (2009), and the CGFS Working Group on Capital Flows (2008-09). Mohan has recently published a book titled "Monetary Policy in a Globalized Economy: A Practitioner's View" (Oxford University Press, 2009), which focuses on the issues relating to the evolution of banking and finance, the conduct of monetary policy, the management of the financial sector and the role of central banking.
 Dr. Ashley Eva Millar is a lecturer of economic history in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She teaches courses on ‘The Making of the Modern World Economy’ and ‘African Economic History’, and is also Secretary of the Economic History Society of Southern Africa. She holds a PhD in International History from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Dr. Millar’s research is concerned with early modern European perceptions of and encounters with different systems of political economy - particularly those of China and in Africa. She is interested in identifying historical perspectives on economic progress and decline; varying definitions of wealth; and the role of geography, institutions, trade and culture in economic development.
 George Milling-Stanley is Managing Director, Government Affairs, with the World Gold Council, where he is responsible for all programs involving central banks, sovereign wealth funds and governments. The Council is an international association of gold producers, headquartered in London and with offices in major markets around the world. Milling-Stanley is based in the Council’s New York office.
Before joining the Council in 1996, Milling-Stanley worked for six years on the precious metals trading desk of Lehman Brothers, the New York investment bank. Previously he worked for Consolidated Gold Fields in London as Chief Precious Metals Analyst. His early career was spent as a journalist, including 10 years with the Financial Times in London. An acknowledged authority on all aspects of the gold business, Milling-Stanley is a regular speaker at international conferences.
 John Nugée, vice-chairman of the Advisory Board, is a Senior Managing Director of State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), Head of SSgA's Official Institutions Group and a member of SSgA's Senior Management Group. His responsibilities cover advice for SSgA's central bank, sovereign wealth fund (SWF) and other official sector clients, and advice on general public pension policy issues.
Nugée joined SSgA in November 2000 after a career in official reserves management for central banks, including spells as the Executive Director in charge of reserves management at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, and as the Chief Manager of reserves management at the Bank of England. Nugée was also a director of the European Investment Bank and European Investment Fund, and a lecturer and technical adviser at the Bank of England's "Centre for Central Banking Studies". Nugée has a Mathematics degree from Cambridge University and a diploma in Business Studies from the London School of Economics. Nugée is a regular commentator on sovereign asset and central bank reserves management issues; among his publications is a major book on the Gulf as a new force in global finance, co-edited with Chatham House, and a textbook on Foreign Exchange Reserves Management for Central Banks.
 Paul Newton is a banker and financial services practitioner who leads the merchant banking team at independent investment bank London & Oxford Capital Markets. He has overall responsibility for a variety of complex transactions and special expertise in real estate, arbitrage deals and tax structuring. A seasoned architect of innovative financial solutions to meet manifold corporate challenges, Newton established London & Oxford Capital Markets in 1993 as a specialist securities and investment firm.
Newton has long-standing experience in asset management and has established a number of niche investment funds. Newton previously spent 10 years in investment banking at Swiss Bank Corporation, honing his skills in international finance while holding senior positions in London and the Far East, including a four year spell in Tokyo. After winning three boxing blues at Oxford in the 1970s, Newton started his career at Bank of America. He retains significant contacts in Japan and other parts of Asia.
 Saker Nusseibeh joined Hermes in June 2009 as a main board director and Head of Investment to drive, support and represent the investment capabilities of Hermes, becoming acting CEO in 2011. He is responsible for ensuring that all of the Hermes investment capabilities can and do deliver investment excellence and are able to compete at the highest levels in the third party market, as well as playing an integral part in Hermes’ drive to acquire new teams and businesses.
Nusseibeh started his career at Mercury Asset Management (MAM) in 1987 before moving in 1996 to Trust Company of the West (TCW) as Managing Director running the International, European and Global Strategies. In 1998 he took over management of the Emerging Markets, Asian and East European teams and became a shareholder of the business. In 2001, TCW was sold to SGAM and Nusseibeh moved his teams to SGAM UK. He was appointed CIO Global Equities and Head of Marketing of SGAM UK where he re-orientated the company offering to a high alpha UK strategies and Global offering. In 2005, Nusseibeh joined Fortis Investments USA as CIO Global Equities and moved on to become Global Head of Equities at Fortis Investments, responsible for managing the company’s 12 Equity centres. At Fortis, Nusseibeh was also a member of the Management Committee of Fortis Investments and the local Executive Committee in the USA.
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David Owen was a Member of Parliament for 26 years from 1966-92. Under Labour Governments, he served as Navy Minister, Health Minister and Foreign Secretary. He was co-founder of the Social Democratic Party established in 1981 and its Leader from 1983-90. Owen was created a Life Baron in 1992 and sits as an independent Crossbencher in the House of Lords. From 1992-95 Lord Owen served as EU peace negotiator in the former Yugoslavia. He was Chairman of New Europe from 1999-2005, which campaigned successfully with Business for Sterling for the UK to stay outside the eurozone while remaining a committed member of the EU.
Owen's current business interests include Chairman, Europe Steel; non-executive Director of Abbott Laboratories Inc, non-executive Director of Hyperdynamics Corporation and consultant to Gallagher Holdings. He has previously been a member of the Advisory Board of Terra Firma Capital Partners, Chairman of Global Natural Energy and Chairman of Yukos International BV.
Owen writes regularly on international affairs and has written several books including Balkan Odyssey; Time To Declare: Second Innings; In Sickness and In Power and Nuclear Papers.
Bruce Packard CFA joined Seymour Pierce in February 2010. He has covered UK banks since 2000, when he started at Credit Suisse. After three years at Credit Suisse, Packard moved to ING. Over ten years Bruce has also worked for Societe Generale, Pali and Evolution. Packard has a degree in Theology from Durham University, which perhaps explains his track record of making nonconformist investment recommendations. For instance, in 2004 he published a research note saying Santander would buy Abbey, 3 months before the deal was officially announced. Then in July 2008, based on analysis of Nordic and Japanese banking crises, he predicted the nationalisation of the UK bank sector.
.JPG "Ila_Patnaik") Ila Patnaik is an Indian economist and financial journalist. She is a Senior Fellow at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP). Her main area of interest is open economy macroeconomics. This includes issues related to capital flows, exchange rate policy, monetary policy, business cycles and the financial sector as India opens up its capital account. She has worked at the National Council of Applied Economic Research, ICRIER and has a column in the Indian Express.
 John Plender has been senior editorial writer at the Financial Times since 1981 and director (since 2002) of UK real estate company Qintain, which he chaired from 2007 to 2009. He chairs the advisory council of the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation and is on the advisory board of the Association of Corporate Treasurers.
After taking his degree at Oxford University, Plender joined Deloitte and qualified as a chartered accountant. He is a former financial editor of The Economist in 1974, and member of the British Foreign Office policy planning staff in 1980. A former member of the London Stock Exchange’s quality of markets advisory committee and chairman of Pensions and Investment Research Consultants (PIRC), Plender served on the UK Company Law Review steering group. He is a member of a private sector advisory group on corporate governance created by the World Bank and the OECD. His books include That’s The Way The Money Goes, The Square Mile, A Stake In The Future, and Going Off The Rails - Global Capital And The Crisis Of Legitimacy. He is also a member of the OMFIF Board of Contributing Editors.
 Robin Poynder is Head of FX&MM, EMEA, working in the Sales & Trading Strategic Business Unit (SBU) in the Markets Division of Thomson Reuters. Europe, Middle East and Africa is an incredibly broad geography covering business in FX&MM from Nairobi to Moscow, Dubai to London. Within the Sales & Trading SBU, the Treasury area delivers financial information, news, collaboration and transactions services to support the trading floor activities of buy and sell side customers - from the largest banks to smaller specialist institutions.
Before joining Reuters in 2004, Poynder spent 23 years building considerable experience in the banking industry. Prior to 4 years with HSBC where he was responsible for eCommerce channels across Treasury and Capital Market products for Institutional Sales, Poynder spent 15 years dealing and running a foreign exchange trading team for Charterhouse Bank and 3 years at Credit Commercial de France.
