Dr. Susan Liautaud is Founder of Susan Liautaud & Associates Limited, an international ethics advisory firm. She is also Founder of The Ethics Incubator, a non-profit platform for debate on global ethics issues. She currently serves as Interim Chair of Council and Vice Chair of the Court of Governors of the London School of Economics and Political Science and Chair of the LSE’s Ethics Policy Committee. She is a Lecturer in Public Policy and Law at Stanford University on cutting-edge ethics. She serves on several nonprofit boards and advisory boards, including Care International, Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres, Pasteur Institute, the UK government’s Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, the UK government’s Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, and SAP’s AI Advisory Panel.

She holds a PhD in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science, a JD from Columbia Law School, two BAs and a MA from Stanford University and a MA from the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies.

Renato Lulia is CEO of Itaú BBA International, based in London. Before taking on that role in January 2016, he was managing director in charge of corporate and investment banking for Itaú BBA in Northern Europe, Portugal and Asia. Prior to that, he led the expansion of the bank in Latin America and launched its operations in Argentina, where he then served as head of corporate banking and as a member of the executive committee. Before joining Itaú BBA in Brazil as a senior banker, Renato held various roles with financial institutions in the U.S. and Brazil. He studied civil engineering at the University of São Paulo and recently completed the Advanced Management Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr Yu Jie is Head of China Foresight at LSE IDEAS and teaches at LSE. Her research focuses on the decision-making process of Chinese foreign policy as well as China's economic diplomacy. She appears regularly at major media outlets such as the BBC, the Financial Times, the Independent and the Washington Post, briefs both public institutions such as the European External Action Services(EEAs), Silk Road Fund in Beijing and the UK Cabinet Office on China’s foreign affairs as well as corporates such as Bloomberg and UBS. She served as an expert witness at House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee. Prior to LSE, she was a management consultant, specialised at Chinese investments in Europe and Chinese market entry strategies for European conglomerates at the London Office of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants，managing projects with EADS, Shanghai Automotive (SAIC),China General Nuclear Group（CGN).

Leon Zhang has assumed executive roles in telecommunications sector and now chairs Envision Energy’s One Belt One Road(‘OBOR’) business globally. With a MSc degree in Posts and Telecommunications of Nanjing University and MBA from Fudan University, he has 15 years front line experience as the country head, regional director in emerging markets e.g. Myanmar, Indonesia, Philippines and Bosnia etc. Leon has been helping bridge gaps for these emerging markets in digitalization, communications and clean energy supply by leveraging OBOR policy and government-to-government soft loan.

Mr. Vincent Xie is Funding Partner and CEO of Knights Genesis. Mr. Xie has rich experience in alternative investment in domestic China and overseas. He has led and participated as core team member in many large-scale overseas investments for Chinese enterprises in North America, Middle East, Africa and Europe in real estate, infrastructure, energy and forestry. He is also a seasoned investor in big data and large consumption. He has been working with many Chinese enterprises such as China Development Bank, ICBC, Sinosure, China Railway Construction Corporation, China State Construction Engineering Corporation, China National Building Material Company, Ping An, Shanghai Municpal Investment (Group) Corporation, etc. Mr. Xie is also a council member of CCG and a committee member of LSEEMF.

Robert is a corporate lawyer specialising in M&A. He advises companies and private equity houses and will represent companies at all stages of their development whether they be large multinationals or younger growing businesses. He frequently acts for sellers of businesses on their exits as well as corporates and private equity houses implementing buy and build strategies. He acts for both domestic and international companies making acquisitions and is the partner who leads the China Group in the UK, helping many Chinese State Owned Enterprises and other large Chinese and South East Asian companies expand internationally. Robert regularly helps Asian buyers on the corporate aspects of real estate acquisitions. He also has many years of experience advising on IPOs and other listed company transactions on both the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange and AiM.

James Kynge is emerging markets editor. He writes about emerging markets and, in particular, China’s growing global footprint in business, finance and politics.

He won the 2016 Wincott Foundation award for Financial Journalist of the Year. His prize-winning 2006 book, “China Shakes the World”, was a bestseller translated into 19 languages.

Before returning to London in 2008, he spent 25 years reporting from Asia with postings in China, Japan, former Soviet Central Asia and Southeast Asia. He is chairman of FT Confidential Research, having founded “China Confidential”, a research company, in 2009.

General Sir John Nicholas Reynolds "Nick" Houghton GCB CBE ADC Gen and Constable of the Tower of London is the Chief of the Defence Staff of the British Armed Forces. He served as Commanding Officer of 1st Battalion, the Green Howards in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. After Regimental duty General Houghton commanded 39 Infantry Brigade in Belfast during the period which led to the Good Friday Agreement. He was the Director of Military Operations in the Ministry of Defence at the time of 9/11; at the outset of operations in Afghanistan; and during the foot and mouth crisis. Subsequently he was Chief of Staff of the ACE Rapid Reaction Corps from July 2002 to April 2004 and Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Operations) from May 2004 to October 2005. More recently General Houghton was the Senior British Military Representative and Deputy Commanding General of the Multi-National Force-Iraq from October 2005 until March 2006. He became Chief of Joint Operations (CJO) in April 2006 at the time of the commitment of UK Forces to southern Afghanistan and, subsequently, during the extraction of UK forces from southern Iraq. He was appointed both OBE and CBE for his time in command in Northern Ireland and awarded the US Legion of Merit for his service in Iraq. He was appointed KCB for his time as CJO. General Houghton became Vice Chief of the Defence Staff in May 2009. In June 2015, General Houghton also received an honorary Panglima Gagah Angkatan Tentera (PGAT) award from the Deputy Minister for Defence of Malaysia. General Houghton graduated from St Peter's College, Oxford, having taken an in-Service Bachelor of Arts degree in Modern History.

Dr Karin von Hippel is the first woman and non-Briton to hold the position of the Director-General of the Royal United Services Institute. Prior to joining RUSI, she served for nearly six years in the Bureau of Counterterrorism, and eventually as Chief of Staff to General John Allen, Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter-ISIL. Further to this, she has served as a director for the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project in Washington DC and is a research fellow at King’s College London. She has also worked for the UN, the EU and has several publications to her name, on top of degrees from the LSE, University of Oxford and Yale.

Philippa "Pippa" Malmgren is an American policy analyst. She served as Special Assistant to the President of the United States, George W Bush, for Economic Policy on the National Economic Council and is a former member of the U.S. President's Working Group on Financial Markets. She is the founder of the DRPM Group and co-founder of H Robotics. She obtained her PhD from the London School of Economics in 1991 where she was invited to speak at the Summer Commencement in 2013.

Raymond McKeeve has extensive experience advising major private equity houses, sovereign wealth funds, and their investee companies as well as some of the leading alternative credit providers and lenders across all areas of corporate practice, including acquisitions, disposals, financings, and restructurings. Raymond's experience covers both the domestic U.K. and international markets including MENA and sub-Saharan Africa. Raymond is one of the earliest and youngest winners of The Lawyer "Hot 100 Award" and sat in a personal capacity on the MOD Defence Reform Unit chaired by Lord Levene. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Strategic and Security Institute at the University of Exeter.

Stephen Jen is the CEO and Co-CIO of Eurizon SLJ Capital Ltd, formerly SLJ Macro Partners LLP. Previously, he worked as the Managing Director of Macroeconomics and Currencies at BlueGold Capital Management LLP from May 2009 to March 2011, in charge of managing the firm’s currency risks as well as its macro strategies. Mr. Jen was also the Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, and from October 1996 to April 2009, held various roles, including the Global Head of Currency Research.

Prior to Morgan Stanley, Mr. Jen had spent four years as an economist with the IMF, covering economies in Eastern Europe and Asia. Mr. Jen earned a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine (Summa Cum Laude).

Mr. Steve M. Jacobs is Managing Partner & Head of International Asset Management at BTG Pactual Europe LLP.

He joined BTG Pactual in 2009 as a Partner. Prior to BTG Pactual, Mr. Jacobs spent ten years at UBS, latterly as Global Head of Infrastructure & Private Equity and board member of UBS Global Asset Management. Before that, he was Head of Strategy for UBS Group based in Zurich. Prior to UBS, he worked at Ernst & Young in London and Sydney, focusing on corporate finance & advisory for financial services companies across the world.

Mr. Jacobs holds a BA Honours degree in Finance, Law & Accounting.

He is also a qualified accountant, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.

Denise Simon is a Portfolio Manager/Analyst on Lazard’s Emerging Markets Debt team. She began working in the investment field in 1986 and has been investing in Emerging Market Debt for over twenty years. Prior to joining Lazard in 2010, Denise was with HSBC Asset Management (formerly Halbis) where she was a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager for three global emerging markets strategies. Prior to HSBC, she was a Partner and senior portfolio manager at The Atlantic Advisors (acquired by HSBC in 2005). Prior to this, Denise worked abroad from 1987-1998 in London and Germany, where she worked for major financial institutions trading global bonds and EM Debt. Denise has a BA in International Economics from George Washington University. Denise’s outside activities are focused on Mexico and music. She currently serves as chair of the board of the Mexican Cultural Institute and sits on the management board of the US-Mexican Chamber of Commerce. She is on the board of the Richard B. Fisher Center of the Performing Arts and is the chair of the board of the Bard Music Festival.

Janet Henry was appointed as HSBC’s Global Chief Economist in August 2015. She was previously HSBC’s Chief European Economist and is a member of Handelsblatt’s Shadow ECB Council. Janet joined HSBC in 1996 in Hong Kong where she worked as an Asian economist in the run-up to, and aftermath of, the Asian crisis. From 1999 to 2007 she was a Global Economist during which time her original work on globalisation – including the global determinants of local inflation – was widely recognised. Janet’s career began at the Economist Intelligence Unit where she worked as an Asian economist in London and Hong Kong.

Spanish born and following a BA in Economics from Princeton University, Edward started his career in 1991 at Goldman Sachs as a financial analysis within the Investment Banking group. He was recruited to the Risk Arbitrage Group in 1994 as an Associate focusing on identifying opportunities in Latin America. Edward successfully built up the active proprietary trading activity in Latin America across the capital structure and later became Co-Head of the Firm-wide Latin American business, Chief of Staff of the Equities Division and a Member of Equities Risk Committee. Edward was made up to Partner in 2000.

Edward left Goldman Sachs to Join Eton Park Capital as one of the founding partners in 2004. There he was responsible for public and private emerging market investments across a wide variety of securities, asset classes and geographies. Edward was a member of the firm Operating Committee (main body to assist Managing Partner Eric Mindich in management of the firm). He also Co-managed the investment staff in the European office and was a member of the Best Execution Committee and Operation Risk Committee. 

Edward left Eton Park in 2013 to found Ronit Capital, an emerging markets oriented hedge fund. He is particularly active across various Jewish and Israeli charitable organisations and is a Chair of Bicom, Governors at Naima JPS and co- chair of Governors at Immanuel College.

Lyubov Pronina, EMEA Credit reporter at Bloomberg News in Brussels. A graduate of Moscow State Linguistic University, Lyubov has had a 20-year career in journalism covering business, politics and markets. Before joining Bloomberg News in 2006, she worked as a business reporter at The Moscow Times in Russia. With Bloomberg she covered technology and aerospace in Moscow as well as worked as a Kremlin pool reporter, helped launch the Bloomberg Billionaires Index in London and wrote about emerging markets.

Ricardo Tadeu is our Zone President Africa since October 2016. Ricardo is a Brazilian citizen. Ricardo received a Law Degree from the Universidade Candido Mendes in Brazil and a Master of Law from Harvard Law School. He is also Six Sigma Black Belt certified. He joined Ambev in 1995 and has held various roles across the commercial area. He was appointed Business Unit President for our operations in Hispanic Latin America in 2005, and from 2008 to 2012, served as Business Unit President Brazil. He was appointed Zone President Mexico in 2013.

Chik is an Advisor at QCP Capital where he works with a team of talented software engineers and strategists to develop systematic trading strategies within the realm of digital assets. He is also involved in a series of blockchain initiatives, ranging from ICOs to established enterprise solutions, such as Sparrow Exchange and Ambrosus. He is active within the blockchain community, and is passionate about technologies within the currency, decentralised exchange and data privacy space.

Previously he was at Ubisoft Mobile and Veni Technology Ltd, and is currently at Deloitte LLP where he focuses on building data-driven solutions that help companies make sustainable performance improvements.

He is an LSE alumni and was part of the founding team of the Emerging Markets Forum.

Cate’s role involves working with key stakeholders to deliver significant changes in the corporate management of water. Cate has ten years of experience in the environmental and sustainable development fields and has a strong technical, scientific and project management background. Cate holds a BSc in Environmental Science from Lancaster University.

Nurul Ichwan joined with BKPM in 1998. He is responsible for promoting Indonesia as an investment destination to investors in European countries as well as facilitating them to invest in Indonesia. Before his current position, Nurul Ichwan was the Deputy Director for Investment Promotion Strategy Development and Deputy Director for Manufacture Industry Promotion. He was also the Director of the Indonesia Investment Promotion Centre in Singapore (2006-2010). He has about 17 years of experience in the field of investment, including Investment promotion, consultation, monitoring and evaluation and licensing.

Horst J. Kayser is Chief Strategy Officer at Siemens since November 2013. In his capacity as head of Corporate Strategy, he is responsible for the development of strategy at Siemens and reports directly to the Member of the Managing Board Dr. Roland Busch.

Horst J. Kayser began his career in 1989, at McKinsey & Company in Germany, Canada and the U.S.. In 1995, he moved to Siemens Inhouse Consulting. In 1998 he became Managing Partner at Siemens Managing Consulting. Afterwards he held management positions in various areas and countries, e.g. as CEO of Siemens Ltd. Seoul, South Korea. In 2008 Kayser became President and CEO of KUKA AG, in 2010 CEO of 3W Power S.A./AEG Power Solutions. He was a member of the supervisory board of Kendrion N.V., NL from 2009 - 2015.

Dr. Kayser holds a degree as Diplom-Wirtschaftsingenieur (Electrical engineering / Business administration) from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany and a Master of Public Administration at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He received his doctorate in business administration at the University of Mannheim.

Piroska is a macroeconomist and Programme Director of the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where she is responsible for various global policy initiatives on financial resilience, growth and migration. She was Policy Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), overseeing strategic directions in Emerging Europe, Central Asia and North Africa as well as major policy initiatives. She was also responsible for the EBRD’s economic forecast and co-created and co-led the Vienna Initiative in 2008-15, a public-private crisis management and coordination platform in emerging Europe, and headed its Secretariat.

Piroska worked in senior positions as economist for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) between 1986 and 2008 with surveillance, policy advice and program responsibilities in Europe, Africa and Asia. While on leave from the IMF, she was guest lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1996/97 and Senior Adviser at Fitch Ratings in 2003/4. She has published extensively in the areas of financial stability, fiscal policy reform and structural transformation, and the rise of economic populism. She is the author of the book The Meltdown of the Russian State (Edgar Elgar, 2000).

Jorge Born is currently the President and CEO of Bomagra S.A. a privately held company focused in farming, grain production and cattle management. Until 2010, Mr Born served as Deputy Chairman of Bunge Limited, a NYSE quoted agribusiness company operating world-wide. He began his career in Bunge back in 1983 and he has over 30 years of experience in the Agricultural sector. Mr. Born has a BSc in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, is a member of Wharton’s Latin American Board and a member of the Board of Governors of Wharton’s Lauder Institute. Mr. Born is also the President of the Fundación Bunge y Born, Argentina’s leading charitable institution.

Jennifer Cain is Head of Market Access, Pricing, and Policy at Roche Europe from 2016. Jennifer was Market Access Manager at Novartis for Asia, Middle East and Africa (AMEA) in 2013-2016 and Program Manager for European on Health Care System at World Health Organization in 1999-2005.

Richard is an Associate Professor in Molecular Bacteriology in the Pathogen and Molecular Biology Department. His has a background of using whole organism high throughput technologies to investigate the genetics behind virulence and molecular epidemiology. He has researched several important human pathogens where drug resistance is a vital component including Clostridium difficile and methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus. In addition, he has designed a self-learning pan-pathogen diagnostic microarray which could identify AMR genes and investigated alternatives to antibiotics.

Richard’s current research projects are investigating antimicrobial resistance in two bacteria which are rapidly becoming untreatable due to the lack of effective antibiotics: Acinetobacter baumannii and Neisseria gonorrhoeae. He is currently using next-generation sequencing to investigate the population structure of A. baumannii and the genetics behind bacterial survival mechanisms during infection. For N. gonorrhoeae, he is investigating the role that other organisms play in the acquisition and development of resistance.

As a Director of the Antimicrobial Resistance Centre, Richard wants to bring together all aspects of the Centre to form a coordinated approach to tackling AMR. The global links within the centre offer an excellent opportunity to develop tools to help those most at risk to AMR related burden.

Nicola Claire Blackwood is a former Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford West and Abingdon who was also Chair of the Science and Technology Select Committee during the Second Cameron ministry and as a junior health minister during the First May ministry.

She was elected at the 2010 election with a majority of 176 defeating the Liberal Democrats who held the seat since 1997. She lost her seat in the 2017 election to the Liberal Democrats who won it back with a majority of 816.

Dr Stephen L. Roberts is LSE Fellow in Global Health Policy. He is a module convenor on the MSc programme in Global Health and a member of the LSE Global Health Initiative. Dr Roberts is also an Associate Researcher at the Centre for Global Health Policy (CGHP) at the University of Sussex.

Dr Roberts joined the Department of Health Policy in 2016. Prior to this appointment, he has held academic and research positions in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King's College London (KCL), as well as the Department of International Relations and the Centre for Global Health Policy at the University of Sussex.

Laura serves as President of Triple Five China. Triple Five Group owns the largest malls in North America namely West Edmonton Mall and Mall of America and is developing a second largest Mall in the US - American Dream in greater New York. Their first project in China - Mall of China is located in Chongqing and will open by 2020.

A Chinese-American, Laura possesses a unique background and extensive experience in the retail real estate industry. For the past 20 years she has held various leadership roles with iconic real estate corporations including The Rouse Company, Steiner + Associates, CP Group, Simon Property Group, Ivanhoe Cambridge and mostly recently with Walmart Realty, a division of the world's largest retailer Walmart Stores Inc.

Laura holds an MBA degree from Florida International University and Executive Development Program certificate from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She holds the ICSC Certified Retail Property Executive (CRX), Certified Shopping Center Manager (CSM) and Certified Leasing Specialist (CLS) designations. She is a faculty member of ICSC’s John T. Riordan School for Retail Real Estate Professionals, and authored the book - Retailing in China (ISBN 1582680906, 9781582680903) - published by ICSC in 2009.

Mr. Vincent Xie is Funding Partner and CEO of Knights Genesis. Mr. Xie has rich experience in alternative investment in domestic China and overseas. He has led and participated as core team member in many large-scale overseas investments for Chinese enterprises in North America, Middle East, Africa and Europe in real estate, infrastructure, energy and forestry. He is also a seasoned investor in big data and large consumption. He has been working with many Chinese enterprises such as China Development Bank, ICBC, Sinosure, China Railway Construction Corporation, China State Construction Engineering Corporation, China National Building Material Company, Ping An, Shanghai Municpal Investment (Group) Corporation, etc. Mr. Xie is also a council member of CCG and a committee member of LSEEMF.

