Paul McCulley

Chair, GIC Global Society of Fellows

Paul McCulley is chairman of the Global Society of Fellows of the Global Interdependence Center (GIC). The Society, founded in late 2010, had its inaugural event at the Bank of France in March 2012: Re-Examining Central Bank Orthodoxy for Un-Orthodox Times.

John E. Silvia

Managing Director, Chief Economist, Wells Fargo Securities LLC

John Silvia is a managing director and the chief economist for Wells Fargo. Based in Charlotte, N.C., he has held his position since he joined Wachovia in 2002 as the company’s chief economist.

Christian Noyer

Governor, Banque de France

Christian Noyer has been Governor of the Banque de France since November 2003. In November 2009, he was reappointed for a second six-year term. He is a member of the Governing Council and General Council of the European Central Bank (ECB).

Zoltan Pozsar

Senior Adviser, U.S. Department of the Treasury

Zoltan Pozsar, a senior adviser at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, is an expert on global macroeconomic affairs, central banking and finance.

At Treasury, Mr. Pozsar is responsible for developing the framework to monitor risk and collateral intermediation activities in the financial eco-system and evaluate their impact on macro-financial conditions. He also serves as Treasury’s liaison to the Financial Stability Board (FSB) on matters of financial innovation.

Olivier Coibion

Assistant Professor at the University of Texas, Austin

Olivier (Oli) Coibion is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Texas, Austin and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has also worked at the the College of William and Mary, Brookings Institution and the Council of Economic Advisors, and he has been a consultant to the International Monetary Fund.

Hans-Helmut Kotz

Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Center for European Studies

Hans-Helmut Kotz is a visiting scholar at Harvard’s Center for European Studies. He is also a senior fellow at Goethe University’s Center for Financial Studies, chairing Research Advisory Council, as well as a member of the economics faculty at Freiburg University.

Axel A. Weber

Chairman of the Board of Directors, UBS

Axel A. Weber was nominated for election to UBS Board of Directors in 2012, initially serving as non-independent vice chairman, and appointed chairman of UBS in 2013. He was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business.

David Kotok

CIO of Cumberland Advisors and GIC Vice Chair of the Central Banking Series

David R. Kotok co-founded Cumberland Advisors in 1973 and has been its chief investment officer since inception.

Mike McKee

Economics Editor, Bloomberg

Michael McKee is co-host of “Bloomberg on the Economy” on Bloomberg Radio and economics editor for Bloomberg Television and Bloomberg News.

Charles I. Plosser

President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Dr. Charles Plosser is president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. In his current role, he participates on the Federal Reserve System’s Federal Open Market Committee, which is responsible for conducting our nation’s monetary policy.

Josh Rosner

Managing Director, Graham Fisher & Co.

Joshua Rosner is managing director at independent research consultancy Graham Fisher & Co and advises regulators and institutional investors on housing and mortgage finance issues.

Stephen Sexauer

Chief Investment Officer, Allianz Global Investors Solutions

Stephen Sexauer has been the Chief Investment Officer of AGI Solutions since inception in June, 2008, and has been a Managing Director of Allianz Global Investors of America LLC or one of its subsidiaries since May, 2003.

Manuel Balmaseda

Chief Economist, CEMEX

Dr. Balmaseda has impressive credentials, collaborating with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Commission, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Previously, he served as chief economist at BBVA, the multinational banking giant, and currently teaches macroeconomics at the International Graduate School of Management of Barcelona and Madrid. As global chief economist, he influences business decision at CEMEX, widely known as a leader in supplying building materials and related services. CEMEX operates in more than 50 countries across five continents.

John Whittaker

Visiting Fellow, Lancaster University Management School

John Whittaker is an economist at Lancaster University, specializing in monetary policy. After an earlier career in business, he obtained a doctorate in Nuclear Physics before joining the academic world in the 1980s. His research and teaching experience includes money and banking, macroeconomics and financial economics and he has published papers on alternative monetary regimes and mathematical economics. Current interests are sovereign debt problems in the eurozone, and the response of policy and regulation to the financial crisis and the recession. From 2004 to 2009 he was a Member of the European Parliament for the North West of England, representing the UK Independence Party.

