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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC AND MONETARY AFFAIRS

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CURRICULUM VITAE OF SPEAKERS

Avinash PersaudFounder and Chairman Intelligence Capital

Mr. Persaud is currently Chairman of Elara Capital PLC, an Investment Bank based in London and Mumbai; Chairman of PBL, a Real Estate development company in the Caribbean; Chairman of Intelligence Capital Limited, a London-based financial advisory firm; and Board Director of RBC Latin America and the Caribbean. He was formerly a Senior Executive at UBS, J. P. Morgan, State Street and GAM Holdings.

Avinash D. Persaud is Emeritus Professor at Gresham College, London, a Senior Fellow at London Business School, a visiting fellow at the Centre for Financial Analysis & Policy, Judge Institute, Cambridge University, 2010 President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (Section F) and past Governor of the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was ranked as the number two public intellectual in the world on the financial crisis by an expert panel for Prospect Magazine.

He is a member of the UK Treasury's Audit Committee and a member of the National Council of Economic Advisors in Barbados. He is a senior adviser to the Financial Services Law Reform Commission in India. Formerly, he was the Chairman of the Warwick Commission on Financial

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Reform, the Chairman of the regulatory sub-committee of the UN High Level Task Force on Financial Reform, co-chair of the OECD EmNet and member of the Pew Task Force to the US Senate Banking Committee.

Sony Kapoor Managing Director Re-Define, Think Tank

Sony Kapoor's career spans working in the financial sector, with civil society and on public policy across several countries. As Managing Director of Re-Define, an economic and financial think tank that advises policy makers in the EU and internationally, he is deeply involved in finding a solution to the on-going economic and financial crises.

Mr Kapoor is known for his work on financial regulation, economic governance, crisis management and international development. In his personal capacity he is the chairman of the Banking Stakeholder Group of the European Banking Authority, a member of the expert panel of the Crisis (CRIS) committee of the European Parliament and a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics. He is also a consultant to several governments and EU institutions.Mr Kapoor has previously worked in investment banking and derivative trading for institutions including ICICI (International Credit and Investment Corporation of India), Lehman Brothers and Aquila Energy Limited. He left the financial sector in 2003 to work on reforming the financial system and improving public policymaking.He has also worked extensively on international development, including during a stint as a strategy adviser to the Government of Norway. He co-founded the International Tax Justice Network, served on the boards of several NGOs, ran development economics at Christian Aid and was a strategy adviser to both Oxfam Novib and Jubilee USA. He was also a development finance consultant for the World Bank and United Nations as well as for governments in Europe and the developing world.He has testified as an expert witness on international finance at the European Parliament, the US Congress, the Bundestag and other parliaments, and conducted seminars and lectures at various finance ministries, central banks, universities, multilateral institutions and the European Commission. His comments and analysis of the crisis are often picked up by publications such as the Financial Times & the Wall Street Journal and media outlets such as the BBC, Reuters and Bloomberg.Mr Kapoor holds a Chemical Engineering degree from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies (University of Delhi), one of India's leading business schools and an MSC in International Finance from the London School of Economics. Mr Kapoor's publications, lectures and speeches can be accessed at the website of Re-Define (www.re-define.org)

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Richard Raeburn Chairman European Association of Corporate Treasurers Richard Raeburn is Chairman of the European Association of Corporate Treasurers. In addition to his voluntary work with the EACT he is extensively involved in the provision of social housing and palliative care for the dying in the UK. A non-executive director of two housing associations and a trustee of St Christopher’s Hospice, Richard also chairs three audit and finance committees.Prior to retiring at the end of 2008 he was Chief Executive of the Association of Corporate Treasurers for six years. Earlier in his career he worked in manufacturing industry and was a partner in the consulting practice of KPMG for nine years.Richard has an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and an MBA from Columbia University.

Stephany Griffith-Jones Financial Markets Program Director theInitiative for Policy Dialogue Columbia UniversityStephany Griffith-Jones is an economist specialising in international finance and development, with emphasis on reform of the international financial system, specifically in relation to financial regulation, global governance and international capital flows. She is currently Financial Markets Director at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, based at Columbia University in New York and Associate Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute. Previously she was Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University. She has held the position of Deputy Director of International Finance at the Commonwealth Secretariat and has worked at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and in the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. She started her career in 1970 at the Central Bank of Chile. Before joining the Institute of Development Studies, she worked at Barclays Bank International in the UK. She has acted as senior consultant to governments in Eastern Europe and Latin America and to many international agencies, including the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the European Commission, UNICEF, UNDP and United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. She was also a member of the Warwick Commission on international financial reform. She has published over 20 books and written many scholarly and journalistic articles. Her latest book, edited jointly with José Antonio Ocampo and Joseph Stiglitz, 'Time for the Visible Hand, Lessons from the 2008 crisis', was published in 2010.