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|  Speakers
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| Iwaleso Akinrinsola |
| Iwaleso (Iwa) Akinrinsola is a PhD candidate at
the Centre for Commercial Law Studies and is researching legal aspects
of economic integration in West Africa. She works as a research/teaching
assistant for the LLM, regulation of financial markets course and
is a member of the London Forum for International Economic Law and
Development. She obtained a masters degree in international business
law from King’s College, University of London. She also holds
an LLB from University of Westminster, London and completed a trainee
solicitor work placement at the government legal service, Queen Anne's
Chambers. |
| Dr Kern Alexander
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| Dr Kern Alexander is senior research fellow in
international financial law and regulation at the Judge Business School,
University of Cambridge. He is admitted to practice law in the states
of Florida, Minnesota, the District of Columbia and all relevant US
federal courts. He specialises in banking and securities law with
a focus on regulatory compliance in the areas of money laundering
control, bank capital adequacy, market abuse and insider dealing.
He has over 15 years’ experience in advising on compliance with
US and UK financial regulation requirements and financial-sanctions
enforcement issues. He teaches economics and law at Queens’
College, Cambridge and international economic law at the Centre of
International Studies. His most recent book is Global Governance of
Financial Systems: The International Regulation of Systemic Risk.
(co-authored with J. Eatwell). He has degrees in economics, government,
and law from Cornell, Oxford and Cambridge universities and a PhD
law from London. |
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| Isaac Alfon |
| Issac Alfon has been a financial economist in the
risk assessment division of the Financial Services Authority (FSA),
London, since 1997. Previously, he was an executive in the cost-benefit
analysis department of the Securities & Investments Board (SIB) in
London and before that, an economic analyst at National Economic Research
Associates (NERA) in London. Mr Alfon has been visiting professor
at London Guildhall University for the last five years, giving seminars
on the economics of financial regulation and on cost-benefit analysis
to students in the university's executive Master Programme in Financial
Regulation. Mr Alfon has an MSc in Project Analysis from the department
of economics at the University of York, and has just completed his
thesis, "The visible hand of government: creating markets, tax competition,
and regulating retail financial products" for a PhD in Economics at
University College London (UCL). |
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| Bill Allen |
| Bill Allen is currently director for Europe and
deputy director, financial stability and centre for central banking
studies at the Bank of England. Mr Allen joined the bank in 1972,
and as senior manager in the Gilt-Edged Division (1982-86) he was
heavily engaged inpreparation for the "Big Bang" reforms.
From 1986 to 1990 as head of money markets operations division he
was responsible for conducting open-market operations on behalf of
the Bank, and for policy advice. From 1990 to 1994 as head of foreign
exchange division he was responsible for the Bank's operations in
the foreign exchange market and for the management of the official
reserves. In 1994 he became deputy director for monetary analysis
and in 1998 deputy director for financial market operations. Since
May 1997, he has been joint secretary of the Bank of England Monetary
Policy Committee. In addition, since January 1990, he has been an
adviser on monetary plicy management to the National Bank of Poland. |
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| Peter W. Allsopp |
| Peter W. Allsopp is the CEO of Allsopp Consultancy
Services, and was formerly head of the payment, settlement and clearing
systems division at the Bank of England. He joined the Bank in 1959
and was seconded, from 1973-76, to the Inter-Bank Research Organisation
in London where he worked on the implications of UK membership of
the EEC, and seconded again, from 1978-82, to the Hong Kong government
as deputy secretary for monetary affairs. Mr Allsopp represented the
Bank on the G10 central banks’ committee on payment and settlement
systems and chaired its steering group on settlement risk in foreign
exchange transactions – whose report was published by the Bank
for International Settlements (BIS) in March 1996, “the Allsopp
Report”. He now works as a consultant participating in technical
assistance to emerging economies, with the IMF, World Bank and other
agencies. |
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| Dr Mads Andenas |
| Dr Andenas is the director of the British Institute
of International and Comparative Law. Prior to joining the Institute
in 1999 he was a senior lecturer and director of the Centre of European
Law at King's College, London. In 1998-1999 he was a Law Society senior
research fellow in Company Law at the Institute of Advanced Legal
Studies, London. He received his Cand. Jur. From University of Oslo
and a PhD from Cambridge. Between 1985-1991 he was a civil servant
in the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Trade & Shipping and Royal Ministry
of Finance (last appointment as director general). From 1993-1996
he was a legal adviser to the European Bank of Recontruction and Development.
He is a barrister in England and Wales at Brick Court Chambers and
is also admitted as an advokat in Norway. Dr Andenas has published
some 30 books on EU law, banking law, and law reform in transition
economies and is a member of the editorial board of numerous renowned
legal journals and books. |
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| Elisabeth Ardaillon-Poirier |
| Elisabeth Ardaillon-Poirier has been director of
communications of the European Central Bank and has chaired the external
communications committee (ECCO) of the European System of Central
Banks since November 2003. From 1994 to 2003 she was director of communications
of the Banque de France and a member of ECCO from 1998. From 1986
to 1993 she was vice-president of corporate communications of the
Hachette Group and general delegate of the Hachette Foundation. Before
joining Hachette Group she was director of corporate communications
of the Saint Gobain Group, before which she was a director of development
at Bernard Krief Consulting Group. She has a masters degree in arts
and English. |
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| Inigo Arruga Oleaga |
| Inigo Arruga Oleaga is senior
legal counsel at the ECB, which he joined in summer 2001. After
having worked on the euro cash changeover and on enlargement, he
deals now with institutional and European matters. Before joining
the ECB he worked at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg,
to which he came from private practice in Madrid. Previously, he
worked for several years in Banco Santander. He studied law and
Spanish language and literature at the University of Saragossa and
European law at the College of Europe of Bruges. |
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| John Aspden |
| John Aspden joined the Financial Supervision Commission
in the Isle of Man as chief executive in 1998. He came to the Isle
of Man from Hong Kong, where he worked for nearly 11 years. He was
first seconded in 1988 as an adviser to the Hong Kong Banking Commission
(which subsequently became part of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority).
After four years he joined International Bank of Asia Ltd as deputy
general manager responsible for the bank’s retail operations.
In 1996 he joined the Jardine Matheson group as managing director
of Matheson InvestNet Ltd, a major independent distributor of collective
investment schemes and fund manager. Prior to going to Hong Kong,
Mr Aspden worked for 15 years at the Bank of England in a number of
market supervisory positions, including a three-year period of secondment
to the Council for the Securities Industry. |
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| Dr Paul Ayris |
| Dr Paul Ayris has been director of UCL Library
Services since 1997. He is also the UCL copyright officer. He is a
member of the LIBER (Ligue Internationale des Bibliothèques
Européennes de Recherche) and SPARC Europe boards. He chairs
LIBER's access division, and the OAI organising committee for the
Cern workshops on scholarly communication. He also chairs the UK's
SHERPA management group and the JISC’s NHS-HE content procurement
group. He is deputy chair of the JISC’s repositories and preservation
advisory group. He is a member of the JISC's journals working group,
of SCONUL's health strategy group and of the CURL/SCONUL joint scholarly
communications group. He has a PhD in ecclesiastical history and publishes
on English reformation studies. |
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| James Backhouse
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| Dr James Backhouse is director of London School
of Economics Computer Security Research Centre and leads the information
systems (IS) security programme in the IS department. At the LSE he
pioneered the study of IS security from a social science perspective
with his doctoral supervisees now in great demand. Recently he led
the FIDUCIA collaborative project into modelling risk in public key
infrastructure, as part of the ESRC/DTI management of information
link programme. Other current projects involve financial regulation
and profiling in anti-money-laundering. He is a member of the senate
of the University of London. He was a member of the committee which
extended BS7799 for web-based operations. He has published in numerous
academic journals in the fields of security, online education, risk
and financial crime. |
| Peter Bakstansky
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| Peter Bakstansky is a senior vice president of
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and a member of the bank’s
management committee. He has been in charge of the public information
area since February 1976 and he also is responsible for the Office
of Regional and Community Affairs. He serves as the ombudsman of the
bank and is the senior administrative officer for the executive group.
Prior to joining the Fed, Mr Bakstansky served in several capacities
at Chase Manhattan Bank starting in 1966 and from 1972-74 as vice
president and director of public relations at Chase’s head office.
Before that, Mr Bakstansky was a business news writer for several
newspapers in New York, including serving as banking editor of the
New York Herald Tribune from 1964 to mid-1964, when it closed. He
received a bachelor of business administration degree from City College
of New York in 1961. In addition, he has studied at the Graduate School
of the University of Illinois and at New York University's Graduate
School of Business. Mr Bakstansky is a member of the board of directors
of the World Press Institute, the College and Community Fellowship
and the New York Economic Education Foundation; a member of the board
of advisors of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship and a member of the Council
on Foreign Relations. He also is a founder and a board member of the
Alumni and Friends of LaGuardia High School Inc., a non-profit organisation
that assists the New York City high school. Mr Bakstansky is married
and lives in Manhattan. |
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| Hans Peter Bauer |
| Hans-Peter Bauer studied economics and business
administration at St. Gallen University in Switzerland and the London
School of Economics. He spent his entire professional career with
Swiss Bank Cooperation and, following the merger, with UBS. His major
roles included chief operations officer for the German subsidiary
of SBC, chief risk officer for the retail bank in Switzerland and
the global private bank, and, finally, global head of regulatory relations
and strategy at UBS. In April 2004, after a career of 26 years in
banking, he decided to retire to have more time for strategic aspects
of compliance at large and, in particular, money laundering, the fight
against terrorism and financial crime. He is also one of the initiators
and a founding member of the Wolfsberg Group, which has actively contributed
to the standards against money laundering and the financing of terrorism. |
| Thomas C. Baxter, Jr.
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| Thomas C. Baxter, Jr. has been general counsel
and executive vice president of the legal group at the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York since March 1995. He also serves as deputy general
counsel of the Federal Open Market Committee. His principal responsibility
is to supervise the day-to-day operation of the New York Fed’s
legal group, which includes the protection function, and he also serves
on the bank’s management committee. Mr Baxter has also served
as a legal adviser to the current payment methods project of the National
Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, which developed
Article 4A of the uniform commercial code, and amendments to Articles
3 and 4. Mr Baxter served as a member of the US delegation to a United
Nations group that developed a model law governing credit transfers.
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| Denis Beau |
| Denis Beau is deputy director of the payment systems
and market infrastructure directorate at the Banque de France. In
this capacity, he is a representative of Banque de France in the payments
committee of the European Central Bank and of the G10 central banks,
and he is chairman of the payment systems policy working group of
the ECB. Mr Beau graduated from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques
de Paris and holds an MBA from INSEAD. |
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| Wolf-Rüdiger Bengs
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| Wolf-Rüdiger Bengs has been chief of the press
and information division at the Deutsche Bundesbank since 1995. He
joined the Bundesbank head office in 1977 after receiving a master's
degree in economics. After seven years he became assistant then advisor
to the German executive director at the IMF in Washington, DC. He
moved back to Frankfurt in 1986 where he became senior economist of
the IMF division at the Bundesbank. From 1988 to 1995 he was financial
attaché and representative of the Bundesbank at the German embassy
in London. |
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| Len Berkowitz
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| Len Berkowitz is a senior consultant at Freshfields
Bruckhaus Deringer. Hejoined Linklaters & Paines (now Linklaters &
Alliance) in 1967and became a partner in 1973. He worked in the corporate
and financial practices, and was involved in a wide range of merger
and acquisition, reconstruction, public offering and privatisation
transactions. He left in 1995 to join the Bank of England as adviser
to the Governor and head the Bank's legal unit. He retired in 2001
and joined Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer as a senior consultant. |
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| Ron Berndsen
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| Ron Berndsen is head of the Oversight Department
of the Nederlandsche. He joined the Nederlandsche Bank in 1992 and
has held several management positions on the monetary and economic
policy side of the central bank. Prior to joining the bank he was
affiliated with Tilburg University in the Netherlands where he obtained
a PhD in economics and artificial intelligence. He holds an MA in
economics from Tilburg University. |
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| David Birch |
| David Birch helped to found Consult Hyperion in
1986. Prior to this he spent several years as an IT consultant living
and working in Europe, the Far East and North America. He graduated
from the University of Southampton with a B.Sc (Hons.) in Physics.
Mr Birch has particular skills in facilitating executive-level decision-making
and the linking of technological developments to business strategies.
His recent work for organisations including Microsoft, Mondex International,
Thomas Cook and De La Rue is at the forefront of the emerging electronic
commerce sector. He was a Visiting MBA Lecturer in Information Technology
Management at the City University Business School from 1990-95 and
lectured on the impact of new information and communications technologies
for the Nortel/Aspen IInstitute for Information Studies from 1993-96. |
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| Denis Blenck |
| Denis Blenck was appointed head of market operations
analysis division at the European Central Bank in June 1998. Before
that, he was in charge of the monetary framework section, monetary
economics and statistics department at the European Monetary Institute,
the forerunner institution to the ECB. Prior to joining EMI, he worked
at the Banque de France, occupying various functions in the domestic
markets department after having acted as inspection-team assistant
and analyst of banks’ dossiers at the General Secretariat of
Commission Bancaire. |
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Raymond Bloch |
| Raymond Bloch is assistant director of the IT
department of the Swiss National Bank. After taking a degree in physics
and PhD in mathematics, he held teaching and research positions at
the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the University of Basle
and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He joined the IT
department at the bank in 1982 and has undertaken various project
and management activities, including strategic planning, IT architecture,
IT security, and the Internet. |
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| Lars Boman |
| Lars Boman is deputy head of portfolio management
at the Swedish National Debt Office. The portfolio management group
is responsible for the active management of government debt in foreign
currency and jointly responsible for developing the overall government
debt management strategy. Mr Boman joined the debt office in January
2001. Prior to joining the debt office he worked as a senior economist
at the European Commission in Brussels with responsibility for the
introduction of the euro and the development of the financial market
in the euro area. He has worked as a consultant for the IMF, the UN
and the World Bank with debt management issues in developing countries.
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| Harald Bøhn |
| Harald Bøhn is executive director of the Governor's
staff at the Norges Bank. He has held positions in various divisions
at the Norge Bank since 1982, including that of: director, market
operations department; head of division, economics department; assistant
director, financial markets department and; deputy head of division,
credit policy department. Mr Bøhn was also deputy director of the
economics department at the Ministry of Finance in 1983, adviser for
the board of the Government Bank Insurance Fund between 1991-1992
and, observer to the board of the Banking, Insurance & Securities
Commission between 1993-1997. He gained a Master of Public Administration
at Harvard University. |
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| David Bowen |
| David Bowen, senior consultant for Bowen Craggs,
is one of the best-respected commentators and analysts on Internet
effectiveness. He founded the London-based publishing and consultancy
firm Net Profit in 1996, and has written an influential column in
the Financial Times since 1998. He also writes monthly columns for
the FT-IT supplement and Revolution magazine. He now concentrates
on consulting, drawing on his deep knowledge of both business processes
and new media. He was industrial editor of the Independent on Sunday
for seven years (and was twice named Industrial Journalist of the
Year), and wrote one of the first books on new technology: Multimedia,
Now and Down the Line (1994). |
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| Dave Bradbury
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| Dave Bradbury is a leading expert in interbank
clearing and settlement systems with particular expertise in real
time gross settlement (RTGS) systems. Over the last 20 years he has
managed the definition of user requirements and functional specifications
for some of LogicaCMG's largest financial projects worldwide. He has
gained international reputation and authority in his specialist area
through global projects, lecturing and publications. |
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| Hans Brits |
| Hans Brits joined the staff of the Nederlandsche
Bank in 1987. He has held several positions at the Monetary and Economic
Policy Department of the Nederlandsche Bank, including in 1999-2000
head of the European Integration Division, responsible for the internal
preparation at the bank of ECB Governing Council meetings and the
EU's Economic and Financial Committee's meetings. From June 2000 he
was head of the analysis division of the Payments Systems Policy Department
at the Netherlandsche Bank, covering policy and operational issues
related to retail payments, large value payments and securities settlement.
In that position he was head of the secretariat of the Social Forum
on the Payments System, that brings together representatives of parties
involved in retail payments issues, such as consumers, shopkeepers,
companies and banks. He is a member of the G10 Committee on Payment
and Settlement Systems and its (former) working groups on retail payments
and on central bank money. |
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| Vyvian Bronk |
| Vyvian Bronk, UK Financial Services Authority |
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| Stuart Brown |
| Vyvian Bronk, UK Financial Services Authority |
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| Andrew Le Brun |
| Andrew Le Brun joined the Jersey Financial Services
Commission as director of its international and policy division in
May 2000. He is currently involved in a review of the island’s
AML legislation and AML guidance notes. Andrew has coordinated the
IMF’s recent review of the island’s regulatory and AML
framework and has also participated in the fund’s review of
an offshore centre in the South Pacific. Immediately prior to joining
the Jersey FSC, Andrew was an audit partner at KPMG in the Channel
Islands. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
in England and Wales. |
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Peter Bull |
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| Peter Bull joined the Bank of England 1964
and worked in the economics and international departments until 1984, with
spells of study leave (1969-70) and in foreign exchange management (1978-80).
He moved to the statistics department in 1984 as head of money and banking
statistics, and was head of statistics from 1987 to 1994. In 1994 he joined
the European Monetary Institute (the predecessor of the European Central
Bank) as head of statistics. In June 1998 he was appointed head of the statistics
department at the ECB, and continued in that position until retirement in
autumn 2002. At the ECB his main tasks were to finalise preparations for
monetary union; provide regularly the statistics needed by the ECB; enhance
the initial provision where necessary; develop the statistics function in
the ECB and the relationship with users of statistics in the ECB and elsewhere.
His book, “The development of statistics for economic and monetary
union", was published by the ECB in July 2004. |
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| Sean Byrne |
| Sean Byrne is a senior policy advisor at HM Treasury,
having previously acquired an academic background in international relations
and having worked as a researcher to the Treasury Select Committee. His
Treasury roles have included work on the government's private finance initiative
and international tax negotiations. He now leads the department's work on
international financial sanctions, financial crime and offshore financial
regulation. |
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| Emmanuel Julian Cachia
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| Emmanuel Julian Cachia is deputy librarian at the Central
Bank of Malta. He obtained a diploma in library and information studies
(1994) and MBA (2005), and also holds a diploma in social studies and industrial
relations (1999). He joined the Central Bank of Malta as a clerk in 1995
and worked at the central bank’s issuance and banking departments.
In 1995, he transferred to the central bank’s Library and Information
Centre. He is vice-president of the house union of the Central Bank of Malta
employees (UHBC) and has represented the Central Bank of Malta employees
at social dialogue meetings. |
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| John Calverley
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John Calverley is chief economist and strategist at
American Express Bank Ltd, based in London. He is responsible for the
global economics unit’s economic and investment research capability
and provides advice to the bank’s institutional and private clients
worldwide, as well as internally to the credit function and to senior
management. He edits the bank’s suite of publications on economic
and market trends, “Economics for Investment”. He appears
frequently in the media and is the author of several books including “Investors
Guide to Economic Fundamentals”, (Wiley, 2002) and his recently
published “Bubbles and how to survive them”, (Nicholas Brealey
2004). He holds economics degrees from the University of Cambridge and
Washington University in St Louis, United States.
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| Alan Cameron |
| AM was chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments
Commission (ASIC), and its predecessor the Australian Securities Commission
from 1993 to 2000. He is a past chairman of IOSCO's executive committee
and of the Joint Forum on Financial Conglomerates, and is now, among other
roles, a consultant to Arthur Andersen and Andersen Legal. |
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| Judith Cattermole
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| Judith Cattermole has been the assistant head of information
and learning resource services at Middlesex University since December 1998.
Prior to that she worked extensively in library management roles in higher
education institutions. Ms Cattermole also has experience of working in
public libraries and managing libraries in the private sector. She is a
member of CILIP: PTEG (Professional Training and Education Group) Committee
and the steering committee of the CPD25 group, which plans and develops
staff training and development on behalf of the M25 Consortium of Higher
Education Libraries. |
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| Kevin Cheatle |
| Kelvin Cheatle is Deputy Chief Executive and Director
of Human Resources at Broadmoor Hospital. This is the most prestigious public
sector HR job in the UK. He is an expert on change management, HR restructuring,
and delivering effective HR strategies in public services. He has written
two books on HR management. He teaches widely in the university and higher
education sectors |
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| Paul Chilcott |
| Paul Chilcott is head of the Risk Management Division
in the Markets Directorate at the Bank of England. The division is responsible
for managing the risks arising from the Bank’s financial market operations,
including those carried out as agent for the government (managing the UK’s
foreign exchange reserves). His responsibilities include market, credit
and liquidity risk, and operational risk in relation to the Bank’s
market operations. His previous roles at the Bank include running the reserves
management unit and the Bank’s foreign exchange desk; acting as private
secretary to the deputy governor; and as an analyst on money market and
debt management operations. |
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| John Chown |
| John Chown is an economist and a leading specialist in
international tax who helped found the Institute for Fiscal Studies in the
UK. Mr Chown is an honorary fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge and a former
member of the Technical Committee of the Association of Corporate Treasurers.
He has written and lectured extensively on taxation and finance in the UK,
the United States, Canada, Europe, Australasia and the Far East, and is
author of "A History of Money" and "A History of Monetary Unions", published
by Routeledge. |
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| Alastair Clark
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| Alastair Clark was appointed executive director at the
Bank of England in 1997. He has worked in the Bank since the early 1970s,
starting there as personal assistant to the deputy governor, then as alternate
UK executive director at the IMF in Washington and alternate director of
the European Investment Bank. He was head of the Bank's European division
between 1993-94 and appointed deputy director later in 1994, co-ordinating
policy on regulation and market and institutional structure. He read Mathematics
at Cambridge and Economics at the LSE. |
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| Andrew Clark |
| Andrew Clark specialises in the investigation of fraud
and impropriety in the banking and financial services industry. He is also
one of PricewaterhouseCoopers' European heads of anti money laundering.
He has undertaken a large number of appointments under section 39 of the
1987 Banking Act to examine the anti-money-laundering systems of a wide
range of financial institutions in the UK. Andrew manages the computer forensic
capability which specialises in secure data capture and restoration from
PC's, and has led many projects where computer forensic evidence has been
critical to proving the case. Andrew has managed many investigations of
allegations regarding senior management impropriety and/or misfeasance and
has been appointed as an investigator by the Department of Trade and Industry.
He has undertaken many assignments for the Serious Fraud Office and Police
fraud squads. Other assignments include projects for the National Bank of
Ukraine, a Czech Republic telecoms operator, and a Canadian software producer. |
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| Roger Clews |
| Roger Clews is a special adviser in the markets area
of the Bank of England. He was previously head of the monetary instruments
and markets division in the Bank’s monetary analysis area and chairman
of that area’s management board for data and information. He joined
the Bank of England in 1965 with a BA degree in economics from Cambridge
University. |
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| Joachim Coche |
| Joachim Coche is a senior economist at the European Central
Bank. He has a masters and doctorate in economics from the University of
Osnabrück. Within the Risk Management Division he is responsible for
developing asset allocation strategies for the ECB's foreign reserves and
domestic assets. Before joining the ECB in 2000, he worked for DZ Bank,
Frankfurt, and advised institutional clients on their investment process.
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| Ed Crooks |
| Ed Crooks has been economics editor of the Financial
Times since 1999. He is also a member of the UK government's Sustainable
Development Commission. From 1990-99 he worked at the BBC, first as a researcher
and producer for TV and radio news, including "Newsnight", and in 1994 he
became the BBC's economics correspondent. He was company news and features
writer and editor at the Investor's Chronicle from 1988-90, before which
he was a research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He graduated
from Oxford University in 1987 with a degree in politics, philosophy and
economics. |
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| Robin Darbyshire
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| Robin Darbyshire is a chartered accountant who has been
with the Bank of England for 19 years, 17 of which he was responsible for
the Bank’s accounts. He is a founder member of the committee that
devised the accounting framework and policies for the European System of
Central Banks. He is currently working on various projects including preparation
of the IFRS version of the Bank of England’s accounts. |
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| Udaibir S. Das |
| Udaibir S. Das joined the Monetary and Financial Systems
Department of the IMF in 1996. As the deputy chief in the Financial System
Surveillance Division of the department he works on financial sector vulnerability
assessments and issues relating to monetary and financial stability in select
Fund member countries. He has represented the Fund staff on the joint forum
and the IAIS, and has been involved with both bilateral and multilateral
financial sector surveillance issues. Prior to joining the IMF, Mr Das was
with the Reserve Bank of India and was involved with the technical and policy
aspects of India's financial sector reform in 1992-95. He also worked for
the IMF as the resident advisor in Guyana (South America) from 1996 to1998.
Mr Das has been a central banker for sixteen years, working in the areas
of banking operations and supervision, reserve management, foreign exchange
operations and financial and monetary policy. He is a FulbrightHumphrey
scholar with graduate degrees in economics and management, and holds diplomas
in banking and corporate law. He was a lecturer in economics and finance
at Boston University (USA) during 1989-91. |
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| Evan Davis |
| Evan Davis is the economics editor of the BBC, responsible
for reporting and analysing economic developments on a range of programmes
on BBC radio and television, particularly the Ten O’Clock News. He
is also the presenter of the popular BBC2 business-reality show, Dragon’s
Den. Before becoming economics editor at the BBC, Evan served as a general
economics correspondent, and then economics editor on Newsnight. He received
the Work Foundation’s Broadcast Journalist of the Year award in 1998,
2001 and 2003, and won the Harold Wincott Business Broadcaster of the Year
award in 2002. Before joining the BBC in 1993, he worked as an economist
at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and at the London Business School.
He studied at St John’s College Oxford, and at the Kennedy School
of Government at Harvard University. He wrote “Public Spending”,
published by Penguin in 1998. He is also a co-author of the “Penguin
Dictionary of Economics” and the “Penguin Dictionary of Business”.
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| Professor Philip Davis |
| Before coming to Brunel in October 2000, E. Philip Davis
had worked for 20 years at the Bank of England, where he was most recently
Senior International Financial Advisor, Europe. He has also been a Deputy
Head of Division at the European Monetary Institute, Frankfurt and is a
member of the LSE Financial Markets Group with links also to the National
Institute of Economic and Social Research, the Pensions Institute at Birkbeck
College and the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Philip has published
extensively including papers in the Journal of Banking and Finance, The
Manchester School, The Journal of Applied Econometrics and IMF Staff Papers,
as well as books on pension funds and financial instability (both published
by OUP). He has two books forthcoming: "Institutional Investors" (with Benn
Steil) published by MIT Press and "The Foundations of Pension Finance" (with
Zvi Bodie) published by Edward Elgar. |
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| Brent Eades |
| Brent Eades began his career in communications as a writer
in the Canadian prime minister's office, and later worked as a marketing
manager in the software industry. He became the Bank of Canada's first full-time
web manager in 1998. In 2003 the central bank received the award for "Central
Bank Website of the Year" from Central Banking Publications and Lombard
Street Research. Mr Eades has spoken at numerous web-related conferences
in recent years, and has published articles on web topics in the Bank of
Canada Review and Central Banking. He is currently senior communications
consultant at the Bank of Canada. |
| |
| Laura Edgar |
| Laura Edgar is a lecturer in taxation and electronic
commerce at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University
of London. She has recently been involved in several European Commission
funded projects conducting research into electronic payment systems, taxation
of ecommerce, virtual enterprises and legal risk analysis. She is also co-editor
of "Cross- Border Electronic Banking - Challenges and Opportunities" 2000. |
| |
| Alison Emblow |
| Alison Emblow is a senior manager in the Business Continuity
Division of the Bank of England. She is responsible for the testing of contingency
plans, both internally and with the wider market, and is a member of the
steering group designing this year’s market-wide exercise. Previously,
she was responsible for managing the Bank’s contribution to the coordination
of contingency planning within the financial sector. She is a member of
the standing committee (Bank/FSA/HM Treasury) sub-group on contingency planning.
She has worked on business continuity issues in the Bank since 2002. Her
previous responsibilities at the Bank have included work on financial regulation
affecting banks’ capital and liquidity. She has also worked on payment
and settlement policy issues, including participating in the negotiation
of the EU settlement finality directive.
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Andrea Enria |
| Andrea Enria is secretary general of the newly established
Committee of European Banking Supervisors. The committee is mandated to
advise the European Commission on technical aspects of EU banking legislation,
to enhance convergence in supervisory practices within the EU and to facilitate
the exchange of information between supervisory authorities. Mr Enria previously
held the position of head of financial supervision division at the European
Central Bank, where he also served as a secretary of the ESCB Banking Supervision
Committee. Before joining the ECB he worked for several years in the Research
Department and in the Supervisory Department of Banca d’Italia, covering
issues like competition policy, bank ownership and group structures, implementation
of community legislation, supervisory cooperation, analytical issues on
banking supervision and financial stability. |
| |
| Jim Etherington
|
| As director general for information systems at the European
Central Bank (ECB), Jim Etherington has overall responsibility to provide
and support the IT systems used by the ECB, and to continue to develop and
support, in co-operation with the national central banks, the systems necessary
for carrying out the tasks of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB).
He reports directly to the executive board of the ECB, and is also chairman
of the ESCB's Information Technology Committee. In 1994, he was appointed
as one of the original five directors of the European Monetary Institute,
the forerunner to the ECB. In 1998 he assumed his current position following
the establishment of the ECB in Frankfurt. He has more than 20 years of
IT management experience, primarily in the central banking field. Before
joining the EMI/ECB, he was IT development and operational services manager
at the Bank of England, which he joined in 1972. |
| |
| Vernon Everitt |
| Vernon Everitt is director of people and communications
at the UK's Financial Services Authority reporting to the chief executive,
John Tiner. He spent 18 years at the Bank of England in a variety of human
resources, monetary policy operations, banking supervision and communications
roles. He joined the FSA on its creation in 1998 and has been head of internal
communications and head of press and events before being appointed director
of human resources in April 2002. In September 2003 he was appointed to
his current role which combines responsibility for human resources and all
aspects of internal and external communications (press, web communications,
parliamentary affairs etc) He is a member of the FSA's executive committee
and regulatory policy committee. He is married with two young daughters. |
| |
| Richard Farrant
|
| Richard Farrant's current regulatory positions are chairman
of the UK banking code compliance board, director of the gas and electricity
markets authority, and member of the City financial law panel. He spent
over 25 years at the Bank of England, becoming deputy head of banking supervision
in charge of policy, and a member of the Basel supervisors and key European
supervisors committees. In 1993, he was appointed managing director and
chief operating officer of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), with
responsibility for merging the existing regulatory agencies. This done,
in 1999 he resigned to broaden his work interests, with his first assignment
in Hong Kong where he investigated the collapse of Peregrine Investments
for the Government. |
| |
| Margaret Flett |
| Margaret Flett is assistant librarian responsible for
IT services development in Library Services at University College London
(UCL). Ms Flett has worked in library systems administration in UK universities
since 1999, firstly with the Unicorn and Aleph library management systems,
and more recently with electronic library products such as portals and linking
tools. Her current role involves project management of new IT service implementations,
as well as monitoring and evaluating emerging technologies in electronic
library development. |
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| Jeremy Foster |
| Jeremy Foster is a banking partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers,
principally responsible for advisory services to UK and continental European
financial institutions regarding financial reporting, change management
and technical application associated with the transition to international
financial reporting standards (IFRS). Mr Foster has been working with central
banks and financial institutions in European and emerging economies since
1991, and recently returned to London after four years working as a banking
partner in PwC’s Moscow office. He is the partner in charge of the
PwC Central Bank Advisory Group, in which he coordinates teams and provides
audit, technical, operational and corporate governance advice to central
banks around the world. Mr Foster is a member of the technical panel of
experts at the IMF (the so-called “Brau Commission”), advising
the Fund on the development of safeguard assessments for ex ante reviews
of the legal, operational and financial controls at member country fiscal
central banks in receipt of funds from the Fund under its lending programmes.
He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and
Wales. |
| |
| Charles Freeland
|
| Charles Freeland has been deputy secretary general of
the Basel Committee since 1989, and acts as the principal secretary of the
main committee and coordinator of its publications, also representing the
Basel Committee on several external working groups. In 1964 he joined the
Bank of England, working in the economic, cashiers and IT departments, and
ending up in the International Department as head of the division dealing
with European economic coordination. In 1975, he was seconded to the Bank
for International Settlements where he worked on the EU governor’s
committee before becoming the first full-time member of the Basel Committee
in 1978. Charles Freeland was educated at Eton College before obtaining
an MA in economics from the University of St Andrews. He is an associate
of the Chartered Institute of Bankers. |
| |
| Stefan Gannon |
| Stefan Gannon was called to the Bar in England and Wales
(Middle Temple) in 1973. He was in private practice and was later appointed
as an international legal adviser to Midland Bank Plc. Mr Gannon arrived
in Hong Kong in 1983 and became the legal adviser to the monetary affairs
branch of the Hong Kong government and was involved in the establishment
of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority in 1993. He has been its general counsel
and an executive director since. He is a member of the International Law
Association’s monetary and international law sub-committee, a member
of the professional advisory board of the Asian Institute of International
Financial Law and a fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies. |
| |
| Kevin Gardiner |
| Kevin Gardiner is the head of European equity strategy
at the investment banking arm of HSBC, responsible for producing and marketing
the bank's "sell-side" market analysis to internal and external clients.
He has worked in the financial markets for 18 years, mostly as a senior
economist (in 1994, while at Morgan Stanley, he produced the original "Celtic
Tiger" report on the Irish economy). Mr Gardiner began his career in the
economics division at the Bank of England; he was educated at Atlantic College,
the London School of Economics and Cambridge University. |
|
| Geoff Gilbert |
| Geoff Gilbert has been an acquisitions, serials and collection
development manager in a range of academic institutions. These have included,
the then Oxford Polytechnic, Aston University and, at present the University
of Birmingham. The posts held have been mainly concerned with collection
management, with an ongoing element of academic liaison work. Currently,
Geoff is managing three subject teams liaising with academic departments
as well as retaining involvement in collection management issues such as
resource allocation for information funds and conservation. This range of
work has allowed him the opportunity to work with colleagues outside the
library community including library suppliers, serials agents and publishers.
This is reflected in Mr Gilbert's involvement with the National Acquisitions
Group and his membership of the CURL Taskforce for Scholarly Communications.
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| Chris Giles |
| Chris Giles has been the economics editor of the Financial
Times since Autumn 2004. He writes on micro and macroeconomic issues affecting
the UK and other leading economies. Previously at the Financial Times, he
was the economics editorial writer. Before joining the FT in 2000, Mr Giles
was an economics correspondent at the BBC. He started his career in research,
spending seven years as an economist for the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
|
| Shane Godbolt |
| Shane Godbolt is a history graduate of London University.
Trained as a librarian, she has worked for over 30 years in libraries and
in education, training and partnership development, both in the NHS and
higher education sectors. She has recently completed and passed an OU MBA
module on knowledge management. Among other projects she works part time
as a knowledge networking facilitator for the NHS clinical governance support
team. |
| |
| Charles Goldfinger
|
| Charles Goldfinger is a Brussels-based international
consultant in corporate strategy and economic policy, with particular expertise
in financial services and information technology. Mr. Goldfinger advises
financial institutions and IT companies on the strategic responses to cyberfinance
and cybermarkets. He chairs Financial Internet Working Group, funded by
the European Commission. |
| |
| Professor Charles Goodhart, CBE, FBA
|
| Charles Goodhart, CBE, FBA is the Norman Sosnow professor
of banking and finance at the London School of Economics. Before joining
the LSE in 1985, he worked at the Bank of England for seventeen years
as a monetary adviser, becoming a Chief Adviser in 1980. In 1997 he was
appointed one of the external members of the Bank of England's new Monetary
Policy Committee until May 2000. Earlier he had taught at Cambridge and
LSE.
Besides numerous articles, he has written several books on monetary history,
and a graduate monetary textbook, Money, Information and Uncertaintly
(2nd ed.1989); and has published two collections of papers on monetary
policy, Monetary Theory and Practice (1984) and The Central
Bank and The Financial System (1995) and another (with Richard Payne)
on The Foreign Exchange Market (2000); and an institutional study
of The Evolution of Central Banks, revised and republished (MIT
Press) in 1988. |
| |
| Ian Goodwin |
| Ian Goodwin joined the Safeguards Assessment Division
in the Finance Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2001.
He has conducted numerous safeguards assessments of central banks of countries
that borrow from the IMF, including Argentina, Brazil, Georgia, Indonesia,
and Jordan. Prior to joining the IMF, he was the senior audit manager in
Ernst & Young's Financial Services Group in Australia, where he led numerous
audits, risk management assessments and due diligence reviews of financial
institutions, including: (i) financial viability reviews for the World Bank
and the Asian Development Bank during the Asian financial crisis; (ii) advising
on the accounting and regulatory implications regarding Australia's largest
financial services acquisition, and (iii) developing a "financial management
blue-print" for a central bank under an IMF letter of intent. Prior to joining
Ernst & Young, Mr Goodwin was a senior bank supervisor for the Reserve Bank
of Australia. He has also lectured for the Securities Institute of Australia,
the Institute of Chartered Accountants, and the IMF Institute. |
| |
| Mary Gower |
| Mary Gower trained in Hertfordshire public libraries
and became a chartered librarian after studying at the Thames Valley University.
Most of her working life has been spent in public libraries and has included
working on mobile libraries serving local village communities and a community
service role in which she managed an Indic language collection. She has
worked for Cambridge University at the Institute of Criminology Library
for seven years. |
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| Lesley Gray |
| Cambridge University |
| |
| Roberts L. Grava |
| Roberts L. Grava, CFA, is a member of the Executive Board,
and head of the Market Operations Department of the Bank of Latvia. He joined
the central bank in 1994, as head of the bank's Foreign Exchange Department,
responsible for reserves management, currency interventions, portfolio management
analytics, foreign exchange payments and settlements, and national debt
management in conjunction with the Finance Ministry and State Treasury.
In 1995 he was appointed to the Executive Board, which is additionally responsible
for monetary policy matters, budget policy and the overall management of
the bank. In August 2003 the Foreign Exchange Department became the Market
Operations Department, adding domestic monetary policy operations, risk
management and settlements to its existing responsibilities. Prior to joining
the central bank, Mr Grava spent five years as senior consultant at New
York-based International Capital Markets Group. Mr Grava is the author of
an increasing number of papers on central bank reserves management. Born
in New York, he now enjoys living in Riga with his wife and two sons, has
an incurable technology addiction, and struggles to find time to indulge
in his hobbies, which include cooking, reading and music. e-mail: |
| |
| Paul Griseri |
| Paul Griseri is Lecturer in Management at University
College London. He has written extensively on ethics and corporate governance.
He combines lecturing with consultancy work in the public and private sectors.
He continues to teach and advise on all aspects of strategic human resource
management. |
| David Gurteen |
| David Gurteen has over 30 years of experience working
in high technology industries and has worked as an independent consultant
for the last decade. He is a ‘knowledge networker’ who helps
people in organisations, in all walks of life, to be more creative and innovative
and to work more effectively with each other to make their collective knowledge
productive. He is the founder of the Gurteen Knowledge Community, a global
learning network of over 12,000 people in 138 countries. For most of his
career he was a professional software development manager and in the late
1980s worked for Lotus Development where he was responsible for ensuring
that Lotus products were designed for the global marketplace. |
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| Professor Jimmy Gurulé
|
| Jimmy Gurulé is an internationally known expert in the
field of complex criminal litigation and from 2001 until March 2003 was
Under Secretary (Enforcement) at the US Department of the Treasury. He joined
Notre Dame Law School faculty in 1989 and in 1996 became a full professor.
Professor Gurulé has worked in a variety of high-profile public law enforcement
positions including as a trial attorney with the Department of Justice in
Washington, DC (1980-1982), deputy county attorney in the Salt Lake City
Attorney's Office (1983-1985), assistant US attorney and deputy chief of
the Major Narcotics Section of the Los Angeles branch of the US Attorney's
Office, and as assistant attorney general with the Department of Justice's
Office of Justice Programs in Washington, DC (1990-92). Among his many successes
in prosecuting complex criminal cases around the country, he engineered
the conviction of those responsible for torturing and murdering a Drug Enforcement
Administration special agent in Mexico. The US attorney general honoured
him in 1991 with the prestigious Edmund J. Randolph Award, and again in
1992, with the Award for Excellence in Management. |
| |
| Graham Hacche |
| Graham Hacche has been the deputy director of the External
Relations Department at the IMF for the past 3 years. He joined the IMF
in 1982 and has held a variety of positions as an economist there, including,
from 1995 to 1999, in the Research Department as head of the division responsible
for writing the twice-yearly publication, the World Economic Outlook. In
the early 1990s he was the speech-writer for the Managing Director, Michel
Camdessus. Before joining the IMF, he worked for ten years as an economist
at the Bank of England, with a period of consultancy at the OECD towards
the end of that time. He has degrees in economics from Cambridge and Oxford
Universities. |
| |
| Dr Christos Hadjiemmanuil
|
| Dr. Christos Hadjiemmanuil is a Lecturer in Law at LSE
and a member of the Athens Bar Association. He studied law at Athens University
(LL.B.) and University College, London (LL.M. and Ph.D.). Prior to joining
the LSE, he was a teaching & research fellow at the Centre for Commercial
Law Studies, Queen Mary & Westfield College, and a visiting associate professor
at SMU School of Law, Dallas, Texas. His recent publications include the
monograph Banking Regulation and the Bank of England (LLP, 1996) and the
collected volume European Economic and Monetary Union: The Institutional
Framework (co-editor, Kluwer, 1997). |
| |
| Andrew Haldane |
| Andrew Haldane is head of market infrastructure at the
Bank of England. He is responsible, inter alia, for overseeing UK payments
systems and for conducting policy and research on the payments, clearing
and settlement infrastructure in the UK and internationally. Prior to this
position, Mr Haldane was head of international finance and a manager on
monetary policy division at the Bank of England. He has written extensively
on monetary policy and financial stability, including books on inflation
targeting and, most recently, handling international financial crises. |
| |
| Robert Hall |
| Robert Hall is head of library services at the University
of Surrey, a post he has held since autumn 2000. Previously he held senior
positions in the library of the University of Leeds. In addition to managing
the university library at Surrey, Mr Hall is responsible for the National
Resource Centre for Dance and the university’s additional learning
support service. He has been a member of the M25 Consortium of Academic
Libraries Steering Group since 2001 and chair since 2003, being re-elected
for a second term in summer 2005. |
| |
| Euan Harkness |
| Euan Harkness is vice chairman at Barclays Capital, the
investment banking division of Barclays Bank PLC. He began his career with
Barclays Capital (formerly BZW) in 1985 as a partner of Wedd Durlacher where
he was responsible for trading Gilts. Prior to joining BZW, he was at Union
Discount where he initially traded certificates of deposit in 1974. From
1976 to1982, he traded Gilts and between 1982 and 1984 he was responsible
for establishing Union Discount’s presence on LIFFE. He began his
career in the City arbitraging gold shares in 1972. In 1992 Mr Harkness
was appointed chairman of the Gilt Edged Market Makers Association. |
| |
| Dr. Tariq Hassan |
| Dr. Tariq Hassan is the adviser to the finance minister
of Pakistan. His responsibilities include advising the finance minister
on legal, regulatory, contractual, external finance, and development matters.