Kenneth Dingledine is the President of Harmonia, dedicated to promoting cross-cultural collaborations in live theatrical, artist management, arts education and philanthropic innovation between the East and the West. As one of the most respected executives in the Broadway industry, he has worked in the theatrical production and licensing world for over 20 years. Before joining Harmonia, Ken led major content supply and author representative companies including musical theatre specialist, Theatrical Rights Worldwide (TRW) as Senior Vice President, responsible for heading all of TRW's domestic and international operations. Prior to TRW, Ken was Vice President and Director of Operations for Samuel French Inc., the oldest and largest performing arts agent and licensing company in the world.

Ken has developed shows for Broadway and regional theatres across the United States and redeveloped existing content for localized market distribution. He has worked in the UK marketplace with both West End and touring production companies distributing their productions to theatre organizations and presenters across the world. In his career, he has brought over 800 new works into the worldwide theatrical market place and exposed the work of over 500 artists and creators including such high-grossing musical titles as CHICAGO, GREASE, and the recent Broadway smash, ROCK OF AGES.  He also has published and promoted the work of legendary authors including Pulitzer Prize winners, Neil Simon, August Wilson and Thornton Wilder.

Will is a Director with Jones Lang LaSalle's Shanghai Strategic Consulting Group. Strategic Consulting provides creative solutions in the areas of Development and Asset Strategy, Organizational Strategy, and Occupier and Investor Portfolio Strategy. Our clients include corporations, developers, investors, governments, and institutions such as port and airport authorities, development authorities and higher education establishments.

Will has over 15 years of strategy and management consulting experience covering broad range of sectors including Real estate, Retail & FMCG, Healthcare and Financial sector. He has spent over 9 years in continent Europe prior to relocate back to Shanghai and has worked in U.S, UK, Continent Europe and Asia Pacific with various projects.
A few representative UK based client projects lead by Will includes: Jaguar Land Rover's 14.7bln RMB investment and JV setup in China with Cherry Automotive Group in China, GSK market expansion and sourcing strategy in China, Mark Spencer operating model transformation in China, and Regetta on-line digital strategy in China.

Prior to JLL, Will was a Director at Allergan Inc, focusing on China Medical Aesthetic Sector. He has also spent years at Starbucks on consumer insights/innovation and KPMG, Accenture on strategy and management consulting sector.

Tim Naylor is a veteran in advanced Information Management and Analytics sectors and heads Envision Energy’s Digital business in EMEA. He has an Honours degree in Information Science from Otago University, an MBA from London Business School and 20 years leadership experience with Oracle EMEA.  For the past 3 years Tim has been helping global energy companies create advantage from digitalisation, where advances in Energy IoT, cloud computing, big data and machine learning are dramatically reshaping the energy value chain and enabling significantly more effective asset and operations management.

In 2005 Tim Whyte founded and ran the Sofaer Capital Natural Resources Fund with over 1bn US$ assets under management. In 2008 Tim joined Brevan Howard Asset Management, the largest Hedge fund firm in Europe. Mr. Whyte holds BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics.

Dr Mattia Romani is Managing Director for Economics, Policy and Governance at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He is also Senior Visiting Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics.

Before joining the EBRD in 2014, he was the Deputy Director General and Chief Economist of the Global Green Growth Institute, an international organization based in South Korea created to support developing and emerging countries on their green growth plans. He was previously with McKinsey and Company, where he worked as a senior expert since 2009.

He served as Lord Nicholas Stern’s deputy on the UN Secretary General High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Finance in 2010. Between 2007 and 2009, he worked as the lead economist on the Stern Review team in the UK Government.

He was previously at Shell International working on long-term scenarios. Between 1999 and 2003 he worked at the World Bank in Washington DC, Abidjan and Antananarivo. He holds a doctorate (D.Phil.) in economics from the University of Oxford and a M.Sc. in Development Studies from the London School of Economics.

Cyrille joined the GEEREF Front Office in 2008. Previously, he was a Senior Officer at EIB's Africa, Caribbean and Pacific Department, where he oversaw the development of private equity and microfinance portfolios. Prior to joining the EIB in 2003, Cyrille was a Senior Investment Officer at the International Finance Corporation’s SME Department, which he joined after four years with IFC’s Financial Markets Group, Sub-Saharan Africa Department. He was previously IFC's Senior Investment Officer based in Russia. Before joining IFC, Cyrille worked in Russia for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, first as Investment Manager for Smolensk Regional Venture Fund and then as Principal Banker in Moscow.
Cyrille holds a Diploma from the Political Science Institute and a Master's in Law, both from the University of Strasbourg, and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Bryan A. Train has extensive international experience in sectors including renewable energy, capital markets, real estate development and strategic business transformation projects within industry.

Bryan acts as the Chief of International Development for Globomass Limited, an Irish Renewable Energy Project Developer, Chief Financial Officer of CleanBay Renewables LLC, Globomass subsidiary in the United States and a Managing Partner of Chayton Capital LLP, a UK based Investment Advisor.

Bryan was a co-founder & director of Asha Zuri Participacoes, which funded the development of 3,500 low income units (total project value US$ 140 million) in Sao Paulo & Minas Gerais within the Brazilian government’s “Minha Casa, Minha Vida” social housing program.

Bryan holds an MSc in Logistics, Trade and Finance from the Cass Business School & is a graduate of the European Business School (now Regents University) where he studied International Business & German.

Karima is a Partner focused on African investments. A deeply experienced operator and investor, she has significant experience working across the continent. Karima is widely recognised for her work shaping the investment landscape in Africa and was recently named one of “Africa’s women to watch” by Bloomberg.

Previously, Karima was Chief Investment Officer and a member of the board at ADC African Development Corporation, where she initiated the company’s entry into Nigeria and ran a number of multimillion-dollar transactions. Prior to this, she was a Managing Partner at Chayton Capital LLP, where she led the creation of the company’s first Africa Agriculture fund. Earlier, Karima was Executive Director, Global Equities, at HSBC in a role that spanned the UK, Hong Kong and South Africa.

Karima is a Member of UK Institute of Directors and holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and a postgraduate diploma in Economics from the University of London. She sits on the Sustainability Co‎mmittee of Africa Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (AVCA). Karima speaks French and Yoruba and is learning Swahili.

JP joined DPI in 2016.

His prior work experience combines investment banking at BNP Paribas and JPMorgan with management consulting at McKinsey & Company and The Boston Consulting Group. He has extensive experience leading M&A, strategy and transformational projects for government entities, major corporations and financial sponsors across both developed markets (North America, Europe) and emerging markets (Africa, Middle East, South East Asia). JP has worked and lived in 5 continents and visited over 100 countries.

JP speaks 5 languages and graduated from Imperial College London with a Masters in Aeronautical Engineering. JP is a citizen of France, Canada and Bangladesh.

Ann is a Senior Officer at AfricInvest, responsible for client relations. An internationally recognized economic and geopolitical researcher and manager with two decades of experience in financial services and consulting, Ann has worked as an economist and head of Emerging Markets Research at both Citi and Nomura. Ann also currently serves as a Senior Advisor at Gatehouse Advisory Partners, a geopolitical consulting firm based in London, and contributes analysis to Oxford Analytica, an internationally renown global analysis and advisory firm. Ann is a member of the board of the Tunisian American Enterprise Fund, established by the United States government to help foster stronger investment ties with Tunisia and launch local SMEs as engines for longer-term growth. Ann is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (BA), and Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (Masters).

Asad Naqvi is a Managing Director at Apis, a private equity fund specializing in financial services and financial technology investments in growth markets. Asad is actively involved in originating, executing and managing the firm’s investments.

Prior to Apis, Asad was a Partner at Wolfensohn Fund Management, the financial services focused private equity fund founded by James Wolfensohn (former World Bank President). Asad headed Wolfensohn’s London office and managed several of the firm’s financial services investments, ranging from consumer finance lenders to stock exchanges. Previously, Asad was the Director of Acquisitions & Investments at The Resource Group (TRG), a global investment holding company, and started his career at Lazard where he worked on over 10 M&A transactions with an aggregate value of over $14 billion. Asad has served on the Board of Directors of several investee companies, and has spoken on issues of financial inclusion and innovation at several industry events.

Asad holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics from Georgetown University.

He began his career at Linklaters as a corporate lawyer, working in cross border mergers and acquisitions, followed by banking and asset management positions at UBS, GAM and Firecrest Hambro.

Alex holds degrees from Oxford University and Imperial College.

Founder of Private Equity at LBS, Professor Eli Talmor is co-author of International Private Equity, broadly considered to be the reference book on the private equity industry. He is frequently invited to deliver keynote speeches to business executives worldwide, testified at the UK Parliament on private equity and advised the UK Prime Minister’s Office.

He served on the London Business School Board of Governors and the advisory board of the African Venture Capital Association. He also practices venture capital and is a serial cornerstone investor with multiple exits.

Before joining the London Business School, he was on the finance faculty at the University of California (UCLA and Irvine), Tel Aviv University and the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania).

Bas B. Bakker is the IMF's Senior Regional Resident Representative for Central and Eastern Europe in Warsaw. He joined the IMF in 1993 and has held in four IMF departments, working on a range of countries, and policy and research issues. He has worked extensively on central and Eastern Europe, including as head of the Emerging Europe Regional Division and as mission chief for Bulgaria, and is the co-author of the book "How Emerging Europe Came Through the 2008/09 Crisis: An Account by the Staff of the IMF's European Department." He is a national from the Netherlands and obtained his PhD in economics from the University of Groningen. He is married with three kids.

Farrukh enjoys 13 years of extensive and diverse experience in Islamic finance industry. His contribution involves policy level advisory to the governments of more than 20 countries, building the infrastructure for Islamic finance, and playing key roles in launching ground-breaking Islamic finance operations across several jurisdictions. He led IFAAS team in various high-profile projects, form the development of Islamic finance Masterplans, strategic blueprints and regulatory frameworks for countries to launching over 100 products for institutional clients. He is actively contributing towards the industry’s thought-leadership and standard-setting, pushing Islamic finance to a higher degree of Shariah compliance, professionalism and inclusiveness.

Alistair Wood received his Masters in Financial Economics before joining the Audit & Assurances Services team at EY in Canada. After spending a-number-of-years in Public Practice and having gained extensive experience in auditing and consulting large multi-national corporations as well as SMEs, he moved to Hong Kong to join Lenton Group as Director - Corporate Affairs. Lenton Group is a market leader in the international logistics arena and has one of the largest independent linehaul networks with gateways in over 39 countries. Along with overseeing Lenton Group's Financial department (including Mergers & Acquisitions), he is also Managing Director - UK and is on the Board of Directors sitting alongside members representing the company's three shareholders - GeoPost (La Poste), Japan Post and Hamington Ventures.

Clare is using her near 20 years of advising and investing across all consumer sectors, to specialise in luxury brands, recognising a lack of strategic investing in smaller companies. Being one of the few female senior investors in private equity, Clare is using her knowledge and experience as an investor and also a consumer (over 80% of consumer purchases are female led), to create this new investment platform.

Clare is a Founder Partner at Eaton Gate Limited. Prior to this, she was a Managing Director & COO for Macquarie Capital in EMEA. She has over 19 years of advisory experience covering several leading Private Equity firms in Europe as well as family offices. She also represented investors in key Boards tied to principal investments as well as a member of the Board of Macquarie Capital in Europe.

Before Macquarie, Clare was an early Partner at Aletheia Partners LLP, advising on mandates with an enterprise value in excess of €5 billion since 2002, covering retail, media and consumer industries primarily in Germany and the UK. Additionally, she has been particularly active in raising €3.4 billion of debt capital. The Enterprise Value of principal investments sums to €2.1 billion (with an investment return of 3.9x on invested capital).

Prior to Aletheia Partners, Clare worked in the Private Equity Group at KPMG, part of the original team to establish this new unit for the partnership covering 13 private equity houses in Europe.

Clare holds LLB in Law from Glasgow University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Business and Finance from University of Strathclyde. She has also qualified for her Fellowship (FCA) from ICAEW.

Pietro Invernizzi manages deal-flow and fundraising at The Family, a pan-European infrastructure helping ambitious entrepreneurs build successful businesses. A King’s College London grad, Pietro began his journey at The Family after working at a small-cap Private Equity fund in New York (GF Cap) and an M&A investment banking boutique in London (Greenhill). He now works on selecting the best European startups to join The Family and follows them through their growth and fundraising rounds. This involves working with all main stakeholders in the startup ecosystem, including founders, investors, partners, press and schools.

Dr. Murat Ulgen is HSBC’s Global Head of Emerging Markets Research and Managing Director. He joined HSBC in April 2006 as the Chief Economist for Turkey. Before joining HSBC, he held several sell-side economist and strategist positions in London and Istanbul, covering more than 15 emerging market countries in that time zone. In December 2009, Dr. Ulgen was appointed HSBC's Chief Economist for Central & Eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Ulgen holds a doctorate degree in finance and has also lectured at several Turkish universities on economics and international finance.

Bill Browder is the founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, which was the investment adviser to the largest foreign investment fund in Russia until 2005, when Bill was denied entry to the country and declared a “threat to national security” as a result of his battle against corporate corruption.

Following his expulsion, the Russian authorities raided his offices, seized Hermitage Fund’s investment companies and used them to steal $230 million of taxes that the companies had previously paid. When Browder’s lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, investigated the crime, he was arrested by the same officers he implicated, tortured for 358 days, and killed in custody at the age of 37 in November 2009.

Since then, Browder has spent the last 5 years fighting for justice for Mr. Magnitsky. The Russian government exonerated and even promoted some of the officials involved so Browder took the case to America, where his campaigning led to the US Congress adopting the ‘Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act’ in 2012, which imposed visa sanctions and asset freezes on those involved in the detention, ill-treatment and death of Sergei Magnitsky (as well as in other human rights abuses). This law was the first time the US sanctioned Russia in 35 years and became the model for all subsequent US sanctions against Russia. Browder is currently working to have similar legislation passed in Magnitsky’s name across the European Union.

General Sir John Nicholas Reynolds "Nick" Houghton GCB CBE ADC Gen and Constable of the Tower of London is the Chief of the Defence Staff of the British Armed Forces.

He served as Commanding Officer of 1st Battalion, the Green Howards in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. After Regimental duty General Houghton commanded 39 Infantry Brigade in Belfast during the period which led to the Good Friday Agreement. He was the Director of Military Operations in the Ministry of Defence at the time of 9/11; at the outset of operations in Afghanistan; and during the foot and mouth crisis. Subsequently he was Chief of Staff of the ACE Rapid Reaction Corps from July 2002 to April 2004 and Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Operations) from May 2004 to October 2005.

More recently General Houghton was the Senior British Military Representative and Deputy Commanding General of the Multi-National Force-Iraq from October 2005 until March 2006. He became Chief of Joint Operations (CJO) in April 2006 at the time of the commitment of UK Forces to southern Afghanistan and, subsequently, during the extraction of UK forces from southern Iraq. He was appointed both OBE and CBE for his time in command in Northern Ireland and awarded the US Legion of Merit for his service in Iraq. He was appointed KCB for his time as CJO. General Houghton became Vice Chief of the Defence Staff in May 2009.

In June 2015, General Houghton also received an honorary Panglima Gagah Angkatan Tentera (PGAT) award from the Deputy Minister for Defence of Malaysia.
General Houghton graduated from St Peter's College, Oxford, having taken an in-Service Bachelor of Arts degree in Modern History.

Dr Karin von Hippel is the first woman and non-Briton to hold the position of the Director-General of the Royal United Services Institute. Prior to joining RUSI, she served for nearly six years in the Bureau of Counterterrorism, and eventually as Chief of Staff to General John Allen, Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter-ISIL. Further to this, she has served as a director for the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project in Washington DC and is a research fellow at King’s College London. She has also worked for the UN, the EU and has several publications to her name, on top of degrees from the LSE, University of Oxford and Yale.

Christopher Coker is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Head of Department. He is also Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian Staff College. He was a NATO Fellow in 1981, and served two terms on the Council of the Royal United Services Institute. He is a serving member of the Washington Strategy Seminar; the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (Cambridge, Mass); the Black Sea University Foundation; the Moscow School of Politics and the IDEAS Advisory Board.

He is a member of the Academic Board of the Czech Diplomatic Academy. He was a Visiting Fellow of Goodenough College in 2003-4. He is a member of the Executive Council for the Belgrade University International Summer School for Democracy and also President of the Centre for Media and Communications of a Democratic Romania. He is a former editor of The Atlantic Quarterly and The European Security Analyst. He has written many books about war, as well as published a variety of articles on The Wall Street Journal, The Times, The Independent, The European, The Spectator, The Times Literary Supplement and The Literary Review.

He is a regular lecturer at the Royal College of Defence Studies (London); the NATO Defence College (Rome), the Centre for International Security (Geneva) and the National Institute for Defence Studies (Tokyo) He has spoken at other military institutes in Western Europe, North America, Australia and South-east Asia.

Since joining P&G in 1986, Gary Coombe has been at the heart of the consumer goods industry, working on some of P&Gs most recognizable and successful brands including Pampers, Gillette and Ariel in the UK, Europe and the US.

Gary joined P&G in a graduate sales job in the UK. He then moved into marketing where he held a number of senior positions, including Marketing Director and General Manager for P&G’s two biggest brands—Pampers and Gillette. Then moving to the US, Gary was responsible for Global Innovation & New Business Development on P&G’s Air Care business. Following roles leading P&G’s Global Air Care and Home Care businesses, Gary was appointed President of Europe in 2014 where he is now responsible for one-third of P&G’s global workforce and a quarter of total company sales and profit.

James Sweeney is a Managing Director of Credit Suisse, based in New York. He is the Chief Economist in Fixed Income Research, part of the Global Markets division. In this role, he leads the US Economics team and co-heads the Global Strategy and Economics team. Mr.Sweeney joined Credit Suisse in 2000, having previously worked as a political speechwriter. He holds an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and a BS magna cum laude from Florida State University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Economic Club of New York, and is a John C. Whitehead Fellow of the Foreign Policy Association.

Stephen Jen is the CEO and Co-CIO of Eurizon SLJ Capital Ltd, formerly SLJ Macro Partners LLP. Previously, he worked as the Managing Director of Macroeconomics and Currencies at BlueGold Capital Management LLP from May 2009 to March 2011, in charge of managing the firm’s currency risks as well as its macro strategies. Mr. Jen was also the Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, and from October 1996 to April 2009, held various roles, including the Global Head of Currency Research.

Prior to Morgan Stanley, Mr. Jen had spent four years as an economist with the IMF, covering economies in Eastern Europe and Asia. Mr. Jen earned a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine (Summa Cum Laude).

Jean Boivin is a Head of Economic and Markets Research of the Blackrock Investment Institute (BII), a global platform which leverages BlackRock's global expertise to generate insights that augment their ability to create a better financial future for their clients.

