Jeffrey Lacker

President, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Jeffrey Lacker took office as president on August 1, 2004 as the seventh chief executive of the Fifth District Federal Reserve Bank. He is a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee in 2012 and previously voted in 2006 and 2009.

Stefan Ingves

Governor, Sveriges Riksbank

Stefan Ingves was appointed Chairman of the Executive Board and Governor of the Riksbank on 1 January 2006 for a term of six years. Mr. Ingves is also a member of the ECB General Council and a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). He is Sweden’s governor in the International Monetary Fund.

Ilmars Rimsevics

Governor of the Bank of Latvia

Mr. Ilmars Rimsevics was born on April 30, 1965 in Riga, Latvia.

In 1990, he graduated from the Riga Technical University (1983-1990) with a BA in economics and international trade relations.

From 1988 to 1989 Mr. Rimsevics studied at St. Lawrence University (USA), receiving an honors degree.

Raimondas Kuodis

Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania

Education:

2002 – doctoral degree in social sciences (economics).

1994 – international relations and political science specialty acquired after the completion of studies at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science of Vilnius University.

Maciej Stanczuk

Chairman and CEO, PBP Bank

In the years of 1990-1993, he was a Board Member and Chief Economist at the PBR Bank. He began his co-operation with WestLB in 1993, as head of the Department for Eastern European Affairs at WestLB AG in Düsseldorf. In 1995, as the bank opened its branch in Poland, he became Deputy General Manager of WestLB Polska (currently Polski Bank Przedsiebiorczosci S.A.). He has been Chairman of the Board and General Manager since January 2001. Before joining WestLB, he worked as an assistant lecturer at the Technische Universität in Bochum.

Kathleen Stephansen

Senior Investment Strategist & Global Head of Sovereign Research, AIG Asset Management

Kathleen Stephansen is Managing Director and Head of Economic Strategy at AIG Asset Management. Her role is to identify major economic trends and translate these into investment advice to enhance investment performance. In addition, she leads economic research efforts focused on sovereign, currency and interest rate risks.

David Kemme

Professor, Department of Economics, University of Memphis

David M. Kemme currently holds the William N. Morris Chair of Excellence in International Economics at the University of Memphis. He has served as Director of the International MBA program (1994-1997) and Chair of the Economics Department (1997). Prior to joining the University of Memphis he was a W. Frank Barton Faculty Fellow at Wichita State University (1991-1994) and Pew Charitable Trusts Scholar-in-Residence at the Institute for East-West Studies, New York (1989-1991) where he directed the Economics and Security Program.

Peter A. Gold

Principal, TheGoldGroup LLC

In 2007, Peter A. Gold, Esq., a resident of Philadelphia, PA and Phoenix, AZ (former resident of Cherry Hill, NJ) formed TheGoldGroup, LLC, a consultancy to universities, colleges, business, not for profits and others. The Firm visions and advances initiatives centered on identifying and leveraging resources and assets accelerating innovation to marketplace through creation of value driven public-private partnerships and other means.

Bill Witherell

Chief Global Economist, Cumberland Advisors

William Witherell joined Cumberland Advisors as Chief Global Economist in November 2005 and became a Portfolio Manager in December 2005. He is also a Senior Consultant for Finance and Corporate Governance to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). From 1989 through September 2005, he was OECD’s Director for Financial and Enterprise Affairs. He joined the Secretariat of the OECD in Paris, France, in 1977.

J. Paul Horne

Independent International Economist & GIC Board Member

J. Paul Horne has been an active Independent International Market Economist since retiring in 2001 as a Managing Director and European Equity Market Economist at Salomon Smith Barney of Citigroup in London. From 1975 to 1998, he was chief international economist and member of Smith Barney Inc.’s Investment Policy Committee based in Paris; as well as a board member of the firm’s European subsidiary and international fixed income asset management London group. From 1970 to 1975, he represented the Rockefellers’ IBEC financial services group in Rome and Brussels. After graduating from St. Paul’s School and Yale University (B.A.), he was an economic-financial correspondent for Newsweek and The Times (London) in Rome.

Michael Drury

Chief Economist, McVean Trading & Investments

Michael Drury is the Chief Economist for McVean Trading & Investments, LLC. He joined the firm in 1992, after serving for five years as Vice President and Senior Economist with Allen Sinai at Shearson Lehman Brothers and his successor firm, The Boston Company Economic Advisors (both subsidies of American Express). Michael began his career in New York in 1982 as Senior Economist at A. Gary Shilling and Company. He completed his undergraduate education at the Georgia Institute of Technology and did his graduate work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Andrzej Wojtyna

Former Member of the Monetary Policy Committee, National Bank of Poland

After completing his secondary school studies at XII Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace in Cracow, he took up his studies at the Cracow University of Economics. After obtaining an MA degree in 1973, he was employed as a Trainee at the Cracow University of Economics and later advanced his career there; he obtained Ph.D. in 1982, Second Doctoral Degree in 1990, and the title of Professor of Economics in 2001. Since 1992, Head of the Chair of Macroeconomics at the Cracow University of Economics.

