Howard Davies is director of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to his current appointment he was chairman of the Financial Services Authority, the UK's single financial regulator since 1998.

Howard Davies had previously served for two years as Deputy Governor of the Bank of England after three years as Director General of the Confederation of British Industry. From 1987 to 1992 he was Controller of the Audit Commission. From 1982 to 1987 he worked for McKinsey & Company in London and during 1985 -1986 was seconded to the Treasury as Special Adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He had previously worked at the Treasury and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, including two years as Private Secretary to the British Ambassador in Paris.

Howard Davies was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Merton College, Oxford, where he gained an MA in history and modern languages. In 1979 he was awarded a Harkness Fellowship and in 1980 took an MSc in management sciences at Stanford Graduate School of Business, California.

Between 2002 and June 2010 he was a Trustee of the Tate and now serves as a Trustee of the Tate Foundation. He is a member of the governing body of the Royal Academy of Music; and in 2004 was elected to an Honorary Fellowship at Merton College. In 2004 he joined the board of Morgan Stanley as a non-executive director. From 2006 to 2010 he served on the Board of Paternoster as a non-executive director, and chaired the Man Booker Prize in 2007. In 2009 he became an advisor to the Government Investment Corporation of Singapore. In November 2010 he was appointed to the board of the Prudential as a non-executive director.

In 2006 he edited and introduced The Chancellor's Tales (Polity Press) on British economic policy from 1975 to 2000. In 2008 he jointly authored Global Financial Regulation: The Essential Guide (Polity Press) with David Green. Banking on the Future: The Fall and Rise of Central Banking, on central banks, also by Davies and Green, was published in April 2010 by Princeton University Press. His latest book The financial crisis - who is to blame? (Polity Press) was published in July 2010.

Howard Davies is married with two sons and lives in London. In his spare time he likes to watch his football team, Manchester City, and regularly plays cricket.

Bart joined GLG in September 2008 from Morgan Stanley where he was the Global Co-Head of Emerging Markets. He joined Morgan Stanley in 2004 from Vega Asset Management where he was an emerging markets portfolio manager. Prior to this, he was a Director at Deutsche Bank in London from 1998 until 2003. Bart held a variety of positions at Deutsche Bank, culminating in his responsibility for coverage of the firm's largest emerging markets clients. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Bart was an economist for the International Monetary Fund in Washington D.C. from 1994 until 1997. Bart received a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University.

Michel Danechi is a partner at Armajaro Asset Management. Having traded in emerging markets for over 15 years, Michel brings a vast amount of knowledge and contacts to the Armajaro Emerging Markets Fund. Most recently, Michel was hired by Lehman Brothers International (Europe) in London to build and head up the emerging markets equities team. The team managed the banks' equity derivatives and cash portfolio, mainly in Russia, Greece, South Africa, Israel, Middle East, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Turkey. Under his leadership, Lehman emerged with a strong presence in emerging markets. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers International (Europe), Michel was head of the London office and head of EMEA equity trading at CA-IB International Markets (part of Bank Austria Creditanstaldt / Unicredit) where he was responsible for equity trading and for pricing and structuring EMEA equity derivative structures. In addition Michel successfully managed and traded the firm's proprietary book.

Vadim Benyatov is a Managing Director in the Investment Banking Division of Credit Suisse, based in London. He is Co-Head of Emerging Markets for CEE, CIS, Israel and Turkey.

Mr. Benyatov joined Credit Suisse in Moscow in 1997, having previously worked for Deutsche Bank. In 1998 he was made Co-Head of Russian Investment Banking.

In 2000, Mr. Benyatov returned to London where he was responsible forEuropean Emerging Markets Energy. In 2006 he was appointed to his current position focusing on Emerging Markets for both Investment Banking and Fixed Income.

Mr. Benyatov received an M.B.A. from New York University Stern Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Boston University.

Clare was appointed as Chief Executive, Asia, to Richmond Park Partners in early September 2010.

Clare previously served as Special Advisor, China to HSBC Group Chairman and MD China Strategic Development, providing strategic and market development advice to major multinational clients and looking after senior level China relations and strategic business development for HSBC Holdings plc.