Prior to joining BlackRock, Dr. Boivin served as Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada and then Associate Deputy Finance Minister and Finance Canada's representative at the G7, G20 and Financial Stability Board. Dr. Boivin has also taught at INSEAD, HEC Montreal and Columbia Business School and has written widely on macroeconomics, monetary policy and finance.

Dr. Boivin earned a B.Sc. degree in economics from the Universite de Montreal,an MA in economics from Princeton University and a PhD in economics from Princeton University.

As of 2015, Erik Berglöf is a professor at the London School of Economics, and Director of its Institute for Global Affairs, a new school for public policy which will also launch a research-based do tank focusing on emerging markets.

From 2006 to 2014, Mr. Berglöf served as Chief Economist and special adviser to the president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

He is a widely published and internationally respected specialist in the field of transition economics, as well as financial contracting, corporate governance, financial development and EU reform. As expert on policy-related issues in transition economies, he has regularly provided advice to national governments and international institutions including the IMF, the World Bank and OECD.

Prior to joining the EBRD in 2006, Mr. Berglöf was director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics and a professor at the Stockholm School of Economics.

He was previously assistant professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and has held visiting positions at Harvard, Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was the founder and president of the Center for Economic and Financial Research in Moscow.

Currently, he is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. He serves on the boards of the European Corporate Governance Institute, the New Economic School in Moscow, the Institute for New Economic Thinking in New York. He is a trustee of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation. In 2013, he was awarded the Leontief Medal for contributions to economic reform.

Christian Deseglise is the Global Head of Central Bank and Reserve Managers and Global co-Head of Sovereign Wealth and Public Funds coverage for HSBC. Prior to this, he held various positions within HSBC Global Asset Management, including Head of Sales for the Americas, Global Head of Emerging Markets and a member of the Executive Committee of HSBC Global Asset Management. In this role, Mr. Deseglise helped HSBC become one of the world’s largest managers of emerging markets assets. He also designed and spearheaded the launch of a series of innovative products, notably the first BRIC fund and the New Frontiers fund. Before joining HSBC, Christian held various positions at at Crédit Commercial de France (CCF) within the Emerging Markets department between 1990 and 2000 when CCF was eventually acquired by HSBC, at which point Mr. Deseglise moved to New York to head the Emerging Markets department of HSBC Securities.

During his time at CCF, he became responsible for the bank’s Emerging Markets activities and moved to the London office to set up a department dedicated to the origination, trading, sales and research of Emerging Markets debt.

Christian is also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, teaching on Emerging Markets, and the co-founder and co-director of Columbia University’s BRIC-Lab, set up to study the rise of Emerging countries. Christian has taught at Sciences Po in Paris and at the Institute for High Studies for Development in Bogotá, Colombia. He has written a book “Le Défi des Pays Emergents: Une Chance pour la France”, which was published in France in April 2012. He has also written numerous articles on Emerging Markets.
In 2003, Mr. Deseglise established Foundation Caring for Colombia, a not-for-profit organization that provides assistance to the victims of violence in Colombia.

Christian is a Graduate from Sciences Po in Paris and holds a Master’s degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies from La Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. He also received a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University in New York.

Christopher Jeffery is Editor-in-chief of Central Banking Publications, which includes the Central Banking Journal, CentralBanking.com and Central Banking On Air. He has more than 15 years of journalistic experience covering banking, business, economics, finance and public policy in London, Hong Kong and New York. Recent interviews include those with Agustín Carstens, Stanley Fisher, Stefan Ingves, Christian Noyer, Raghuram Rajan, Robert Schiller and Christopher Sims. Chris is founder of the Central Banking Awards, set up to recognise excellence in the central banking community; as well as the IFF China Report, a publication offering insight and opinion from China’s top policy-makers. Chris was previously Editor of Asia Risk in Hong Kong and Deputy Editor of Risk in London.

Dr Malcolm Willingale has worked in the shipping industry for over 35 years. Between 1990 and 2008 he held a number of senior management positions in the leading ship management and shipping services company, V.Ships, part of V.Group, including responsibility for setting up the group quality management system. Prior to joining V.Ships, Malcolm was Editor of Lloyd’s Shipping Economist and was employed by London-based shipbrokers Lambert Brothers and freight forwarders, Thomas Meadows.

He currently works as an independent consultant with Lloyd’s Register being one of his major clients where he is supporting the development of a group key accounts programme.

He is a member of the advisory Board of the Seafarers International Research Centre and has represented InterManager at the IMO.

Malcolm holds a PhD from the University of Southampton.

Kieran McKenna is recognised by peers as one of the most profitable options traders in the energy space. Through his 19 year career, Mr McKenna has worked at some of the world’s premier investment institutions. Mr McKenna spent 7 years at Goldman Sachs trading crude swaps, futures and options. He also worked at Deutsche Bank, J.P Morgan, Citadel and the Credit Suisse – Glencore Trading Alliance, where he was the Global Head of Oil & Refined Products Trading with a team of 17 traders reporting into him from New York, London, Singapore, Hong Kong and Zurich. He launched his own hedge fund, Mastic, which returned 21% in its maiden year, well above the peer group.

In all of these previous roles, Mr McKenna demonstrated a strong ability to turn around underperforming oil trading desks, and talent for building and managing world class trading operations. He has also been a mentor and developer of talent to many of the top traders currently in the space. He currently spends time between London and Corfu.

Tim Coombs has 15 years’ experience at Aviation Economics during which time he has project-led assignments for investment banks, airports, airlines, governments and private equity investors. Most recently Tim has advised clients on the airport privatisations taking place in Brazil and the establishment of a new airline in Eastern Europe.

An experienced Project Director, Tim has been involved in the business planning for two successful airline start-ups, Air Arabia and Spice Jet; and assignments for easyJet, Ryanair and Wizzair. He has led the traffic team on airport transaction projects across the world; is a regular speaker at aviation conferences; and a part-time lecturer on the Airline Economics module at City University, London.

Prior to joining Aviation Economics, Tim worked for Aer Lingus, reporting directly to the Chief Executive; and NatWest Markets initially in the top ranked equity research transport team and then in the Investment Banking division. He holds a BSc in Transport Economics and Political Studies from Aston University.

Prior to joining Balderton Capital, Colin worked at SoundCloud in Berlin where he led Emerging Market Growth and worked as a Business Analyst. Prior to SoundCloud he was at ProSiebenSat.1 building out their media for equity business in Asia and investing for their Berlin-based E-commerce incubator. Colin began his career with three years at Goldman Sachs in New York where he worked on several Chinese internet IPOs, including Qunar (NASDAQ: QUNR), Vipshop (NASDAQ: VIPS) and Tarena (NASDAQ: TEDU).

Colin has a B.A. from Princeton University in Political Science where he was also a Captain of the Men’s Swimming Team. He has competed in the United States Swimming Olympic Trials and spent his childhood in Indonesia and Hong Kong.

Aged twenty-nine years old and a graduate in economics from Bocconi University of Milan, since 2012 Nathalie Dompé has been head of Corporate Social Responsibility activities for the Dompé Group, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of innovative therapeutic solutions for rare and orphan diseases.

Before this, she had accrued a variety of enriching personal experience: after graduating, she flew to London to study acting technique at the Saint Martins School of Arts, followed by volunteer work in an orphanage in Uganda. Even during secondary school, Nathalie had already volunteered at the Institute for the Sight Impaired of Milan, and it is precisely this desire to work for others that led her to choose to cover Corporate Social Responsibility in the Group.

In Dompé, Nathalie has chosen to work on projects capable of communicating to people the values that the Group holds or that may improve the knowledge and the level of awareness about relevant topics. It is an ambitious objective but one she has achieved thanks to the use of effective, innovative tools to spread awareness and create a tangible exchange with public opinion, paying particularly close attention to the younger generation.

She has been a member of the Board of Directors of Philogen since 2016.

Guillermo Ortiz Martínez is former Governor of Banco de México. Prior to that, he served as Executive Director of International Monetary Fund (IMF) and is currently Director of several international non-profit organizations such as the Bank for International Settlements. He holds a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.

He joined the public service in 1971 and has been Mexico's ambassador to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). While at the IMF, he acted as executive director and represented seven countries, including Spain. Martínez served as Public Finance Minister of Mexico from December 1994 to December 1997. He served as Secretary of Finance and Public Credit in Mexico from 1994 to 1998. He served as Secretary of Communications and Transportation in the Mexican Federal Government. He served as Deputy Public Finance Minister of Mexico from 1988 to 1994. He served as Economist, Deputy Manager, and Manager of Department of Economic Research at Banco de México from 1977 to 1984. He entered public service with the federal government as an Economist at the Planning and Budgeting Ministry.

He serves as the Chairman of Grupo Financiero Banorte SAB de CV. Mr. Ortiz Martínez served as the Chairman of the Board of Bank for International Settlements from March 2009 to December 2009. He has been an Independent Director of Grupo Comercial Chedraui, S.A.B. DE C.V.; Vitro, S.A.B. de C.V., since 2010 and Weatherford International Ltd. since June 2010. He has been an Independent Director of Grupo Aeroportuario Del Sureste SA de CV since April 26, 2010. Mr. Ortiz Martínez serves as a Director at Nacional Financiera SNC Institucion de Banca de Desarrollo. He serves as a Director of MEXICHEM and ASUR.

He served as Executive Director of International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1984 to 1988. He served as Director of Banco Nacional de Comercio Exterior SNC. He served as a Director of Bank For International Settlements since June 27, 2006. He serves as a Director of several international non-profit organizations. He is a professor of Colegio de Mexico, Itam and Stanford.

Mr. Leslie Maasdorp is Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the New Development Bank. In this role he is responsible for the treasury, portfolio management, finance and accounting functions of the Bank.

Over the past 25 years he has occupied senior leadership roles in both private and public sectors. Most recently he served as a Managing Director and President of Bank of America Merrill Lynch for Southern Africa for a period of four years. Prior to that he served in a dual role as Vice Chairman of Barclays Capital and Absa Capital. In 2002 he was the first African to be appointed as International Advisor to Goldman Sachs International.

Before his 13 years as a global investment banker, he served in several senior leadership roles in the Government of South Africa. In 1994 after the transition to democracy, he was appointed as Special Advisor to the Minister of Labour and in 1999, in his role as Deputy Director General of the Department of Public Enterprises, he led the restructuring and privatization of state owned enterprises for the South African Government.

He is a former Chairman and CEO of Advtech, a leading provider of private education in South Africa. Leslie is a young global leader of the World Economic Forum. He holds a BA degree in Economics and Psychology from the University of the Western Cape and a Master of Science degree in Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, at the University of London

Formerly Chairman of Global Capital Markets at J.P. Morgan, Ian has worked on over 300 transactions in over 40 countries in a 30 year period. Ian’s capital markets experience includes transformational transactions for BHP Billiton, Xstrata, BT, SABMiller, Pakistan Telecom, Rio Tinto, Rosneft and HSBC.

He built J.P. Morgan’s natural resources business into the No. 1 franchise in the sector and is responsible for introducing to the London market – and growing into leading blue chip stocks – several of the major diversified mining companies (BHP Billiton, Xstrata). He remains best-known for his connections to the world's greatest mining deals and, to a lesser extent, oil and gas.

Alessandro Fiascaris is a Managing Director in the Real Estate group and is based in London.

Since joining Blackstone in 2004, Mr. Fiascaris has been involved in a variety of real estate acquisitions in Europe and Asia/Pacific.
Mr. Fiascaris received a BA in Mathematics from Cambridge University and an MBA from Stanford.

Managing Partner of Venn Partners and responsible for our Commercial Real Estate business. Paul spent over 20 years with Citigroup, heading Citi’s European Real Estate business before joining Venn Partners. Paul has a wealth of experience in loan origination, transaction structuring, advisory and loan distribution. Paul benefits from an extensive list of key relationships with sponsors and market participants, and has led a number of landmark transactions including the largest hotel deal in Europe.

Paul started his career with Citi in 1993 in Canada, before moving to Citi New York, and then to Citi in London in 2000. Paul is a member of the CFA Institute and holds a MBA from Schulich School of Business in Toronto, Canada.

Yolande leads the Savills World Research team. Her areas of focus are world cities, including London, the impact of private wealth in real estate, emerging trends in real estate markets, residential and commercial, urbanism and mixed use issues.

Having 28 years experience in property research, Yolande pioneered residential research and became one of the first specialists on the sector in the UK She set up Savills own residential research department in 1989 and inaugurated their indices of prime residential property prices as well as residential development land which is still the only one available of its types.

Subsequently, she has investigated the land economics of mixed use, design, layout and green space and developed research techniques on regeneration value uplift, and in ‘placemaking’ and urbanism. Yolande specialises in bringing to light new and under-researched sectors of real estate markets: serviced apartments and student housing being good examples.

Recently, in extending her research techniques to global markets, her remit has expanded to all types of cross-border real estate in both established and emerging markets. Her work now involves providing thought leadership and running a world research programme to provide sophisticated, market-oriented advice on all aspects of real estate, global wealth flows and market trends. She advises a wide variety of high level clients on strategic, development, investment and policy issues both in the UK and globally.

Yolande is an advisor to various academic, business and other groups. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a Director of Design for Homes, a founding member of the Society of Property Researchers, an Academician with the Academy of Urbanism a residential council member of the Urban Land Institute and visiting Professor at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London.. She produces regular reports and articles on UK residential and global cross-sector market trends and regularly appears in the international press, on television and radio.

Brad Lockwood is a Partner and the Global Product Manager for Xylenes. He joined Tricon in 2000 in the Operations group. He is a native Texan and is based at the Houston headquarters. Brad has a degree in Marketing from Texas A&M University.

Vesselin has 10 years international corporate finance experience. He has advised on leading Capital Markets and M&A transactions and also has expertise in wide variety of sectors, including finance, industrials, retail, telecommunications, energy, etc. M&A deals include the acquisition of 100% of DZI from KBC Group, Magyar Telekom sale of Orbitel, the acquisition of Plovdiv BT, and many more. Previously, Veselin was Head of Corporate Finance of KBC Securities from 2009 to 2013.

Prior to that, he worked as Head of Corporate Finance at Sofia International Securities, a leading equity house. Vesselin was also Executive Director at Balkan Capital Markets (Asset Management Company) and he holds a MSc degree in Economics from the Economic University in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Clare is using her near 20 years of advising and investing across all consumer sectors, to specialise in luxury brands, recognising a lack of strategic investing in smaller companies. Being one of the few female senior investors in private equity, Clare is using her knowledge and experience as an investor and also a consumer (over 80% of consumer purchases are female led), to create this new investment platform.

Clare is a Founder Partner at Eaton Gate Limited. Prior to this, she was a Managing Director & COO for Macquarie Capital in EMEA. She has over 19 years of advisory experience covering several leading Private Equity firms in Europe as well as family offices. She also represented investors in key Boards tied to principal investments as well as a member of the Board of Macquarie Capital in Europe.

Before Macquarie, Clare was an early Partner at Aletheia Partners LLP, advising on mandates with an enterprise value in excess of €5 billion since 2002, covering retail, media and consumer industries primarily in Germany and the UK. Additionally, she has been particularly active in raising €3.4 billion of debt capital. The Enterprise Value of principal investments sums to €2.1 billion (with an investment return of 3.9x on invested capital).

Prior to Aletheia Partners, Clare worked in the Private Equity Group at KPMG, part of the original team to establish this new unit for the partnership covering 13 private equity houses in Europe.

Clare holds LLB in Law from Glasgow University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Business and Finance from University of Strathclyde. She has also qualified for her Fellowship (FCA) from ICAEW.

Michael Liebreich is Chairman of the Advisory Board of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the world’s leading provider of research for senior decision-makers in clean energy and transportation. He is also a Board Member of Transport for London, the capital’s transport authority, a member of the high-level advisory board of the UN’s Sustainable Energy for All initiative and holds a variety of other directory and advisory positions in business and the non-profit sector. Michael is a Visiting Professor at the Imperial College Energy Futures Lab.

Prior to founding New Energy Finance, Liebreich was an Olympic skier, consultant at McKinsey and Co., venture capitalist at Groupe Arnault and a media executive at APTN and SNTV. He holds a first class honours in Engineering from Cambridge University, winning the Ricardo Prize for Thermodynamics and the Christ's College Wyatt Prize for Engineering. In 1988, he was awarded a Harkness Fellowship by the Commonwealth Fund of New York for his studies at Harvard Business School, where he graduated as a Baker Scholar.

John Ardill is an ExxonMobil Vice President for Business Development. He has over 20 years upstream oil and gas experience with ExxonMobil including Exploration, Development, Production, Research, Ventures and Corporate.

During these years Dr. Ardill held such positions as a Kurdistan Exploration Manager, Senior Upstream Advisor and Strategic Planning Coordinator for Exploration, New Business Manager for GCC countries and Geoscience Supervisor for Equatorial Guinea. Dr. Ardill holds BSc in Geology from the University of Edinburgh and PhD in Geology from the University of Liverpool.

Chris Walton is the Chair of the Strategy & Innovation Committee of NC KazMunayGas (NC KMG), a vertically integrated oil & gas company which operates in every major segment of the oil and gas industry. NC KMG has JVs in some of the world’s largest oil fields, with refineries, pipeline, shipping and oil & gas marketing businesses. It has a turnover of US$ 18 billion, assets of $41 billion and employs 84,400 staff.

In the public sector, he is a non-executive member of the Audit and Risk Committee of the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport, which is responsible for the “digital economy” (broadband, cyber security etc), broadcasting (BBC, Channel 4, digital media, mobile telephone spectrum allocation), museums, sport, tourism and gambling. It was the department with responsibility for the London 2012 Olympic Games.

In the not-for-profit sector, he is the Audit Chair of the UK Institute of Directors (IoD).

In the recent past, he has stepped down as Chairman of Goldenport Holdings Inc (a listed shipping company with a world-wide container and dry-bulk shipping fleet); as Chairman of Lothian Buses Plc (the operator of 730 buses in Edinburgh and the Lothians); and as Senior Independent Director and Audit Chair of Rockhopper Exploration Plc (an AIM listed offshore oil explorer).

He has served two terms as Audit Chairman on the Board of Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), the Kazakhstan State Government railway. KTZ is the 19th largest rail network in the world, with subsidiaries operating 11 regional airports, a sea port, telecommunications, locomotive assembley and wagon manufacturing businesses.

He has also been the Chairman of Asia Resource Minerals Plc, a London listed operator of large open cut coal mines in Indonesia.

In an advisory role, he is a non-executive member of the Unified Commission which acts on behalf of the sovereign wealth fund of Kazakhstan to appoint external auditors to the Sovereign Wealth Fund itself and for its 4 largest companies: Kazmunaigaz (oil & gas); KEGOC (electricity generation); Kaztomprom (nuclear fuels); and Kazakhtelecom (telecommunications).

Chris also consults on company turn-arounds and private equity investments, with past engagements in Europe, the Middle East and India. He has undertaken advisory work in conjunction with Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, Morgan Stanley and Otus.