Dr. Hassan is also the adviser on banking laws to the governor of the central
bank of Pakistan. Dr Hassan obtained his Masters and Doctorate degrees from
Harvard Law School and has worked as a lawyer in both private and public
sectors internationally. In addition to private practice in London, New
York and Pakistan, Dr Hassan has worked for the World bank and the International
Fund for Agricultural Development. Dr. Hassan has been teaching law and
lecturing extensively at different institutions in Pakistan and the US in
addition to his other professional work. He lectured on international banking
law at the National Law Centre, George Washington University, Washington,
DC from 1995 to 1999. Dr. Hassan has written and published extensively on
issues relating to international law, law and economics, law and politics
in various journals, magazines and newspapers in Pakistan, UK and US. |
| |
| Andrew Hawkins |
| Andrew Hawkins is a director at PricewaterhouseCoopers
in London, and as such is in charge of the firm's banking and capital markets
technical group which provides specialist assistance to both clients and
members of the firm working in the banking and financial services sector.
He has worked in this sector since 1980 and in recent years has specialised
in bank audit and accounting and banking regulation. He has advised clients
on the implementation of the EU banking directives, including the Capital
Adequacy Directive. Since 1990 he has also been involved in several banking
assignments in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union as well as work
for UK institutions. He is currently the audit director for the Bank of
England. He has been involved in the development of much of the firm's training
on banking matters, has written technical literature for the firm and has
lectured on many related topics both internally and externally. He was a
member of a working party developing guidance for bank auditors on behalf
of the UK Accounting Practices Board and was recently involved in updating
the Institute of Chartered Accountants standard textbook on bank auditing
and accounting. He is also responsible for maintaining the firm's guidance
on presentation of bank financial information. |
| |
| John Heath |
| John Heath is a senior legal adviser in the Legal Unit
at the Bank of England, with a wide involvement in domestic and international
central banking legal issues. He was a member of the EMI's Working Group
of Legal Experts in the lead up to the introduction of the euro and is one
of the Bank's representatives on the ESCB's Legal Committee. |
| |
| Christopher Hemus |
| Christopher Hemus joined the Treasurer’s Department of
the IMF in 1995 and spent a year in 1997-98 in the Corporate Portfolio Management
division of the International Finance Corporation (IFC). As senior accountant
in the safeguards assessment division of the Treasurer’s Department he works
on safeguards assessments of central banks of countries that borrow from
the IMF. He has conducted safeguards assessments for the central banks of
numerous countries, including Argentina, Kenya, Turkey, and Ukraine. Prior
to joining the IMF, Chris was an audit manager with Price Waterhouse in
South Africa and was involved with technical and accounting policy issues
for all major clients. He has graduate degrees in accounting and finance,
is a chartered accountant, and a chartered financial analyst. |
| Ian Herbertson
|
| Ian Herbertson is head of risk and compliance at BACS
where he is responsible for internal audit and risk assurance. He is chairman
of the BACS operational risk and security management committee and a member
of the senior management committee that has operational responsibility for
managing the company. Prior to taking up his post at BACS, Mr Herbertson
was deputy head of internal audit (and head of IT audit), at the Bank of
England for a number of years. During this period he audited the risk management
of the preparation for euro entry and internet access to the desktop. He
represented the Bank at the ESCB's internal audit committee in Frankfurt
and chaired the G10 central bank's IT auditors' working group at the BIS
in Basel. Mr Herbertson was also a banking supervisor while at the Bank.
He joined the Bank of England after working in the field of IT and accounting.
He has accounting and internal auditing qualifications and chaired the UK's
Institute of Internal Auditors' professional issues group while the 2000
standards were introduced. |
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| David Heslam |
| David Heslam joined Fitch Ratings in 2001, having previously
been managing editor at the World of Information publishing group. During
his time at Fitch, Mr Heslam has worked on a variety of countries, with
a concentration on EU member states, both mature economies and the new member
states. He has a BA in economics and development studies from SOAS (University
of London) and an MPhil in international relations from the University of
Cambridge. |
| |
| Jorma Hilpinen |
| Jorma Hilpinen joined the Bank of Finland in 1973 as
a research officer working in the economics department and research department,
from 1973 to 1986. From 1986 to 2003, he was head of division, in the statistics
department at Finland’s central bank. Since 2004 he has been an adviser
on statistics. Since 1986 he has supervised the production of balance-of-payments
statistics in Finland and developed methods for collection and compilation
of data used in this process. He has written various publications and articles
in the field of balance-of-payments analysis, data collection and compilation
systems. Mr Hilpinen studied economics and statistics at the Helsinki School
of Economics. |
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| Martin Hollobone
|
| Martin Hollobone heads KPMG's new media regulatory team.
His expertise has been gained from working at the DTI, HM Treasury and the
FSA. At the FSA Mr Hollobone established and headed the Internet Unit and
was also secretary to the FSA Electronic Commerce Group. He has also been
involved with international regulatory issues such as EU e-commerce-related
directives and was a member of IOSCO Internet Task Force. Since joining
KPMG in January 1999, he has worked with firms offering global and pan-European
online funds, banking and brokerage services, and also heads KPMG's eCommerce
European Regulatory Network. |
| |
| Bill Hubbard |
| Bill Hubbard is the project manager of the JISC FAIR
project, SHERPA (Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation
and Access) and is based at the University of Nottingham. Mr Hubbard has
a background in HE and IT; in particular in work aiming to embed IT into
university functions and working practices. Most recently, he was a project
manager in a private company specialising in virtual reality software applications
in communications, education and heritage. Before this he was a senior lecturer
at De Montfort University in the School of Design and Manufacture, leading
a BA degree course in multimedia design. He has also worked in IT support
roles at Aston and Sheffield universities concentrating on building the
use of multimedia and networked services in teaching and learning. |
| |
| Keith Irons |
| Keith Irons, a former daily newspaper journalist, founded
Bankside consultants in 1991 after more than 20 years experience of corporate
communications at director level. His extensive communications experience
has covered: investor and media relations, community action programmes,
political monitoring and lobbying in the UK and continental Europe, and
employee and trade union affairs. |
| |
| Patricia Jackson |
| Patricia Jackson is a partner in the financial services
risk management practice of Ernst and Young. Until December 2004 she was
a senior official at the Bank of England and a member of the Basel Committee
on Banking Supervision. She chaired the Basel Committee’s overall
capital and QIS group, leading the work on calibration of Basel II. As head
of the Bank’s financial industry and regulation division she led the
research and policy on the development of risk based regulation and new
risk measurement techniques such as VaR and credit risk modelling. |
| |
| Dayanath Jayasuriya |
| Dr Dayanath Jayasuriya has held positions as senior state
counsel to the attorney-general in Sri Lanka and as director-general of
both the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Insurance Board of Sri
Lanka. He is now the United Nations country programme advisor on HIV/AIDS
and the head of the UNAIDS Office in Pakistan. A national of Sri Lanka,
Dr Jayasuria has served in Geneva, Bangkok, Vienna and New Delhi for a period
of 18 years working with various UN and other agencies. A lawyer by profession,
he is a vice chairman of the Global Jurists Foundation and was the founder
chairman of the South Asian Insurance Regulators' Forum. |
| |
| Roger Jones
|
| Mr. Jones is a 40-year veteran with Lloyds TSB with wide
experience ranging from Wholesale banking to Retail but with an emphasis
on operational risk and money transmission. He is currently seconded to
APACS (the UK payments body) to undertake a major project to reduce Settlement
Risk in the UK end of day ACH and cheque clearing systems. He has extensive
industry experience with external appointments including Director ABE Clearing
S.A.S., Director SWIFT (UK) Ltd., Chairman, ICC UK Committee on Banking
Technique & Practice and Member of the ICC Banking Commission. |
| |
| Karen Jeger |
| Karen Jeger has worked at University College London Library
since 1997, where she is head of the periodicals section. This involves
managing both the print and electronic journal subscriptions. She has worked
to develop the e-journal collection over the past five years from a few
hundred titles to the current 6,000 titles. Prior to UCL, Karen worked in
the library at the United Medical and Dental Schools. |
| |
| Tim Jones |
| Tim Jones is a banker and payment systems expert with
extensive experience of innovation, design and development in payment systems,
primarily in the retail payments space. Until January 2005, he was CEO of
Simpay, a mobile phone payment scheme co-owned by six of the largest European
mobile network operators and was an adviser to Simpay until July 2005. He
joined the project in December 2002 from Purseus Ltd, an interbank clearing
and settlement company that he established in 2000. Prior to Purseus, Mr
Jones was chief executive of retail banking at National Westminster Bank
Plc (NatWest) in the UK, where his career spanned 17 years, working across
divisions including operational research, group strategy and payments. In
1990 Mr Jones co-invented Mondex, an electronic cash system, with Graham
Higgins. Mr Jones holds board positions at Capital One Bank (Europe) PLC
and The Investment Technology Group, a New York based agency stockbroker. |
| |
| George M. Kabwe |
| George Kabwe is an accountant in the Safeguards Assessment
Division at the IMF. The safeguards assessment division is responsible for
providing assurances to the Fund that central banks of member countries
that borrow from the Fund have sound reporting and internal control mechanisms
in place to manage their resources. He has been with the IMF since September
1997. Prior to joining the IMF, he was a manager with KPMG in Baltimore
(USA) and Birmingham (UK). |
| |
| Elias Kazarian |
| Elias Kazarian is technical assistance adviser at the
IMF. Prior to this, he was principal in Directorate General Payment Systems
and Market Infrastructure at the ECB. Before joining the ECB, he acted as
adviser to the executive board of the VPC (Swedish CSD). He spent many years
within the Swedish Ministry of Finance, as a head of section, dealing with
the regulation of the financial markets. He spent two years at the European
Commission, Director General Internal Market. He holds a PhD in economics
from Lund University, Sweden. |
| |
| Elizabeth Kent |
| Elizabeth Kent is a manager in the business continuity
division of the Bank of England where she is in charge of implementing a
testing programme to ensure that the Bank of England, and the UK financial
sector more broadly, is as resilient as possible to major operational disruption.
