Defence funding forum

Vernon Bogdanor

Professor, Institute of Contemporary British History

King's College London

Angela Brusas

Director, Funding & Investor Relations

Nordic Investment Bank

Yuriy Butsa

Government Commissioner

Public Debt Management, Ukraine

Mihail Calinescu

Managing Director

BlackRock

Sarah Carlson

Senior Vice President, Sovereign Risk Group

Moody’s Ratings

Sarah Carlson is senior vice president of sovereign risk at Moody’s Ratings. She is currently lead analyst for Spain, Greece and the European Union’s rating. She also worked at the Financial Services Authority where she headed the regulator’s risk analysis area. She is also a former lead analyst for France, Italy, the UK and the US.

Oliver Cusworth

Senior Policy Adviser, Security and Defence Office

European Investment Bank

Annabel Dunne

Head of Institutional Relations

OMFIF

Annabel Dunne is head of institutional relations at OMFIF. She is responsible for delivering a portfolio of industry-leading events convening issuers and investors across the global sovereign, supranational and agency debt community. She manages sovereign debt institute’s key relationships with stakeholders across the international capital markets. She also serves on the OMFIF leadership team.

Christian Engelen

Head, Borrowing and Lending Operations

European Commission

André Figueira de Sousa

Fixed Income Fund Manager

Degroof Petercam AM

Christopher Garnett

Senior Adviser, Sovereign Debt Institute

OMFIF

Christopher Garnett is senior adviser at OMFIF. He also runs the consultancy ChuteCourt Asesores. Before this, he was principal permanent adviser for the UK to the executive president of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration. Previously, he was director of conferences business and a group executive committee member at Euromoney.

Jonathan Lewis

Of Counsel

Clifford Chance

Damien Mariette

Senior Fund Manager, Global Equities

CPR Asset Management

David Marsh

Chairman

OMFIF

David Marsh is Chairman and Co-Founder of OMFIF. Before starting at OMFIF in late 2009, he worked for City merchant bank Robert Fleming, corporate finance boutique Hawkpoint, German management consultancy Droege and London investment firm London & Oxford. Marsh took over the chairmanship from John Plender on 1 January 2018 having been Managing Director since 2014. He moved to a non-executive role following John Orchard’s appointment as Chief Executive effective 1 January 2020.

Rob Murray

Chairman

DSRB Charter Negotiations

Rob Murray is chairman of the Defence, Security and Resilience Bank Development Treaty Negotiations. He was founding architect of DIANA, Nato’s first technology accelerator and the Nato Innovation Fund. At Nato, he worked within the defence investment team. He also served as head of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and became the Alliance’s first head of innovation.

Marie-Sophie Pastant

Head of Index, ETF & Synthetic Systematic Strategies, Portfolio Management

BNP Paribas Asset Management

Sven Reinke

Managing Director, Corporate Finance Group

Moody's Ratings

Mike Richter

Executive Director

DZ Bank AG

Peter Sedgwick

Vice President (2000-06)

European Investment Bank

Linus Terhorst

Research Fellow, Defence Industries & Society Programme

Royal United Services Institute

Jens Ulbrich

Director General, Economics

Deutsche Bundesbank