Telefonica O2 and LoveFilm have used Chris as a mentor for senior executives.

As an executive, Chris was Finance Director and CFO of EasyJet Plc from 1999 to 2005, where he successfully directed its IPO. In 2002, EasyJet won the BT Vision 100 Award for a Visionary Top Team. It also won Air Finance Journal’s European Corporate Finance Deal of the Year award. In 2005, AirFinance Journal conferred Chris a “Lifetime Achievement Award” in aviation.

In earlier roles, he held senior finance and commercial posts at Qantas Airways, Air New Zealand, Australia Post and Australian Airlines. He has also worked for BP Australia, the Australian Senate, Rio Tinto Hamersley Iron and the Western Australian Government. He was a member of the Bank of England’s Regional Economic Advisory Panel (South East England & Anglia) from 2002 to 2005.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors and is a Freeman of the City of London.

He served for ten years in the Australian Army Reserve, principally in the 1st Commando Regiment, and holds private pilot’s licences in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Chris, aged 58, lives in London with his family and holds both Australian and British nationalities.

Mr. Andrew Moorfield serves as Head of Energy at Exotix Limited. Previously, Mr. Moorfield served as the Head of Oil and Gas at the firm. He was a Managing Director and Head of The Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets of Lloyds Banking Group plc. He served as Managing Director of Debt Capital Markets of Lloyds Tsb Group Plc. since July 2006. He was responsible for marketing the bank's extended debt capital markets business to global corporate clients.

Mr. Moorfield served as Managing Director and Co-Head of Bank of America's European General Industrial Group where he was responsible for the aerospace and defence and basic materials sectors.

Mr. Jarred Glansbeek serves as Chief Executive Officer of RisCura Solutions (Pty) Ltd. Mr. Glansbeek consults to some of the largest institutional Funds in Africa. He has a wealth of experience and skill in the asset management and retirement industries, which is now directed at ensuring RisCura’s institutional clients receive the best efforts and service from all their service providers. Prior to founding RisCura, He was an Executive Director at FirstRand responsible for their asset management companies’ quantitative services. He developed substantial experience in quantitative portfolio techniques and complex instruments as well as judgmental and active risk management. In 1999, after becoming disillusioned with the state of the consulting market in South Africa, He set up Mercury Risk Managers, which became RisCura after a management buyout in 2000.

As well as being Deputy Director and Provost of the London School of Economics, Robin Mansell is Professor of New Media and the Internet in the Department of Media and Communication. She has training in several social science disciplines including psychology, social psychology, politics and economics and is a strong advocate of interdisciplinary research when it builds on the strengths of disciplinary inquiry. Her research and teaching focus on the governance of digital media and communications, the social, economic and policy issues arising from innovations in digital technologies, the interactions between technical design and the structure of markets, and sources of regulatory effectiveness and failure.

James Zhan is Director of Investment and Enterprise at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). He is the team leader of the annual UNCTAD World Investment Report.

Dr Zhan has over two decades of national and international experience in the areas of trade, investment, technology, business facilitation and enterprise development, including directing policy research, facilitating international consensus-building and providing technical assistance to governments, parliaments and institutions in over 160 countries.

Dr Zhan has a PhD in international economics, and was a research fellow at Oxford University. He holds a number of advisory positions with academic institutions, including Cambridge University, Columbia University, Oxford University and the University of Geneva. He is also Global Agenda Council member of the World Economic Forum.
Dr Zhan has published extensively on trade and investment-related economic and legal issues. He is a regular speaker at high-level academic, business and policy forums, as well as parliamentary hearings and appears frequently in international media outlets.

Keyu Jin is a tenured professor of Economics at London School of economics. She is from Beijing, China, and holds a B.A., M.A., and PhD from Harvard University. Her field of expertise is international macroeconomics, international finance, and the Chinese economy. Her research has focused on global imbalances and global asset prices, demographics, as well as international trade and growth. Her research is tightly linked to examining the various economic issues in China, with a particular in interest in saving and government policies. Academic publications include those in the American Economic Review, the Journal of International Economics, and the Encyclopaedia of Financial Globalization. Media publications appeared in the Financial Times, Project Syndicate, the Chicago Tribune, Les Echoes, and others. She has also worked/consulted for the World Bank, the IMF, the New York Fed, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JP Morgan.

Stephen was MD of Macroeconomics and Currencies at Bluegold Capital from May 2009 to March 2011, in charge of managing the Fund’s currency risks as well as its macro strategies. Previously Stephen was an MD at Morgan Stanley and, from October 1996 to April 2009, held various roles, including the Global Head of Currency Research. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Stephen had spent four years as an economist with the IMF, covering economies in Eastern Europe and Asia. Stephen holds a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Irvine (Summa Cum Laude) and a PhD in Economics from the MIT.

Kasper Bartholdy is a Managing Director in the Investment Banking division of Credit Suisse and is based in London. He is Head of Strategy for Emerging Markets in the Fixed Income Research Department. Mr. Bartholdy joined Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) in January 1997 and became a Managing Director in 2001. Kasper left CSFB in 2003 to work as a portfolio manager in EMSO, Citigroup's EM hedge fund. He returned to CSFB in May 2005. Before his initial stint at CSFB he was Lead Economist at the EBRD in London (1991-1996), Country Economist at the IMF in Washington DC (1986-1991), and Management Consultant at Bisballe in Denmark (1984-1986). Mr. Bartholdy holds degrees in Economics (M.A.) and Computer Science from the University of Copenhagen. He also holds a degree from the Danish University of Journalism.

Guillaume Fonkenell is the founder of Pharo Management and is a member of the Risk Committee. He has extensive experience trading currencies, bonds and derivatives in developed and emerging markets. Prior to founding Pharo Management LLC in 2000, he was a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch in New York.

During his four-year tenure at Merrill Lynch, he initiated and successfully managed two businesses. The first one, the Latin American Local Markets Trading Group, had the mandate to take positions in all currencies, bonds and derivatives in Latin America. The second one, the Global Credit Derivatives Group, focused on structuring highly sophisticated emerging markets transactions for American, European and Japanese investors. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Mr. Fonkenell was a Vice President at Bankers Trust in New York, where he traded interest rate swaps and options for four years. After one year as the senior swaps trader, he was promoted to head all interest rate options trading activities.

At Bankers Trust, Mr. Fonkenell used his quantitative background to design, structure and trade the most complex derivative products. He holds Masters Degrees in both Civil Engineering and International Business from Ecole Nationale Des Ponts-Et-Chaussées in Paris, France. Mr. Fonkenell is also an alumnus of Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.

Simon Kennedy is chief international economics correspondent at Bloomberg News in London. He previously covered the European economy from Paris and U.S. economic policy in Washington. He is a regular contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Markets magazines, based in London; has reported from more than two dozen countries.

Mr. Kennedy studied at City University, London and Concordia University, Montreal.

Nikhil Rathi has been Chief Executive Officer of London Stock Exchange Plc at London Stock Exchange Group plc since September 2015 and has been its Director of International Development since May 2014.

Mr Rathi served as Chief of Staff at London Stock Exchange Group plc since May 2014 until September 2015. He is responsible for the global coordination of LSEG's international business development activities, including partnerships with other exchanges, trading platforms and other market infrastructure businesses.
Mr Rathi joined LSEG from the UK Treasury, where he has held a number of senior roles over the last eleven years. Until February 2014, he served as Director of the Financial Services Group, representing the UK Government's financial services interests in the EU and internationally. In that role, he served as the UK representative on the EU Financial Services Committee and led a number of legislative negotiations.

Prior to that, Mr Rathi served as Head of the Financial Stability unit, overseeing a number of the UK's financial stability interventions during the crisis. He also served as Private Secretary to the UK Prime Minister for three years from 2005 to 2008.

Ashish is a Principal in McKinsey’s London office, and a leader in Mckinsey’s Oil & Gas and Capital Productivity practices.

He primarily serves clients in the oil and gas sector in EMEA (both upstream and downstream) on strategy, operations and capital project and portfolio optimisation.

Before joining McKinsey, Ashish spent six years working in private equity in the United States and East Africa. He holds an MBA (Honours) from the University of Chicago, a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Cambridge, and dual Bachelor degrees in Economics and International Relations from Brown University. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

The Managing Director of Smart Global and co-founder. A qualified accountant, Martin worked at BP for 18 years in both Control and Trading roles. He was book leader for North Sea Crude Equity trading for 7 years, with annual profitability of around $100 million. During this time Martin managed the BP oil and gas disposals for North Sea production and latterly Azerbaijan.

Since the formation of Smart Global, Martin has spent much time assisting clients with exposure and daily reporting issues and systems. This has given him additional knowledge about the current regulatory climate in terms of company reporting of positions in the market and mark to market data. He has expertise on trading options and their valuation in addition to the formulation of trading strategies.

Melissa joined Tullett Prebon in 2007 to establish the LNG broking desk which now operates out of London, Madrid and Singapore. TPLNG have since facilitated the sale and purchase of over 70 cargoes, assisted with the entry strategy of successful LNG trading businesses, negotiated regasification capacity options and been involved in a number of deals that have been industry firsts. In 2012 TPLNG closed its first medium-term deal and is now increasingly involved in medium-term procurement and sales. The team were the first to develop Spanish Gas broking. Melissa was also heavily involved in the development of the LNG financial market, working with traders and exchanges to create a standardised contract to consolidate liquidity. Subsequently TPLNG was the first broker to close a JKM swap deal both voice and on Tullett Prebon’s electronic trading platform.

In 2014, Melissa added an LNG trading consultancy arm to the business and has advised on the marketing of new project volumes out of West Africa, and established leading monthly report, TPLNG Outlook. Melissa was formerly an Oil Market Analyst at BP.

Yulia Woodruff is a Director of Client Strategy at Platts. An expert in global energy fundamentals and price forecasting, she helps Platts executives and clients to anticipate, understand and commercially benefit from the changing dynamics of energy markets.

Prior to joining Platts in 2014 Yulia led client and product development projects in energy market analytics for McKinsey and Company, where she designed and edited the firm’s first integrated Global Oil Market Outlook. Prior to McKinsey & Co., she served on the executive-level coal and oil price forecasting groups at GDF SUEZ Group, where she was also responsible for European gas market forecasts and worked on global LNG and EU ETS markets. Earlier, as a part of the ESAI Energy team, Yulia advised many key international energy market players on the implications of fuel prices for their commercial and investment activities. Prior to career in applied energy economics, Yulia worked as a research assistant at Harvard University and MIT and in a regional government and academia in Russia. She published articles on macroeconomic and commodity market issues in academic and industry press.

Richard Butland is Chairman of Influit and the former managing director in the Merchant Banking Division. He joined Goldman Sachs in 2000 as an associate in the UK Advisory Group. Richard was promoted to run UK M&A Advisory in 2007 and subsequently moved to the Merchant Banking Division to head its private equity activities in the UK and Natural Resources across Europe. He was named managing director in 2006.

Prior to joining the firm, Richard worked at IBJ Schroder Bank for two years and at PricewaterhouseCoopers for five years.

Richard earned a bachelor’s degree from Victoria University of Wellington in 1992 and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1995.

Thomas draws on more than 17 years of International shipping and management experience, engaging in most aspects of the international shipping industry, having been exposed to privately held, entrepreneurially spirited companies, mid-cap NYSE listed firms and FORTUNE 100 mega Corporations. Thomas became CEO of Lorentzen & Stemoco in 2012.

Lorentzen & Stemoco is a leading provider of shipbroking services and project solutions with activities and representation across all timezones. Lorentzen & Stemoco services clients within Gas, Offshore and a full range DRY service provider from handy to cape chartering and s&p/newbuilding solutions.

As the Director of Vaccine Implementation at Gavi, Mr Stefano Malvolti is responsible for the coordination of the roll-out of all Gavi's 11 vaccine programs worth in excess of $US1.6bn per annum, and of the achievement of the yearly objectives of vaccination coverage.
He also leads the Gavi Alliance Coverage & Equity initiative aimed at defining a new approach and country strategies that can lead the Alliance to the achievement of its 2020 children vaccination goals. Mr Malvolti is also the Chair of Gavi’s Vaccine Implementation Management Team, member of WHO's Global Polio Eradication Initiative's Immunization Management Group and Ebola Vaccine Deployment Steering Group.

Mr Malvolti has many years of experience in the healthcare sector. Previously he worked as a Global Policy Director at Novartis where he was responsible for relationships with the WHO, UNICEF, and design and implementation of advocacy plans for developing countries. He also had multiple roles at Baxter Healthcare before joining Novartis.

Mr Malvolti holds a M.Sc. in Business Economics from Bocconi University and a M.P.H. in Public Health from Johns Hopkins.

Nick leads Actis’s global investment origination, execution and portfolio management activities in the financial services sector. Nick represents Actis on the boards of XP, IT’sSEG, Paycorp and Upstream. Prior to joining Actis in 2010, Nick was Head of Private Investments at Cambridge Place Investment Management. Previously, Nick was a Principal at Apax Partners. He also worked in both Australia and London for The Boston Consulting Group. Nick has a BA in History and Politics and a BCom in Finance from the University of Melbourne and an MBA with Distinction from INSEAD.

David joined GIC in 2008, having previously worked for McKinsey & Company and HM Treasury. David is responsible for much of GIC's Private Equity, Private Credit and Distressed Fund and Co-investment activities in Europe and its bordering Emerging Markets. David read PPE at New College, Oxford, and received an MBA from INSEAD.

Scott Mackin is a Managing Partner and Co-President of Denham Capital and heads the firm’s Power team.

Scott currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of BioTherm Energy, Rio Energy, Jenner Renewables, Thesis Energy, Nexif and Endeavor Energy. He is also Chairman of the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA) Energy Council and a frequent guest speaker at the London Business School.
Denham has backed the successful development of numerous power projects across the globe, from wind and solar in South Africa, Italy, Brazil, Uruguay and Australia to thermal generation in the Philippines and Africa. Denham’s projects have won Reuters Project Finance International Power Asia-Pacific Deal of the Year, Euromoney Project Finance Magazine APAC Power Deal of the Year and European Solar Deal of the Year.

Kenneth Barry is a Partner in the EMEA private equity team of White & Case’s Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice and his practice focuses primarily on private equity.
Mr. Barry has extensive experience advising private equity houses and financial sponsor clients on a range of complex cross-border acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, leveraged buyouts and public offerings. Before joining White & Case, Mr. Barry spent more than ten years working at Debevoise & Plimpton, where he was the lead private equity senior associate in London.

Mr. Barry holds a Master degree of Laws (LLM) from London School of Economics and Political Science and a Bachelor degree in Laws (LLB) from University College Dublin.

I’ve been a business and financial news reporter for over 10 years, working in various industries including automotive, banking, insurance, healthcare and renewable energy. My current focus is the private equity and venture capital space, reporting for AltAssets and Limited Partner magazine. Private equity investors are highly sought-after partners for many businesses in the emerging markets as PE is the source of much needed capital in so many sectors in the region. Impact investing is one of the best ways PE capital is deployed worldwide.

Famous for co-founding the Quantum Fund and retiring at 37, Jim Rogers started off his career as an investment banker at Arnhold and S. Bleichroder in 1964. In 1973, he co-founded the Quantum Fund alongside George Soros; the portfolio of which gained 4200% during the 1970s.

Since then, he has served as a professor of finance at Columbia Business School; received a Guinness World Record for travelling over 100,000 miles across six conti...nents on a motorcycle (twice); and written multiple best-selling books about his adventures in biking and banking titled ‘The Investment Biker’ and ‘Adventure Capitalist’.
He is a staunch advocate of agricultural investments and in the past 20 years he has founded both The Rogers International Commodity Index and The Rogers Global Resources Equity Index.

Jim currently serves as an advisor to VTB Capital and the Coalition to Reduce Spending. He has a bachelor’s degree in History from Yale University and a second bachelor’s from Balliol College, University of Oxford in PPE.

Dr Philippa "Pippa" Malmgren served as Special Assistant to the President of the United States for Economic Policy on the National Economic Council and is a former member of the U.S. President's Working Group on Financial Markets. She is the founder of the DRPM Group and co-founder of H Robotics.

She serves on several advisory boards and working groups: the British Ministry of Defence Working Group on Global Strategic Trends, the Greater London Authority Infrastructure Advisory Board, the Legatum Institute at MIT and Indiana University School of Public Policy and Environmental Affairs.
She was the Deputy Head of Global Strategy at UBS and the Chief Currency Strategist for Bankers Trust. She headed the Global Investment Management business for Bankers Trust in Asia.

Dr Malmgren has been a visiting lecturer at Tsinghua University in Beijing and an occasional lecturer for INSEAD and the Duke Fuqua Global Executive MBA Program.
In 2000, the World Economic Forum in Davos named Dr Malmgren a Global Leader for Tomorrow. She is a frequent guest on the BBC, including Newsnight and the Today Program, and a guest anchor on both CNBC's Squawk Box and Bloomberg's most widely viewed programs.

Dr Malmgren speaks at conferences across a wide range of industries on behalf of the Financial Times, The Economist, Institutional Investor and diverse global firms. She writes for Citywire, International Economy, Economia, Monocle and others.

She has a B.A. from Mount Vernon College and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the London School of Economics.

General Sir John Nicholas Reynolds "Nick" Houghton GCB CBE ADC Gen and Constable of the Tower of London is the Chief of the Defence Staff of the British Armed Forces.

He served as Commanding Officer of 1st Battalion, the Green Howards in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. After Regimental duty General Houghton commanded 39 Infantry Brigade in Belfast during the period which led to the Good Friday Agreement. He was the Director of Military Operations in the Ministry of Defence at the time of 9/11; at the outset of operations in Afghanistan; and during the foot and mouth crisis. Subsequently he was Chief of Staff of the ACE Rapid Reaction Corps from July 2002 to April 2004 and Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Operations) from May 2004 to October 2005.

More recently General Houghton was the Senior British Military Representative and Deputy Commanding General of the Multi-National Force-Iraq from October 2005 until March 2006. He became Chief of Joint Operations (CJO) in April 2006 at the time of the commitment of UK Forces to southern Afghanistan and, subsequently, during the extraction of UK forces from southern Iraq. He was appointed both OBE and CBE for his time in command in Northern Ireland and awarded the US Legion of Merit for his service in Iraq. He was appointed KCB for his time as CJO. General Houghton became Vice Chief of the Defence Staff in May 2009.

In June 2015, General Houghton also received an honorary Panglima Gagah Angkatan Tentera (PGAT) award from the Deputy Minister for Defence of Malaysia.
General Houghton graduated from St Peter's College, Oxford, having taken an in-Service Bachelor of Arts degree in Modern History.

Dr Philippa "Pippa" Malmgren served as Special Assistant to the President of the United States for Economic Policy on the National Economic Council and is a former member of the U.S. President's Working Group on Financial Markets. She is the founder of the DRPM Group and co-founder of H Robotics.

She serves on several advisory boards and working groups: the British Ministry of Defence Working Group on Global Strategic Trends, the Greater London Authority Infrastructure Advisory Board, the Legatum Institute at MIT and Indiana University School of Public Policy and Environmental Affairs.
She was the Deputy Head of Global Strategy at UBS and the Chief Currency Strategist for Bankers Trust. She headed the Global Investment Management business for Bankers Trust in Asia.

