European SSA forum

Patrick Barbe

Head, European Investment Grade Fixed Income

Neuberger Berman

Patrick Barbe is head of European investment grade fixed income at Neuberger Berman. He also serves as a senior portfolio manager on that asset class. Previously, Barbe was head of European fixed income at BNP Paribas Asset Management. He started his career as a portfolio manager of dedicated mutual funds for a BNP Paribas subsidiary

Charlie Berman

Founder and CEO

Agora

Louise Bergstrom

Funding and Investor Relations Executive

Swedish Export Credit Corporation

Louise Bergstrom is funding and investor relations executive at Swedish Export Credit Corporation. She has extensive experience from the fixed income market, both from the banking side in London and as a funding and investor relations executive on the Treasury side for a variety of Swedish enterprises.

Niall Bohan

Director, Asset Debt and Financial Risk Management

European Commission

Niall Bohan is director, asset, debt and financial risk management at the European Commission. Bohan was head of the banking unit with responsibility for implementation of the Capital Requirements Regulation and Directive. He assumed responsibility for management of the unit responsible for the capital markets union.

Bertrand De Mazières

Director General for Finance

European Investment Bank

Bertrand de Mazières is director general for finance at the European Investment Bank. He was previously elected president of the Euro Debt Market Association. He has held senior positions in the French ministry of finance and
previously served as financial attaché at the French embassy in Washington.

Arnaud Delestienne

Director, International Capital Markets

Luxembourg Stock Exchange

Arnaud Delestienne is director of international capital markets and a member of the Executive Committee of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange where he leads the overall commercial strategies and international primary market activities. He was appointed to various associations, including the International Organisation for Standardisation and the International Capital Market Association.

Marjan Divjak

Director General, Treasury

Ministry of Finance, Slovenia

Marjan Divjak is director general of the Treasury at Slovenia’s Ministry of Finance. His responsibilities include funding, liability management, state budget liquidity management and single Treasury account operations. He previously worked in the middle office of the Treasury directorate. He has also been an adviser in the office of the prime minister.

Steffen Dyck

Senior Vice President, Sovereign Risk Group

Moody’s Investor Service

Esther Finnbogadóttir

Head, Funding and Debt Management

Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, Iceland

Esther Finnbogadóttir is head of funding and debt management at the Icelandic ministry of finance and economic affairs. Prior to this, she worked for the advisory company Analytica and its predecessor, the risk advisory division at Askar Capital, mainly in risk, debt and asset management advisory. She is also a member of the board of directors of the Nordic Investment Bank

Bálint Fischer

Chief Business Development Officer

Dorsum

Bálint Fischer is chief business development officer at Dorsum. His duties involve wealth management and helping financial institutions in their digital transformation in this domain. Fischer has been working as a business-side decision maker for banks, brokerages and investment management firms, with an interest to innovate with the latest fintech solutions.

Felipe Gordillo

ESG Senior Analyst

Mirova

Felipe Gordillo is environmental, social and governance senior analyst at Mirova. Previously, he was a senior ESG analyst at BNP Paribas Asset Management and a member of the Climate Bonds Standard Board and the Principles for Responsible Investment’s sovereign engagement working group.

Davide Iacovoni

Director General, Public Debt

Ministry of Economy and Finance, Italy

Davide Iacovoni is director general of public debt at Italy’s ministry of economy and finance. He was a director of Poste Italiane and, since 2009, he has been an untenured professor at the University of Padua for public economics and financial markets.

Samir Ismayilov

Principal, Capital and Financial Markets Development

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Samir Ismayilov is principal of the capital and financial markets development team at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He led technical assistance projects on securities market policy initiatives and reforms in EBRD’s regions, managed contractual aspects and provided regulatory and transactional assistance to its teams for local currency bond issuance /investments.

Robert Koller

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

NowCM

Robert Koller is founder and chief executive officer of NowCM, a debt issuance platform. He has experience in primary capital markets and programming and IT processes. As a lawyer, he has vast expertise in debt capital markets, regulatory and funds as well as in the social impact area

Zoltán Kuráli

Chief Executive Officer

Government Debt Management Agency, Hungary

Zoltán Kuráli is chief executive officer of Hungary’s government debt management agency. He worked at various commercial and investment banks, including BNP-Dresdner and Citi before moving to Deutsche Bank, where he held various management and senior investment banking positions.

