, Miroslav Dusek holds a B.A. in Political Science from Charles University in Prague, and concurrently, he obtained an Arabic language certificate at the Kuwait University. He also holds an M.A. in International Studies from the University of Reading in the UK. Formerly, he was Director at the American Information Center of the US Embassy in Prague, where he was responsible for public information programmes. Later on, he was a Public Diplomacy Specialist at the US Embassy in Baghdad, where he managed relations with Iraqi media and a number of education and cultural projects. He joined the World Economic Forum in 2007, focusing on the Middle East and North Africa. Since 2011, he is the head of the region, responsible for the Forum’s MENA summits and as well as for the Arab Business Council, among other engagements.

José Viñals was appointed to the position of Financial Counsellor and Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund on April 15, 2009. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Viñals was Deputy Governor at the Bank of Spain from July 2006 After joining the Bank of Spain in 1984, he held a number of senior positions and has served on a range of advisory and policy committees at the central bank and within the European Union, including as Chairman of the European Central Bank’s International Relations Committee. A former faculty member in the Economics Department at Stanford University, he holds a master's degree in economics from the London School of Economics and a PhD in economics from Harvard University. Mr. Viñals has published widely on macroeconomics, monetary policy, and financial issues, and is a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Mr. Viñals is a citizen of Spain, and is married with four children.

Dr. Fatih Birol Has been named by Forbes Magazine among the most powerful people in terms of influence on the world’s energy scene. He is the Chief Economist and Director of Global Energy Economics at the International Energy Agency in Paris. He is responsible for the IEA’s flagship World Energy Outlook publication, which is recognized as the most authoritative source of strategic analysis of global energy markets. He is also the founder and chair of the IEA Energy Business Council, which provides a forum to enhance cooperation between the energy industry and energy policymakers. Dr. Birol has been named by Forbes Magazine among the most powerful people in terms of influence on the world’s energy scene. He is a member of the UN Secretary-General’s 'High-level Group on Sustainable Energy for All' and the Chairman of the World Economic Forum’s (Davos) Energy Advisory Board. Throughout his career, Dr. Birol has been decorated with numerous awards in recognition of his contribution to the energy debate and most recently he was awarded the Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, the country’s highest honour.

Gregory Treverton is director of the RAND Corporation’s Center for Global Risk and Security. Earlier, he directed RAND’s Intelligence Policy Center and its International Security and Defense Policy Center, and he was associate dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His recent work has examined at terrorism, intelligence and law enforcement, with a special interest in new forms of public-private partnership. He has served in government for the first Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, handling Europe for the National Security Council and, most recently as vice chair of the National Intelligence Council, overseeing the writing of America's National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs). He holds an A. B. summa cum laude from Princeton University and an M.P.P (Master's in Public Policy) and Ph.D. in economics and politics from Harvard. His latest books are Intelligence for an Era of Terror, Cambridge University Press, 2009; Film Piracy, Organized Crime and Terrorism, (with others) RAND, 2009; and Reorganizing U.S. Domestic Intelligence: Assessing the Options, RAND, 2008.

Hans-Paul Bürkner has been president and chief executive officer since 2003. He joined the firm in 1981 and was a member of the teams that opened BCG's Düsseldorf (1982) and Frankfurt (1991) offices. Before becoming the firm's first chief executive officer from Europe, he was head of BCG's global Financial Services practice.

During his 30 years at BCG, he has counted among his clients many of the world's leading financial institutions. He has worked with them to redefine their strategies, spearheaded major global expansion initiatives, and supported them in fundamental restructurings.

Hans-Paul studied economics, business administration, and Chinese, receiving a Diplom from the University of Bochum, an MA from Yale University, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Today he is based in both Frankfurt and New York, and travels extensively among BCG's global offices.

Dr. Frenkel a member of the Executive Committee of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and the J.P. Morgan International Council. He also serves as Chairman and CEO of the Group of Thirty (G-30) which is a private, nonprofit, Consultative Group on International Economic and Monetary Affairs.Dr. Frenkel served from 2004 to 2009 as Vice Chairman of American International Group, Inc. and from 2000 to 2004 as Chairman of Merrill Lynch International Inc., as well as Chairman of Merrill Lynch’s Sovereign Advisory and Global Financial Institutions Groups. Between 1991 and 2000 he served two terms as the Governor of the Bank of Israel. He is credited with reducing inflation in Israel and achieving price stability, liberalizing Israel’s financial markets, removing foreign exchange controls, and integrating the Israeli economy into the global financial system.

