Sovereign Asset and
Debt Management

Paul Tucker is the Bank of England’s Executive Director responsible for the Bank’s open market operations, the Bank's foreign exchange market operations, and the management of the UK foreign currency reserves, and related risk management. He is a member of the MPC and chairs London's Money Markets Liaison Group.

Robert A. Mundell is professor of economics at Columbia University and was awarded the Nobel prize for economics in 1999. He is known as the father of the theory of optimum currency areas and formulated what has become the standard international macroeconomics model.

Robert Stheeman is Chief Executive at the UK Debt Management Office. He was previously Director of Debt Capital Markets at Deutsche Bank in London, having joined Deutsche Bank in 1986 and spent most of his career there working on debt market issues.

Sigbjorn Atle Berg is a advisor to the governor of the Norges Bank on investment strategy. Mr. Berg has been with the Norwegian Central Bank since 1986, and was previously head of Financial Market Research.

Hugo Frey Jensen is Head of Financial Markets at the Danmarks Nationalbank, where he has worked since 1984. The department comprises three divisions: financial stability, government debt management and risk management of the Bank’s financial assets.

Benoit Coeure took up his position as Deputy Executive Director of the French debt management agency, Agence France Trésor, in June 2002. He was previously chief economic adviser to the director of France’s Treasury, and from 1999 to 2001, he was Head of Foreign Exchange and Economic Policy.

Hans Blommestein is Head of Capital Market Programme at the OECD and PwC Professor of Finance at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Dr Blommestein directs the OECD’s activities on public debt management and government securities markets, and heads the OECD’s programme on emerging financial markets.