She has worked for the Bank for five years in a number of areas, all focused
on the topic of financial stability. Before this, Elizabeth worked in the
economics department of the NatWest Group, and before that the economics
department of the National Australia Bank Group (which owns banks in Australia
and the United Kingdom). She holds a Masters degree in economics from the
London School of Economics and a commerce degree from the University of
Melbourne. |
| |
| Grant Kirkpatrick
|
| Grant Kirkpatrick is senior economist in the corporate
affairs division of the OECD’s Directorate for Enterprise, Fiscal
and Enterprise Affairs. He is responsible for overseeing the review of the
principles of corporate governance. He is also involved in bringing into
the review process the experience gained from the regional corporate governance
roundtables organised in cooperation with the World Bank. Prior to this
Mr Kirkpatrick was head of both the Japan and German desks in the economics
department. His duties involved a considerable amount of structural policy
analysis and advice in addition to macroeconomic analysis. From 1989 to
1995 he worked in most of the European transition economies for the OECD
contributing to a wide range of the organisation’s publications. Before
joining the OECD, Mr Kirkpatrick worked at universities and research centres
in Germany, UK and Australia. |
| |
| Jacek Klich |
| Jacek Klich is Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management
at the Jagiellonian University Business School, Krakow, Poland. He has written
and consulted very widely on all aspects of strategic management. In 2000,
he co-produced a book with Sheffield Hallam University on all aspects of
strategic management, including HR, in public health services in the UK
and Poland. |
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| Dr Manfred Körber |
| Manfred Körber has been director of external relations
at the European Central Bank since its formation in 1998, and is the ECB's
press spokesman. Before that he served for 11 years as the head of the department
of press and public relations of the Bundesbank. Manfred Korber was born
in Berlin in 1939 and gained his degree from Hamburg University, graduating
in business management, 'Diplom Kaufmann'. He then worked for a time with
Mobil Oil in Germany and with Hoechst AG before joining the Bundesbank in
1987. |
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| Joshua Kurtzig
|
| Joshua Kurtzig is a specialist in central banking at
PricewaterhouseCoopers. His expertise includes central bank accounting,
financial reporting, risk management, internal control, and reserves management.
He has worked directly with the central banks of Nigeria, Sri Lanka and
Pakistan, more recently working with the IMF as part of its safeguards assessment
initiative. He has significant experience in strategic planning and organisational
restructuring in emerging markets, in addition to providing technical assistance
in economic research, privatisation, and financial analysis for clients
around the world. He was educated at the University of Virginia and the
London School of Economics, and speaks French and Russian. |
| Manfredi La Manna |
| University of St. Andrews |
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| Heather Lane |
| Heather Lane graduated from the University of Oxford
in 1981 and trained at the British Library. Her research interests include
classification theory, particularly facet analytical theory. She is a member
of the UK classification research group. After obtaining a post-graduate
qualification in library and information studies in Aberystwyth, her professional
career has been based in Cambridge, where she worked first as assistant
librarian at Gonville and Caius College and then as librarian of Sidney
Sussex College. In 2005, she was awarded the English Speaking Union/CILIP
travelling librarian award, which will enable her to visit Inupiat communities
in Alaska. |
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| Dr Rosa Lastra |
| Dr Rosa Lastra is senior lecturer in international financial
and monetary law in the University of London, Centre for Commercial Law
Studies, Queen Mary College. She is a recognised scholar in the areas of
central banking, financial regulation and international banking. Dr Lastra
is a founding member of the European Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee,
an associate member of the Financial Markets Group of the London School
of Economics, an affiliated scholar of the Center for the Study of Central
Banking at New York University Law School and an observer at the Monetary
Committee of the International Law Association. She has been a consultant
for the IMF, the World Bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Asian
Development Bank and the UK Treasury select committee. |
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| Etienne Lavigne |
| Etienne Lavigne is head of the Middle Office (risk management
unit) at the National Bank of Belgium.As inspector general, he is responsible
for the identification, measurement, monitoring, analysis and reporting
of all risks involved with assets and liabilities of the bank. His areas
of competence include forex and domestic portfolios, market risks (VAR method,
duration, spread risk, curve risk), credit risks (limits, ratings, Credit
VAR method) and computer systems to support all these functions. He has
been involved in the settlement and the development of the ESCB structure
of foreign exchnage reserves. Mr Lavigne joined the National Bank of Belgium
in 1982. |
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| Timo Laurmaa |
| Timo Laurmaa, of Finnish nationality, joined the Bank
for International Settlements (BIS) in 1989. He has been responsible for
the BIS's presence on the Internet since 1996. In his role as a project
manager, he organised in early 2001 a major overhaul of the site, of which
Financial Times said "the BIS has produced a model that anyone building
an information website should examine". Since summer 2000, Mr Laurmaa has
been active in establishing a forum for website cooperation for the central
banking community. He has been chairman or speaker in nine seminars or conferences
on five continents, bringing central bankers together to discuss issues
of website communication. His article "Effective websites: not just a beauty
contest" was published in the Central Banking Journal in August 2001. |
| |
| Roy Laverick |
| Roy Laverick is a senior banking consultant with Glendale
Consulting. He has extensive experience in controlling and auditing computer
systems in a banking environment, with a wide range of systems expertise,
including IBM mainframes and PCs, ICL 2900, Wang VS, DEC VAX and Tandem
NonStop. He has undertaken a series of consultancy assignments on reviewing,
reporting and documenting of auditing computer systems in the banking environment,
provision of training in computer security. He possesses in-depth knowledge
in design and writing of information systems security policy manuals. From
2000 to 2001 he served as a principal author of the RU Secure® package,
concerned with the identification, and subsequent control, of IT security
weaknesses in application systems.From 1998 to 2000 he undertook an information
technology audit within Kobank A. Ÿ. in Turkey covering a wide range of
the bank's computer activities, and provided a detailed report of the findings,
together with recommendations, for the senior management within the bank.
He mounted a year 2000 compliance audit within Ko bank A. Ÿ. and two other
financial subsidiaries within the Ko¸ group. He worked at the Bank of England
from 1966 to 1990, where from 1987 to 1990 he was audit manager (information
systems). |
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| Kenneth G. Lay |
| Kenneth Lay is the deputy treasurer and director at
the World Bank in Washington D.C. Prior to joining the Bank in 1982, he
was an attorney with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where
he headed its branch of Corporation Finance Enforcement. In 1991 he was
named director of Financial Operations Department of Treasury and in 1996
appointed director of the Southeastern Europe Department. In 1997 he became
director of the country teams for Bulgaria, Romania and Cyprus in ECA, and
a year later led the Financial Sector Practice as its director and chair,
designing the Financial Sector Assessment Programme together with the IMF's
Monetary and Exchange Affairs Department. He rejoined the Bank's finance
complex as deputy treasurer in 1999. |
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| Ana Cristina Leal |
| Ana Cristina Leal is deputy head of the Economics and
Research Department of Banco de Portugal. She was appointed in 1994. Before
that she held several positions in this department of Banco de Portugal,
including head of the monetary and financial division and head of the monetary
analysis unit. In her professional life at Banco de Portugal she has been
particularly involved in the financial liberalisation of the Portuguese
economy and the changes introduced in the conduct of monetary policy. She
became a member of the monetary policy sub-committee of the committee of
governors in 1992. She is a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the
European System of Central Banks, and has been since the inception of the
euro area. |
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| Daniel Lefort |
| Daniel Lefort is deputy general counsel of the Bank for
International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland. Before joining the
BIS in 1984, he held various legal positions in Paris and in New York in
the Schlumberger Group, a leading oilfield services company. Daniel Lefort
holds a Licence en droit and a Diplôme d’études supérieures
de droit privé from the University of Paris law school and a degree
in comparative law from the University of Strasbourg (France). He has lectured
on and is the author of several articles on legal aspects of composite currencies
and on legal issues relating to payment systems. |
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| Harry Leinonen
|
| Harry Leinonen is adviser to the Board of the Bank
of Finland, particularly on payment system
policy issues. Currently also the Finnish representative on the payment
& settlement committee (PSSC) within the Eurosystem. Previously he was
in charge of payment system and e-banking development and operations within
the savings and co-operative banking groups in Finland. He has for more
than 20 years actively participated in developing Finnish interbank payment
systems and payment standards within the Finnish Bankers Association.
Mr Leinonen has also published articles and books on payment issues. |
| |
| David Leppan |
| David Leppan is the founder and CEO of World-Check (Global
Objectives Ltd). As the pioneer and industry standard in KYC & PEP risk
reduction intelligence, World-Check is relied upon by more than 1050 institutions
and 180+ regulatory agencies in over 120 countries globally. World-Check
was first built to Swiss requirements in October 2000 and went live in January
2001. Formerly Mr Leppan worked for a division of Thomson Financial in an
area related to OFAC solutions. |
| |
| Steve Levinson |
| Steve Levinson is a founder director of HBL media and
editorial managing director. He is responsible for all editorial issues
in its TV coverage, media training and film production services. During
a distinguished career in print and broadcast journalism stretching back
25 years, Mr Levinson has been economics correspondent or editor at the
Press Association, the Independent newspaper, the BBC, and Channel 4 News.
He has won numerous journalistic awards and has interviewed every serving
British prime minister and chancellor of the exchequer in the past 25 years.
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| Martin Lewis
|
| Martin Lewis is director of library services and university
librarian at the University of Sheffield. He is a board member of the Consortium
of University and Research Libraries (CURL), where he chairs its e-research
task force, and a member of the British Library’s advisory council.
Mr Lewis’s professional interests include the marketing of library
services, library staff development, and the design of library buildings
and learning spaces. Previous posts have included heading the Health Sciences
Library at the University of Sheffield, subject consultant for science at
the University of Leeds, and an exchange appointment at the MIT libraries.
Before becoming a librarian, he worked in the Welsh Office. He was educated
at the University of Cambridge and University College Wales, where he took
a postgraduate diploma in librarianship. |
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| Michael Lewis |
| Michael Lewis is a senior consultant with Electronic
Payments & Commerce Ltd, a UK payments systems consultancy, and recently
acted as programme director for the national payments systems modernisation
initiative in a Caribbean territory. From 1996 to 2004, he was successively
deputy chief executive and non-executive director of the Association for
Payment Clearing Services (APACS). Before joining APACS, Mr Lewis worked
for 27 years at the Bank of England, and from 1990 to 1995 he was deputy
head of the Payment Systems Policy Division. In this period he was also
a member of the Basel-based G10 committee on payment and settlement systems,
the payments systems technical development group of the European Commission
and of ECB committees concerned with payment systems (including TARGET)
in which he worked on the development of international payment system risk
management strategies, a role that he further developed in the Unisys Management
Consultancy in 1995-96. |
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| Jacqueline Lacoste
|
| Jacqueline Lacoste is deputy head in the Payment
Systems Division at the Banque de France. In her capacity of deputy Head,
she is particularly in charge of the overall daily operations of the French
Real Time Gross Settlement system, TBF (Transferts Banque de France),
the French component of TARGET. She is a member of the Committee on Payment
and Settlement Systems of the central banks of the Group of Ten countries
at the Bank for International Settlements. She has been a member of various
task-forces, including e-money and core principles for systemically important
payment systems.
Ms Lacoste took up her position as deputy dead in the Payment Systems
Division in 1995, and was previously in charge of the implementation of
monetary policy as head of the domestic money market dealing-room. |
| |
| Yvon Lucas |
| Yvon Lucas is the director in charge of the Payment
System Department at the Banque de France Directorate General Operations.
The Payment System Department is in charge with the oversight of the safety
and efficiency of payment instruments, payment systems and securities clearing
and settlement systems. These tasks are now conducted within the framework
of the Eurosystem. Mr Lucas was in charge of the discussions with the banking
industry on risk reduction in the French payment system that led to the
implementation of the real time gross settlement system, TBF, which is now
part of the TARGET system. He is first vice-president of the French Committee
for Banking Organisation and Standardisation (the CFONB) and a member of
the steering committee of the mission for the electronic economy. He is
a member of the G10 Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) which
has already published a number of reports on payment systems, electronic
money, securities settlement systems and derivative products markets. Mr
Lucas chaired the G10 study group on RTGS that prepared the "RTGS report"
published by the BIS in March 1997. He chaired the ECB working group on
securities settlement systems that prepared the Eurosystem minimum standards
for securities settlement systems that were published in 1998. |
| |
| Tonny Lybek |
| Tonny Lybek is a senior economist in the Monetary and
Financial Systems Department (MFD) of the IMF. He graduated from Århus
University in 1986. After a year of teaching, he joined the Danish central
bank, where he worked in the Foreign Department (managing international
reserves) and the Monetary Policy Department. In 1992 he joined the Fund,
where he has worked in the Fiscal Affairs Department, European II Department
and MFD. He specialises in central bank legislation and payment systems,
but covers a broad range of financial sector issues. |
| |
| Dr Gerard Lyons |
| Gerard Lyons is global head of treasury research at
Standard Chartered Bank. He was previously chief economist and executive
director at DKB International. Prior to that he was chief UK economist at
Swiss Bank Corporation and UK stockbroker Savory Milln. He began his City
career as an economist with Chase Manhattan. He has also carried out research
at the Henley Centre for Forecasting and he gained his PhD from the University
of London on 'Testing efficiency of financial futures markets'. Gerard is
a well known City economist. He is invited frequently to speak at conferences,
attend dinners and appear on UK and international television and radio and
is regularly afforded press coverage. In recent years he has written articles
for all the major UK papers and contributes regular articles for the UK
and the international press and various publications. |
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| Richard Maddison
|
| Richard Maddison is the deputy head of the financial
stability sector business continuity management team at the Financial Services
Authority. Previously he held managerial and project leader positions at
the Bank of England. Mr Maddison established new finance systems and processes
at the FSA, and was seconded to the Treasury to project-manage delivery
of secondary legislation under the Financial Services and Markets Act, also
working with the Lord Chancellor's Department to set up the Financial Services
and Markets Tribunal. On return to the FSA, Mr Maddison helped to establish
the new sector team; he leads the market wide BCM exercise. |
| |
| Lucy Makinson |
| Lucy Makinson is head of the financial systems and international
standards team at HM Treasury. Her responsibilities include the oversight
of banking policy, the regulation of payment systems, formulation of international
and UK anti-money-laundering controls, action to combat terrorist financing,
and the supervision of financial regulation in the overseas territories,
crown dependencies and Gibraltar. |
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| Juan Marchetti
|
| Juan Marchetti is counsellor in the Trade in Services
Division of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and is currently the secretary
of the WTO Committee on Trade in Financial Services. He holds a university
degree in economics, and specialises in the area of trade policy in services,
particularly in the field of trade in financial services. Before joining
the WTO Secretariat, Mr Marchetti's previous positions included the following:
secretary of embassy at the permanent mission of Argentina to the WTO, where
he was responsible for services negotiations, and economist at the technical
division of the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange. |
| |
| David Mayes |
| David Mayes is advisor to the board at the Bank of Finland
and professor of economics at South Bank University in London. He was chief
economist and chief manager at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand before taking
up his current position in 1997. He has held a variety of previous posts,
including director of the NZ Institute of Economic Research in Wellington,
senior research fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social
Research in London. The main focus of his research has been on economic
integration, particularly in Europe, but he has also worked extensively
on macroeconomic modelling and forecasting. In more recent years his work
has been primarily on issues of monetary policy and financial stability.
He has published widely in economics, with over 20 books and a large range
of articles and chapters in collected volumes. |
| |
| Anne McIlwaine |
| Anne McIlwaine has been assistant librarian in staff
development at University College London since January 2000. This new post
was created after her secondment to investigate areas of staff development
and to promote a new training culture. She is in charge of the delivery,
monitoring and evaluation of training and professional development for all
staff over 18 sites within Library Services and has implemented a new training
strategy. Recently she has begun co-ordination of a two-year change management
programme within Library Services. Anne is an active member of several committees
including the University of London libraries staff training group, M25 staff
development group and the library association's personnel, training and
education group of which she is the secretary and journal editor. She has
also been an LA National Councillor since January 2001. Her professional
interests and publications include staff development, human resource management
and the UDC classification of cinema. She is also a lecturer on the management
module at the School of Library, Archives and Information Studies. |
| |
| Niall Merriman |
| Niall Merriman has been head of the Financial Reporting
and Policy Di |
