Amsterdam Speakers
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Garrett Curran
Head of Fixed Income Sales EMEA
Credit Suisse
Garrett Curran is a Managing Director of Credit Suisse in the Investment Banking division, based in London. He is Head of Fixed Income Sales EMEA, a member of the Global Fixed Income Operating Committee and a member of the EMEA Client Committee. Mr. Curran joined Credit Suisse in 2008 from Dresdner Kleinwort, where he was a member of the Dresdner Kleinwort Executive Committee, responsible for the Global Finance business line, having previously held various positions within the Global Markets division, including Global Head of Distribution and Research.
Prior to that, Mr Curran worked at UBS in both London and New York in structured derivatives sales roles. He began his career at Bankers Trust. Mr Curran holds an MA Hons. in Law from Cambridge University. He is member of the Queens University Foundation Board.
Wolfgang Munchau
Associate Editor
Financial Times
Wolfgang Münchau is an associate editor of the Financial Times, where he writes a weekly column about the European Union and the European economy. Before taking up this position in September 2003, he was co-editor of Financial Times Deutschland, the German daily financial newspaper, for two years.
Before joining FT Deutschland, Mr Münchau was a
Amlan Roy
Head, Global Demographics & Pensions Research
Credit Suisse
Amlan Roy is Head, Global Demographics and Pensions Research for the Investment Banking Division of Credit Suisse in London. His research on Demographics and Pensions links those areas to economic growth, sectors, allocation, asset prices, health, migration and insurance. He advises and presents to a global cross-asset class client base that includes fund managers, hedge funds, insurance companies, pension funds, governments and central banks, across 29 countries. He extensively presents at various client and industry conferences and training seminars. Mr Roy is a Senior Research Associate of London School of Economics' Financial Markets Group and UBS Pensions Research Centre. He is guest professor for London Business School's Finance department. He also addresses student audiences at different universities.
In his prior role as Emerging Markets strategist, Mr Roy developed several Global Emerging Markets models used by institutional clients as well as government treasury departments and central banks. He has served as an expert on Financial Architecture and Crises Modelling at forums of the Bank of England and HMS UK Treasury.
Prior to joining Credit Suisse in 1998, Mr Roy spent over ten years in academia at Boston University School of Management, University of Iowa Business School and the University of London (QMW College and LSE). He has had a distinguished university teaching career winning 4 teaching awards in 6 years at US business schools. He was named an ESRC Research Fellow, Ponders Fellow, a Boston University Doctoral Scholar, a Government of India National Scholar. Mr Roy has a M.A. and PhD in Financial Economics from the University of Iowa, an MBA (Finance & Quant.) from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad and a BA with Honors in Economics and Maths from University of Delhi.
Lord Robert Skidelsky
Emeritus Professor of Political Economy
University of Warwick
Robert Skidelsky is emeritus professor of political economy (Department of Economics) at Warwick University. His three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes was published by Macmillan (1983,1992, 2000), and won five prizes. A single volume abridgment, also published by Macmillan, appeared in 2002. His book on the current crisis - "Keynes: The Return of the Master" - was published in September 2009 by Allen Lane in Britain and Public Affairs in the United States, and has been, or is being, translated into 15 languages. He was made a life peer in 1991 (sits on the cross-benches) and was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1994. He reviews regularly for the New York Review of Books, and writes a monthly column on current affairs for Project Syndicate.
Sweder van Wijnbergen
Professor of Economics
University of Amsterdam
Sweder van Wijnbergen is professor of Economics at the University of Amsterdam and founder and former CEO of Infomedics NV, an internet intermediary in the Dutch healthcare sector. He was professor at the London School of Economics until 1997 and Secretary General of the Ministry of Economic Affairs in the Netherlands from 1997 until 2000.
Earlier he worked at the World Bank in Washington DC, where his last position was Chief Economist for Central and Eastern Europe (1989-1993) after working on Mexico during the Brady debt deal and the NAFTA negotiations.
He has advised companies and governments in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Latin America on issues ranging from privatisation to macroeconomic policy and tax reform.
He received a master in Physics from Utrecht University (1975) and in Econometrics from Rotterdam University (1977), and received his PhD in Economics (1980) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA. He has published extensively in the areas of international economics and public finance.
