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The world’s first event to convene financial market monetary, policy and economic Anu Murgai, General Partner and Portfolio Manager, SURANYA CAPITAL PARTNERS, LLC Prior to launching the Investment Manager, Ms. Murgai was a Managing Director at Shumway Capital Partners, where she managed the macro portfolio from 2004 to 2007. From 2001 to 2003, Ms. Murgai was an analyst at Ulysses Partners LLC, responsible for developing trade ideas, structuring trades, and managing risk. In 2000, Ms. Murgai managed a directional proprietary trading book at JP Morgan. Ms. Murgai was a member of the macro team at Tiger Management from 1998-99, where she did both trading and analysis. Robert E. Murray, Member of Investment Committee and Chief Operating Officer, GRAHAM CAPITAL MANAGEMENT Roy Niederhoffer, President, R.G. NIEDERHOFFER CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC Roy Niederhoffer founded R. G. Niederhoffer Capital Management, Inc. in 1993. His responsibilities at RGNCM include general management and overall strategy. He is a member of RGNCM’s investment management, risk management and information technology teams. From 1987 to 1992, Mr. Niederhoffer traded proprietary money in the cash and futures markets at NCZ Commodities, Inc., a commodity trading advisor. While at NCZ Commodities, Mr. Niederhoffer designed, developed and implemented computerized trading, research, portfolio management and back office software. Paul Podolsky, Senior Portfolio Strategist, BRIDGEWATER ASSOCIATES Paul Podolsky is a Portfolio Strategist at Bridgewater Associates. He is a senior member of the research group with expertise in portfolio structuring and the foreign exchange, interest rate, commodity, and equity markets. Paul is a contributor to Bridgewater’s Daily Observations. He also works with Bridgewater’s clients to develop investment strategies that meet their objectives and to provide insight into the research group’s thinking on global markets and economic conditions. Bluford Putnam President and Director of Research, EQA PARTNERS L.P. Bluford (Blu) Putnam is the President and Managing Partner of Bayesian Edge Technology & Solutions, Ltd., a consulting company he founded in 2000. Bayesian Edge is a financial risk management and economic advisory service, specializing in financial market research utilizing Bayesian statistical techniques integrated with the disciplined application of economic theory, and tempered by over 30 years of market experience. EQA Partners is a boutique currency and global macro investment manager, founded in October 2006 and based in Stamford, CT. Prior to forming Bayesian Edge, Blu was President of CDC Investment Management Corporation. James G. Rickards, Senior Managing Director for Market Intelligence, OMNIS, INC. James G. Rickards is Senior Managing Director of Omnis, Inc., a research and consulting firm in McLean, VA. He also serves as Principal of Global-I Advisors, LLC, an investment banking firm specializing in the intersection of capital markets and geopolitics. Mr. Rickards is a seasoned counselor, investment banker and risk manager with over thirty years experience in capital markets including all aspects of portfolio management, risk management, financing, regulation and operations. He has held senior executive positions at Citibank, RBS Greenwich Capital Markets, Long-Term Capital Management and Caxton Associates and has directed the successful launch of several hedge funds and fund-of-funds. Randy Slifka, Managing Principal, SLIFKA ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC Randy Slifka is the managing principal of Slifka Asset Management LLC, an asset management firm located in New York City. Mr. Slifka is the Chief Investment Officer and Managing Principal of Geovol LLC, a geopolitical hedge fund focusing on volatility in the Middle East. Mr. Slifka is also the Chief Investment Officer of 3 “state of the art” fund of funds. Mr. Slifka specializes in portfolio construction, asset allocation, and hedge fund manager analysis. He has been a principal investor and analyst of alternative investments for 18 years. Mr. Slifka started his career at E.M. Warburg Pincus & Co. where for five years he made principal investments, conducted due diligence, and sourced investment opportunities. Mr. Slifka was a senior portfolio professional, principal, and portfolio manager at Halcyon. Partnerships from 1989 through 1997. At Halcyon, he was primarily responsible for the firm’s distressed debt and special situations effort and created and managed an event driven multi-manager fund. Inder Sohdi, Managing Director, DOSHI CAPITAL Menachem Sternberg, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, EAGLE TRADING SYSTEMS, INC. Menachem Sternberg is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Eagle Trading Systems, Inc. and is a member of the NFA. Eagle provides a unique and innovative approach to global macro markets analysis and trading. Its trading programs are designed to systematically capitalize on opportunities in a wide range of global futures markets: currencies, commodities, energies, fixed income and stock indices. Prior to joining Eagle in January 1997, Mr. Sternberg was a Senior Vice President and senior trader at Caxton Corporation, (“Caxton”) since August 1992, and since July 1995, also was a principal of Caxton Associates L.L.C. Caxton is a New York based money management firm investing in the foreign exchange, global financial, and commodities markets. John R. Taylor, Jr., Chairman and CEO, FX CONCEPTS In 1981, John Taylor founded FX Concepts, Inc., a multi-faceted investment management company, which today manages $8 billion in assets. Over 95% of those assets are managed in a series of absolute return strategies with the remainder in currency overlays. FX Concepts is known around the world as an innovative and highly successful manager of foreign exchange assets as well as a leader in the field of foreign exchange risk management. John is recognized as an expert in the analysis of global financial markets and was a pioneer in the study of the cyclicality of foreign exchange and interest rates. Paulo Vieira da Cunha, Head of Emerging Markets Research, TANDEM GLOBAL PARTNERS Paulo Vieira da Cunha is head of emerging markets research at Tandem Global Partners, a consultant to the International Monetary Fund and a visiting scholar at Columbia University. He was a Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Brazil and a representative to the G20 until January 2008. He serves on various boards, including the Board of Directors of the Brazilian American Chamber of Commerce. For nearly a decade, he produced and managed research on Latin America for the global securities industry, first at Lehman Brothers and later at HSBC where he managed research teams in Buenos Aires, Mexico City, New York and São Paulo. Before that, he worked 12 years in research, policy and management at the World Bank including as deputy director and lead economist for the Mexico program. Sri “Wije” Wijegoonaratna, CEO & CIO, GALLE GLOBAL MACRO (“GGM”) Wije has 15 years of experience as a global macro investor. Prior to starting GGM in 2010, Wije was at Fortress Investment Group LLC as a partner and a member of the Executive Committee since January 2005. Prior to joining Fortress, Wije was a partner and co-CIO/CEO for Banyan Fund Management from 1997 - 2004. Banyan was the test case for the “Tiger Cub” model within Tiger Management. Prior to joining Banyan, Wije was the portfolio manager of ASEAN Investment from 1994 - 1997, a global macro fund started by Hari Hariharan at NWI Management. Danny Yang,CIO, DYMON ASIA GLOBAL POLICY EXPERTISE FROM LEADING THINK TANKS & ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS Rear Adm. (Ret.) Stephen H. Baker, USN, Geopolitical/Defense Analyst, WASHINGTON RESEARCH GROUP Rear Admiral Baker is the Senior National Security and Defense Consultant for the Washington Research Group, which provides political, economic and industry research for institutional and corporate investors. He has been an independent senior executive consultant for the aerospace industry, primarily involved in the ongoing geo-political/ military events of today, specifically the Middle East region. Additionally he has been a senior fellow at the Center for Defense Information - a non-partisan, non-profit thinktank organization committed to independent research on the social, economic, political, military, and cyber components of global security. Rear Admiral Baker served 30 years as a Naval Flight Officer accumulating over 4000 flight hours and 1000 carrier landings. © 2010 Institute for International Research, Inc. All rights reserved 12 To Register, Call 888.670.8200 Email register@iirusa.com
thought-leaders and geopolitical experts to manage the key fiscal, issues causing today’s market disruptions Admiral Baker’s last flag officer assignment was as the Commander, Operational Test and Evaluation Force. For his service as the head tester for the Navy he was awarded the military’s highest peacetime award - the Distinguished Service Medal by President Clinton. The Admiral’s military decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit with one Gold Star, the Bronze Star for Operation Desert Storm, Meritorious Service Medal with two Gold Stars, Navy Commendation medal, Navy Achievement Medal, Joint Meritorious Unit Award with one Oak Leaf, Navy Unit Commendation with two Bronze Stars, Meritorious Unit Commendation, Navy Expeditionary Medal with one Bronze Star and various campaign and unit ribbons. Donald J. Boyd, Senior Fellow, ROCKEFELLER INSTITUTE OF GOVERNMENT Donald J. Boyd is a senior fellow and the former director of State and Local Government Finance research group. Boyd has over two decades of experience analyzing state and local fiscal issues, and has written or co-authored many of the program’s reports on the fiscal climate in the 50 states. His previous positions include director of the economic and revenue staff for the New York State Division of the Budget and director of the tax staff for the New York State Assembly Ways and Means Committee. Boyd holds a Ph.D. in managerial economics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Guy Caruso, Senior Adviser for Energy and National Security, CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (CSIS) Guy F. Caruso is a senior adviser in the Energy and National Security Program at CSIS, having served as executive director of the CSIS Strategic Energy Initiative from 1998 to 2000. Prior to rejoining CSIS he served as administrator of the Energy Information Administration (EIA). Before leading EIA. Caruso had acquired over 30 years of energy experience, with particular emphasis on topics relating to energy markets, policy, and security. Prior to joining DOE, Caruso worked at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as an international energy economist in the Office of Economic Research. Patrick Clawson, Deputy Director for Research, THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY Patrick Clawson is deputy director for research at The Washington Institute, where he also directs the Iran Security Initiative. A widely published writer and media commentator, he has authored more than seventy articles about the Middle East and international economics as well as twelve books or studies on Iran. Dr. Clawson appears frequently on television and radio, and has published op-ed articles in major newspapers including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. He has also testified before congressional committees more than twenty times and has served as an expert witness in more than a dozen federal cases. Robert Dekle, Professor of Economics, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Dr Charles Ebinger, Director, Energy Security Initiative, The Stephen and Barbara Friedman Senior Fellow, THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION Charles Ebinger specializes in international and domestic energy markets (oil, gas, coal and nuclear), the geopolitics of energy with a particular focus on the Middle East, South Asia and Africa. Ebinger has served as an energy policy advisor to over 50 governments Steven Emerson, Executive Director, THE INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT ON TERRORISM Steven Emerson is considered one of the leading authorities on Islamic extremist networks, financing and operations. He serves as the Executive Director of The Investigative Project on Terrorism, a non-profit organization that serves one of the world’s largest storehouses of archival data and intelligence on Islamic and Middle Eastern terrorist groups. Emerson and his staff frequently provide briefings to U.S. government and law enforcement agencies, members of Congress and congressional committees, and print and electronic media on terrorist financing and operational networks of Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and the rest of the worldwide Islamic militant spectrum. Since 9-11, Emerson has been interviewed frequently on all the major television networks and in the national and international print media. The website of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, which was started in September 2007, is now considered one of the top counter-terrorism websites in the world and can be accessed at www.investigativeproject.org. Jagadeesh Gokhale, Senior Fellow, CATO INSTITUTE Cato senior fellow Jagadeesh Gokhale is recognized internationally as an expert on entitlement reform, labor productivity and compensation, U.S. fiscal policy and the impact of fiscal policy on future generations. He works with Cato’s Project on Social Security Choice to develop reforms for programs such as Social Security and Medicare. His recent analysis of European economies’ fiscal condition attracted considerable media attention with the increase in sovereign default risk among Eurozone nations. Gokhale’s most recent book Social Security: A Fresh Look at Reform Alternatives, published by the University of Chicago Press (2010), challenges received notions about that program’s financial future and explores the implications of alternative reforms for the program as a whole and for today’s and future generations of Americans. Gokhale holds a Ph.D. in economics from Boston University and is currently a member of the Social Security Advisory Board. David F. Gordon, Head of Research, Director, Global Macro Analysis, EURASIA GROUP Before joining Eurasia Group, David spent more than ten years working at the highest levels of US foreign and national security policy processes. From June 2007 to January 2009, David served as the director of policy planning under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. He played a leading role in developing policy ideas for Rice on issues ranging from Afghanistan and Pakistan to US engagement in East Asia to the multilateral response to the international financial crisis. He also led the department’s strategic policy dialogues with more than 20 countries around the globe. David’s latest book is Managing Strategic Surprise: Lessons from Risk Management and Risk Assessment, co-edited with Ian Bremmer and Paul Bracken (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Trevor Houser, Visiting Fellow, PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS, Partner & Director of Energy and Climate Practice, RHODIUM GROUP (RHG) Trevor Houser, visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, is partner at the Rhodium Group (RHG) and director of its Energy and Climate Practice. During 2009 he served as senior advisor to the US Special Envoy on Climate Change. Randall S. Kroszner, Norman R. Bobins Professor of Economics, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Randall S. Kroszner served as a Governor of the Federal Reserve System from March 2006 until January 2009. During his time as a member of the Federal Reserve Board, he chaired the committee on Supervision and Regulation of Banking Institutions and the committee on Consumer and Community Affairs. He represented the Federal Reserve Board on the Financial Stability Forum (now called the Financial Stability Board), the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, and the Central Bank Governors of the American Continent (CEMLA). Dr. Kroszner chaired the working party of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), composed of deputy central bank governors and finance ministers, on Policies for the Promotion of Better International Payments Equilibrium. Dr. Kroszner was a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) from 2001 to 2003. Hung Tran, Deputy Managing Director and Counsellor, INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FINANCE Chris Varvares, President, MACROECONOMIC ADVISERS, LLC, Immediate Past President, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BUSINESS ECONOMICS Chris Varvares is President of Macroeconomic Advisers, a company he co-founded with Joel Prakken and Laurence Meyer as Laurence H. Meyer & Associates in 1982. Mr. Varvares has over 20 years of experience in macroeconomic forecasting and policy analysis, both as a principal of Macroeconomic Advisers (1982 to present) and as a member of the staff of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (1981-1982). WWW.GLOBALMACRORISK.COM COM 13
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