Danny Quah is Professor of Economics at the LSE and Co-Director of LSE Global Governance. Quah is Council Member on Malaysia's National Economic Advisory Council. Quah is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Economic Imbalances; and serves on the Steering Committee of the Abu Dhabi Economics Research Agency (ADERA) and the Editorial Boards of East Asian Policy, Journal of Economic Growth, and Global Policy, and on the Advisory Board of OMFIF. At LSE Quah is also Senior Fellow at LSE IDEAS, Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, and Chair of the Board of the LSE-PKU Summer School. January-February and August-September 2010, he was Tan Chin Tuan Visiting Professor in the Economics Department at the National University of Singapore. May-June 2010, and visiting professor of economics at Tsinghua University, Beijing.
 Abdul Rahman is a Full Professor the Telfer School of Management. He obtained his PhD from Concordia (1985) in Financial Economics and has an MA from Concordia in Economics, a Graduate Diploma in Management from McGill, where he also obtained his M.Sc. and B.Sc., both in Mathematics.
Rahman is a Full Professor and has a Telfer Teaching Fellowship at the Telfer School of Management. He has held his position since 1992. Before joining the then Faculty of Administration, he worked at Concordia University where he held several positions including Associate Professor and Associate Dean.
Rahman has published in several internationally recognized academic journals including Journal of Banking and Finance, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and Journal of Asset Management. His teaching interests are in the areas of Advanced Corporate Finance and International Economics. He was named best teacher by the MBA Student Association (Telfer School of Management) for the last ten consecutive years ending 2009.
 Poul Nyrup Rasmussen is one of the most prominent centre-left figures in European politics. Born in 1943 in Esbjerg, Denmark he studied economics and went on to work in the Danish Confederation of Tade Unions for fourteen years. First elected to the Danish Parliament in 1988 for the Social Democratic Party, he went on to chair the party before becoming Prime Minister in 1993 - a position he held until November 2001.
Rasmussen became an MEP in 2004 where he sat on the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee until June 2009. Since 2004 he has been President of the Party of European Social Democrats. This involves coordinating the overall political line and vision of the PES and representing the party across Europe. He is also Co-Chair of the Global Progressive Forum. In December 2008 he oversaw the unanimous ratification of the PES European election manifesto "People first: A New Direction for Europe", and subsequently campaigned across Europe in 2009. As President of the PES, Rasmussen has been active in calling for better regulation and supervision of financial markets. In 2007 he co-wrote Hedge Funds and Private Equity, a Critical Analysis, a landmark study that included concrete recommendations for reforming Europe's financial markets. This was the basis for the "Rasmussen Report" of May 2008, backed by a broad majority in European Parliament. He has since played a leading role in ensuring that the European Commission gives a satisfactory response to the report. In 2009 Rasmussen was placed fifth on Financial News' annual list of the 100 most influential people in European capital markets.
Martin Raven left the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2010 after a career spanning 34 years. Fluent in Portuguese, his experience covers political, commercial, financial and cultural / sporting fields, especially in São Paulo where he was British Consul General for four years. Raven now advises companies and institutions as to how best to approach Brazil. Originally from Manchester, Raven graduated from the University of Sussex and went to on to join the Diplomatic Corps, serving in Nigeria, India, New York (United Nations) and Sweden, in addition to Brazil. His assignments in London covered the USA, non-proliferation, drugs and crime, and the South Atlantic. From 2001 to 2006 Martin was Director, Service Industries, at UK Trade and Investment, which included responsibility for Financial Services, Creative Industries and other sectors. From 2006 to 2010 he was Director UK Trade and Investment, Brazil and concurrently Consul General in São Paulo.
 Janusz Reiter was writer for Zycie Warszawy, and had been a guest at Germany’s Die Zeit, when he joined the independent movement Solidarity developed in Poland. In 1981, under martial law in Poland, Reiter was dismissed from his newspaper and joined the underground opposition, becoming one of the leading foreign policy experts. In 1989, when Poland regained its freedom, Reiter became Ambassador to Germany, and he was awarded him the Great Federal Cross with Star and Ribbon by the Federal President of Germany
In 1996, Ambassador Reiter established the think tank Center for International Relations. Reiter has also served on the boards of the Polish Academy of Public Administration, the Haniel Stiftung, the Quandt Stiftung, the board of the Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) in Berlin, the Hypovereinsbank in Munich, the Bank BPH in Poland, DaimlerChrysler International Advisory Board, SwissRe and Presspublica S.A. Reiter is author and co-author of a number of books, policy papers, and articles on Europe, the transatlantic relations, European security policy and other international topics. He had his own television program on Polish Public TV and was a columnist for several newspapers including Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Zeit, Die Weltwoche, the Financial Times, and The Washington Post. From 2005 to 2007 Reiter served as Poland’s Ambassador to the United States.
 Frank Scheidig, vice-chairman of the Advisory Board, is Global Head of Capital Markets International Clients at DZ Bank in Frankfurt, with long experience of dealing with public sector institutions and asset managers from around the world.
Scheidig was previously head of fixed income international sales at DZ Bank after posts as managing director and global head of central bank sales at Deutsche Bank and a member of the board of managing directors at Deutsche Asset Management International. After starting his career with a traineeship at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, Scheidig joined LIT-America and Hutzler Brokerage as a financial adviser. He built up his experience further at Suedwest-LB and Bayerische Vereinsbank in Frankfurt as trader and market maker for German government bonds. Scheidig continued in the fixed income sales field at Bayerische Landesbank and then worked in several senior sales positions in global market divisions at Dresdner Bank between 1993 and 2000.
 Vilém Semerák is an economist who studied at Prague University of Economics (VŠE Praha), the London School of Economics & Political Science, and Charles University (IES and CERGE-EI). Semerák obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Prague University of Economics in 2003. He teaches at Charles University and the Prague branch of New York University, and he also works as a researcher for CERGE and IDEA think-tank. He has also worked in China at Shandong Economic University and East China Normal University.
Marina Shargorodska joined Quantum Global Wealth Management in 2010, assuming the role of Head of Business Development Eastern Europe and Middle East. She works on building new business with central banks and sovereign wealth funds in the former Soviet bloc countries. Shargorodska is especially well-suited for this new role; born and raised in Ukraine, she speaks Russian and English fluently. Adding to her international focus, Shargorodska ran Global Development for a Boston medical startup (Intelligent MDx), earned her MBA at Brazil's University of Sao Paulo (FIA), and makes her home in the financial crossroads of Zurich, Switzerland. Before beginning her business career, Shargorodska worked for three years as an oncological nurse.
Michael Stürmer is an historian by inclination and training and a former government advisor on foreign affairs, he is now chief correspondent to WELT-Gruppe, Germany's major national newsprint producer. Chair of modern history at Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nuremberg, a one-time fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, visiting professor at Harvard, fellow at the Berlin Wissenschaftskolleg. He has taught at Sussex University, at the Sorbonne and at the University of Toronto. Since 1983, he has been adjunct professor at the Bologna Campus of the John Hopkins University (School for Advanced International Studies). Stürmer has published a number of books and articles about political historyin the 19th and 20th century, about business and material culture in the 18th century, and about international security past and current. From 1988 - 1998 he was Director of Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, the German government's foreign policy thinktank, also known as the Ebenhausen Institute, now in Berlin. For 12 years he sat on the German Advisory Council of J.P Morgan. He is an Officer of the Legion d'Honneur, sits on the comité de patronage of "Commentaire", is a member of the IISS London, an advisor to ECFR (European Council for Foreign Affairs) and to the German Association of Private Banks.
 Paola Subacchi is Research Director for International Economics at the Royal Institite for international Affairs. She has extensive experience in macroeconomic analysis, forecasting and strategic advice. Subacchi's current research covers a wide range of economic and policy issues, focusing in particular on international capital flows, global imbalances, international economic cooperation and global governance.