Between 1987 and 1991, he was the Economic Counselor and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund, and between 1973 and 1987 he was on the faculty of the University of Chicago where he held the position of the David Rockefeller Professor of International Economics and served as Editor of the Journal of Political Economy.

He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), a Member of the Board of Directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a member of the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Trilateral Commission, a Member of the Board of The Council for the United States and Italy, a member of the Investment Advisory Council of the Prime Minister of Turkey, a member of Temasek International Panel (TIP), a member of the International Advisory Council of China Development Bank, a member of Itau Unibanco International Advisory Board, and a member of the Economic Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Boston Properties, Inc. and Loews Corporation.

Dr. Frenkel served as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank (during 1995-1996), as Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (during 1999-2000), and as Governor of the IMF and Alternate Governor of the World Bank for Israel (during 1991-2000).

Dr. Frenkel is the author of numerous books and articles in the fields of International Economics and Macro-Economics. Dr. Frenkel holds a B.A. in economics and political science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.

Elad Shraga is Managing Director and Global Head of the Client Solutions Group for Deutsche Bank, based in London. He is responsible for Deutsche Bank’s activities across Commercial Real Estate, ABS Banking, Longevity Risk Markets, and Illiquid Credit and Special Situations in North America and Europe. Over the course of his tenure at Deutsche Bank, he has played an instrumental role in the establishment of several markets and products, such as catastrophe risk, longevity/mortality swaps, and receivable derivatives. Prior to this, Mr. Shraga ran the Global Principal Finance business for the Bank. Mr. Shraga joined Deutsche Bank in 2000 in the Tel-Aviv office as an Emerging Markets proprietary trader, before assuming the role of regional head of Structured Credit Trading for Deutsche Bank in New York. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Mr. Shraga was an FX derivatives trader at Bank Leumi in Tel Aviv, pioneering the local derivatives market. He holds a B.Sc in Statistics and Mathematics from the University of Toronto.

Richard Quest is Host of "Quest Means Business" on CNN and a monthly program on CNN International called Business Traveller. Quest is one of the most instantly recognizable members of the CNN team; covering an extensive range of breaking news and business stories, as well as feature programming, he has become one of the network’s highest profile presenters. ... Quest joined CNN in 2001 for the launch of Business International. Since this time Quest has covered a variety of different events for CNN, amongst others an analysis of the U.S. elections as American Quest and the start of the circulation of euro banknotes and coins on 1 January 2002 and the last official commercial flight of Concorde. He has also headed up CNN’s coverage of several events involving the British Royal Family.

Myron S. Scholes is the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business since 1996. He was called back to active duty in 2010. He is Chairman of the Board of Economic Advisors of Stamos Capital Management. He is former Chairman of Platinum Grove Asset Management (retired end of 2009), which he co-founded in 1999.

Professor Scholes is widely known for his seminal work in options pricing, capital market equilibrium, tax policies and the financial services industry. He is widely published in academic journals. He is co-originator of the Black-Scholes options pricing model, which is the basis of the pricing and risk-management technology that is used to value and to manage the risk of options contained in instruments around the world. For his work on "a new theory to value derivatives…", he was awarded the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1997.

He was the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business from 1983 to 1996, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution from 1987 to 1996. He received a Ph.D. in 1969 from the University of Chicago where he served as the Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Finance in the Graduate School of Business from 1974 – 1983 and where he was the Director of the Center for Research in Security Prices from 1976 – 1983. He was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Finance at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management from 1969 to 1974.

Professor Scholes is a member of the Econometric Society and served as President of the American Finance Association in 1990. Professor Scholes has honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Paris, France, McMaster University, Canada, Louvain University, Belgium and Wilfred Laurier University, Canada. He has honorary Professorship from Nanjing University. He is a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Professor Scholes has consulted widely with many financial institutions, corporations and exchanges and continues to lecture for many academic groups and other organizations around the world. Professor Scholes is a past Director of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and a current director of Dimensional Fund Advisors and American Century (Mountain View) mutual funds and several private companies.