Dr Malmgren has been a visiting lecturer at Tsinghua University in Beijing and an occasional lecturer for INSEAD and the Duke Fuqua Global Executive MBA Program.
In 2000, the World Economic Forum in Davos named Dr Malmgren a Global Leader for Tomorrow. She is a frequent guest on the BBC, including Newsnight and the Today Program, and a guest anchor on both CNBC's Squawk Box and Bloomberg's most widely viewed programs.

Dr Malmgren speaks at conferences across a wide range of industries on behalf of the Financial Times, The Economist, Institutional Investor and diverse global firms. She writes for Citywire, International Economy, Economia, Monocle and others.

She has a B.A. from Mount Vernon College and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the London School of Economics.

Lieutenant-General Sir Graeme Cameron Maxwell Lamb KBE CMG DSO is a former Commander of the Field Army at Land Command, known for his contributions to counter-insurgency. He currently serves as a special advisor to strategic advisory firm G3 and as director to private military company Aegis Defence Services.

Educated at Rannoch School and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, he was commissioned into the Queen's Own Highlanders as a second lieutenant on 8 March 1973. Lieutenant-General Lamb has served in Northern Ireland and in various theatres of war including Bosnia. He represented Sandhurst at modern pentathlon; won the army bobsleigh championship in 1975, also coming fifth in the British national championship and 31st in the Nations Cup; and is chairman of the army snowboarding association.

Lieutenant-General Lamb has been credited with having exercised substantial influence over the evolution of counter-insurgency in Iraq from 2006 onwards. In Augu
st 2009 it was reported that he would be heading for Afghanistan at the direct request of General David Petraeus of the US Army to head a programme designed to repeat the success of his efforts in Iraq whereby insurgents are persuaded to give up their arms, after which he retired from active service.

Vikas Seth is a Managing Director of Credit Suisse in the Investment Banking Division, based in London. Mr. Seth is Head of the Investment Banking Department for Middle East,Turkey and Africa. In addition, he is Co-Head of Global Emerging Markets M&A and has the lead M&A responsibility for several of the firm's key industrial clients. Previously he served as Head of the Sell Side M&A practice and as Head of Industrial M&A in EMEA.

Mr. Seth joined Credit Suisse in 1993 in the New York office from McKinsey & Co where he was an Engagement Manager in the Financial Institutions Group. He relocated to London in 2004. Mr. Seth is a member of the firm's Global Mergers & Acquisitions Operating Committee, the Emerging Markets Operating Committee, the European Investment Banking Committee and the Global Privatisation Committee. Mr. Seth has played a leadership role in many of Credit Suisse's most prominent emerging markets, cross-border, industrial and financial sponsor-related transactions. Since moving to London, notable transactions include the acquisition of Cairn India by Vedanta, the sale of Synthes to Johnson & Johnson, the acquisition of Provimi by Cargill, the merger of Ispat with LNM and the simultaneous acquisition of ISG to create Mittal Steel, the acquisition by Rusal of 25% of Norilsk Nickel and among other transactions.

Mr. Seth graduated from Harvard Business School with an M.B.A. as a Baker Scholar (highest honors) and received a B.S. in Business Administration, magna cum laude, from Georgetown University.

Goh Kok Huat is GIC’s Chief Operating Officer and President of GIC Real Estate.

Previously, he headed investment management (Asia) in GIC Real Estate and was appointed its Deputy President in July 2010. He joined GIC from Tishman Speyer in New York, where he was Managing Director of Equity Capital Markets. Prior to that, he was with the Ascendas Group where he held various appointments including Chief Operating Officer of the Group, CEO of Ascendas – MGM, CEO of Singapore Operations
and CEO of Bangalore IT Park.

He spent 10 years in the military and is an Economics graduate of Cambridge University.

Paul Guest is Lead Real Estate Strategist at Global Real Estate, UBS Asset Management. In this role, Mr Guest is primarily responsible for supporting multi-regional investment mandates with qualitative and quantitative analysis of cross-regional economies and investment markets.

Mr Guest has 14 years of investment industry experience and joined UBS Asset Management's Global Real Estate business in November 2015. He is a member of the Fund of Funds and Multi-Manager Investment Committee.

Previously Mr Guest worked at LaSalle Investment Management, where he was most recently Regional Director of Research and Strategy in Asia Pacific. Earlier roles included Global Capital Markets Research Director, Head of EMEA Research and Director of UK Research for Jones Lang LaSalle. He previously held several roles with Moody's Investors Services and Bank of Nova Scotia.

He is a member of INREV, ANREV, and the Society of Property Researchers (SPR). In 2012–2013 he was Chairman of ANREV's Research Committee.

Alessandro Fiascaris is a Managing Director in the Real Estate group and is based in London.

Since joining Blackstone in 2004, Mr. Fiascaris has been involved in a variety of real estate acquisitions in Europe and Asia/Pacific.
Mr. Fiascaris received a BA in Mathematics from Cambridge University and an MBA from Stanford.

Johan Eriksson joined The Abraaj Group as a Director in the Real Estate Investment team.‎
Prior to joining The Abraaj Group, Mr Eriksson was a Partner in Queensgate Investments, a real estate private equity firm, focusing on a wide range of transactions from core real estate to opportunistic corporate transactions across geographies and asset classes.

Before joining Queensgate Investments, Mr Eriksson was an Investment Manager at Benson Elliot Capital Management, a real estate private equity firm, focusing on property transactions and special situations trades across Europe.

Mr Eriksson started his career with Merrill Lynch as part of the real estate investment banking team in London. He holds a M.Sc. in Business and Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics and is a member of the Urban Land Institute.

As well as heading the 17-strong UK research team, Jon is responsible for guiding and shaping UK-specific research outputs for JLL – ranging from publications and consultancy work to public speaking and social media. Recent successes include the ‘Digital London’ report on Shoreditch, Clerkenwell and Aldgate, the JLL-Glenigan commercial construction index and the annual alternative property survey.

Jon has over ten years’ experience of working in property, and his career has spanned both commercial and residential as well as the public and private sectors. His current interests include the rise of the alternative property sectors and the growing focus on regional economic performance and devolution, but his real passion is urban design and placemaking.

Matthew Spivack is a Practice Leader for the Middle East and Africa at Frontier Strategy Group. Mr. Spivack is the author of several recent publications and series including the Middle East and Africa Monthly Market Monitor, and investment briefings on Egypt, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and the UAE. Prior to Frontier Strategy Group, Mr. Spivack worked at the National Democratic Institute where he spent time in Kuwait, Lebanon, and the UAE, and worked on programs involving local government officials and journalists in the Gulf region. Mr. Spivack holds an MA from George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, with a regional focus on the Middle East and North Africa.

Marc Zornes is a former, top-rated, McKinsey Engagement Manager where he was a leader in the consumer and sustainability practices. While at McKinsey, Marc co-authored the McKinsey Global Institute report "Resource Revolution: Meeting the World's Energy, Materials, Food, and Water Needs." Prior to McKinsey, Marc worked for the US Green Building Council and C&S Wholesale Grocers - the largest food wholesaler in the United State.

Marc Zornes ran his own business while studying in University and helped to found Sefaira, a company who produces cloud-based energy efficiency software to help architects design high performing buildings. Marc has an MBA with Distinction from INSEAD and a Bachelors of Business Administration from Washington University in St. Louis.

Olivier is a co-founder of Nevastar Finance, a London-based multi-family office with a presence in Geneva and Luxemburg. Prior to that, Olivier spent 15 years as an Investment Professional in the Investment Management Division of Goldman Sachs in New York, Zürich and London, managing investment portfolios for some of the wealthiest families in Europe. Olivier was also a member of the investment committee of the Pension Plan of Goldman Sachs International. Olivier holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a degree in Economics from the University of Geneva.

Alberto Grignolo graduated in economics and commerce from Milan’s Luigi Bocconi University and began his professional career at I.E.P. Bocconi as a micro/macroeconomic data analyst in the Clas Research Center Group. In 2000, he became the Budgetary Data Research Project Leader at Istituto Tagliacarne. Later that year, he joined YOOX S.p.A. in the role of Head of Data & Control and, in 2002, he took on the role of Head of Buying.

In 2003, he was appointed VP Strategic Partners & Buying Office, in 2007 Commercial Director and, since 2011, Mr Grignolo was appointed General Manager responsible for all of the Group’s commercial functions. In July 2015 Alberto Grignolo was appointed Chief Operating Officer of YOOX S.p.A, responsible for all functions of Technology, Logistic, Marketing and Sales of the Group.

Dr Alexander Grous works across the Centre of Economic Performance and other departments at the LSE, with an applied research focus on technology, productivity, and management practices. Dr Grous has engaged in major e-commerce, digital and technology projects with industry leaders such as Microsoft, BMC Software and others, assessing how businesses utilise technology to enhance productivity, profitability and customer reach. He has worked with McKinsey and Co on combined LSE studies assessing the nexus of management practices, technology and resource management. Dr Grous also brings significant industry experience to the LSE at CxO level roles in e-commerce, technology and InfoCom companies internationally.

Andrew Reicher is an investor and advisor in the fields of infrastructure, climate change and economic development in emerging markets. Of his 35 years’ experience in international finance, 25 have been in principal investing, since 1992 in emerging markets, with increasing focus on energy, infrastructure and climate change.

He is currently Non-Executive Chair of the Investment Committees of Virgin Green Fund Emerging Markets, Renewable Energy Asia Fund (managed by Berkeley Energy) and Prometheus (an impact fund to supply power to poor consumers in sub Saharan Africa using off-grid renewable technologies), a Non-Executive Director of United Anodisers SA, a member of the Advisory Panels of Eiser Infrastructure Fund (an EU-focused infrastructure fund), a member of the Advisory Committee of 46 Parallels LLP (a fund to provide equity linked debt to growing African companies), a member of the Advisory Board of Honeywell Africa Infrastructure Company (the power development/operation arm of a leading Nigerian business conglomerate), and a Strategic Advisor to Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), leading an initiative to increase private-sector investment in renewable power plants in Africa. He is also involved in youth and education charitable activities in the UK.

Markus Tacke is CEO of Siemens Wind Power and Renewables Division, the global market leader in wind power technology and services. He is head of a global business that employs more than 12,000 people worldwide and operates major production and research facilities in Denmark, Germany, and the US, with new production sites currently being under construction in the UK and Egypt. With more than 30 years of onshore wind power experience and more than 20 years in offshore, Siemens Wind Power has installed nearly 13,000 wind turbines globally with a total capacity of more than 21 GW, helping to provide the world with clean and reliable renewable energy.

Before being named CEO of the Wind Power and Renewables Division, Dr. Tacke served as CEO of Siemens’ Industrial Power Business Unit. He earned a Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, and holds a Master of Engineering degree from Cornell University in (New York).

Aly-Khan Jamal is the Director of Dalberg’s London office. He focuses on work in the practice areas of Inclusive Growth, Agriculture and Food Security, and Mobile and ICT for Development. In particular, he has worked with FMCG, consumer goods, telecoms, media, and technology firms on their emerging and frontier market strategies.

In addition to strategy consulting, Aly-Khan also draws on extensive transaction advisory experience across the full activity chain, having worked on over 40 transactions and with most of the largest private equity firms in the world as well as several emerging-markets focused funds. As a result of this combination, Aly-Khan works closely with D. Capital Partners, which is also based in London.

Aly-Khan started his career at OC&C Strategy Consultants in London and Paris. He holds a Bachelors in Arts from the University of Oxford in Politics, Philosophy and Economics and a Masters in Economics from McGill University.

As the CEO of Iwana Energy, Sarah is responsible for leading Iwana’s day to day operations, and setting its strategic direction. Sarah’s experience includes renewable energy finance, global climate policy and starting new organisations. Prior to co-founding Iwana, Sarah was the start-up Chief of Staff for the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, a global coalition of world leaders, CEOs, heads of global institutions and researchers which launched the New Climate Economy report in 2014.

Previously at Climate Bridge, a leading climate finance company, Sarah led renewable energy structured finance transactions in London, before launching Climate Bridge’s Australia business. She started her career at McKinsey & Company, where she specialised in clean energy finance and climate policy. Sarah holds a BA and MMath in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge.

Jon has over 20 years’ experience of building professional service firms in the financial services industry, serving clients across the US, Europe and Asia. Prior to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Jon’s career started with a decade at J P Morgan, supporting their Commodities business and Accenture within their Financial Services practice, including two years helping build the Asian Financial Services practice. This was followed by a decade where Jon was co-founder then CEO of a business consulting firm, m.a.partners, which provided services to the global capital markets community. Jon has a B Eng (Hons) in Electronic Engineering from Nottingham University and has attended professional development classes at Harvard and NYU.

Professor Calhoun is a world-renowned social scientist whose work connects sociology to culture, communication, politics, philosophy and economics.

He took up his post as LSE Director on 1 September 2012, having left the United States where he was University Professor at New York University and director of the Institute for Public Knowledge and President of the Social Science Research Council.

Professor Calhoun took a D Phil in History and Sociology at Oxford University and a Master's in Social Anthropology at Manchester. He co-founded, with Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology at LSE, the NYLON programme which brings together graduate students from New York and London for co-operative research programmes.

He is the author of several books including 'Nations Matter, Critical Social Theory, Neither Gods Nor Emperors' and most recently 'The Roots of Radicalism' (University of Chicago Press, 2012).

Describing his own approach to academic work, Professor Calhoun says: "We must set high standards for ourselves, but in order to inform the public well, not to isolate ourselves from it."

As president and chief executive officer of Vitol, one of the world’s largest energy trading companies, Ian Taylor oversees a company that is deeply involved in the physical movement of almost every type of energy commodity worldwide. Vitol traded more than 260 million metric tons of oil and oil products in 2012, and at any one moment the company has more than 200 ships at sea, transporting everything from jet fuel and gasoline to coal and liquefied natural gas.

Mr. Taylor joined Vitol in 1985 and has been running the company since 1995. Under his leadership the privately held company has grown significantly in both scope and scale, yet it remains much like the man himself—agile, quick-thinking, alert to opportunities in every corner of the globe, and intimately familiar with the unique dynamics of energy markets.

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Mark Richards’ interest in emerging markets began early in his career. At just 22, he was posted by Barclays to work in Zambia; a secondment that sparked a fascination with the continent, its people and the issues facing it. And when he eventually returned to London, he vowed that one day he would work in Africa again.

Some 18 very successful years followed for Mr. Richards at Barclays as Strategy Director, Corporate Development Director and Chief Financial Officer of International Banking and in 2005 he joined Actis to lead Actis' Financial Services team. Although based in London, he now has an extraordinary window not just on Africa, but on all the emerging markets.

Playing a part in this fast changing world is something Mr. Richards regards as a true privilege. But for him, supporting growth across these diverse cultures is not just about building better businesses; it’s about building better societies and setting the positive power of capital into motion day in, day out.

(Source: Actis)

(Source: Bloomberg)

Sev Vettivetpillai is a Partner at The Abraaj Group where he is  responsible for the Group’s sector focused Funds including Healthcare, Real Estate and Energy Infrastructure, as well as leading the efforts on launching new products and strategies.

Mr. Vettivetpillai is one of four permanent members of the Investment Committee responsible for approval of all Abraaj investments across the platform. In addition, he is Chairman of the Abraaj Partner’s Council and a Member of the Board of Directors.

Mr. Vettivetpillai has more than 20 years of experience within the growth markets private equity arena, with extensive experience in the areas of strategic investment management, fundraising, deal structuring, valuation, due diligence and portfolio management.

Mr. Vettivetpillai was Founder of the Aureos Group, where he held the position of Chief Executive Officer from 2003 until 2012, and Chief Investment Officer from 2001. He led the transaction for the acquisition of Aureos by The Abraaj Group in 2012.

Prior to joining Aureos, Mr. Vettivetpillai was a Senior Investment Executive at CDC Group plc between 1996-2001, after having served three years in CDC’s fund management company in Sri Lanka (Ayojana Fund Management) as an Investment Manager.

Mr. Vettivetpillai is a CFA Charter holder and completed a BEng (Hons) in Civil Engineering from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK.

Henry Potter has been investing in companies, banks and private equity funds in eastern Europe since 1994.  Henry is a Partner at Alpha Associates, responsible for investing Alpha’s eastern European private equity funds of funds. Henry joined Alpha Associates in September 2008 from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London. Since then Henry has led a number of Alpha fund primary and secondary investments as well as direct co-investments in the region, including a number of multi-asset private equity secondary transactions triggered by the financial crisis. During his 14 year EBRD career Henry was responsible for a series of investments that the EBRD made both in private equity funds as well as directly into financial institutions and companies in CEE and Russia/CIS. As Senior Banker, he helped to build EBRD’s private equity funds investment program into the largest in the region. In addition to his managerial and transactional responsibilities, he oversaw EBRD’s private equity performance data collection and analysis, the co-investment program between EBRD and its portfolio funds, and at different points EBRD’s financial sector activities in Slovenia, Slovakia and Georgia. Over his career, Henry has served on a number of corporate boards, fund advisory committees and fund investment committees for both Alpha and EBRD and has also supported various industry initiatives including as a member of the EVCA CEE Task Force and, most recently, Chairman of the EMPEA Regional Council for Russia, Turkey and CEE.  Henry holds a B.A. and a M.Sc. from the McGill/London School of Economics.

Mr. Leonard is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Global Environment Fund (GEF), one of the most experienced and most successful private equity firms dedicated exclusively to investments in the energy and environment sectors. Founded in 1990, GEF currently has approximately $1 billion in aggregate capital under management.

GEF invests in clean energy, gas distribution, energy efficiency and forestry in the US, Africa, Latin America and South Asia.  GEF provides growth capital to high-growth companies whose business activities are improving the production and efficiency of the clean energy and environmental sectors. In addition, GEF invests in real assets through its sustainable timberland program. Due to the nature of its investment strategies, GEF has been a leader in the integration and management of ESG issues into its entire investment management program.  GEF was awarded the FT Sustainable Investor of the Year in 2009 and 2010.

Mr. Leonard is former Chairman of the Board of The Washington Monthly and Chairman of the Board of CityYear (Washington, D.C.).  Mr. Leonard is a board member of the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE), Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA) and the New America Foundation.  He is a founding board member and Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Beacon House Community Ministry, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children and their families in northeast Washington, D.C. He has previously served as co-chairman of the Clean Technology Venture Network.

Mr. Leonard is a graduate of Princeton (Ph.D.), London School of Economics (M.S. Econ) and Harvard College (B.A., magna cum laude). He is the author of five books and numerous technical articles relating to global environmental issues, international trade, energy production and technology development.

Dambisa Moyo is a marathon-running author and international economist who analyzes the macroeconomy and global affairs. She has travelled to more than 75 countries over the last decade, during which time she has developed a unique knowledge base on the political, economic, and financial workings of emerging economies, in particular the BRICs and the frontier economies in Asia, South America, Africa and the Middle East.