Subacchi is a contributor to leading journals and a regular media commentator. Recent coverage includes the BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC, Newsweek, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and International Herald Tribune. She studied at Bocconi University in Milan and at Oxford University. Subacchi's recent publications include: From London to L’Aquila: Building a Bridge between the G20 and the G8; New Ideas for the London Summit: Recommendations to the G20 Leaders; The Gulf Region: A New Hub of Global Financial Power (co-edited with J. Nugée); From Bretton Woods Onwards; the Birth and Rebirth of the World’s Hegemon; A one-and-a-half currency system (with B. J. Cohen); New Power Centres and New Power Brokers.
Jens Thomsen has been a Member of the Board of Governors of Danmarks Nationalbank since 1995. Prior to this Thomsen was Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Economic Affairs from 1988-94, having been Deputy Secretary and Senior Economic Adviser in the Ministry before that. He has also worked as the Financial Attaché, Permanent Representation of Denmark to the European Communities and in the Danmarks Statistik (the Central Bureau of Statistics). Thomsen has served as an Alternate Board Member for The Monetary Committee, Alternate Governor for the IMF and EBRD, and served on the Boards of the Economic Council, The European Central Bank’s International Relations Committee and the Financial Business Council. Thomsen was awarded a Masters in Economics from the University of Copenhagen where he later lectured. He has also taught at the Copenhagen Business School. Thomsen’s publications include articles in European Monetary Cooperation, The European Monetary System and International Bonds and Syndicated Credits.
 Hendrik du Toit is Chief Executive Officer at Investec Asset Management, responsible for Investec’s worldwide asset management business.
Du Toit joined the Investec Group in 1991 as a Portfolio Manager and is a founding member of Investec Asset Management. In 1992 he was appointed Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer. Under his stewardship, Investec Asset Management grew from a small South African start-up, to an international specialist fund management firm entrusted with approximately USD 95 billion of client assets as at 31 March 2011. Du Toit holds a Master of Philosophy in Economics and Politics of Development from Cambridge University, as well as a Master of Commerce in Economics and International Finance (Cum Laude), Bachelor of Commerce in Economics honours degree (Cum Laude) and a Bachelor of Commerce (Law) from Stellenbosch University. He previously served a full term as a Non-Executive Director of the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa (the premier state owned development agency) and was Founding Deputy Chairman of the Investment Management Association of South Africa. In 2008 Global Investor (a Euromoney publication) named him Asset Management CEO of the Year. In 2009 Du Toit was elected to the board of the UK based Investment Management Association, an industry association representing investment management firms which collectively manage assets of USD 5 trillion.
 Niels Thygesen, Professor emeritus of economics at the University of Copenhagen, was one of the ‘wise men’ on the Delors Committee in 1988-89 that set the path to EMU. Thygesen is on the board of Nordea Investment Funds and is Fellow of the Royal Society, Copenhagen, Founder Member of the European Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee and a member of the Euro-50 Group and the Trilateral Commission. Thygesen was Visiting Professor at European University Institute in Florence, Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris and the London School of Economics, and a Visiting Scholar at the Brookings Institution.
Educated at Copenhagen and Harvard, Thygesen joined the Danish Ministry of Economic Affairs before becoming professor at Copenhagen in 1971. He has been economic advisor to the Malaysian Treasury, Head of Monetary Division and Studies at the OECD, advisor to the Governor of the Denmark Central Bank, chairman of the Danish Economic Council, member of the board of AP Moller-Maersk, vice chairman of Novo Foundation, and chaiman of 3M Denmark, Mercato dei Titoli di Stato in Rome and EuroMTS in London. Publications include The Sources and the Impact of Monetary Changes, The Role of Monetary Policy in Stabilization (with K. Shigehara), From the European Monetary System to the European Monetary Union (with D. Gros), Globalization and Labor Markets (with Y. Kosai and R. Z. Lawrence).
 Lord Tugendhat is Chairman of the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, a member of the Imperial College Council and Chancellor of the University of Bath. He is a Conservative member of the House of Lords, where he sits on the Select Committee on Economic Affairs.
