Finance Experts

Mr. Jonathan Asquith, Chairman of AXA investment Managers SA; Non-executive Director of 3i Group plc and Ashmore Group plc; former Vice Chairman at Schroders; former Director and Vice Chairman at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (UK)

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Mr. Malcolm Basing, Non-Executive Director of PLUS Markets Group plc; former Chairman of Primus Guaranty (UK) Ltd.; NED of Newedge UK Financial Ltd.; former Director and Chairman of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.; former trustee of the City Disputes Panel (UK)

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Cynthia Beerbower

Ms. Cynthia Beerbower, Chief Executive Officer at Paget Partners; former Deputy Assistant Secretary Tax Policy at US Treasury; retired Partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP (USA)

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Professor Julia Black, Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science; Research Associate of the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR) (UK)

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Douglas Bongartz Renaud

Mr. Douglas Bongartz-Renaud, Senior Executive Advisor at ABN Amro Bank N.V.; former Executive Director Financial Markets Division at ABN Amro Bank; former Board Member of the International Swaps & Derivatives Association, Inc. (The Netherlands)

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Mr. Mark Brickell, Co- Founder and former Chief Executive Officer of Blackbird Holdings, Inc.; former Chairman of the International Swaps & Derivatives Association, Inc.; former Managing Director JP Morgan (USA)

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Mr. Michael Brindle QC, Barrister at Fountain Court Chambers; Member of the Financial Markets Law Committee; Deputy High Court Judge; Member of the SIAC and Kuala Lumpur Panels of Arbitrators; Former Chairman of the Commercial Bar Association; Former Chairman of Bar Council Education and Training and International Committees (UK)

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Mr. Adam Cooper, Senior Managing Director and Chief Legal Officer of Citadel; Member of the Financial Markets Working Group of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; Member of the Leadership Board of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness; Former Chairman of the Managed Funds Association; former Partner at Katten Muchin & Zavis (USA)

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Mr. Daniel Cunningham, Partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan; former partner at Allen & Overy LLP (2001-2009) and Cravath, Swaine & Moore (1983-2001); former US counsel to International Swaps & Derivatives Association, Inc. (1984-2009) (USA)

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Ms. Lisa Curran, Senior Councel at Allen & Overy LLP; Co-author of the Netting and Collateral Opinions published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. for Italy; Member of the IBA Legal Practice Division Council, responsible for the Financial Services Section (Italy)

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Ms. Frederique Dahan, Lead Counsel and Head of Financial Law Unit in the Legal Transition Team at the Office of the General Counsel at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (UK)

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Professor Jan Dalhuisen, Professor of Law at King's College London; Professor of Transitional Financial Law, Miranda Chair at University of Lisbon; Official appointee Dutch Government List of ICSID mediators;  Author of Dalhuisen on International Commercial, Financial and Trade Law (Hart Publishing Oxford fourth edition 2010) (UK)

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Mr. Eli Whitney Debevoise II, Senior Partner at Arnold & Porter LLP; former U.S. Executive Director of the World Bank Group; former Member of the Maryland Port Commission;  Member of the Council on Foreign Relations; Member of the American Society of International Law; Member of the ICSID Panels of Arbitrators and of Conciliators (USA)

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Mr. Guy Dempsey, Partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP; former General Counsel, Americas, at Barclays Capital; Member, NY City, NY State and American Bar Associations; former Member Financial Markets Lawyers Group associated with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (USA)

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Mr. Robin Dicker QC, Barrister at 3-4 South Square Chambers (UK)

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The Honorable Justice Arthur Emmett, Judge of the Federal Court of Australia; former Director and Chairman of Counsels at Chambers Limited; former Commissioner of the Australian Law Reform Commission (Australia)

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Ms. Gay H. Evans, Vice Chairman of the Board and Non-Executive Chairman Europe of International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.; Non-Executive Director of the London Stock Exchange Group plc; former Vice Chairman of Investment Banking and Investment Management at Barclays; former Director of Markets at the Financial Services Authority (UK)

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Mr. Juan Fernández-Armesto, arbitrator; former President of the Spanish Securities and Exchange Commission (CNMV); former Partner of Uría & Menéndez; former Chaired Professor of Commercial Law at Comillas University - ICADE in Madrid (Spain)

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Mr. Alban Caillemer du Ferrage, Partner at Gide Loyrette Nouel and Head of the Derivatives/ Derivatives Structured Finance Group; French Counsel of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (France)

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Mr. Simon Firth, Partner at Linklaters London, Derivatives and Structured Products Group; Author of Derivatives: Law and Practice (Sweet and Maxwell, 2003) (UK)

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Mr. Tim Frost, Non-Executive Director Cairn Capital; Governor London School of Economics and Political Science; Non-executive Director at Markit; former Head of JPM Credit Trading (UK)

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Prof. Jeffrey Golden, Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science; Retired Founding Partner of Allen & Overy LLP's US law practice (UK)

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Mr. Duncan Goldie-Morrison, Director and full time Chairman of the Newedge Group SA and Member of Credit Agricole S.A.'s International Advisory Board; former Board Member of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (UK)

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Walter Gontarek

Mr. Walter Gontarek, Chief Executive Officer at Channel Capital Advisors LLP; former Managing Director & Head of Global Credit Products at Royal Bank of Canada (UK)

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Mr. Richard Grove, Chief Executive Officer at Rutter Associates LLC; former fixed income and commodity derivatives executive at Bank of America and Paribas; former lawyer at Cravath, Swaine & Moore (NY and London); former Chief Executive Officer at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (USA)

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Professor Mitu Gulati, Professor at Duke Law School, researching: the history of international financial law and the measurement of judicial behaviour (USA)

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Dr. Hendrik Haag, Partner at Hengeler Mueller; Immediate past Chair of the Legal Practice Division and present chair of the Financial Crisis Task Force for the International Bar Association (Germany)

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Arthur Hahn

Mr. Arthur W. Hahn, Partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, Executive Committee Member and Chairman of its National Financial Services Practice; Board Member of the Futures Industry Association; Executive Committee Member of the Institute for Financial Markets (USA)

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The Honorable Justice Kunio Hamada, Special Counsel at Hibaya Park Law Offices; former Member of the Supreme Court of Japan; founding President of Inter-Pacific Bar Association(IPBA); a founding member of Hamada & Matsumoto(currently Mori Hamada & Matsumoto) (Japan)

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Ms. Joyce M. Hansen, Deputy General Counsel and Senior Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Chairman of the Financial Markets Lawyers Group; Member of the American Bar Association and The New York State Bar Association; Member of the UNIDROIT Study Group on Netting (USA)

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Mr. Tsuyoshi Hase, Managing Director of Mizuho-DL Financial Technology Co., Ltd.

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Mr. Schuyler Henderson, Lecturer, author and consultant on derivatives law; Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law; Author of Henderson on Derivatives (Butterworths LexisNexis, 1st edition 2003 and 2nd edition 2010) (UK)

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Professor Henry Hu, University of Texas Law School: Allan Shivers Chair; was the inaugural Director of SEC’s Division of Risk, Strategy, and Financial Innovation; research focuses on law and economics of derivatives and complex capital market and corporate governance issues (USA)

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Ms. Carolyn H. Jackson, Partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman UK LLP; Board Member of the International Association of Financial Engineers; former Executive Director and Board Member of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (UK)

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Mr. Thomas Jasper, Managing Partner at Manursing Partners LLC; Founder Chairman of the International Swaps and Derivitives Association; Risk Hall of Fame member in recognition of his profound contributions to risk management (USA)

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Professor Cally Jordan, Associate Professor Melbourne Law School; Center for Transnational Legal Studies (London); former Senior Counsel, The World Bank, Finance and Private Sector Development, Member American Law Institute; member, International Centre for Dispute Resolution (New York); former attorney, Cleary Gottlieb (New York); former advisor, Financial Services Bureau, Hong Kong Government.

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Mr. Antoine Maffei, Founding Partner at De Pardieu Brocas Maffei A.A.R.P.I.; former legal Adviser World Bank; Expert on the EU Legal Certainty Project and former Chairman of the Capital Market Forum of the International Bar Association (France)

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Professor Roger McCormick, Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Co-director of LSE’s Sustainable Finance Project; Non-executive Director of SMBC Derivative Products; Author of Legal Risk in the Financial Markets (Oxford University Press, 2010) (UK)

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Mr. Gabriel Moss QC, Barrister at 3-4 South Square Chambers; Member of the Financial Markets Law Committee; Authorised to sit as Deputy High Court Judge in the UK Chancery Division; Member of the Bank of England Working Group on Property Interests in Investment Securities; Member of the Bank of England Working Group on Financial Collateral (UK)

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Mr. Habib Motani, Partner in Clifford Chance LLP’s International Financial Markets Group; Global Head of the Derivatives Group; specializes in OTC and securitised derivatives,  Islamic derivatives, structured capital markets products including derivative linked retail and wholesale structured products (UK)

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Mr. Edward Murray, Partner in the Derivatives and Structured Finance group in Allen & Overy LLP; Chairman of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association's Financial Law Reform Committee; Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, London and a visiting lecturer at the Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II); Recorder of the UK Crown Court (UK)

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Mr. Michael Nelson, Assistant General Counsel and Senior Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Member of the Financial Markets Lawyers Group; Counsel to the Foreign Exchange Committee and the Treasury Market Practices Group (USA)

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Ms. Sandie Okoro, General Counsel at Barings Asset Management; Director of International Lawyers for Africa and a trustee of LawWorks; former Head of Legal for Corporate Services at Schroders (UK)

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Ms. Joanna Perkins, Director of the Financial Markets Law Committee; Barrister at 3-4 South Square Chambers (UK)

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Mr. Robert Pickel, Chief Executive Officer of International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc; previously Executive Vice Chairman and Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer and General Counsel of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc; former Assistant General Counsel of Amerada Hess Corporation (now Hess Corporation) (USA)

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Professor Pim Rank, Partner at NautaDutilh; Professor of banking and securities law at the Radboud University in Nijmegen; Member of the EU Clearing and Settlement Legal Certainty Group (The Netherlands)

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The Honorable Justice Henry duPont Ridgely, Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court; former President Judge of the Superior Court of Delaware; Adjunct Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School (USA)

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Mr. Jonathan Ross, Retired Senior Partner at Bell Gully, specialising in securities, derivatives, banking and finance and corporate law; Co-chair, International Bar Association Securities Law Committee; Admitted to New York and New Zealand bars (New Zealand)

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Mr. David E. Sternberg, Managing Director and the General Counsel of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.; former Managing Director at UBS Financial Services Inc.; former Director of Capital Markets Compliance at Salomon Brothers Inc.; former Associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP (USA)

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The Honorable Judge Elizabeth Stong, Judge of the US Bankruptcy Court in New York (USA)

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Ms. Kimberly Summe, General Counsel and Member of the Management Committee at Partner Fund Management LP; former General Counsel International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.; former Managing Director Barclays Capital; Lecturer at the Stanford Law School (USA)

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The Honorable Justice Ben Tennille, Retired Chief Judge of the North Carolina Business Court; former member of the American Bar Association Corporate Responsibility Task Force (USA)

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Mr. Jacques Terray, Director and a Vice-Chairman of Transparency International-France; Member of the International Board of Transparency International; Retired Senior Derivatives Partner at Gide Loyrette Nouel (France)

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Mr. Udoma Udo Udoma, Founding and senior partner of Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie; Chairman of the Nigerian Securities & Exchange Commission; former Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Waivers, Incentives and Concessions; Chairman of UAC of Nigeria Plc; Board Member of Linkage Assurance Plc. and Unilever Nigeria Plc (Nigeria)

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Professor Akihiro Wani, Partner at Linklaters Tokyo, Capital Markets; Professor at Sophia University Law School; Counsel for the International Swaps and Derivatives Association in Japan (Japan)

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Dr. Thomas Werlen, Partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan; former Group General Counsel and Executive Committee member at Novartis; former Partner Allen & Overy LLP London, specialized in corporate and capital markets law; Instructor of corporate and capital markets law at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland)

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Dr. Peter Werner, Senior Director at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. Responsible for (i) emerging markets, (ii) trading in commodities and developing products (iii) global law reform projects in insolvency, contract, collateral and international law (Germany/UK)

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Professor Charles Whitehead, Associate Professor of Law at Cornell Law School; former senior legal and business positions with Citigroup, Salomon Brothers, and Nomura Securities International, with experience in the New York, London, and Tokyo markets (USA)

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Mr. Lucien Wong, Managing Partner at Allen & Gledhill LLP; Board Member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore; Member of the Board of Directors of Singapore Airlines Ltd (Singapore)

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Professor Sarah Worthington QC, Downing Professor of Law at Cambridge University; Academic Member at 3-4 South Square Chambers; Member of Council, British Academy; Professorial Fellow of the Law School at University of Melbourne; Author of Equity (Clarenden Law Series OUP) (and other works) (UK and Australia)

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