Her work examines the interplay between rapidly developing countries, international business, and the global economy, while highlighting the key opportunities for investment.

Ms. Moyo serves on the boards of Barclays Bank, the financial services group, SABMiller, the global brewer, and Barrick Gold, the global miner. She was an economist at Goldman Sachs, where she worked for nearly a decade, and was a consultant to the World Bank in Washington, D.C.

Ms. Moyo was named by TIME Magazine as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World,” and to the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders Forum. She is a member of the Atlantic Council, and the Directors Council of the Museum Of Modern Art (MOMA). She was awarded the 2013 Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award, named for the Nobel Prize winner and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Friedrich Hayek. Dr. Moyo has been a participant at the Bilderberg Conference and the U.S. Federal Reserve Jackson Hole Conference. In addition, she serves on the World Economic Forum’s Network of Global Agenda Councils on Global Imbalances.

She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way for Africa and How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly and the Stark Choices Ahead. Her third book, Winner Take All: China’s Race for Resources and What it Means for the World, was published in June 2012, and premiered at #13 on the New York Times bestseller list.

Ms. Moyo is a contributing editor to CNBC, the business and finance news network. Her writing regularly appears in economic and finance-related publications such as the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal.

She completed a PhD in economics at Oxford University and holds a Masters degree from Harvard University. She completed an undergraduate degree in chemistry and an MBA in finance at American University in Washington, D.C.

After 15 years in investment banking and asset management (BNP Paribas,Citigroup,…), David Farber became founding director of IG Wines, a wine investment company before launching Monopole Wine PM which now has offices in the UK, France and Switzerland.
Mr. Farber has a passion for wine and has been an avid collector for 16 years.

Jim O'Neill is currently Chairing a formal Review into AMR (antimicrobial resistance) which will continue through to the Spring of 2016, when recommendations will be made as to how to solve this global challenge.

Until October 2014, he chaired the Cities Growth Commission in the UK, when it provided its final recommendations.

He is Honorary Chair of Economics at Manchester University. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the international economic think tank, Bruegel, and on the economic advisory board to the IFC, the investing arm of the World Bank.

Mr. O'Neill worked for Goldman Sachs from 1995 until April 2013, spending most of his time there as Chief Economist.

He's also the creator of the acronym “BRIC” and recently made a documentary series for the BBC entitled MINT:The Next Economic Giants.

He is one of the founding trustees of the UK educational charity, SHINE. Mr. O'Neill also serves on the board of ‘Teach for All’ and a number of other charities specialising in education and in September 2013, became a Non-Executive Director of the UK Government’s Department of Education.

Kit Juckes joined the bank in early June 2010 as Global Head of Foreign Exchange Strategy. Kit was responsible for leading the expansion of the research on global forex strategy. Prior to Societe Generale, Mr. Juckes was at the ECU Group, a London-based currency management boutique, where he was Chief Economist. He was also Global Head of Research at RBS and has over 25 years' experience analysing financial markets. In his own words, 'I was born close enough to Eldoret to be slightly disappointed I can't run a marathon in anything like 2 hours. After that, I spent a lot of time in France, some in boarding school and then some in London, studying economics (though I seem to have spent an awful lot of time playing hockey, tennis and bridge, instead of studying). About a week before my finals I worked out that I really, really like economics, and some time later I worked out that what I am really interested in, is economic history. If I'd worked this out earlier I'd be an academic, and my wife and children would have deserted me…..'

(Source: Societe Generale, LinkedIn)

Bhanu Baweja is UBS' Global Head of cross asset EM strategy. Before moving into this role he ran global EM fixed income and FX strategy for the bank. UBS' EM Strategy team have been rated #1 in the 2014 Extel survey. In prior years UBS EM strategy they've been rated top 3 in the US and European Institutional Investor surveys and by in Asia Money Poll. Prior to joining UBS in July 2002, Mr. Baweja was the Head of Research for Asia ex Japan Economics and Strategy with IDEAglobal. He began his working life as a tutor with the Economics department at the London School of Economics.

Mr. Baweja holds an MSc in Finance and Economics from the London School of Economics, a Master's in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, and BA (Hons) Economics from St Stephen's College, Delhi.

Peter joined North Asset Managment in September 2010 and is the lead Portfolio Manager of the North Emerging Markets Fund. Peter has over 17 years of experience trading Emerging Markets. From 2006 to 2010, Peter was a Managing Director at Swiss Re, London, where he established and managed the emerging markets business, running a $3 billion balance sheet. From 1997 to 2006, Peter worked in Emerging Markets Fixed Income at Morgan Stanley in London, where he was an Executive Director from 2004. Throughout his career, Peter has focused on proprietary trading of various fixed income, FX and derivative instruments. Peter has a B.Sc. in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics.

Guillaume Fonkenell is the founder of Pharo Management and is a member of the Risk Committee.  He has extensive experience trading currencies, bonds and derivatives in developed and emerging markets.  Prior to founding Pharo Management LLC in 2000, he was a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch in New York.  During his four-year tenure at Merrill Lynch, he initiated and successfully managed two businesses.  The first one, the Latin American Local Markets Trading Group, had the mandate to take positions in all currencies, bonds and derivatives in Latin America.  The second one, the Global Credit Derivatives Group, focused on structuring highly sophisticated emerging markets transactions for American, European and Japanese investors. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Mr. Fonkenell was a Vice President at Bankers Trust in New York, where he traded interest rate swaps and options for four years.  After one year as the senior swaps trader, he was promoted to head all interest rate options trading activities.  At Bankers Trust, Mr. Fonkenell used his quantitative background to design, structure and trade the most complex derivative products. He holds Masters Degrees in both Civil Engineering and International Business from Ecole Nationale Des Ponts-Et-Chaussées in Paris, France.  Mr. Fonkenell is also an alumnus of Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.

(Source: Pharo Management, The Hedge Fund Journal)

Simon Kennedy is chief international economics correspondent at Bloomberg News in London. He previously covered the European economy from Paris and U.S. economic policy in Washington. He is a regular contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Markets magazines, based in London; has reported from more than two dozen countries.

Mr. Kennedy studied at City University, London and Concordia University, Montreal.

(Source: World Economic Forum)

Sir Andrew Witty became Chief Executive Officer of GlaxoSmithKline plc on 21 May 2008. He is a member of the Board and Corporate Executive Team.

Sir Andrew joined Glaxo in 1985 and has held a variety of Sales and Marketing roles in the UK and abroad including working in the Company’s International New Products groups, both in the Respiratory and HIV/Infectious disease fields.  Outside of the UK, he has worked in South Africa, the USA and Singapore where he led the Group’s operations as Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific. While in Singapore Sir Andrew was a Board Member of the Singapore Economic Development Board and the Singapore Land Authority. In 2003 he was awarded the Public Service Medal by the Government of Singapore and in August 2012 was also awarded the Public Service Star.

In 2003 he was appointed President of GSK Europe and joined GSK’s Corporate Executive Team.

Moreover, Sir Andrew has served in numerous advisory roles to Governments around the world including South Africa, Singapore, Guangzhou China and the UK, where he is currently a member of the Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Group.  He was awarded a Knighthood for services to the economy and to the UK pharmaceutical industry in the 2012 New Year Honours List and, in 2014, was appointed to be a Business Ambassador for the UK Government.

Sir Andrew Witty is Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, a position he took up on 1 January 2013 and a Member of the Global Health Innovation Advisory Board, Imperial College, 2014.

Sir Andrew has a Joint Honours BA in Economics from the University of Nottingham.

Dick Benschop was born in Driebergen in the Netherlands. He studied History at the Free University in Amsterdam. He filled a number of positions in the Dutch Parliament and in the Dutch Labour Party. In 1994 he founded his own consultancy firm. From 1998 to 2002, Mr. Benschop returned to politics as Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs.
In 2003, he joined Shell and worked in Shell Energy Europe. He moved to Kuala Lumpur at the beginning of 2006, overseeing the Gas & Power business in Malaysia. In 2009, he took up the role of Vice President Strategy for the Royal Dutch Shell Group. As of 1 May 2011, he was appointed President Director of Shell Netherlands and Vice President of Gas Market Development.

(Source: The Hague Institute for Global Justice)

Lieutenant-General Sir Graeme Cameron Maxwell Lamb KBE CMG DSO is a retired British Army officer. He is a former Commander of the Field Army at Land Command, known for his contributions to counter-insurgency. Lamb currently serves as a special advisor to strategic advisory firm G3 and as director to private military company Aegis Defence Services.

Educated at Rannoch School and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, he was commissioned into the Queen's Own Highlanders as a second lieutenant on 8 March 1973. He has served in Northern Ireland and in various theatres of war including Bosnia. Lamb represented Sandhurst at modern pentathlon; won the army bobsleigh championship in 1975, also coming fifth in the British national championship and 31st in the Nations Cup; and is chairman of the army snowboarding association. 

Sir Lamb has been credited with having exercised substantial influence over the evolution of counter-insurgency in Iraq from 2006 onwards.  Recent contemporary histories of Iraq paint a favourable impression of Lamb as Senior British Military Representative, suggesting that he, influenced by his experiences in Northern Ireland, convinced his U.S. colleagues to adopt the principle of "limited war" — a process requiring "patience, subtlety, and a willingness to accept that Iraqis' own proclivities were going to drive much of the war's outcome", leading to Lamb's own "strategic engagement initiative' of 2006–2007. It was warmly reported that Lamb's departure in July 2007 left "a tremendous gap in the command's institutional memory".

In August 2009 it was reported that he would be heading for Afghanistan at the direct request of General David Petraeus of the US Army to head a programme designed to repeat the success of his efforts in Iraq whereby insurgents are persuaded to give up their arms, after which he retired from active service.

I retired in September 2014 as a Commander responsible for Public Order policing across London, having previously been responsible for Specialist Armed Policing. In addition to that I was the national lead for Command and Control and had worked within the Counter Terrorism environment for some time developing a range of policy and operational procedures, largely arising from the lessons learned from Stockwell. Part of that work also involved developing joint working between specialist police and military assets.

Paul Cornish is Professor of Strategic Studies in the Strategy and Security Institute at the University of Exeter. He was educated at the University of St Andrews (MA Hons, Modern History) and the London School of Economics (MSc Econ, International Relations). He then trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and spent six years in the British Army in the 1980s, serving as an officer in the Royal Tank Regiment. After completing his PhD – an assessment of British strategic thought in the early years of the Cold War – at the University of Cambridge, Professor Cornish spent two years as an arms control analyst in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

His research focuses on a variety of topics such as security and defence policy, national strategy, the ethics of armed conflict, cyber security, civil-military relations and US-European security and defence relations. Professor Cornish has been a member of the UK Chief of Defence Staff's Strategic Advisory Panel since 2009 and is an Oxford Martin Fellow in the Global Centre for Cyber Security Capacity Building.

(Source: University of Exeter, RUSI)

Philip Wilkinson served in the British Army for 32 years in the Far East, Middle East, Northern Ireland (6 years), Africa, Falklands and the Balkans. His final appointment was as an assistant director of the UK’s Defence Concepts and Doctrine Centre. He was the principal author of the UK’s and NATO’s Peace Support Operations manuals. In 1999, he left the British Army to become a senior research fellow at Kings College, London, where he specialized in civil, military and inter-agency approaches to peace and stability operations in conflict affected countries. He has worked for the British Government, UN and privately as a strategic security policy advisor at the highest levels of government in Bosnia, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, the Occupied Palestinian Territories (18 months), Afghanistan (2 years) and Iraq (current). He obtained his MPHIL at Cranfield University and is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences.

(Source: Chatham House)

Christopher D. Kolenda serves as the Senior Military Fellow at King’s
College, London. As President and CEO of Kolenda Strategic
Leadership, he consults on leadership, strategy, and human security. He
recently served as the Senior Advisor on Afghanistan and Pakistan to the Department of Defense senior leadership and has served four tours of duty in Afghanistan.

Mr. Kolenda graduated from the United States Military Academy and went on to serve in the United States Army with great distinction, to include leading large, complex organizations in the United States, Europe, and in combat in Afghanistan. He also served as an Assistant Professor of History at West Point.

In 2009 he was hand selected by the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy to develop a new U.S. strategy for the conflict, and was then ordered back to Afghanistan where he co-authored the groundbreaking McChrystal assessment, counterinsurgency guidance, and military strategy. He has since shaped every critical policy and strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan. His advice has been adopted by three Secretaries of Defense and the President of the United States.

Ahti Vilppula is a Finnish business man born in Finland. Vilppula lives abroad but has financial interests in Finland (2008). Vilppula started export between the West and the then USSR in Spain. He moved to Brussels, when the Soviet Union collapsed.

Mr. Vilppula bought up in the 1980s with Kai Mäkelä large holdings in provincial newspapers. He bought with private investor Taito Tuunanen shares in the Union Bank of Finland (SYP, today after mergers Nordea) and insurance company Sampo Bank. They sold a quarter of Sampo stock holdings with a considerable profit.

Together with Kai Mäkelä he has over the current decade been a major shareholder in companies such as Saunalahti, Alma Media, Talentum, and Ruukki Group. Mr. Vilppula sold a 10 per cent stake in Ruukki Group in 2008 spring to the Russian bank VTB.

(Source: Wikipedia, Helsinki Times)

Wiebo Vaartjes is the Chief Executive Officer of WOOX Innovations. Starting his career as a management consultant in the Netherlands, Mr. Vaartjes joined Philips in 1985, building extensive international experience in a range of leadership positions in the consumer electronics business across sales, marketing and operations. In 2006, he became CEO of  Philips Lifestyle Entertainment and country CEO of Philips Hong Kong.

In 2013 he lead the transfer of Philips Lifestyle Entertainment to an independent company, named Woox innovations, which is part of Gibson Brands since mid 2014.

Mr. Vaartjes holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Rotterdam, and has recently been appointed as a member of the Board of Directors of Gibson Brands.

(Source: WOOX Innovations)

Sabine Anderson is a Principal Consultant with SRK Consulting (UK). She is a chartered mining engineer focused on independent technical evaluation of exploration and mining projects, in support of acquisitions, debt and equity finance, including stock exchange listings, where she has project managed numerous large commissions. She has experience in preparing scoping studies, pre-feasibility and feasibility studies. Commodity experience includes precious, base and rare-earth metals, industrial and bulk minerals, and precious stones. Ms. Anderson has worked throughout Africa, in Russia and the CIS, Europe and South America.

Ryan Patel serves as the Vice President of Global Development for Pinkberry, one of the fastest growing retail brands globally. Since commencing at Pinkberry in 2011, the company has gone from less than 95 locations to over 260 stores in 22 countries and continuing to expand. An expert in growing brands, he has worked for publicly traded to private companies, and has helped build corporate to franchise stores throughout the retail to food segments, both domestically and internationally.

Mr. Patel has been vital in providing valuable strategy and leadership in developing international growth plans across multi-cultural and cross functional teams. He has been a key player at some of the world’s most innovative companies including Pinkberry, Wet Seal Retail, Inc (Arden B and West Seal), Jamba Juice, BJ’s Restaurants, Inc and Panda Express.

Mr. Patel is a frequent speaker at conferences and universities in the United States and around the globe, from college students to CEOs of organizations. He has coached hundreds of entrepreneurs and helped companies grow into world-renowned brands. He received his Bachelors from University of California, Berkeley and received his MBA from the Paul Merage School of Business at University of California, Irvine.

Martin Schoenberg previously worked for the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety focusing on the European Council. At the ministry, he also prepared meetings of the EU Environment Council with a particular emphasis on climate-energy policy. Before that he worked for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) supporting the international climate negotiations. He also worked for the UN Environment Programme Liaison Office to the EU in Brussels during the creation of the integrated climate-energy policy for 2020.

Mr. Schoenberg holds a BA (Hons) in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge, an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and an MBA from the University of Cambridge. (Source: Climate Change Capital)

I am passionate about changing the bottom line of companies through effective partnership with suppliers, buyers and the workforce. I apply my experience in behavioural contracting from the construction and infrastructure arena to improving the way businesses operate through efficient delivery and effective collaboration enabling them to do what they do for ever.

Through acquired skills I identify inefficient behaviour, practices and attitudes, and from training as a performance coach I seek to empower people to change. I understand the power of teamwork and the capability a team gains through mutual trust and cooperation, placing accountability through the roles and responsibilities allocated across the team. My leadership style is based on inspiring people to achieve and empowering the individual, as part of a team, to continuously improve towards efficient operation, taking out waste from processes to deliver optimal commercial performance.

When developing relationships with stakeholders, or participants, I change behaviour by positive “can do” actions combined with an upbeat and positive personality, promoting a collaborative delivery capability, identifying mutually beneficial agreements. In empowering people I use a naturally creative outlook to “lead by example” using motivation and performance improvement skills. I harness the combined knowledge, from a range of industry sectors, with essential technical skills in Portfolio, Programme and Project Management; master planning and strategic decision making; Commercial business case and cost management; Procurement and complex negotiation, successfully realising controlled beneficial outcomes in an environment of continuous improvement.

As professionals we face a huge challenge in trying to ensure that people in developing countries can benefit from appropriate solutions which enables safe and affordable access to education, employment, healthcare and fresh food. If we are to achieve this we need to adopt a robust and inclusive approach to the development of sustainable transport plans, and to the commitment of local stakeholders to delivering and enforcing those plans.

Over the last 15 years my work as a transport planner has increasingly focused on the interactions between transport and the society which is served by transport.

I have a particular interest in the development of socially inclusive transport as a mechanism to promote sustainable urban development and have explored such themes in research for the UK Government which led to policy guidance on Accessibility Planning, and on the Social Impacts of Public Transport. Previously I led research for the Commission for Integrated Transport on the relationship between sustainable transport and the retail sector.

I have also worked on a range of EU-funded research programmes, including the City of Tomorrow programme where I led studies looking at the interaction of Land-Use and Transport Research as well as Future Vehicles.

I am Urbanisation Director for Europe and North Africa. I am passionate about using cross disciplinary synergy and integrated systems thinking to enable more people to be accommodated in urban areas for less cost, consuming less energy, materials and water, emitting less CO2, and cutting waste, while achieving an enhanced quality of life.

I bring a practical understanding of development drivers and processes at both macro and micro level, gained through over 25 years as a low energy engineer in the built environment. Combining this with recent engagement at policy level I am able to bring insight into the technical, political, financial and behavioural aspects of sustainability, particularly in the areas of energy efficiency and thermal master planning in the built environment.

My role is often to lead stakeholders through a process of objective setting and risk assessment, where my ability to apply clarity and sensitivity in this fast moving area allows decisions to be taken in an informed manner despite a lack of precedent or future certainty. In particular, working for both developers and policy makers engaging with the low carbon agenda has given me a valuable understanding of how to align objectives and optimise outcomes.

As world leaders in Mobile Financial Services, Millicom helps millions with its convenient, safe and secure means of transferring money with a handset.

To date, Millicom has been among the first worldwide to offer customers the tools to send and receive international remittances and the first to offer cross-border mobile money transfer services with an integrated currency conversion.