He is a former Vice President of the European Commission. He is also a former Chairman of Abbey National plc and Blue Circle Industries plc, the Civil Aviation Authority and the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
From 1970 until 1976 he was Conservative member of parliament for the City of London and Westminster South, and before that a features and leader writer for the Financial Times.
 Makoto Utsumi is president and chief executive officer of Japan Credit Rating Agency, Ltd in Tokyo. He was previously president at the Japan Center for International Finance and was a professor in the Faculty of Business and Commerce of Keio University in Tokyo.
Utsumi worked for Japan's Ministry of Finance for 34 years and held various positions including director general of the International Finance Bureau and deputy minister of finance for international affairs. He also served as minister extraordinary and plenipotentiary at the Embassy of Japan in Washington. During his career with the Ministry of Finance, Utsumi represented the Japanese government in international negotiations including G7 meetings, the preparation of the Plaza Accord, US-Japan Structural Impediment Initiative, and the Latin American Debt Problem. He has a law degree from the University of Tokyo.
 Willem Van Hasselt is currently EU strategy advisor to the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He studied economics at Rotterdam Erasmus University, philosophy at Leiden University and at the Sorbonne, College de France and CNRS in Paris. After spending time as staff-member at the International School of Philosophy, Leusden in the Netherlands, he joined the NL Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he held several jobs involved in European integration, including head of the EC Development Cooperation division; ministerial speechwriter; strategic policy planning staff, becoming deputy director (2000-2007). In 2007 he joined the Forward Strategy Unit as an advisor and as liaison to European thinktanks for the MFA and the NL Permament Representation to the EU in Brussels.
 Paul van Seters studied law at Utrecht University and sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Currently he is Director of Globus and Professor of Globalization and Sustainable Development at TiasNimbas Business School at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. Previously he was Professor of Legal Sociology in the Faculty of Law at Tilburg University. He has published articles and books on socio-legal theory, public administration, and cultural sociology. His current research interests include law and communitarianism, corporate social responsibility, and the global civil society. Recent books he (co-)edited are Globalization and Its New Divides (Dutch University Press, 2003), Communitarianism in Law and Society (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006), and Bedrijfsleven en civil society (Stichting Synthesis, 2008). He also regularly writes for NRC Handelsblad, de Volkskrant, Het Financieele Dagblad, Trouw and Brabants Dagblad. Since 2011 he writes blogs for Trouw Duurzaam.
 Peter Walton is a Professor in the Department of Accounting and Management Control at ESSEC Business School, France. He has also served as Editor for the World Accounting Report and an Advisor for the UN intergovernmental working group of experts of accounting and reporting.
Walton's most recent books include Global Financial Accounting and Reporting: 2eme edition (with W. Aerts) 2009 and An Executive's Guide for Moving from U.S GAAP to IFRS, 2009. He has also written many articles for journalists including: Revue Francaise de Compatibilité, Accounting in Europe and Financial Regulator (The). Walton holds a B.A in French, German and Economics from London University. He also holds an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics.
 Zhong Wei is a professor at the Financial Research Centre of Beijing Normal University
Having carried out postdoctoral research at Tongtsi University, and gained a Ph.D in economics at Beijing Normal University, Wei became a member of China Society for Finance and Banking, China Society for International Finance and China Society for World Economy and Politics. Wei's work includes research on globalisation, the G20, sovereign debt reconstructuring, social development in East Asia, lessons from the 1998-99 financial crisis, and international development finance.
 Ernst Welteke is an independent banking and financial specialist who was president of Deutsche Bundesbank between 1999 and 2004 and thus sat on the council of the European Central Bank during the first five years of European economic and monetary union. He is an independent director of the southern Russian bank Center-Invest and of Unibank in Azerbaijan. After studying economics at Frankfurt and Marburg Universities, Welteke became a member of the Hesse State Parliament in central Germany and was later Economy and then Finance Minister of Hesse.
Between 1995 and 1999 Welteke was Frankfurt-based chairman of the state central bank of Hesse and a member of the Bundesbank’s policy-making central council. He has been involved for many years in the interplay between central banks, governments and the financial markets, including participation in the activities of the Bank for International Settlements and International Monetary Fund.