Peter Demirali

Managing Director, Cumberland Advisors

Peter Demirali joined Cumberland Advisors in 2002 as Portfolio Manager for the Taxable Bond style, and became a Managing Director in 2011. Mr. Demirali was a Senior Portfolio Manager at Smith Barney Asset Management from 1990 to 1999. In that position, he initiated a corporate bond component for taxable fixed-income portfolios.

Rajeev Dhawan

Professor and Director of Economic Forecasting Center, Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University

Rajeev Dhawan wears a dual hat as a professor and as director of the Economic Forecasting Center at the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. As director of one of the country’s premier forecasting centers, Dhawan develops forecasts for the U.S., Southeast regional, and local metro Atlanta economies. These forecasts are regularly published and presented to business executives and the media at the center’s popular, well-respected quarterly forecasting conferences. Dhawan has received several awards for his forecasting accuracy, including most accurate GDP forecast by Bloomberg News in 2005. The Bank One Economic Outlook Center at Arizona State University in 2003 named him the most accurate forecaster for US employment.

Julian Callow

Managing Director and Chief European Economist Barclays Capital

Julian Callow is a Managing Director and, from July 2011, Head of International Economics and Co-Head of European Economics at Barclays Capital, based in London (previously he was Chief European Economist for BarCap since 2003).

William Clark

Senior VP & CIO, Federal Reserve Office of Employee Benefits

William G. Clark has directed the investments for the Federal Reserve’s defined benefit and defined contribution plans since March 2010. In total, the plans have approximately $12 billion in assets under management and cover approximately 30,000 participants.

Prior to that, Mr. Clark oversaw the investments and operations of the New Jersey pension fund since March 2005. Prior to that, he served as Deputy Director from 1999 – 2005. One of the nation’s 15 largest public funds, the New Jersey pension fund provides retirement benefits for more than 700,000 current and future public retirees in seven public pension systems. Total assets under management by the Division were approximately $80 billion.

Bill Miller, CFA

Chairman, Chief Investment Officer, and Portfolio Manager

Bill Miller is the Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Legg Mason Capital Management. He also currently serves as the portfolio manager for the Value Trust and Opportunity Trust mutual funds. Mr. Miller assumed overall responsibility for the equity funds management area of Legg Mason in late 1990.

Michael Dooley

Chief Economist and Partner, Cabezon Investment Group

Chief Economist and Partner, Cabezon Investment Group

Michael Dooley is Chief Economist and Partner at Cabezon Investment Group and Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and is a Managing Editor of the International Journal of Finance and Economics.

Consuelo Mack

Author and Managing Editor, Consuelo Mack WealthTrack on Public Television

Consuelo Mack has a long and distinguished career in business journalism. In 2005 she struck out on her own to launch her dream program, a weekly half-hour program on public television devoted to helping Americans build and protect their wealth over the long-term. Now in its seventh season, Consuelo Mack WealthTrack has been dubbed the “Cramer Antidote” by the press and Money Magazine name Mack “The Best Money TV Host.” WealthTrack is the only program on television devoted to long-term diversified investing in all of the investments people care about: stocks, bonds, real estate, insurance, art and collectibles.

Alfonso Prat-Gay

Former Governor of the Central Bank of Argentina (Dec '02 - Sept '04)

Head of Government Teams, Coalición Cívica (main opposition party).
He is the President of Andares, an NGO devoted to the development of microfinance and Chairman of Tilton Capital, an asset management company based in Buenos Aires.

Denis Beau

Director General, Operations, Banque de France

Denis Beau is the Director General of Operations and a member of the Executive Committee of Banque de France. He co-chairs the French SEPA Committee and participates in a number of bodies both at national and international levels. Born in 1962, he joined Banque de France in 1986 after graduating from l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris. He subsequently received a Master degree in Business Administration from INSEAD. He also served at the Bank for International Settlements as secretary of the G10 Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems.

Martin Sandbu

Economics Lead Writer, Financial Times

Martin Sandbu is the economics leader writer for the Financial Times. He has been a senior research fellow at the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Earth Institute, Columbia University. Sandbu has written and lectured widely on economic policy, economic development and natural resources, business ethics, and political philosophy.