Previously, she spent five years overseeing global strategy and planning for HSBC' s foreign exchange, derivatives and debt capital markets businesses and prior to that, oversaw establishment of HSBC emerging markets debt origination platform. Other career highlights included a period as Deputy Head of Project Finance at National Power plc, and, before she became a banker - a year at the British Embassy in Beijing.

Clare is a French and Mandarin Chinese speaker.

Stefan Wagstyl was born in the UK in 1957 and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and Clare College, Cambridge, where he graduated with First Class BA Hons in History in 1979.

After working as an intern at Barclays Bank in 1975-76 in credit analysis, his first job in journalism was as a reporter for the Coventry Evening Telegraph,(1979-82).

He joined the Financial Times in 1983 as a financial reporter and has covered various positions including metals and mining correspondent, Tokyo correspondent and bureau chief (1987-92), New Delhi bureau chief (1992-95), and industrial editor (1996-98). Stefan was then appointed East Europe editor in 1998.

After twelve successful years as the East Europe editor for the Financial Times Stefan has been promoted to the role of Emerging Markets Editor this took affect on 1 March 2010.

George Magnus is Senior Economic Adviser, UBS Investment Bank, and author of the book The Age of Aging: how demographics are changing the global economy and our world, published by John Wiley & Sons in October 2008. George has a long and successful career in the financial services industry, having worked with Lloyds, Bank of America, UK stockbroker Laurie Milbank, merchant bank S G Warburg, and then UBS. He was the Chief Economist at UBS from 1995 until 2005. He has written and extensively for UBS and in the media on many features and facets of the financial and economic crisis, and what this signals for the future of our economies. He has also written and spoken much in the media and at conferences and events on the core issues associated with ageing societies. George lives in north London with his wife, Lesley, and two children aged 12 and 17. Two elder children have flown the nest and work as a paediatrician, and as an investment analyst.

Stephen King is the managing director of economics and strategy for HSBC in London, as well as the head of the Bank's global research team of analysts, economists, and strategists. Before his appointment to the directorship in 1998, he was responsible for articulating HSBC's views on Europe and its common currency. He spent the previous three years covering the Japanese economy. Mr. King began his career as an economic adviser at H.M.Treasury, during which time he counselled ministers on economic developments within the United Kingdom. He also served as private secretary to Lord Terence Burns, the UK's former chief economic adviser. More recently, Mr. King has testified on the economic effects of globalization before the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee. Since 2001, he has written a weekly column for The Independent, and occasionally contributes to the German financial newspaper, Handelsblatt. Mr. King studied economics and philosophy at Oxford University.

Mark is a senior portfolio manager for Pharo Management LLC. He has more than 19 years of experience in economics and emerging markets. Prior to joining Pharo Management LLC in 2004, he was a portfolio manager at MFS Investment Management for six years, where he managed a variety of fixed-income funds, with special emphasis on emerging markets.

Previous to that, he worked for four years as an economist at the International Monetary Fund and for three years at the US Department of the Treasury, where he specialised in countries with exceptional financing needs and in debt sustainability analyses.

Mark did his graduate work at the Fletcher School (ABD PhD) and gained his undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley (BA).

Philip Coggan is the Capital Markets Editor of the Economist, where he writes the Buttonwood column. He was recently awarded the title of Senior Financial Journalist in the Harold Wincott awards and was voted Best Communicator at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards 2009, where he also won the category for best personal finance story. He has been awarded the title of Best Investment Correspondent (National Newspapers) at the State Street Institutional Awards on six separate occasions. He is the author of three books, The Money Machine, How the City Works (Penguin) Easy Money (Profile) and the Economist Guide to Hedge Funds (Profile). Before he joined the Economist, he worked for 20 years at the Financial Times, writing the Short View and Long View columns.

Marcia Favale-Tarter has nearly two decades of finance experience. Through her company M.Favale-Tarter, LLC she is an Independent Advisor to BTA Bank and Alliance bank. Ms Favale-Tarter is also a Senior Advisor to the Office of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan responsible for matters related to the financial sector and debt restructuring. In her advisory role, Ms Favale-Tarter was the lead restructuring advisor to the Government and devised, alongside Government and the Chairman of Samruk-Kazyna, the financial architecture and debt restructuring strategy for BTA Bank, Alliance Bank, and Temir Bank. She is currently mandated to restructure Astana Finance.

Before her advisory role, Marcia was a portfolio manager and senior member of the Advent Capital investment team. Prior to Advent, she was a senior portfolio manager at Brevan Howard.

At UBS, Marcia was a Managing Director, Head of CEEMEA and LATAM corporate bond research in UBS's global credit fixed-income research group. She was also a member of UBS's Credit Committee and Emerging Market Steering Committee. In 2006 she was ranked #1- Emerging Markets Corporate Bond / Credit Analyst by Institutional Investor Magazine.

Prior to UBS she worked at Merrill Lynch in the equity research department and the high yield/emerging market research team. Marcia started her career at Banker's Trust in the Japanese M&A team and also worked in the Latin America investment banking group.

Marcia is a graduate of New York University and has a Pgd in financial strategy from University of Oxford University- Said Business School and is a member of St. Cross College, Oxford.

Rajnish Kumar manages the State Bank of India's business in the UK, which is one of the largest of its overseas operations and includes wholesale, corporate and retail banking, treasury and money market operations as well as trade finance.

Mr Kumar is a career banker who joined State Bank in 1980. Before coming to London on 1st March 2009, he was General Manager in Mumbai looking after the retail business of nearly 500 branches in the Western Maharashtra and Goa, one of the most prosperous regions in India. He has nearly 15 years of experience in corporate Banking having held several positions including Vice President (Credit) at Toronto office of SBI (Canada), Relationship Manager (Corporate Accounts Group), Delhi and Deputy General Manager (Mid Corporates), Mumbai.

The UK operations of SBI have shown a remarkable development in all fields be it business or brand building under his leadership. He is a soft-spoken man with varied interest and guides people in the Bank's mission.

Mr. Kumar is a keen player of badminton and cricket. He is also fond of travelling and has visited several cities in India, Europe & North America.

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Mr Uzbekov has 9-years experience. His previous roles include positions such as Vice-Minister, Ministry of Finance, Deputy Chairman, Agency on Regulation and Supervision of Financial Market and Financial Organizations (FSA), Deputy Chairman, Sustainable Development Fund "Kazyna". He has MBA degree in Economics from KIMEP, MSc degree in Regulation of Financial Markets from London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, UK. Mr Uzbekov coordinates the work of Bank's risk management, acting as Chief Risk Officer, and supervises government relations.

Persio Arida is a managing partner and Chairman of the Asset Management of BTG Pactual, member of both Brazil and Global Management Committees and is based in the São Paulo office.

Persio Arida is a managing partner Prior to joining the bank, he worked in a variety of roles in the private and public sectors. Arida was Governor of the Central Bank of Brazil in 1995, President of the National Economic and Social Development Bank (BNDES) from 1993 to 1994, Director of the Board of the Central Bank of Brazil in 1986 and Special Secretary of Social-Economic Coordination, Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management from 1985 to 1986.

In the private sector, he was a Board Member of Banco Itaú Holding Financeira S.A. and Banco Itaú S.A. from 2001 to February 2009, Board Member of Sul-América S.A. from 2000 to 2001, Director of Opportunity Asset Management Ltda. from 1996 to 1999, Board Member of Unibanco S.A. from 1989 to 1993 and Special Adviser for the Presidency and Director of Brasil Warrant Ltda. from 1987 to 1993. Since the 1970s, he has also worked as an economic and financial consultant.

He has a PhD in Economics from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and has published several papers in specialized journals and has edited several books. He was a Professor at the University of São Paulo (USP), PUC-RJ, a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), and a visiting scholar at the Smithsonian Institute (Washington) and, most recently, at the Centre for Brazilian Studies of Oxford University.