Christopher Kwiecinski

Independent Economist

Christopher Kwiecinski has been an active Independent Economist since retiring in 2010 as Research Director for Central and Eastern Europe at Credit Agricole in Paris. Prior to that he had been Director of Investments, Private Banking also at Credit Agricole. After graduating from Warsaw School of Economics (M.A.) and the University of California San Diego (Ph.D., ABD), he did post-graduate work at Indiana University in Bloomington in the area of East-West trade and finance (published in an article). After joining the private sector, he was Vice President and Senior Economist at Continental Illinois National Bank in Chicago with diversified responsibilities in international economics and finance and extensive worldwide travel. He has been a member of the Supervisory Boards of Polish subsidiaries of major French financial institutions. Mr. & Mrs. Kwiecinski live in Paris.

Alexander Kashturov

Head of Market Operations Department, Bank of Russia

Alexander Kashturov began working in 1997 as a lawyer in a small-size stock brokerage firm in Moscow. In 1998 he joined the Bank of Russia and initially worked as a lawyer for Currency Relation and Control Department. Starting from 2001 Mr. Kasturov works with the Risk Management Group of the Market Operations Department that is responsible for the risk management of the portfolio of FX reserves. Currently the Market Operations Department of the Bank of Russia implements the monetary policy operations of the Bank of Russia and manages the FX reserves. The Department comprises the Domestic Market Front-Office, Precious Metals and FX Reserves Front-Office, Risk Management Division, Market Analysis Division, and Legal Support Group.

Piotr Wiesiolek

NBP Vice President, First Deputy President

A graduate of the English Language Faculty of the Catholic University of Lublin. He also completed post-graduate studies, Money and Banking, at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Warsaw. In the 1990s, he attended several specialist training courses in European central banks on such issues as foreign exchange reserve management, assets and liabilities management and securities markets.

Jacek Dominik

Deputy Minister of Finance, Republic of Poland

Jacek Dominik currently serves as the Deputy Minister of Finance and the Undersecretary of State for the Republic of Poland. He completed studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration and Law and Economy of European Committees as a post-graduate study at the University of Warsaw.

Zbigniew Hockuba

Director, European Bank for Reconstruction & Development

Dr. Hockuba received his PhD from the Foreign Trade Department of the Central School of Planning and Statistics in Warsaw (currently Warsaw School of Economics). He joined the faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Warsaw in 1980, where he obtained his postdoctoral degree and became Professor of Economics in 1997. He has been teaching since. A visiting scholar at the universities of Heidelberg, Konstanz (Germany), Oxford (UK), and other. A member of various scientific associations and editorial board of Poland’s leading economic journals. He has published widely, both in professional journals and more popular media.

Nils Bernstein

Governor and Chairman of the Board, Danmarks Nationalbank

Nils Bernstein serves as the Governor and Chairman of the Board of Danmarks Nationalbank. He is a member of the European Central Bank’s General Council and the Chairman of Danmarks Nationalbank Jubilee Fund. In 1963, he received his MSc in Electro Mechanics from Copenhagen University. From 1970-1975, Mr. Bernstein was Secretary of Finance, and from 1975-1977 he served as the Secretary of Finance at the Embassy of Denmark in Washington, D.C. Nils Berstein was the Secretary of State for Finance in Denmark from 1978-1979.

Marten Ross

Adviser, Monetary Policy & Research, Bank of Finland

Marten Ross has been with the Suomen Pankki from August 2011. He is an advisor at the Monetary Policy and Research Department, specializing on issues of monetary policy design and European surveillance issues. From 1992-2011 he was at the central bank of Estonia, where he served as the Deputy Governor from 2000-2011. He was a member of the Economic and Financial Committee from 2004-2011. He has served as a lecturer at Tallinn Technical University and University of Tartu on international monetary system as well as on central banking studies.

Marek Belka

President, National Bank of Poland

Having completed economic studies at the University of Lódz in 1972, he worked in the Institute of Economics of this university. In 1978, he earned a PhD degree and in 1986 – a post doctoral degree in economics (“habilitation”). Since 1986, he has been associated with the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1978-1979 and 1985-1986. In 1978-19-79 and 1985-1986, he was a research fellow at the Columbia University and the University of Chicago, and in 1990 – at the London School of Economics. He received the title of Professor of Economics in 1994.