Master's in International Affairs, Columbia University; Master's and PhD in International Economics, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. Former Senior Management Consultant, Eurogroup, Mazars Group, Paris, specializing in banking and financial market organization. With World Economic Forum: 1998-2002, Senior Programme Manager, responsible for developing the business, management, and technology section of the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos; since 2002, with the Global Competitiveness Network; since 2007, Director, Senior Economist and Head, Global Competitiveness Network. Has written and lectured extensively on issues related to national competitiveness and has served as lead editor on a number of regional and topical competitiveness reports.

Steven J. Puig, a dual citizen of the Dominican Republic and the United States, was appointed Vice President for the Private Sector and Non-Sovereign Guaranteed Operations, at the Inter-American Development Bank, effective November 7, 2007. Mr. Puig is responsible for coordinating the private sector and non-sovereign guaranteed operational programs of the IDB Group, the development and implementation of a private sector integrated business plan, as well as the business plans of each of the group´s private sector entities. The IDB Group is composed of the IDB, the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) and the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC). The area under Mr. Puig´s responsibility includes the IDB´s Structured and Corporate Finance Department (SCF) and the Opportunities for the Majority Sector (OMJ). Prior to joining the IDB, Mr. Puig held a number of positions with Citigroup. From 2004 to 2007, he was Global Head of Trade for Latin America in Miami. From 2001 to 2004, he was Country Corporate Officer in Colombia. From 1998 to 2000, he was Country Corporate Officer in El Salvador. Prior to that, Mr. Puig was Vice President of Corporate Banking and Corporate Finance in the Dominican Republic. Before joining Citigroup, Mr. Puig served on the management team of two commercial groups in the Dominican Republic, Grupo Ambar and Grupo Reid & Perellano. Mr. Puig holds a master’s degree in International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management of Arizona, and a degree in Economics and International Finance and Commerce from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Washington, D.C.

Lorenzo Bini Smaghi is currently Visiting Scholar at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He is Chairman of the Boards of SNAM and of Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi. He also chairs the Italian Chapter of the Alumni of the University of Chicago. From June 2005 to December 2011 he was a Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank. During that period he acted as G7 and G20 Deputy for the euro area. He started his career as an Economist at the Research Department of the Banca d’Italia (in 1983) and became Head of the Policy Division of the European Monetary Institute (in 1994) and then Director General for International Affairs in the Italian Treasury (in 1998). He has been the Chairman of the Board of SACE Spa, and member of the Boards of Finmeccanica, MTS, the European Investment Bank. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), a Master’s degree from the University of Southern California and a Ph.D from the University of Chicago. He is author of several articles and books on international and European monetary and financial issues. He is currently member of the A-List of Commentators for the Financial Times. He is married and has two children.

Tyler Cowen is Holbert C. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and also Director of the Mercatus Center. He received his Ph.d. in economics from Harvard University in 1987. His book *The Great Stagnation: How America Ate the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better* was a New York Times best-seller. He was recently named in an *Economist* poll as one of the most influential economists of the last decade and last year Bloomberg BusinessWeek dubbed him "America's Hottest Economist." *Foreign Policy* magazine named him as one of its "Top 100 Global Thinkers" of 2011. His latest book *An Economist Gets Lunch* considers the economics of global food. He also co-writes a blog at www.marginalrevolution.com and is currently constructing an on-line education project.

Peter Jarrett, Head of Division, Economics Department, OECD, PhD in Economics from Harvard, have been at the OECD for 26 years with 5 years before that at the Bank of Canada and currently oversee our work on France/Poland, Canada/New Zealand, Brazil/Indonesia and Israel.

Paul Révay, having joined its European Office in 1981. He also assists, since 1996, the Lisbon-based Fundaçao Oriente with its Arrabida Meetings chaired by Chris Patten, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of Friends of Europe in Brussels, chaired by Etienne Davignon. In 1994-2000, he assisted the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata on her "Informal Advisory Group" in Geneva.

In 1978 he joined the Foreign Trade Board of the French Government (CFCE) involved, as senior research officer, in assisting French exporting companies to the (then) centrally-planned economies of the COMECON countries and was appointed desk manager for Yugoslavia-Albania-China.
In 1995-96, he participated in European Union TACIS projects on technical assistance (institution-building) to the Executive Secretariat and to the Inter-State Economic Committee (MEK) of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Minsk and in Moscow. Between 1980 and 1996, he was secretary general of the French Committee of the East-West Vienna International Council and, in 1994-1996, a member and treasurer of the French Business Association for the World UN Social Summit (BUSCO) in Paris, as well as in 1989-92 secretary general of an East-West project on creating a Management Institute for Training in Europe (MITIE). After his secondary education in the United Kingdom and in Switzerland, he completed his university studies in Paris at the Institut d’Études Politiques and at the Faculty of Law of the University of Paris II.
He attended the Senior Executive Seminar of the Aspen Institute in Colorado in the summer of 1984, and contributed to Le Dictionnaire des Premiers Ministres et Présidents du Conseil de la France (1815-2002) on Robert Schuman (Editions Perrin, Paris, 2002).

Glenn Yago is a senior fellow and founder of the Institute's Financial Innovation Lab. He is a leading authority on financial innovations, capital markets, emerging markets and environmental finance.

Yago's work focuses on the innovative use of financial instruments to solve long-standing economic development and social and environmental challenges. His research and projects have contributed to policy innovations fostering the democratization of capital to traditionally underserved markets and entrepreneurs in the United States and around the world.

Yago runs the Milken Innovation Center at the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, where he oversees a range of activities devoted to accelerating Israel's economic growth, bridging social and economic gaps, and securing Israel's global competitiveness through financial technology transfer that increases the impact of government policy, philanthropy, and private-sector investment. Yago directs the Milken Institute Fellows Program, which places graduates in internships related to financial reform and economic development projects.

Yago is the founder of the Institute's series of Financial Innovations LabsTM. The labs have been credited with crafting breakthrough financial policies and programs for institutional investors, foundations, development programs and governments that address such diverse problems as urban revitalization, catastrophic risk, affordable housing, small-business financing, water infrastructure, climate change, health care and archaeological site preservation.

Prior to joining the Institute, Yago served as a professor at the State University of New York-Stony Brook and at the City University of New York Graduate Center in the Ph.D. program in economics. He is also a visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He is the co-author of multiple books, including "Fixing the Housing Market" (Wharton Publishing/Pearson, 2012), "Financing the Future: Market-Based Innovations for Growth" (Wharton School Publishing, 2010), "The Rise and Fall of the U. S. Mortgage and Credit Markets" (John Wiley and Sons, 2009), "Global Edge" (Harvard Business School Press, 2007), "Restructuring Regulation and Financial Institutions" (Kluwer, 2004) and "Beyond Junk Bonds" (Oxford University Press, 2005). He is also the co-editor of the Milken Institute Series on Financial Innovation and Economic Growth (Springer). Yago earned a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison

Nick Butler is Visiting Professor and Chair of the Kings Policy Institute at Kings College London. He was formerly Group Vice President for Strategy and Policy Development at BP, and senior policy adviser to the Prime Minister. Professor Butler is also an advisor to the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge and a regular contribitor to the Financial Times.

The Turkish Green Building Association, Chairman; Board Member of Emlak Konut Real Estate Investment Trust. Haluk Sur is a senior real estate professional with over 25 years of experience in the Turkish real estate market. He is the Chairman of Urban Land Institute Turkish District Council, Chairman of the Turkish Green Building Association, Board Member of Emlak Konut Real Estate Investment Trust, an affiliate of TOKI (Turkey Prime Ministry Housing Development Administration), Board Member of Mega Investment Energy and Construction and founding Board Member of Konutder (Housing Development and Investment Association.

Mr. Sur was born in Bandırma in 1956 and completed his primary, secondary and high school education in the same city. He graduated from Boğaziçi University Engineering Faculty in 1978 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering and received his Master’s of Science degree in Environmental Engineering. He also attended the University of Washington on a NATO scholarship for Environmental Engineering. From 1982 to 1983, Mr. Sur worked in the NATO Infrastructure Department during his military service.

From 1983 to 1992, Mr. Sur was the founder and managing director of Yapi Teknik Layout, which served as the design and construction coordinator for over a dozen schools and hospitals in Saudi Arabia and provided design and layout services for thousands of low- and middle-income housing units, cooperative units and luxury housing in Turkey.

Mr. Sur was a member of the executive committee of real estate development and construction group of Ihlas Holdings between 1992-1999 and the Founder Board Member and CEO of Ihlas REIT (1999-2006), one of the first publicly listed real estate investment trusts (REITs) in Turkey. he was the co-founder of GYODER, the main Turkish real estate industry association, where he served as Vice Chairman in 2004 and Chairman from 2005 through 2007. Haluk Sur is married and has two children.

Widely published in the field of public economics, he was touted in a 2004 UK magazine publication as one of the world’s most influential tax experts. He serves as an Associate Editor of International Tax and Public Finance and the Canadian Tax Journal, and is a research fellow of CESifo, Munich, Germany, and the Centre for Business Taxation Institute, Oxford University. He is a regular contributor to the National Post, and has frequently published articles in other print media.

Dr. Mintz presently serves on several boards including Brookfield Asset Management, Imperial Oil Limited, Morneau Shepell, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Dr. Mintz held the position of Professor of Business Economics at the Rotman School of Business from 1989-2007 and Department of Economics at Queen’s University, Kingston, 1978-89. He was a Visiting Professor, New York University Law School, 2007; President and CEO of the C. D. Howe Institute from 1999-2006; Clifford Clark Visiting Economist at the Department of Finance, Ottawa; Chair of the federal government’s Technical Committee on Business Taxation in 1996 and 1997; and Associate Dean (Academic) of the Faculty of Management, University of Toronto, 1993 – 1995. He was founding Editor-in-Chief of International Tax and Public Finance, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers from 1994 – 2001, and recently chaired the Alberta Financial and Investment Policy Advisory Commission reporting to the Alberta Minister of Finance. He served as a member of the Economic Advisory Council to advise on economic planning, and recently was the research director for the Federal-Provincial Territorial Minister’s Working Group on Retirement Income Research. In 2002, Dr. Mintz’s book, Most Favored Nation:

A Framework for Smart Economic Policy, was winner of the Purvis Prize for best book in economic policy and runner-up for Donner Prize for best book in public policy. Dr. Mintz has consulted widely with the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the governments of Canada, Alberta, New Brunswick, Ontario, and Saskatchewan, and various businesses and nonprofit organizations.

Pulver Helped shape the development and worldwide market acceptance of VoIP. Today he is Chairman of 3-Rings. Co-founder, Vonage. Twitter bio: Technology Anthropologist; Entrepreneur; Early-Stage Seed Investor; story teller, Living in Social Media. Producer of #140conf Jeff Pulver has been called "a habitual entrepreneur who likes to start Internet communications companies." He is known globally as someone who helped popularize the use of Voice over IP (voip) and as the co-founder of Vonage. His public policy work in the telecommunications field is well known in Washington, D.C. One of Jeff's passions is to help others in the pursuit of their dreams. In Israel, since 2006 Jeff has spent a lot of his time helping to connect the high-tech industry with various Networking events. Including: Breakfasts, Cocktail Parties and his annual Summer Party where he salutes the Israeli Hi-Tech Industry. These events have helped energize the hi-tech ecosystem and have provided a means for people to get discovered; sometimes the founding of a startup; sometimes their funding of one and sometimes something even more meaningful…a relationship. During this timeframe Jeff has invested in numerous pre-Seed Israeli startups and continues to look for people to believe in. On February 12, 2004, Mr. Pulver's petition for clarification declaring Free World Dialup as an unregulated information service was granted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). This landmark decision by the FCC was the first decision it made on IP communications and is known as "The Pulver Order."

Ambassador Carlos Pascual is the State Department’s Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs. Secretary Clinton appointed Ambassador Pascual to this position, effective May 18, 2011. In this capacity, he advises the Secretary on energy issues, ensuring that energy security is advanced at all levels of U.S. foreign policy.

Prior to his appointment, Ambassador Pascual served as the United States Ambassador to Mexico (2009-2011) and was Vice President and Director of the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution (2003-2009). During his extensive career in public service, Ambassador Pascual has held positions in the Department of State, the National Security Council (NSC) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). He served as Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization at the U.S. Department of State, where he led and organized U.S. government planning to help stabilize and reconstruct societies in transition from conflict or civil strife.

Ambassador Pascual served as Coordinator for U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia (2003), where he oversaw regional and country assistance strategies to promote market-oriented and democratic states. He also served as U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine (2000-2003), Special Assistant to the President and NSC Senior Director for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia (1998-2000), and Director for the same region (1995-1998). Before then, Ambassador Pascual worked for USAID in Sudan, South Africa and Mozambique, and as Deputy Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia (1983-1995). Ambassador Pascual received his M.P.P. from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1982 and his B.A. from Stanford University in 1980. He has served on the boards of directors for the National Endowment for Democracy, Freedom House, and the Internews Network. He has also served on the Advisory Group for the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund.

Moritz Kraemer, a German national, is a Managing Director and Head of the Sovereign Ratings Group for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Standard & Poor's. He joined the company in February 2001, leading the Europe-based team of 14 analysts.

Prior to joining S&P Moritz was an Economist with the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC, working with governments in Latin America in the design and implementation of economic policy reforms (mainly fiscal reform and decentralization).

Mr. Kraemer holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Göttingen (Germany), where he was a researcher and lecturer at the Ibero-America Institute of Economic Research and the Faculty of Economics from 1992 through 1996. He studied Economics, Latin American Studies and Literature in Frankfurt, Southampton and San Diego. Moritz speaks English, German, French and Spanish.

Liz Gannes has been a Silicon Valley-based business technology reporter since 2004, where she started her career as a reporter at Red Herring. She was the second employee at the technology blog network GigaOM, where she covered the rise of the social Web. As part of GigaOM, in 2006, Ms. Gannes founded NewTeeVee, a site that became the preeminent source for news and analysis about Internet video and ultimately the intersection of entertainment and technology. She graduated from Dartmouth with a degree in linguistics.

Dr. Sven Behrendt is Managing Director of GeoEconomica, a policial risk research and consulting firm. Before founding GeoEconomica, he served in multiple management and analyst positions at the World Economic Forum, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Bertelsmann Group on Policy Research. Sven Behrendt holds a Ph.D. in international relations and a M.Sc. in Public Administration and Policy from the University of Konstanz/Germany. He studied at the London School of Economics, in Damascus and Khartoum. He published widely on the transformation of global financial markets and the emerging role of sovereign wealth management, energy and the politics of the Middle East, and made substantial contributions to the global discourse on dealing with global macro risks.

Yukon Huang is currently senior associate in the Carnegie Endowment’s Asia Program in Washington D.C. Prior to joining Carnegie, he was the World Bank’s Country Director for China based in Beijing and earlier the World Bank’s Director for Russia and the former Soviet Union. His research focuses on China’s economic and financial prospects and its impact on the United States/Europe and the Asia region. He was an advisor to the World Bank team that prepared the joint Chinese Government -World Bank "China 2030" report on China’s long- term strategy. Dr. Huang has published widely on development issues affecting China and East Asia. He is the A-List commentator for the Financial Times on China and his articles are seen frequently in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Foreign Affairs and other major media. His recent books include East Asia Visions which addresses future prospects for the region and Reshaping Economic Geography in East Asia which analyzes how the growth patterns in East Asia have been shaped by spatial and economic factors. He has a PhD in economics from Princeton University and a BA from Yale University.

Sherif El Diwany is the Chief Business Officer of Documenta SL, and an independent strategy advisor on Arab affairs. He served as Senior Director, Head of Middle East and North Africa at the World Economic Forum before he became Special Adviser to the Chairman (2005-2011). CEO and founder of one of Egypt’s top public policy and management consultancy (1984-2000). El Diwany served also as public policy adviser to several Middle East governments and international development agencies such as the World Bank and USAID. His expertise includes business and investment planning, private sector development, education and urban management. He has a MSc in Planning, University of Houston, Texas, USA in 1981, and a BSc in Architecture, Cairo University, Egypt in 1978.

Miroslav Singer was appointed a member of the CNB Bank Board and Vice-Governor in February 2005. The President appointed him CNB Governor for a term of six years with effect from 1 July 2010. As a participant at specialist conferences and in his lectures, he has also dealt with issues such as transformation, growth, the European currency, bankruptcy legislation and corporate governance. He has been a member of the Supervisory Boards/Boards of Directors at Česká pojišťovna, Expandia Finance, Expandia Banka, Expandia Holding and Chemofond, as well as at industrial companies such as Jitona, Vigona and Vlnap. He has been a member of the editorial boards of Finance a úvěr (Journal of Economics and Finance) and Business Central Europe. In 2001, Miroslav Singer joined PricewaterhouseCoopers Czech Republic as Director of the services to businesses group, where he specialised in corporate recovery, restructuring and distressed assets transactions. He also led complex projects such as a marketing and financial study of the possibility of holding the Olympic Games in Prague.

