Dr. Benn SteilDr. Benn Steil is senior fellow and director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in New York. He is also the founding editor of International Finance, a top scholarly (ISI-accredited) economics journal, as well as a co-founder and managing member of Efficient Frontiers LLC, a markets consultancy. From 2002 to 2006 he was also a nonexecutive director of the virt-x securities exchange in London (now part of the Swiss Exchange). Prior to his joining CFR in 1999, he was director of the International Economics Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. He came to the Institute in 1992 from a Lloyd’s of London Tercentenary Research Fellowship at Nuffield College, Oxford, where he received his MPhil and DPhil in Economics. He also holds a BSc in economics summa cum laude from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Steil has written and spoken widely on international finance, securities trading, and market regulation. His research and market commentary are regularly covered in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, The Economist, and Reuters and Bloomberg outlets. His newest book, Money, Markets and Sovereignty, was published by Yale University Press in February 2009. His previous book, Financial Statecraft: The Role of Financial Markets in American Foreign Policy, was named one of the “Best Business Books of 2006” by Library Journal and an “Outstanding Academic Title of 2006” by Choice. Among his earlier books are a critically acclaimed analysis of The European Equity Markets; a major text on Institutional Investors; a widely reviewed policy study on Building a Transatlantic Securities Market, which has been the topic of numerous conferences in North America and Europe; and edited volumes on cross-border antitrust (Antitrust Goes Global) and the economics of innovation (Technological Innovation and Economic Performance).
Dr. Philippa Malmgren
Dr. Philippa Malmgren is the President and founder of the Canonbury Group (www.canonburygroup.com) and Principalis Asset Management, financial firms based in London. In short, she helps fund managers better understand how politics, policy and geopolitics will impact on the financial markets. Investors use her insights to manage their portfolios more profitably. Her clients include many investment banks, fund managers and hedge funds as well as Sovereign Wealth Funds, pension funds and corporations. She founded the Canonbury Symposia, which brings together high level experts on strategic security, defense and intelligence matters to meet with experts from the financial markets. She is a Senior Advisor to Deustche Bank in Asia, Prudential Real Estate Investments worldwide and Amwal in Qatar and the Middle East.
She is a frequent guest on the BBC's Today Program, Newsnight, a guest presenter on CNBC's Squawk Box (UK) and is a speaker at conferences. She has a column on the markets in Investment Week and has written for The International Economy, International Fund Investment Magazine and Institutional Investor Magazine. Dr. Malmgren has been a visiting lecturer at Tsinghua University in Beijing and an occasional lecturer for the Duke Fuqua Global Executive MBA Program.
She serves on the International Advisory Board for the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs. She is a Governor of the Ditchley Foundation in the UK.
She served as financial market advisor in the White House and on the National Economic Council from 2001-2002, where she was responsible for financial market issues. She founded Malmgren and Company, in London, England on 2000 and was previously the Deputy Head of Global Strategy at UBS and the Chief Currency Strategist for Bankers Trust. She headed the Global Investment Management business for Bankers Trust in Asia. She has a B.A. from Mount Vernon College and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. She completed the Harvard Program on National Security. The World Economic Forum named Dr. Malmgren a Global Leader for Tomorrow in 2000. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Chatham House, the Economic Club of New York and the Institute for International Strategic Security.
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