John "JW" Rust leads the civil and commercial financial services group for the Business Analytics group of Booz Allen Hamilton serving the global regulatory community and commercial financial services firms. His practice areas include regulatory design, bank stress testing, financial sector reform, due diligence, capital markets advisory support, and shareholder value analysis. He led the development of a risk management service offering entitled the Systemic Risk Response Framework (SRRF), which uses a system dynamics engineering framework to analyze shocks to the financial system, to understand tipping points in the system, and to anticipate how regulatory policy decisions will affect the environment under the adverse scenarios. This framework has been applied to central banks to provide technical assistance and assist in stabilizing and strengthening the financial sector. Prior to joining Booz Allen Hamilton, J.W. served as the Director of Research for West Financial Services, where he managed the research function and was responsible for driving the equity portfolio management process. He received a Masters in Information and Telecommunications Systems (MSISTS) in Business from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelors of Business Administration (BBA) from James Madison University. Additionally, and he holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation, and he previously served on the Board of Directors of the CFA Society of Washington from 2006-2008.

Persio Arida is a managing partner and Chairman of the Asset Management of BTG Pactual, member of both Brazil and Global Management Committees and is based in the São Paulo office.

Prior to joining the bank, he worked in a variety of roles in the private and public sectors. Arida was Governor of the Central Bank of Brazil in 1995, President of the National Economic and Social Development Bank (BNDES) from 1993 to 1994, Director of the Board of the Central Bank of Brazil in 1986 and Special Secretary of Social-Economic Coordination, Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management from 1985 to 1986.

In the private sector, he was a Board Member of Banco Itaú Holding Financeira S.A. and Banco Itaú S.A. from 2001 to February 2009, Board Member of Sul-América S.A. from 2000 to 2001, Director of Opportunity Asset Management Ltda. from 1996 to 1999, Board Member of Unibanco S.A. from 1989 to 1993 and Special Adviser for the Presidency and Director of Brasil Warrant Ltda. from 1987 to 1993. Since the 1970s, he has also worked as an economic and financial consultant.

He has a PhD in Economics from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and has published several papers in specialized journals and has edited several books. He was a Professor at the University of São Paulo (USP), PUC-RJ, a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), and a visiting scholar at the Smithsonian Institute (Washington) and, most recently, at the Centre for Brazilian Studies of Oxford University.

Dr. Jin is a lecturer at the London School of Economics.

She studies what determines international capital flows and global asset prices, how trade integration and financial liberalization interact, and how trade affects international business cycles. She has a particular interest in international finance issues pertaining to emerging markets, with a focus on China.

She is fluent in English, French and Chinese

David Lubin is Managing Director and Head of Emerging Markets Economics at Citi.

His career started with the HSBC Group in the early 1990s, where he initially helped to represent Midland Bank in sovereign debt restructuring negotiations under the Brady Initiative with a number of developing countries including Argentina, Brazil and Bulgaria. He moved subsequently into emerging markets research, and worked alongside HSBC's head of emerging markets fx trading to identify opportunities during the era of emerging markets crises in the 1990s.

He joined Citi in September 2006 to head the firm's economic research on Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, and took on his current role in early 2009. He was educated at Oxford University.

Jim is chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM). As chairman, he is involved in helping guide all aspects of GSAM's business around the world. Prior to assuming this role in September 2010, Jim was head of Global Economics, Commodities and Strategy Research. He also serves on the Senior Diversity Council. Jim joined Goldman Sachs in 1995 as a partner, co-head of Global Economics Research and chief currency economist.

Prior to joining the firm, Jim was head of research, globally, for Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC) from 1991 to 1995. He joined SBC in 1988. Prior to that, he was with Bank of America and International Treasury Management, a division of Marine Midland Bank.

Jim is the creator of the acronym BRICs. Together with his colleagues, he has published much research about BRICs, which has become synonymous with the emergence of Brazil, Russia, India and China as the growth opportunities of the future.

Jim is a member of the boards of the UK Royal Economic Society and Itinera, and has been on the board of Bruegel since its creation. He is a member of the UK-India Round Table and the UKIBC. Jim is chairman and one of the founding trustees of the London-based charity SHINE. He is also chairman of the Greater Manchester Local Enterprise Partnership Advisory Board. Jim sits on the boards of a number of other charities, primarily specializing in education.

Jim previously served as a non-executive director of Manchester United before it returned to private ownership in 2005.

Jim earned a degree in economics from Sheffield University in 1978 and a PhD from the University of Surrey in 1982. He received an honorary doctorate from the Institute of Education, University of London, in 2009 for his educational philanthropy.

Stephen Jen is Managing Director of Macroeconomics and Currencies at BlueGold Capital, in charge of managing the Fund's currency exposures as well as macro strategies.