(Source: Millicom)

(Source: Business Call to Action)

Lito Villanueva is the lead in unlocking the huge potential of e-money by introducing innovations on payments, digital commerce experiences and a wide range of emerging digital payment platforms. This includes building a dynamic payments ecosystem. His task is to reimagine how consumers interact with their money for payments and commerce through innovative product and services. He also covers strategic alliances with both international and local entities that would best promote Smart’s business interests and accelerate market expansion and leadership.

Mr. Villanueva commenced his career at The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), then at the Land Bank of the Philippines, IFC of the World Bank Group to develop enabling mobile money opportunities in Mongolia. Followed by customer strategy and market activation lead for VISA global mobile products covering emerging markets in Asia, Latin America and EMEA.

(Source: LinkedIn, MEF Global Forum)

(Source: Pericles Law Center, LinkedIn)

Susie Lonie is one of the world’s leading experts in Mobile Payments in emerging markets. She has strategic and practical “hands on” experience of developing and operating mobile money services in emerging markets including Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, India, and Nigeria.

Ms. Lonie is one of the creators of the M-PESA money transfer service. In 2005 whilst employed by Vodafone Group she developed and ran M-PESA as a small pilot in Kenya working with the local Operator, Safaricom, then redeveloped this system to be suitable for national launch in 2007 whilst recruiting and training the local M-PESA team to run the service. She then facilitated the M-PESA launch in Vodacom Tanzania whilst supporting rapid growth in Kenya and developing new services to add to the M-PESA portfolio. M-PESA in East Africa currently has over 19 million active customers. Ms. Lonie was later seconded to Vodacom South Africa where she supervised the launch of their mobile money service then led a team to identify the technical and commercial requirements for interconnection with conventional financial services.

In 2010 she was the co-winner of “The Economist Innovation Award for Social and Economic Innovation” for her work on M-PESA in Kenya.

Ms. Lonie left Vodafone to set up her own business as a Mobile Payments consultant in mid-2011.

Professor Calhoun is a world-renowned social scientist whose work connects sociology to culture, communication, politics, philosophy and economics.

He took up his post as LSE Director on 1 September 2012, having left the United States where he was University Professor at New York University and director of the Institute for Public Knowledge and President of the Social Science Research Council.

Professor Calhoun took a D Phil in History and Sociology at Oxford University and a Master's in Social Anthropology at Manchester. He co-founded, with Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology at LSE, the NYLON programme which brings together graduate students from New York and London for co-operative research programmes.

He is the author of several books including 'Nations Matter, Critical Social Theory, Neither Gods Nor Emperors' and most recently 'The Roots of Radicalism' (University of Chicago Press, 2012).

Describing his own approach to academic work, Professor Calhoun says: "We must set high standards for ourselves, but in order to inform the public well, not to isolate ourselves from it."

Valery Chichkanov  is a famous Russian economist, advisor to Gazprom Energoholding, advisor to the Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation and former vice-prime minister of Russian Federation.

Mr. Chichkanov is a Doctor of Economics, Professor, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR ( 1981), Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Sciences (1991), member of the Academy of Natural Sciences, a member of the U.S. Academy of International Business (1993), Advisor to the Rector of RANEPA (The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration), member of the Advisory Council of the Government of the Russian Federation (2000), director of the Institute of research and Information, a member of the International Union of Economists, chairman of the Public Council under the FSSP Russia, the president of the " United Lawyers ".

Mr. Chichkanov is the member of the Advisory Committee of the Council state Duma Energy (on legislative regulation of activities in the oil industry), a member of the board of directors of the publishing house "Enlightenment", Vice President - state Secretary of the Russian Union of Engineers.

Since 2007, Mr. Chichkanov serves as the Scientific Director of the UN World Technological University and since 2012, the trustee of the Fund of the Security Service of the President of the Russian Federation.

Mr. Chichkanov was awarded The Order of Merit IV Medal and USA Medal of Honour.

He is author of more than 200 publications, including 20 monographs on the organization of economic management, the regional economy and international relations. Proceedings published in twenty countries, including the U.S., Japan, France, Germany, China, etc. Prepared 24 doctors and 68 candidates of economic sciences; also participated in more than 90 international congresses. He performed in 38 universities around the world on social and economic problems of Russia.

Mr. J. K. Olusegun Agbaje, also known as Segun has been the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Guaranty Trust Bank Plc since June 22, 2011. Most recently, he has defended his title as African Banker of the year, awarded by the World Finance Banking Awards.
Mr. Agbaje served as Deputy Managing Director of Guaranty Trust Bank plc from August 2002 to April 20, 2011 and its Divisional Head Institutional Banking Division. He served as Acting Managing Director of Guaranty Trust Bank (Ghana) Limited since April 20, 2011. Prior to joining Guaranty Trust Bank- Plc, he worked for Ernst & Young, San Francisco, from 1988 to 1990 as a staff Auditor. He helped to develop the Interbank Derivatives market amongst dealers and introduced the Balance Sheet Management Efficiency System in Nigeria. As Head of the Settlements Group of Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, he supervised the conversion of its operations from a cost centre to a profit centre by the year 2000. Being a project-oriented person, he was very instrumental in the introduction of Valucard (an electronic payment system) and Western Union Money Transfer. He was also directly responsible for Guaranty Trust Bank Plc's Initial Public Offer of N2.5 billion in July 2002. He served as a Director of InterSwitch Limited. Mr. Agbaje has been a Director of Guaranty Trust Bank plc since January 2000. He serves as a Director of Kakawa Discount House Limited and Guaranty Trust Bank (Ghana) Limited. He served as a Director of Mansard Insurance Plc (formerly Guaranty Trust Assurance Plc) until October 26, 2011. Mr. Agbaje holds a first degree in Accountancy from the University of San Francisco, California (1986), and a Master's degree in Business Administration from the same university in 1988.

Mohammed Dewji graduated in 1998 from Georgetown University, Washington D.C majoring in International Business and Finance and taking Theology as a minor subject. After graduation, he headed straight back to Tanzania and joined the family business where he became Chief Financial Controller at Mohammed Enterprises Tanzanian Limited (METL).  In 2000 Tanzania hosted its second multiparty elections' stood in those elections for his home constituency Singida as a member of parliament. He won the preliminary votes in CCM (ruling party) with overwhelming majority, but the joy was short lived as he was not nominated to contest for the seat by the party on grounds that he was too young. (He was just 25 on that time). Two years after marriage Mohammed finally took full control of his company Mohammed Enterprises Tanzania Limited (METL) and became the Managing Director. Tanzania held its third multi-party elections in 2005 and he stood for the parliamentary seat again and this time he won a landslide victory in preliminary votes and got chosen by the CCM party to stand as a candidate. In the general election he won and overwhelming majority of 90 percent of the total votes and was sworn in as a member of parliament on the 29th of December. In 2007 there were party elections and Mr Dewji vied for the Membership of national Executive Committee (NEC) of CCM (ruling party) and got enough votes to secure his slot in the NEC sessions for the next five years.

Peter M. Sullivan is a Managing Director and Head of the Public Sector Group for Africa at Citigroup. He is also a Senior Credit Officer of Citi and is based in London.

The Public Sector Group is committed to facilitating global best practices and success transfer among its client base including Central banks, Ministries of Finance and Ministries of Infrastructure. Peter is responsible for developing business and delivering product solutions for sovereign, regional and local government clients in Sub-Sahara and North Africa. He has 24 years of customer relationship experience with Citi including the coverage of Global Financial Institutions, Industrials and Sovereigns. His product background extends from trade and structured finance to fixed income and credit-based structures. Peter has been covering the Public Sector in Africa for the past 7 years. He was an integral member of the teams that arranged the debut bond issues for Ghana, Gabon, Senegal, Nigeria. In 2013, he was at the forefront of the debut bond issue and rating for Rwanda, as well as for the second issuances made by Ghana, Nigeria and Gabon. Peter also led a Risk Capital

Review for the African Development Bank in 2008. Prior to joining Citi, Peter served for two and half years in the U.S. Peace Corps in Mali, West Africa. Subsequently, he worked as a Financial Analyst for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, an agency of the U.S. Government, before receiving his MBA from Columbia University in 1989.

Henry Obi is a partner and the Chief Operating Officer for Helios Investment Partners (“Helios”), an Africa-focused Private Equity firm which operates a family of funds and their related co-investment entities, aggregating more than $1.7 billion in capital commitments. He is responsible for the operations of the firm and is a member of Helios’ investment committee.

Prior to joining Helios, he was a Partner for several years at Aureos Capital in London. He started his investment career in the power investment team at CDC and has also worked at Actis and Dynegy, a US energy trader. Mr. Obi has an MBA from the London Business School. He sits on the advisory board of Maris Capital.

Nana Sao is a Partner at DMC Partners having previously been Managing Director and head of Goldman Sachs's Natural Resources Investment Banking Division in Africa. Nana relocated from London in 2009, with responsibility for coverage of Goldman Sachs' key clients in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Nana has an over 10 year track record of advising on landmark transactions in Africa including advising Jinchuan on its $1.4bn acquisition of Metorex and Massmart on its potential $4.3bn sale to Walmart.

Nana has worked on the following notable transactions: adviser to Tronox on the $2.4bn acquisition of Exxaro’s mineral sands assets, adviser to BHP Billiton in its $147bn offer for Rio Tinto, adviser to Arcelor Mittal in its $1.3bn sale to a BEE consortium; adviser to Celtel International in its sale to MTC for $3.4bn; bookrunner on AngloGold’s multi-tranche $1bn debt financing, bookrunner on a $3.0bn placement of Anglo American's shares in AngloGold and $2.0bn placement of Gold Fields shares for Norilsk Nickel; the IPO and LSE listings for Namakwa Diamonds and Hochschild Mining and high yield bond financings for Foodcorp and Reclamation group.

Carl Franklin has been with Dangote Cement since June 2011 when he joined as its Head of Investor Relations. His work in improving the company's transparency and investor friendliness has helped the company raise its profile amongst international investors. During his time with Dangote Cement the 12-year old company's value has increased from $11bn to $25bn, where it battles daily with 102-year old Holcim to be the worlds most highly valued cement company. In recognition of his efforts he was recently elevated to a newly created post as Group Head of Investor Relations for Dangote Industries, the holding company, where he now looks after Dangote's listed Sugar and Salt companies, as well as Dangote Cement.

Before joining Dangote, Carl worked in the City as an analyst, and before that he was a business journalist. He has professional and postgraduate qualifications in both Investment Analysis and Journalism. Carl is also the author of a book on business strategy and a Getty Images Photographer.

Rob Hersov, 52, is a South African entrepreneur, senior executive and private investor based in London. He currently serves as Managing Partner of Sapinda UK, is Chairman of the VistaJet Advisory Board, Chairman and Founding Partner of Invest Africa and Chairman of Adoreum Partners.

Hersov's grandfather, Bob Hersov, founded AngloVaal, one of Southern Africa's largest mining and industrial companies, which his father, Basil Hersov, ran from 1973 to 2001.

Rob has been a member of many public and private boards and owns many companies in the resource, media/marketing, luxury and finance sectors.

Recently, Rob has been turning his attention to Africa, a place very close to his heart given his upbringing and family ties. He has been the driving force behind Sapinda Group's direct investments in sub-Saharan Africa. He has also made a number of personal investments on the continent and has close relationships with businesses across different regions. In April 2013, Rob saw an opportunity to create a platform for the growing number of individuals becoming involved in pan-African investments. Invest Africa was founded with the specific purpose of delivering on the demand for high quality relationships within growing African markets amongst the business community. The private club has amassed 60 members in just 4 months.

Rob received a B.B.S. from the University of Cape Town and a M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School. He is married to entrepreneur Dr. Kate Hersov, founder of Medikidz, and he has two sons, aged 16 and 13, and a 1 year old daughter​.

Lieutenant-General Sir Graeme Cameron Maxwell Lamb KBE CMG DSO is a retired British Army officer. He is a former Commander of the Field Army at Land Command, known for his contributions to counter-insurgency. Lamb currently serves as a special advisor to strategic advisory firm G3 and as director to private military company Aegis Defence Services.

Educated at Rannoch School and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, he was commissioned into the Queen's Own Highlanders as a second lieutenant on 8 March 1973. He has served in Northern Ireland and in various theatres of war including Bosnia. Lamb represented Sandhurst at modern pentathlon; won the army bobsleigh championship in 1975, also coming fifth in the British national championship and 31st in the Nations Cup; and is chairman of the army snowboarding association. 

Sir Lamb has been credited with having exercised substantial influence over the evolution of counter-insurgency in Iraq from 2006 onwards.  Recent contemporary histories of Iraq paint a favourable impression of Lamb as Senior British Military Representative, suggesting that he, influenced by his experiences in Northern Ireland, convinced his U.S. colleagues to adopt the principle of "limited war" — a process requiring "patience, subtlety, and a willingness to accept that Iraqis' own proclivities were going to drive much of the war's outcome", leading to Lamb's own "strategic engagement initiative' of 2006–2007. It was warmly reported that Lamb's departure in July 2007 left "a tremendous gap in the command's institutional memory".

In August 2009 it was reported that he would be heading for Afghanistan at the direct request of General David Petraeus of the US Army to head a programme designed to repeat the success of his efforts in Iraq whereby insurgents are persuaded to give up their arms, after which he retired from active service.

Philippe Kjellgren is a successful serial entrepreneur/visionary with a deep knowledge of fine hotels and over 20 years’ experience in marketing, sales, branding and web design.

He has travelled to more than 100 countries and visited over 1,500 of the world’s finest hotels, building personal relationships with their management teams.

In 2003 he founded Kiwi Collection; In 2009 Philippe created the Visa Luxury Hotel Collection for Visa’s premium cardholders, an initiative that launched in 145 countries and was translated into 10 languages. In May 2012 Philippe left Kiwi Collection to create Hotel Insider, a company which offers a curated collection of luxury hotels and resorts worldwide.

Robert is a partner in the Corporate department and specialises in private equity, corporate finance and M&A. He also chairs the firm's UK China group. He advises on private equity and venture capital transactions for investing institutions and management teams. He has acted for many years for public and private companies and brokers on IPOs and secondary issues. The sectors in which Robert has transactional experience include software and technology, financial services, insurance, business services, training and education, real estate and natural resources. He has been recommended in the Legal 500 for M&A.

A graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, he qualified as a solicitor in 1989.

Martin Bratt is an Associate Principal in McKinsey and Company's London office, where he mostly supports extractive industries and infrastructure companies in emerging countries, in particular Africa. He has a particular focus on regulatory strategy, sustainability issues and stakeholder management.
Martin is currently co-leading an internal research project sponsored by McKinsey's Global Institute, looking at economic development in resource-dependent countries. Martin is a graduate of the grande école program of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales in Paris and holds a Masters in Public Administration degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. He has worked in more than fifteen countries and is a fluent speaker of English, French and the Scandinavian languages

Phillip Smiley started life in the retail business, working for 8 years in a UK retail chain in a variety of roles including store operations, supply chain, corporate marketing and buying and merchandising. His last roles in retail were in the buying and merchandising arena covering a wide range of industries and working closely with key multinational and private label suppliers.

He joined Glendinning in 1999 and after spending 4 years in our UK/Europe division working with both retailer and supplier clients, Phil relocated to the USA to help establish Glendinning's American consultancy. Following three and a half years in the US working with leading consumer and B2B clients, Phil moved to Asia to take over the Glendinning Asia Pacific consulting unit.

In 2010, Glendinning Management Consultants joined Cannondale Associates, MVI and Retail Forward to create Kantar Retail. Phil became the CEO of Kantar Retail Asia Pacific.

Andrew Peterson is the Owner and Founder of Shangrak Ltd., a company which provides a gateway for western firms into emerging economies, primarily in Eastern Europe, Turkey, and Africa.

Graduating from the University of Glasgow, he joined Procter & Gamble in 1991, spending his first 5 years in the UK. In 1996 he moved to Tashkent, Uzbekistan to help set up a new business for P&G in Central Asia. During this time he helped establish relationships and joint cooperation programmes with local health professionals that still continue to this day. From 1999 to 2002 Andy lived and worked first in Kiev, Ukraine, and then in Moscow, Russia, still with Procter & Gamble. In 2002 Andy moved to Almaty, Kazakhstan, to be General Manager of the P&G business for Central Asia, the Caucasus and Mongolia. Central Asia. In 2006, Andy left the Former Soviet Union. He moved to Johannesburg, South Africa in 2006 with his wife and four children, to be General Manager for P&G for South and East Africa. In 2010, Andy and his family moved home to Scotland, setting up Shangrak.

He plays the bagpipes, referees and coaches rugby, cycles, plays golf and is an avid, reader, traveler and photographer. He passionately believes that business can, and must be the leading force for positive change in the world.

David has a passion for retail, digital technology, eCommerce and brands. He is an authority on China where these forces are colliding fast.

He writes and lectures on China, brands, retail and technology around the world, author of several books and publications about brands and China.

David is an enthusiastic photographer with a mission to move from enthusiastic to good.

David is the CEO of The Store WPP, EMEA and Asia. The WPP Global Retail Practice.

Mr. Voicehovsky has 20 years of international investment banking and private equity experience. For over a decade he worked in London, first at HSBC HQ and then a decade at HQ of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

Yury headed Standard Bank (Russia) for 3 years, served as Board Member of the largest Russian coal company SUEK (Siberian Coal and Energy Company), London listed Dragon Oil Company, etc.

Mr. Voicehovsky is a co-founder of New Europe Real Estate Fund and participated in two start-up banks in Latvia.

Currently Mr. Voicehovsky also serves as Chairman of the VCIOM, Arkhangelsk Airport  and Astor Capital Group. He is a member of the Board of Directors BTA Bank and is also an Advisor to the Minister of Regional Development of the Russian Federation.

He is also member of the supervisory board of several non-commercial organizations, including being Chairman of the National Council for Investment Climate Development (see www.investmentclimate.ru; www.nand.ru; www.hvalevskoe.com)

Mr. Voicehovsky holds an MSc in Finance from London Business School, a degree in International Business from University of Copenhagen and Investment Management Certificate (UK fund managers qualification). He is author of dozens of articles and gave many interviews in business media.

In 2013 Yury was winner of prestigious all-Russia “Director of the Year” award.

Most recently, in January 2014, he was appointed CEO of the newly formed National Investment Agency (also known as "Invest in Russia"), which aims to be the portal for which foreign investors are assisted in promoting projects in the Russian regions, as well as acting as an intermediary between the areas and potential investors.

Amlan Roy is Managing Director and Head, Global Demographics and Pensions Research for the Investment Banking Division of Credit Suisse in London. His research links Global Demographics and Pensions to economic growth, inflation, asset prices, pensions, sectoral allocation, health, migration and insurance. He presents to a global client base (across 35+ countries) that includes fund managers, hedge funds, insurance companies, pension funds, governments and central banks. Dr Roy also speaks at 40-50 global conferences annually. He is a Senior Research Associate of The London School of Economics' Financial Markets Group and guest professor for London Business School's Finance department.