Lorenzo Bini Smaghi is currently Visiting Scholar at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He is Chairman of the Boards of SNAM and of Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi. He also chairs the Italian Chapter of the Alumni of the University of Chicago. From June 2005 to December 2011 he was a Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank. During that period he acted as G7 and G20 Deputy for the euro area. He started his career as an Economist at the Research Department of the Banca d’Italia (in 1983) and became Head of the Policy Division of the European Monetary Institute (in 1994) and then Director General for International Affairs in the Italian Treasury (in 1998). He has been the Chairman of the Board of SACE Spa, and member of the Boards of Finmeccanica, MTS, the European Investment Bank. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), a Master’s degree from the University of Southern California and a Ph.D from the University of Chicago. He is author of several articles and books on international and European monetary and financial issues. He is currently member of the A-List ofCommentators for the Financial Times

Steve Keen is the Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Western Sydney. He is long standing critic of the conventional economic theory and has been identified as one of 12 economists that warned about the financial crisis before it happened. He was the winner of the 2010 Revere Award of Economics from the Real-World Economics Review for being the economist who ‘first and most cogently warned of the coming calamity.’ Professor Keen is one of the world's leading experts on Hyman Minsky's Financial Instability Hypothesis.

Uri Dadush is senior associate and director of Carnegie's International Economics Program. Dadush previously served as the World Bank’s director of international trade and before that as director of economic policy. He is the editor of the Carnegie International Economic Bulletin, and the co-author of Paradigm Lost: The Euro in Crisis and of Juggernaut: How Emerging Powers are Reshaping the World Economy.

Dr. Overholt is currently Senior Research Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Previously he was Director of the RAND Corporation’s Center for Asia Pacific Policy. He served as Head of Strategy and Economics at Nomura’s regional headquarters in Hong Kong from 1998 to 2001. For 18 years he was at Bankers Trust, managing a country risk team in New York from 1980 to 1984 and then serving as regional strategist and Asia research head based in Hong Kong from 1985 to 1998. From 1971 to 1979 Dr. Overholt worked at the Hudson Institute, where he directed planning studies for the U.S. Department of Defense, Department of State, National Security Council, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Council on International Economic Policy.

He became Director of Hudson Research Services, which provided strategic planning services to corporations. Dr. Overholt is the author or principal co-author of six books, including most recently Asia, America and the Transformation of Geopolitics (Cambridge University Press, 2008). His book, The Rise of China (W.W. Norton, 1993), had nine foreign editions) and won the Mainichi News/Asian Affairs Research Center Special Book Prize. Dr. Overholt received his B.A. (magna, 1968) from Harvard and his Master of Philosophy (1970) and Ph.D. (1972) from Yale.

John is global head of IBS/Client Coverage for the Investment Banking Division (IBD). He serves on the Firmwide Capital Committee, IBD Operating Committee and IBD Client and Business Standards Committee. Additionally, he was responsible for forming and has oversight of the IBS Leadership Group, a group of globally-focused senior bankers responsible for many of the firm's most important relationships. John was global co-head of the Financial Sponsors Group from 2007 to 2009, co-head of Leveraged Finance from 2005 to 2007 and co-head of the Media and Entertainment Group in IBD from 2002 to 2005. He joined Goldman Sachs in 2000 and was named partner in 2002. John is a trustee, member of the Executive Committee and chairman of the Audit Committee of the Lawrenceville School. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors for Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York and a board member of Youth, I.N.C. John graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Middlebury College with a BA in English in 1992.

Edward Hugh is an independent macroeconomist, who specializes in growth and productivity theory, with particular emphasis on the economic impacts of ageing populations and other demographic processes like migration flows. Based in Barcelona, Edward is an active member of the Catalan economics community. Best known internationally for his writings on the Spanish economic crises, and his participation in the Latvian devaluation debate, he is also an expert on the European Sovereign Debt Crisis. Edward is an informal adviser to the current Catalan government, and member of the board of directors of the bank Catalunya Caixa. He is engaged in ongoing research on the interaction processes linking ageing, longevity, fertility and migration, and the impact of all of these on long term economic growth. He is currently working on a book entitled "Population, The Ultimate Non-renewable Resource?" He is a regular contributor to a number of widely read weblogs, including A Fistful of Euros, Roubini Global Economics Monitor, and Demography Matters, and maintains an active and dynamic Facebook community.

Janet Tavakoli is the founder and president of Tavakoli Structured Finance, Inc. (TSF), a Chicago based consulting firm providing expert experience to maximize the value of derivatives and structured products and avoid getting burned. TSF consults for financial institutions, institutional investors, and hedge funds. Ms. Tavakoli is a world renowned author and speaker on derivative products and securities and their systemic risks and granular rewards.

She has appeared as an expert before forums of the International Monetary Fund, the Federal Reserve Bank, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Securities and Exchange Commission.Her books, Structured Finance & Collateralized Debt Obligations (2003, 2008), and Credit Derivatives (1998, 2001) revealed grave flaws in the methodology for rating structured financial products and abuses in the credit derivatives markets. In Dear Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles from Wall Street, she chronicles the causal events and malfeasance leading to the near collapse of the U.S. financial system in 2008. Her 2012 e-book, The New Robber Barons is a compilation of her writings on subsequent ongoing failed regulation, failure to prosecute, and cover-ups for elites and the consequential risks to the global financial system. Her letter to the SEC posted in February 2007 in response to proposed rules for the credit rating agencies makes the case that the NRSRO designation for the rating agencies should be revoked for structured financial products.

Ms. Tavakoli was years ahead of the financial industry predicting lax underwriting, excessive leverage, and misrating of structured products would result in a global financial crisis. The University of Chicago profiled her as "Structured Success," and Business Week as "The Cassandra of Credit Derivatives."Ms. Tavakoli is frequently published and quoted in financial journals including the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, Economist, Business Week, Fortune, Global Risk Review, RISK, IDD, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, LIPPER HedgeWorld, Asset Securitization Report, Journal of Structured Finance, Investor Dealers' Digest, International Securitization Report, Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Magazine, Credit, Derivatives Week, TheStreet.com, Finance World, and others. Frequent television appearances include CBS's 60 Minutes, CNN, C-Span, CNBC, BNN, CBS Evening News, Bloomberg TV, First Business Morning News, Fox, ABC, and BBC.Janet Tavakoli has over 22 years of Wall Street experience in finance.

Tavakoli has traded, structured and sold derivatives and structured products at major financial institutions in New York and London. Prior to that, Tavakoli was the manager of financial strategic planning for two Fortune 500 companies. She is a former adjunct associate professor of finance at Chicago Booth (the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business) where she taught "Derivatives: Futures, Forwards, Options and Swaps".Janet Tavakoli is the former Executive Director, Head of Financial Engineering in the Global Financial Markets Division at Westdeutsche Landesbank in London. She headed market risk management for the capital markets group for Bank One in Chicago.

Tavakoli headed the asset swap trading desk at Merrill Lynch in New York, headed mortgage backed securities marketing for Merrill Lynch in New York, and headed mortgage backed securities marketing to Japanese clients for PaineWebber in New York. She also worked for Bear Stearns heading marketing for quantitative research and for Goldman Sachs. During her career, she has been registered and licensed with the SFA, NASD, ASE, CBOE, NYSE, PSE and the NFA and has passed the series 7, 63 and 3 qualifying exams.Illinois Institute of Technology: B.S. in Chemical EngineeringUniversity of Chicago Graduate School of Business: MBA in FinanceAdjunct Associate Professor of Finance [Derivatives

Mr. Blute is an executive vice president and a product manager in the London office, overseeing global and regional credit products. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2000, Mr. Blute was a senior accountant at Deloitte & Touche and also has experience in institutional investment grade and high yield bond research. He has 13 years of investment experience and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He received an undergraduate degree from the University of Arizona.

Daniel Gross is a best-selling author and one of the most widely-read economic/financial writers working today. Prior to joining Yahoo! in September 2010, he was senior editor and columnist at Newsweek and "Moneybox" columnist for Slate. He has been a columnist for the New York Times, a contributing writer at New York, Fortune, and Wired, and a staff reporter at Bloomberg News and The New Republic.
Gross appears regularly in media outlets such as CNBC, CNN, MSNBC and National Public Radio. Specialties include: the economic impact of globalization, the links between business and politics, and business history.

A native of East Lansing, Michigan, Daniel Gross is a graduate of Cornell University, holds an A.M. in American history from Harvard University., as well as an honorary degree from Lake Forest College.