Prior to joining BlueGold Capital in May 2009, Stephen was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley and, from October 1996 to April 2009, held various roles, including the Global Head of Currency Research and the Chief Global Foreign Exchange and Emerging Markets Strategist.

Prior to Morgan Stanley, Stephen had spent four years as an economist with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, D.C., covering economies in Eastern Europe and Asia. In addition, Stephen was actively involved in the design of the IMF's framework to provide debt relief to highly indebted countries. Stephen also worked for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and the World Bank, and was a lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Georgetown University School of Business.

Stephen holds a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with concentrations in International Economics and Monetary Economics. He also earned a BSc in Electrical Engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of California at Irvine.

Stephen now lives in London, with his wife and two children

Barney Singer trades Emerging Markets Foreign Exchange at Nomura International Plc. Barney is responsible for Asian NDF (Non-Deliverable Forwards) market-making and proprietary trading of KRW, INR, CNY, TWD, ILS and cross Asian NDFs (i.e. MYRIDR). He joined Nomura after Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy in 2008. At Lehman, Barney also traded EMFX and was responsible for market-making Asian NDFs and for risk-managing the flow originated via the E-Commerce trading platform for Asian FX. Before Lehman, he held internships at Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch. Barney studied Economic History With Economics and graduated with 1st class Honours at the London School of Economics. Before that he was awarded the Connelly- Delouvrier scholarship for the General Course Degree Programme at the LSE.

David Hauner is head of EEMEA Fixed Income Strategy and Economics at BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research. He is responsible for the macroeconomic outlook of Emerging Europe, Middle East and Africa, as well as exchange rate forecasts and trading recommendations in foreign exchange and local and hard-currency debt across these regions.

He joined BofA Merrill Lynch as head of EEMEA Economics and FX Strategy in 2008. Prior to that, he was an economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) covering EEMEA. At IMF, he published research papers on a wide range of policy issues in emerging markets professional journals, including the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics and the Journal of Development Economics.

Hauner received a doctorate in economics from the University of Vienna, a master’s degree in international policy studies from Stanford University and is also a CFA charterholder.

Peter Attard Montalto is a Director and emerging market economist at Nomura covering Eastern Europe (Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic in particular, also the Baltics and Balkans) and South Africa. He has responsibility for devising both the long run outlook and high frequency commentary and forecasting on these countries. Peter acts as a key link between the bank and policy makers in these countries and has hosted numerous events between top level policy makers and significant global investors. He also looks at issues such as long run currency valuation and cross-regional macroeconomic and financial stability risks as well as wider issues of EU institutional reform, EU economic policy and convergence and the G20. He has overseen the development of Nomura's Global Emerging Market's Risk Index (GEMaRI). He works across the bank with clients of global markets and investment banking leveraging Nomura's local offices in his countries, Nomura's large retail client base in Japan and other organisations such as think tanks and governments. Peter has advised on a number of significant sovereign bond issuances as well as being actively involved in banking deals relating to his countries. He is currently beginning to build out Sub-Saharan Africa research at Nomura. He also looks after Fixed Income Research Recruitment.

Peter was previously at Lehman Brothers where in addition looking at EEMEA cross regional issues and linkages as well as country coverage for the Middle East, South Africa and Iceland he managed a number of analytic products. Peter studied Economics at St John's College Cambridge where his particular interests were the linkages between financial markets and monetary policy.

Kasper Bartholdy is a Managing Director of Credit Suisse in the Investment Banking division, based in London. He is Head of Strategy and Economics for Emerging Markets in the Fixed Income Research Department.

Mr. Bartholdy joined Credit Suisse First Boston in January 1997. Prior to that, he was a Management Consultant in Denmark from 1984 to 1986. Following a five-year spell as a country-economist with the IMF in Washington DC (1986-1991), he became Lead Economist at the EBRD (1991-1996). Mr. Bartholdy temporarily left CSFB in 2003 to work as a portfolio manager in EMSO, Citigroup's emerging markets hedge fund, before returning to CSFB in May 2005.

Mr. Bartholdy holds degrees in Economics (MA) and Computer Science from the University of Copenhagen and a journalism degree from the Danish University of Journalism.