 John West is a former Senior Consultant for Capacity Building and Training at the Asian Development Bank Institute(ADBI). His activities focused on capacity building and training for government officials from developing Asia with a particular emphasis on the structural policy implications of the global financial crisis.
West came to the ADBI from the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) where his most recent position was Head of Public Affairs. He was also Director of the OECD Forum, the OECD’s multi-stakeholder summit which brings together business and labour personalities, and government leaders on the occasion of the Organisation’s annual Ministerial Summit.
In his 23 years at the OECD, West occupied a number of different positions in the following areas: balance of payments; relations with emerging and transition economies; and the OECD Secretary-General’s Private Office. He was also involved in a number of major OECD studies on globalisation, such as “The World in 2020”.
Prior to his time at the OECD, West worked at the Australian Treasury (finance ministry) where he was director of balance of payments and external debt. He earned a masters degree in economics and a bachelor degree in accounting and financial management from the University of New South Wales, Australia.
West also taught globalisation studies at the Institute for Political Studies (“Sciences Po”) in Paris, France. Currently he is managing his website on globalisation, international trade and finance, www.mrglobalization.com.
 Jack Wigglesworth former chairman of LIFFE (London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange) has more than 40 years of experience in capital markets. Jack started as an economist in the 60’s in Phillips & Drew, where he became a member of the stock market. Subequently, he joined W. Greenwell & Co. In 1980 he started working in LIFFE, where he stayed for 19 years. Mr Wigglesworth has been marketing director of J.P. Morgan Futures Inc, as well as marketing director of CitiFutures Ltd, and the futures and options market of Citibank. In 1997 the business was acquired by ABN AMRO and he eventually became president of the ABN AMRO Futures Ltd. Mr Jack Wigglesworth is currently president of London Asia Capital Plc, as well as director of the Gresham college and of several more private companies.
 Derek Wong is Managing Director of Dah Sing Bank Ltd, Dah Sing Banking Group Ltd, Dah Sing Financial Holdings Ltd, Vice Chairman of Dah Sing Life Assurance Co Ltd, Chairman of Dah Sing Bank (China) Ltd and Vice Chairman of Bank of Chongqing.
Joined Dah Sing Bank Ltd, the main operating unit of the Group, in 1977 and had served and led various departments before being appointed a Director of the Bank in 1989. He was involved in several major projects of the Group, including the acquisition of Hongkong Industrial and Commercial Bank in 1987, establishing Dah Sing Life Assurance in 1990, acquisition of Wing On Bank in 1993 and establishment of Jian Sing Bank, a joint venture bank between Dah Sing Group and China Construction Bank in 1994, separate Listing of Dah Sing Banking Group Ltd in June 2004, acquisition of Pacific Finance Ltd and Banco Comercial de Macau in 2005 and procurring strategic investment of 20% stake in Bank of Chongqing in 2007. Wong is an Associate of The Chartered Institute of Bankers of the UK, Founder Member of The Institute of Bankers of Hong Kong, Advisory Board Member and Founder Member of International Retail Banking Council.
 Songzuo Xiang, vice-chairman of the Advisory Board, is Deputy Director and Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Monetary Research, Renmin University of China. He is Professor of Economics at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Editor-in-Chief, Global Finance & Business, and Chief Economist, Institute of Global Finance & Business.Xiang’s career includes spells as chairman and chief executive of Hurray! Solutions Ltd. and as executive deputy chief of fund planning department at People’s Bank of China Shenzhen special economic zone branch. He has also been a real estate market analyst and manager of the strategic investment and planning department in the chief executive’s office at Shenzhen Resources & Property Development Ltd. Xiang achieved a Master of International Affairs in Economic Policy Management at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York and was Visiting Scholar at Judge Institute of Management Studies, Cambridge University. He has published numerous academic papers and dissertations and is editor and Chinese translator of Selected Works on Economics of Robert A. Mundell. He is editor of two book series at Renmin University Publishing House.
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