In a previous role at Credit Suisse as a Global Emerging Markets strategist, Dr Roy developed multi-country Risk & Allocation models used by institutional clients, government treasury departments and central banks. He also served as an expert on Financial Architecture/Crises Modelling at the Bank of England, IMF and UK Treasury.

Prior to joining Credit Suisse in 1998, Dr Roy spent over ten years in academia at Boston University School of Management, University of Iowa Business School and the University of London (QMW College and LSE). He had a distinguished university teaching career winning 4 teaching awards in 6 years at US business schools. He was named a UK ESRC Research Fellow, Ponders Fellow, a Boston University Doctoral Scholar, and Government of India National Scholar. He started his professional career as an Area Sales Manager at ICI's Chemical Division in India. Dr Roy has a M.A. and Ph.D. in Financial Economics (University of Iowa), an M.B.A. (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad) and a B.A. Honours Economics Maths (St Stephen's College, University of Delhi).

Jamie Allsopp is one of the best known African fund managers in the UK. He joined Insparo Asset Management in November 2009, bringing nearly a decade of first-hand experience of African markets to his role, which combines investment research and allocation with marketing the firm's Africa and Middle East fund in Insparo's target regions. Jamie was previously with New Star Asset Management for eight years. In 2007, Jamie launched the New Star Heart of Africa Fund which invested in Sub Saharan equities.
Jamie Allsopp graduated from Newcastle University with an honours degree in Combined Studies.

John-Paul Smith joined Deutsche Bank in 2010 as the Global Emerging Markets Equity Strategist, with 28 years of experience in both sell side strategy and fund management. Prior to Deutsche Bank, John-Paul worked in asset management, most recently as a global strategist and previously as the head of a top performing emerging market equity team from 2001-05. From 1995-2000, John-Paul was a Russia and EMEA strategist, when he was widely credited as one of the few sell-side analysts to predict the 1998 Russia crisis.

John Authers is the Financial Times' Senior Investment Columnist. He has spent much of his 22-year career at the FT as one of the most influential economic journalists in the world, editing the "Lex" column and authoring the "Short View" and "Long View" columns. The lessons of that remarkable career have come to fruition in two hard-hitting books about the instability of current markets: The Fearful Rise of Markets and now Europe's Financial Crisis.
John appears frequently on television and radio, including the BBC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR and PBS. His work as a journalist has been widely recognised; most recently, he was named Senior Journalist of the Year by the Wincott Foundation, the premier award for UK financial journalists. In the US, his videos have twice been honored at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers' Best in Business awards. He is also the co-author of The Victim's Fortune, an investigative account of the financial consequences of the Holocaust.

Charles, a leading emerging markets specialist, is Renaissance Capital’s Global Chief Economist and head of the Firm’s macro-strategy unit. He covers global economic themes and their impact on emerging markets.

Over the past decade, the scope of Charles’s work has covered, among other topics: quantifying political risk in emerging markets; how rising retirement ages reflect deep-rooted problems in the West and great opportunities in emerging markets; the revolutionary nature of growth in countries with non-democratic governments; the fact that Africa’s economies are now returning some of the highest growth rates on Earth, and how this trend is set to play out; the impact of terrorism and natural disasters on economies; the effects of falling agricultural stocks on food prices and inflation; and how emerging-market banks may have the best growth potential over the coming years.

He is the lead author of The Fastest Billion: The Story Behind Africa’s Economic Revolution (www.fastestbillion.com), published in October 2012.

Charles was ranked the number-one economics and macro analyst for emerging Europe, the Middle East and Africa in the Extel survey in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. In addition, his team was ranked the best macro team in Extel’s 2010 survey of equity investors, and number one for SSA in the 2012 Institutional Investor survey.

He graduated from the London School of Economics in 1993, and worked at a UK parliamentary defence think-tank and a research boutique before joining the financial services industry in 1998.

James Kynge is an author and journalist who specialises on the Chinese economy and its impact on the wider world. He worked for 20 years as a correspondent in Asia with postings for the Financial Times and Reuters in China, Taiwan, Japan, Mongolia, the five states of Soviet Central Asia, Malaysia and Singapore, winning several international awards for journalism. His book, China Shakes the World, has been translated into 19 languages and won the Goldman Sachs/FT “Business Book of the Year” award in 2006, as well as other prizes.

From 2005 until mid-2008, James headed up the business operations of the Pearson Group of companies in China, overseeing a period of rapid expansion in the group’s education, publishing and media businesses. In October 2008, he started a new role as Editor of a specialist, in-depth report on the China economy for the Financial Times.

Michael Marrese is a Managing Director at JPMorgan and is Head of Economic Research and Sovereign Strategy for the CEEMEA (Central-Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa). Besides managerial and publication responsibilities, he has continued to produce economics and strategic research on Russia, Ukraine and Central Europe, plus advise external and internal clients on portfolio allocation and market-moving events.

Since 2001, Mr. Marrese has been a Visiting Professor in Economics at Royal Holloway University of London and Research Associate of the Centre for New and Emerging Markets, London Business School. Since 1999, the Bank of England’s International Department and the IMF have sought his advice on changes to the international financial architecture and on developments in emerging markets.

Before moving to investment banking, he spent four and a half years at the IMF, where he participated in IMF-program negotiations in Russia, Slovakia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. During 1991-1997, he was the North American editor of the international journal Economic Systems.

Mr. Marrese was a professor at Northwestern University for 15 years before joining the IMF in 1992. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and speaks Hungarian and Russian. His undergraduate degree is in Mathematics from Princeton University.

Artem Shevalev has been the Alternate Board Director for Ukraine, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, Serbia, Moldova, Turkmenistan on the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development since 2011. From 2005 - 2011, Mr. Shevalev was the Head of UK Representative Office at the JSC “The State Export-Import Bank of Ukraine”. Previously, Mr. Shevalev worked as the Advisor to the Board Director for Ukraine/Romania/Moldova/Georgia/Armenia of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (from 2002 – 2005), as well as Private Secretary to the Ukraine Ambassador in London (from 1998 – 2001).

He has earned his undergraduate degree in International Economic Relations from the Kiev National University in 1996, further specializing in Management of foreign economic operations in 1997. Furthermore, he earned an Executive MBA from the London Business School.

Francesco Caselli is the Norman Sosnow Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics.
He has earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Bologna in 1992 and a Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1997. Previous appointments include Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and Associate Professor of Economics at Harvard University. His research interests include economic development and political economy.
He is an elected fellow of the British Academy, the director of the Macroeconomics Program at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), and a joint managing editor of the Review of Economic Studies. Formerly has served as co-editor of the Journal of Economic Development, as editor at large of Economica, as a member of the governing council of the European Economic Association, and as a member of the LSE growth commission.

Mick Davis is currently the Chairman of X2 Partners and was the Founding Chief Executive Officer of Xstrata plc, a global diversified mining and metals company, listed on the London Stock Exchange and headquartered in Zug, Switzerland. Previously, Mick was an Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of Billiton plc and Chairman of Billiton Coal. Prior to joining Billiton, Mick was an Executive Director of South African state-owned Eskom, one of the world’s largest electricity utilities.

Mick has extensive capital markets and corporate transactions experience. During his career, he has raised over US$35 billion from global capital markets and successfully completed over US$70 billion of corporate transactions. Some of his successes are the creation of the Ingwe Coal Corporation in South Africa; the listing of Billiton on the London Stock Exchange; the merger of BHP and Billiton into the largest diversified mining company in the world; the initial public offering of Xstrata plc on the London Stock Exchange in 2002 and Xstrata’s subsequent acquisitions of MIM Holdings and Falconbridge Ltd., amongst others.

Dr. Persio Arida, Ph.D. is Partner of BTG Pactual Group. He serves as the Chairman of Asset Management and Managing Partner for Banco BTG Pactual S.A. and BTG Pactual, Asset Management Arm. Dr. Arida also serves as Co-Head of the Asset Management Business Unit of Banco BTG Pactual.

Dr. Arida worked in a variety of roles in the private and public sectors. He served as the Governor and President of the Central Bank of Brazil in 1995 and served as Deputy President of the Central Bank in 1986. Dr. Arida also served as the President at National Economic and Social Development Bank (BNDES) from 1993 to 1994. He served as Special Secretary of Social-Economic Coordination, Ministry of Planning since 1995, Budget and Management from 1985 to 1986. He served as Special Adviser for the Presidency of Brasil Warrant Ltda. from 1987 to 1993.

He served as a Director of the Central Bank of Brazil since 1986. Dr. Arida served as a Director of Banco Itaú Holding Financeira S.A. and Banco Itau S.A. from 2001 to February 2009.

Dr. Arida was a professor of economics at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and at the University of Sao Paulo. In addition, Dr. Arida was a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. and a senior research fellow at the Oxford Centre for Brazilian Studies at Oxford University. Dr. Arida has received numerous awards and has published several papers and edited books. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelors Degree in Economics from the University of Sao Paulo.

Renato Machado is a Television, Radio and Press journalist. He graduated in Law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC - RJ) and began his career in radio in 1967 on BBC London. Thorughout 47 years in journalism, he was a reporter, anchorman and editor, joining the staff of editors in the “Jornal do Brasil”, where he stayed for 14 years, being the research text editor and international editor in 1970, with brief stay in TV Tupi – Rio. From 1996 to 2011, Renato was the chief editor and host of Television News "Bom Dia Brasil" (Good Morning Brazil). During this period the newscast changed its format to include more culture, music and cuisine.

At TV Globo, Renato was the Editor of International Television News and the international correspondent based in London, where he covered the elections, economic negotiations, conflicts and international accidents such as Chernobyl and the wars in Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and the Persian Gulf .

Back in Brazil, Renato made ​​special reports for the “Fantástico” and the “Globo Reporter”.

He presented the “Jornal da Globo” in 1982-1983, coveraging municipal and state elections in the 80s and in the 90s he covered the Brazilian political crisis which culminated in the impeachment of former President Fernando Collor. He covered the impeachment of the first democratically elected president after 30 years of dictatorship.

In 1982, he presented the first “Breaking News” in “Fantástico”: National Journal Breaking News on the Falklands War .

Renato was on several occasions anchorman of the “Jornal Nacional”(National Journal).

In December 2004, he wrote the book Around the Wine, an introduction to the pleasures of harmonization in food and an ode to the social interaction that leads the wine. Coaithored “The subject is wine”, a collection of radio programs about wine daily on Radio CBN, where Renato worked for 14 years.

Renato is fond of classical music and is known as an expert in wines from the Old World – he was wines critic for the Globo, CBN,  and magazines Monet, “Gula” and “Prazeres da Mesa”. For Television, he wrote, directed and presented the Special Reserve series, and co-presented with Claude Troisgros the “Menu Confiança”(Trust Menu) program, in which Renato harmonized wines while Claude would provide meal recipes.

In the November 2011, Renato again became the international correspondent in London for Globo TV news, with a daily live participation on Good Morning Brazil and a weekly column commenting on the international scene for the “Jornal da Globo” .

Leila de Vos van Steenwijk studied Art History at the University of East Anglia, England. After graduating,
she joined Christie’s to assist the Amsterdam Asian department. In 2000, she became head of the
department and was responsible for finding a rare 14th century Yuan blue and white porcelain jar, which
fetched at £15,7 million and held the world record price for 5 years for the most expensive Asian art work
ever sold at auction. For the last 3 years Leila was managing director of Christie’s Amsterdam. Early this
year, she moved to London to become European Head for Chinese Works of Art.

Marcio Senne is the Head of Corporate Affairs for Europe and North America at Vale. He joined Vale’s International Corporate Affairs department in 2006 and has since then supported in terms of intelligence, risk assessment and mitigation the CA workshop process. He has also supported projects and operations globally, through issues’ management, stakeholder engagement, risks identification and proposal of mitigation strategies, in close cooperation with the community relations and communications areas.

A senior executive with vast experience in Corporate Affairs, socio-political risk analysis/mitigation and strategic stakeholder engagement and, previously, a journalist covering international politics, having a business administration undergraduate degree and a Masters in political science focused on international relations. During his career, Marcio Senne de Moraes has frequently interacted with government officials from Brazil and abroad, as well as industry associations, multilaterals, think tanks and research centers.

Marcio Senne joined Vale’s International Corporate Affairs department in 2006 and has since then supported in terms of intelligence, risk assessment and mitigation the CA workshop process. Has also supported projects and operations globally, through issues’ management, stakeholder engagement, risks identification and proposal of mitigation strategies, in close cooperation with the community relations and communications areas.

Prior to joining Vale, Marcio worked for United Nations Organization in New York (1996), UNESCO in Paris (1997), and the newspaper Folha de São Paulo (2000-2006), as an assistant editor, reporter and senior international politics analyst.

Marcio holds a Master’s degree (MSc) in Political Science focused on International Relations from the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris and a Bachelor’s degree (BSc) Business administration, focused on marketing, from Fundação Getúlio Vargas in São Paulo, Brazil.

Spyros Poulios is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Seminal Capital Partners, a 2-year old Beijing-based multi-family office focusing on principal investments in China and abroad. SCP co-invests with an extensive worldwide partner network of family offices. Mr. Poulios also leads the Beijing-based investment and fundraising activities of Crescent Point, a 10-year old private equity firm focusing on investments in Asia. CP has invested >$800m to date on a deal by deal basis on behalf of a world-class group of family offices, generating industry leading returns. SCP works closely with CP to source, analyse and structure investment opportunities in core sectors of expertise, including industrials, real estate, TMT, consumer goods, and natural resources. Based in Beijing, Mr. Poulios has 15 years of experience in investment banking, business development and principal investing, including in the corporate investments division of GE Capital and the M&A and Oil & Gas divisions of Credit Suisse First Boston. Prior to joining Crescent Point, Mr. Poulios spent several years assisting large private investors and families on a wide range of transactions across emerging markets. Mr Poulios has been a senior executive of a number of service companies in the energy, financial, and technology sectors. He holds a BA from Harvard University and an MBA from INSEAD.

Helen is the vice president of Hanergy Holding Group and the chief executive officer of the Ground-mounted Power Station Business Unit of Hanergy Global Solar and Power Application Group. Hanergy is China's largest privately owned renewable company and actively develops solar project around the world. With its 3GW capacity under its belt, Hanergy ambitiously established 6 regional offices in Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, Greater China, Latem, and the Middle East. Additionally, Hanergy acquired 3 companies based in the US and Germany, with MiaSole (US) holding the world record in CIGS efficiency. Hanergy is innovative, technology driven and a strong believer in renewable energy.

Prior joining Hanergy, Helen spent 10 years in the investment banking division with Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch based in Hong Kong. She currently leads the Hanergy's global ground mounted solar business, focusing on Hanergy's strategy and expansion in the international market. Prior to assuming her current responsibilities, she served as the managing director of  the Global Finance and Marketing Division through November 2012 to November 2013.

Helen earned both her Bachelor and Master in Electrical Engineering from Cambridge University, UK. 

John Huw Jenkins is a Managing Partner of BTG Pactual, member of the Global Management Committee and is based in BTG’s London office.

John worked at UBS Investment Bank (1996-2008), where he held several positions including CEO, Global Head of Equities, Head of Equities for the Americas and Head of Asia-Pacific Equities. Prior to joining UBS, Huw worked at BZW (1986-1996) and Hill Samuel (1986-1986). He has spent most of his career based in Asia and the US. Most recently, Huw participated in the Executives in Residence program at London Business Schoo

Mr. Moussa is a Managing Director of EFG Hermes’ Private Equity division. He is a member of the Investment Committee of several EFG Hermes’ managed funds and sits on the Board of Directors of various portfolio companies. He joined EFG Hermes in 2008. Prior to EFG Hermes, Mr. Moussa was a Vice President at Deutsche Bank in Global Banking with responsibilities for M&A, ECM and DCM advisory in MENA. He joined Deutsche Bank in 2001 as an Analyst in the M&A execution team in Frankfurt, advising on several mid-cap transactions in Continental Europe. He moved to Dubai in 2005 to join the CEO of Deutsche Bank MENA in building the bank’s regional platform. In 2006, he joined Deutsche Bank Global Banking Dubai, where he advised on the sale of Sokhna Port to Dubai Ports World, the financing and acquisition of Egyptian Fertilizers Company by Abraaj Capital and the Dubai Ports World IPO. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Mr. Moussa worked as an Investment Analyst at Berlin Capital Fund, a Venture Capital Fund managed by the Berliner Bank. Mr. Moussa holds a Masters in Business Administration and Mechanical Engineering (Diplom Wirtschaftsingenieur) from the Technical University of Berlin.

Richard Butland is Chairman of Influit and the former managing director in the Merchant Banking Division. He joined Goldman Sachs in 2000 as an associate in the UK Advisory Group. Richard was promoted to run UK M&A Advisory in 2007 and subsequently moved to the Merchant Banking Division to head its private equity activities in the UK and Natural Resources across Europe. He was named managing director in 2006.
Prior to joining the firm, Richard worked at IBJ Schroder Bank for two years and at PricewaterhouseCoopers for five years.
Richard earned a bachelor's degree from Victoria University of Wellington in 1992 and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1995.

Murray Grant is one of Actis’s founding partners with an investment focus on Africa, where he has spent the last nine years investing across the continent.  Mr. Grant joined CDC Capital Partners in 2001, prior to the spin out of Actis in 2004.  This followed a 13 year investment career with 3i Group plc in the UK.   Murray joined 3i from London Business School.  Prior to LBS, Mr. Grant spent four years as a consultant in the construction industry working on large infrastructure projects in Africa, Australia and Papua New Guinea.

Mr. Grant is currently a Director of Banque Commerciale du Rwanda, DFCU (Uganda), Copperbelt Minerals PLC (DRC), Mineral Deposits Ltd (Senegal), Candax (Tunisia) and Vlisco B.V. (Netherlands).  Outside of Actis he is a board member of the Eastern Africa Association and AMREF UK Ltd.  Mr. Grant has an MBA from London Business School and a BSc (Hons) in engineering from Edinburgh University.

Robert is a partner in the Corporate department and specialises in private equity, corporate finance and M&A. He also chairs the firm's UK China group. He advises on private equity and venture capital transactions for investing institutions and management teams. He has acted for many years for public and private companies and brokers on IPOs and secondary issues. The sectors in which Robert has transactional experience include software and technology, financial services, insurance, business services, training and education, real estate and natural resources. He has been recommended in the Legal 500 for M&A.

A graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, he qualified as a solicitor in 1989.

David Landsman OBE (born 23 August 1963) is the Director of Tata Limited and was a British diplomat. His last diplomatic position was Ambassador to Greece. Landsman was educated at Chigwell School and Oriel College, Oxford, then gained a PhD in linguistics from Clare College, Cambridge. He joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in 1990, and worked in the Southern European Department. In 1997 he become Deputy Head of Mission in Belgrade. After a tour of the Balkans and Hungary, Landsman was appointed as Ambassador to the Republic of Albania. Before taking up his role as Ambassador to Greece in 2009 he served as head of the Counter Proliferation Department and was briefly seconded to De La Rue plc. He was appointed as Director of Tata Limited, the representative office of the multinational Tata Group in the United Kingdom, in May 2013.