Sven Lautenschläger

International Funding Officer

L-Bank

Sven Lautenschläger is international funding officer at L-Bank. Before joining the refinancing division, he worked in risk controlling for Dresdner Bank S.A., Luxembourg and L-Bank. He has also acted as Chair of the State Project Finance Company of Baden-Wuerttemberg. He is responsible for all longterm-funding activities of L-Bank and running LBank’s investment and liquidity
portfolio

Alexander Liebethal

Vice President, Capital Markets and Head, New Issues

KfW

Alexander Liebethal is vice president of the capital markets department of KfW. His responsibility is managing KfW’s funding activities in structured notes and private placements. He was involved in the KfW’s Euro benchmark
programme and global issues in the dollar market. Moreover, apart from debt capital markets, he oversees KfW’s shareholdings in Deutsche Post and Deutsche Telekom.

Yanick Loirat

Head, Euro Sovereign Investments

Neuberger Berman

Yanick Loirat is head of euro sovereign investments at Neuberger Berman. He is also a senior portfolio manager of that asset class. Previously, he was a portfolio manager of dedicated mutual funds for BNP Paribas Asset Management, and later head of euro sovereign rates and inflation. He also worked at Ixis Corporate and Investment Bank and at Société Générale.

Friedrich Luithlen

Head, Debt Capital Markets

DZ BANK

Friedrich Luithlen is head of debt capital markets & syndication at DZ BANK. Luithlen ran the private placement business of the bank, and acted as head of covered bond origination. Luithlen is also responsible for a number of DZ
BANK’S digitalisation projects that aim to streamline transform internal as well as client-facing processes in the primary debt market business.

Jürgen Martinschledde

Senior Portfolio Manager

MEAG

Jürgen Martinschledde is senior portfolio manager at MEAG. Previously, he was a portfolio manager at Tecta and portfolio risk manager and quantitative analyst at at Pacific Investment Management Company.

Olivier Pujal

Senior Adviser to the Chief Financial Officer

European Stability Mechanism

Olivier Pujal is senior adviser to the chief financial officer at the European Stability Mechanism. He joined the ESM as deputy head of the assets and liabilities management team. Previously, he worked at Société Générale Corporate and Investment Banking and Crédit Agricole SA where he had
management roles in risk management and ALM.

Ioannis Rallis

Head of SSA DCM

JP Morgan

Ioannis Rallis is executive director and head of sovereigns, supranationals agencies and debt capital markets at JP Morgan. He heads the team for regional governments and covers some of the largest public sector issuers in
Europe. As part of his role, he also manages the bank’s primary dealerships in
the euro area.

Cyril Rousseau

Chief Executive Officer

Agence France Trésor

Cyril Rousseau is director general for finance at the European Investment Bank. Prior to this, he was chief executive of Agence France Trésor.

Asif Sherani

Managing Director, Head of DCM Syndicate EMEA

HSBC

Asif Sherani is managing director and head of debt capital markets syndicate at the Europe, Middle East and Asia syndicate desk in London as well as globally.
He has executed a number of the largest transactions in the European debt capital markets and played a part in the continued growth of HSBC’s public sector DCM franchise. He is now working on the digital transition for capital
markets.

Sergio Sierra

Head of Funding and Treasury

Instituto de Crédito Oficial, Spain

Sergio Sierra is head of funding and treasury at Instituto de Crédito Oficial.
He was part of the team responsible for issuing bonds in different currencies and markets. He participated in the issuance of ICO social bonds and the preparation of the Social Bond Principles by the International Capital Market Association. He was also head of the securitisation and investor relations department.

Markus Stix

Managing Director

Austrian Treasury

Markus Stix is managing director of the debt management office at the Austrian Treasury. His duties include European Union, International Monetary Fund and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development affairs. He is also a steering committee member of the OECD working party on debt management.

Marek Szczerbak

Deputy Director, Public Debt department

Ministry of Finance, Poland

Marek Szczerbak is deputy director of the public debt department at Poland’s ministry of finance. His main areas of responsibility include the strategy of debt management, financing plans as well as risk management framework, having assessed the economic impact on Poland of adopting the euro.

Rocío Trueba Miralles

Deputy Head, Funding Debt Management

Spanish Treasury

Rocío Trueba Miralles is deputy head of the funding and debt management department of the Spanish Treasury. Her responsibilities include devising and executing Spain’s funding programme, investor marketing, supervising
and regulating the Treasury’s relationship with its 19 primary dealers and coordinating the capital markets presence of public-sector sub-sovereign issuers

Thomas Weinberg

Head, Trading and Issuance

Deutsche Finanzagentur

Thomas Weinberg is head of trading and issuance at Deutsche Finanzagentur. Before joining, Weinberg worked for the financial markets division, as asset and liability management, international capital markets and head of money markets and foreign exchange at Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau.