Paul Fisher, Bank of England 1990-present: Head of Foreign Exchange Division, April 2002-present. Responsible for active management of the Government’s foreign exchange reserves, the Bank’s operations in foreign currency-denominated financial instruments and surveillance of the international financial markets for monetary and financial stability purposes. Chair of the London Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Exchange and member of the G10 Markets Committee. Private Secretary to the Governor, February 1999-March 2002. Head of Conjunctural Assessment and Projections Division, 1995-1999. Responsible for producing the Bank’s forecasts and models; current real economy assessment (demand and output, prices); international economic assessment; and the assessment work of the Bank’s regional Agents. University of Warwick, 1983-1990. Research Associate, ESRC Macroeconomic Modelling Bureau responsible for comparative analysis of UK macroeconomic models.
Phd Warwick University 1990 in macroeconomic modelling, MA Warwick University 1983 in Economics,BSC Bristol University 1980 in Economics with Statistics

Dr. Jessica James is a Managing Director and Global Head of Quantitative Investor Solutions. The group informs clients on FX investment strategies, with a strong focus on systematic alpha model development. Jessica has been at the forefront of developing currency risk management models and overlay strategies, and pioneered the use of Extreme Value Theory to manage the risk of large FX moves. She also has a wealth of experience in the practical process of setting up currency overlay as a business, including trading strategy testing, design and marketing. Prior to joining Citigroup, Jessica headed the Currency Overlay team within Europe at Bank One. She is on the Board of the Journal Quantitative Finance. She has participated in several government Task Forces and has been involved with the Institute of Physics as a member of their governing body and chair of their Audit and Risk committee. Prior to her career in finance, Jessica lectured in physics at Trinity, Oxford.

Benoit Anne, EMEA Local Currency Strategist London. Prior to joining FX & LDM strategy, Benoit was an emerging markets debt strategist covering Africa and emerging Asia. Before joining Merrill Lynch, Benoit worked at the IMF in Washington, D.C. where he was an economist in the African department for five years. Prior to working at the IMF, Benoit was an economist at The Institute of International Finance (IIF), Washington, D.C. for two years and was an economist at the French Embassy in Pakistan for two years. Benoit holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Pantheon Assas University, Paris, a specialty degree in International Affairs from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, and a master’s degree in International Economics from the University of Sussex. He also took Ph.D. coursework in Economics at George Washington University, Washington D.C.

Pierre Lequeux: Product CIO Currencies, investment experience since 1987. Pierre is head of currency management and joined in June 1999. Pierre’s primary focus is the research and design of trading models and portfolio risk management techniques. Pierre is a member of the firm’s Global Policy Group and Global Fixed Income and Currency Committee. Prior to becoming head of currency management, Pierre worked as a quantitative currency manager within the global markets group. Pierre began his career in 1987 with Banque Nationale de Paris, London branch, where he was head of the quantitative research and trading desk. Pierre, born 1961, is a graduate in international trade from ISTEG (1983) and holds a diploma of the Forex Association (1990). He is also an associate researcher at the Centre for International Banking and Finance of Liverpool Business school. He is an active contributor to academic and practitioner conferences and is presently a member of the editorial board of "Derivative, Use Trading & Regulation".

Momtchil Pojarliev joined Hermes as Head of Currencies in April 2007. He brought to the firm his currency investment process and his outstanding track record in currency management. Prior to joining Hermes, he was a Senior Foreign Exchange Manager with Pictet Asset Management in Geneva and with Invesco in Frankfurt and London. Pojarliev received his PhD in Financial Econometrics from University of Basle. He has published various academic articles on active portfolio management. He is a CFA Charterholder.

Daniel Szor has been with FX Concepts since 1987. Through 1992 he worked as a member of the company's research and advisory group with daily responsibility for foreign exchange and interest rate forecasting and advising clients on short-term market movement. Since then his focus has been on European business development. In 1993 Mr. Szor opened the company's first European office, based in Paris, France. Through 2001 he was in charge of global sales for the firm's currency and interest rate advisory services. Since 2001, his focus has been on further developing the firm's European institutional investment client base. Mr. Szor now divides his time between the firm's New York office and Europe. He has opened a new European office for the firm in London and will continue to be responsible for European business development, client servicing and marketing of the firm's programs. Mr. Szor is a member of the firm's management committee. Prior to joining FX Concepts, Mr. Szor worked in both spot and corporate foreign exchange trading at Credit Lyonnais in NY. He was also a corporate foreign exchange advisor for the First National Bank of Boston in Boston MA. Mr. Szor is a graduate of Tufts University.

James Binny joined ABN Amro in 2003, advising clients on currency management techniques and outsourcing. He also manages an FX multi-manager programme. He has been involved in currency management since 1990. Previously, James was at Gartmore Investment Management from 1998 where he was Senior Investment Manager for currency overlay and hedge fund products. From 1995 to 1998, James was a fund manager at GNI Fund Management where he developed and managed two leveraged funds – one being a currency fund. Before GNI, James worked at County Natwest Investment Management. James has written extensively on the subject of currency management. He graduated in Engineering Science from Oxford University.

Jeremy Smart is an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley in London, where he is the Global Head of FX e-Commerce Sales. He is responsible, together with the rest of the management team, for the direction and strategy of the e-Commerce business. He joined Morgan Stanley in 2005 having previously been a senior member of the FX e-Commerce team at Deutsche Bank, London, responsible for the development and roll-out of e-Commerce products. Jeremy worked in Foreign Exchange at Deutsche for eight years and has spent the last seven years working in e-Commerce. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and has a Masters degree in Economics from the University of Edinburgh.

Jason Shell, Managing Director, Global Head of FX Sales, DEUTSCHE BANK. Jason Shell is Global Head of FX Sales to Corporates. Deutsche Bank's FX sales model is to be located in the local country of the client. Jason's team is in 40 different countries. The team's advice ranges from FX risk management, accounting expertise and derivatives management for asset and liability clients. Jason is part of Deutsche Bank's Global Capital Markets Management Team. This team distributes derivatives, arranges debt and equity financing. Jason is also a member of the Management Team for Global Foreign Exchange. Jason has worked at Deutsche Bank for 12 years. He has worked as a structurer, vanilla options trader, exotic options trader and sales person. He has worked in New York and London. He currently lives in London. Before Deutsche Bank Jason traded interest rate derivatives and worked at the New York Stock Exchange. Jason received his undergraduate degree from U.C. Berkeley and his graduate degree from Columbia University

Stacy Williams is Director of Quantitative Strategy and is responsible for the development of HSBC's algorithmic trading platform, which provides optimised execution and smart order routing across the many electronic exchanges. His responsibilities also include publishing quantitative research, advising on the development of currency overlay programs, and the construction of bespoke hedging strategies. He has a particular focus on model trading and alpha generation and works with hedge funds, institutional investors and corporate clients on a range of foreign exchange and interest rate problems. He has published various academic papers and articles on quantitative modelling and currently supervises doctoral research in collaboration with the Oxford University Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (OCIAM), where he looks at more academic areas of interest in the field of econophysics, specialising in FX market microstructure. He as also acted as a PhD examiner for Oxford Physics in finance related research. Stacy has an MA in Physics from the University of Oxford and an MPhil in nanoscale engineering.

Paul Friel is a senior business leader at Barclays Wealth - one of Europe's premier Wealth Manager's, and the UK's number one retail stockbroker Barclays Stockbrokers, Paul is responsible for the expansion of the BARX for Private Investors proposition across EMEA, with a specific focus on FX. Launched in 2008, BARX for private investors is a market leading, multi asset class trading platform which incorporates equities, iShares, CFDs, Financial Spread Trading, and FX. BARX offers institutional grade pricing, professional tools and research, and is supported by a world class servicing model.

Emmanuel Acar is the director of Directional Trading Ltd and 100% shareholder. He has researched the foreign exchange and futures markets since 1990 mostly on the trading side. He worked for almost sixteen years in FX dealing rooms. At Bank of America, he headed the London Risk Management Advisory desk. Prior to this, Emmanuel worked at Citibank within the FX Engineering Group. He was a proprietary trader and portfolio manager for close to ten years at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, BZW and BNP's London Branch. He combines his trading experience with a PhD from City University in London, on the stochastic properties of trading rules. He also qualified as an Actuary in France. Emmanuel has been active in the development of proprietary trading models since 1990, some of which have been published in Journals or Magazines. Mr Acar's other interests are in designing hedging strategies, performance measurement, trading style analysis, modelling time series, market timing and asset allocation studies.

Yaacov Heidingsfeld – Chief Operating Officer, TraderTools LLC
Before co-founding TraderTools (1997), Yaacov established (1985) and operated a hedge fund specializing in FX, interest rate and index option trading. Prev iously, he was a trader at Oscar Gruss and IDB in Tel Aviv, and Standard & Poor's in NY. He holds a BA (Business, Finance) from Baruch College, NY.

Jonathan Wykes, Director, Head of Sales for AES FX in Europe, Credit Suisse. His role as Head of Sales for AES (Advanced Execution Services) FX in Europe he is responsible for spearheading the sales strategy to provide Algorithmic Execution Services to customers within the European FX Markets. Before joining Credit Suisse, Mr. Wykes acquired 7 years of FX market experience having previously worked in senior eFX roles at Lava Trading, eSpeed International and Dresdner Bank. His career began in Equities where he spent several years consulting to top tier banks on the implications of the introduction of order driven market places. Mr. Wykes holds an honours degree in Organisational Studies from Lancaster University

Ian Stannard is the Senior FX Strategist for BNP Paribas in London, with over 20 years experience in financial markets. Ian combines Fundamental Economic Research with Technical/Quantitative and Flow Analysis to provide FX Strategies. Ian provides specific trading strategies on a daily basis for short-term traders and high frequency users of Foreign Exchange as well as medium-term strategic solutions for customers with a longer-term focus. Since moving to BNP Paribas in December 2000, Ian has helped put in place a Global Foreign Exchange Strategy Team, which produces extensive FX strategy products via its highly rated FX Dealer portal. Ian is also the business sponsor for the FX Dealer product as well as for the research product within the broader BNP Paribas Global Markets portal, which covers the whole of fixed income. Ian also developed and runs FX Trading Models. Ian was previously at Chase Manhattan Bank as an International Strategist. He moved to Chase in 1990, joining the Economics team, focusing on Bond, Foreign Exchange and Interest Rate Markets. Prior to joining Chase Ian worked as an equity analyst with Prudential-Bache. Ian also appears regularly on CNBC and Bloomberg TV as well as being quoted in many newspapers, journals and on newswires.

Tim Cartledge is a Managing Director and Co-Head of BARX FX Trading at Barclays Capital. Based in London, he is the architect of the firm’s BARX electronic trading platform and driver of the firm's electronic FX business development. He also has joint responsibility for BATS (Barclays Automated Trade System) systematic proprietary trading group. Mr. Cartledge joined Barclays Capital in 2004 from Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein where he was a Managing Director within the FX Options team. Prior to that, he worked at Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs as an FX Options trader. Mr. Cartledge holds a BA in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge