Media enquiries
OMFIF encourages the media to reach out for comments and interviews on global policy and investment themes relating to central banks, sovereign funds, pension funds, regulators and treasuries. This includes the fields of digital finance, sustainable finance, sovereign debt and wealth management.
Please contact James Fitzgerald for any media enquiries.
Email: James.Fitzgerald@omfif.org
Phone: +44 (0) 20 700 27729
Key talking points
Economic and monetary policy
- Key economic trends
- Inflation expectations
- Monetary policy decisions
- Movement in the political economy
- Understanding investment trends among institutions with $42tn under management
Digital monetary policy
- Digital currencies and the future of capital markets
- Central bank digital currencies
- Distributed ledger technology
- Blockchain
Sustainable policy
- The Network for Greening the Financial System
- Environmental, social corporate governance regulation
- Supervision and standards setting
- Climate risk management
- Scaling up green capital markets, products and investment
- Finding solutions to data and technology gaps
Sovereign debt
- Multinational and sovereign issuers
- Sustainable and green bond markets
- Digital finance and its impact on debt capital market
- Emerging market sovereign debt
OMFIF media commentators
Mark Sobel
US Chairman
Mark Sobel is US Chairman at OMFIF. Mark is a veteran US Treasury official, who was at the forefront of international financial diplomacy for two decades.
Mark, who represented the US on the International Monetary Fund executive board up to April 2018, has had a 40-year Treasury career with extensive around-the-world engagement.
He works with OMFIF in dealings with private and public sector organisations, speak regularly on international and US policy, and provide OMFIF members with insight and analysis.
Mark was Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary for international monetary and financial policy between 2000 and early 2015. He helped lead Treasury preparations for G7 and G20 finance minister and central bank governor meetings, formulated US positions at the IMF, and coordinated Treasury and regulatory agencies’ work in the Financial Stability Board.
Mark founded the US/EU Financial Market Regulatory Dialogue and chaired an international group of private and official sovereign debt experts that developed enhanced collective action clauses for sovereign debt restructuring. He managed the $100bn-plus Treasury Exchange Stabilization Fund and played a key role in US foreign exchange policy including coordinating the Treasury’s semi-annual foreign exchange report on China and other countries.
Taylor Pearce
Lead Economist
Taylor Pearce is a Lead Economist at the OMFIF Economic and Monetary Policy Institute. She contributes to a range of research, reports and commentaries on monetary and macroeconomic themes.
Taylor joined OMFIF with a background primarily in the public sector. She participated in the International Parliamentary Scholarship programme at the German parliament, during which she interned for the chairman of the EU Affairs Committee. She also interned at the US Mission to the UN in New York City working on social issues and economic affairs.
Taylor holds a BA in international relations from Brown University and an MSc in international political economy from the London School of Economics, where she specialised in Eastern European economic development. She is fluent in German.
Nikhil Sanghani
Managing Director, Economic and Monetary Policy Institute
Nikhil is Managing Director, Economic and Monetary Policy Institute at OMFIF. He is responsible for the team’s events that convene leading public sector officials on topics such as monetary policy, emerging market development, global public investment, public finances, capital market development and sustainable finance. Nikhil also leads OMFIF’s economic research and content, including global surveys of central banks, regulators and market participants.
Previously, Nikhil managed OMFIF’s research operations and publications across OMFIF’s five institutes. Prior to OMFIF, he was an Emerging Markets Economist at Capital Economics, a macroeconomic research company, where he led the coverage of Latin America. He has previous experience working with the UK civil service and Credit Suisse.
Nikhil holds a Masters’ degree in Economic History from the London School of Economics, where he specialised in Latin American economic development. He holds an undergraduate degree in Economics, Politics and International Studies from the University of Warwick, which included an exchange year at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
Emma McGarthy
Head of the Sustainable Policy Institute
Emma is Head of the Sustainable Policy Institute. She is responsible for leading and managing the team to deliver the institute’s overall business objectives through a pipeline of reports, journal publications and events. Emma develops the strategy and editorial scope across these projects and supports senior engagement with central banks, regulators, financial services across the sustainable finance space.
Prior to joining OMFIF, Emma worked for several years as a conference producer, developing and running international conferences in the tech, legal and finance sectors, leading on content, research and building key industry relationships. Before this, she was a team leader for a local community development project based in Kenya.
Emma has a MSc in International Development from the University of Amsterdam, and a BSc in History and American Studies from Sussex University.
Lewis McLellan
Editor, DMI
Lewis is Editor of the Digital Monetary Institute. He is responsible for content, including reports, podcasts and commentaries.
Before joining OMFIF, he spent six years at GlobalCapital, a capital markets newspaper and part of Euromoney Institutional Investor. There, he covered debt capital markets, breaking news and developing themes in public sector bond markets, emerging markets, ESG and digitalisation. He formed relationships with senior bankers and key borrowers.
He holds an MA in Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh.