The Luxembourg Renminbi Forum 2017

A career diplomat, Pierre Gramegna joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1983. He was subsequently appointed political and economic affairs advisor to the Luxembourg embassy in Paris in 1988, an office he held for four years before being appointed consul general and director of the Board of Economic Development in San Francisco.

From 1996 to 2002, Pierre Gramegna was Luxembourg’s ambassador to Japan and South Korea.

He was subsequently responsible for the Directorate of International Economic Relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In 2003, Pierre Gramegna took up the position of director general of the Chamber of Commerce, an office he held until his appointment to the government in December 2013. Prior to joining the government, Pierre Gramegna was a member of the executive board of several companies, including in particular Cargolux Airlines International SA (as chairman from 2004 to 2008), the Luxembourg Stock Exchange (Bourse de Luxembourg), the National Credit and Investment Company (Société nationale de crédit et d’investissement), the Del Credere Office (Office du ducroire), LuxExpo Luxembourg and BGL BNP Paribas Luxembourg SA.

He has also been a member of numerous advisory committees, such as the Tripartite Coordination Committee (Comité de coordination tripartite), the Economic and Social Committee of the Greater Region (Comité économique et social de la Grande Région), the Advisory Committee on Foreign Trade (Comité consultatif du commerce extérieur), the Economic Development Committee (Comité de développement économique) and the National Committee for the Promotion of Entrepreneurship (Comité national pour la promotion de l’esprit d’entreprise).

Nicolas is a career diplomat. He has graduated with a law degree from the University of Aix-en-Provence, and holds two post-graduate diplomas in European law from the Sorbonne University, respectively the College of Europe in Bruges where he then also served as a teaching assistant in the Law Department. He worked as a legal clerk at the European Court of Justice before joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1999. His assignments focused on the successive EU Treaty negotiations (Amsterdam, Nice, Constitution, Lisbon).

Nicolas was consecutively posted at Luxembourg’s Permanent Representation to the EU (2002-07), as Deputy Chief of Mission at Luxembourg’s Embassy in Washington DC (2007-11) and as Consul General in Shanghai (2011-13) where he was in charge of promoting Luxembourg’s economic interests throughout China as the Executive Director of the Luxembourg Trade and Investment Office.

Judith Bogner is an event host and TV journalist for international business, finance and geopolitics. Between 2001 and 2011, she was one of the main European anchors for Bloomberg Global Television covering several economic cycles, the events of 9/11 and the breakdown of Lehman with its global fallout. As bridge of communication between opinions, personalities and nationalities, Judith facilitates events for corporate and institutional clients, including the Federation of German Industries, the Brewers of Europe, Luxembourg for Finance, the Dutch Development Bank FMO, State Street, Ergo Insurance and Allianz Global Assistance. Born in Germany, Judith has lived in Switzerland, China, Ukraine, France and Italy. She is bilingual in English-German and also speaks Italian, French and Mandarin Chinese. Judith holds a degree in International Business Management and Chinese from the University of Applied Sciences in Bremen.

Christopher Balding is an associate professor finance and economics holding tenure with Chinese characteristics at the HSBC Business School of Peking University Graduate School. A recognised expert in the Chinese economy sovereign wealth funds, he has written a book entitled Sovereign Wealth Funds: The New Intersection of Money and Power published by Oxford University Press. He is a columnist for BloombergViews as well as a regular contributor to the Financial Times. His work has been cited by a variety of global media outlets including the CNBC, Wall Street Journal, and the BBC where he speaks regularly on the Chinese economy and financial markets. His scholarly work has been published in such leading journals as the Review of International Economics, the International Finance Review, and the Journal of Public Economic Theory on such diverse topics as CDS pricing, the WTO, and the economics of adoption and abortion.

Prior to entering academia, Prof. Balding worked in private equity focusing on turnaround and special situations across industries including mining, high technology, water and waste water, natural resources, and food processing becoming junior vice president of operations and finance for portfolio holdings. He received his PhD from the University of California, Irvine and worked in private equity prior to entering academia. He is happily married with two daughters and one son, (all of whom speak Chinese) and lives in Shenzhen, China.

Bob Currie is Editorial Director and co-founder of Financial Services Research, a publication that reports on investment strategy, risk and operational performance in the financial services industry. Prior to his current role as financial commentator, Bob worked for much of the 1990s as lecturer and researcher in the UK university sector, specialising in international political economy and development strategy for emerging markets.

He is author of published books in development policy and a Global Securities Operations workbook for the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.

Bob graduated in BSc (Hons) Physics from Imperial College London and has Masters and Doctoral qualifications in International Political Economy.

Chris has 28 years’ experience in the financial services industry, mainly with Chase Manhattan Bank Luxembourg and its successor business under J.P. Morgan. Chris left J.P. Morgan in 2005 to build a business offering savings and investment service propositions for UK retail clients. In 2009/10 he built a mobile payment business in East Africa. Chris re-joined J.P. Morgan in 2011 and was appointed Managing Director of its Luxembourg bank once more.

Chris was appointed Head of HSBC Securities Services Luxembourg in September 2014, and led a reanimation of the business for the next two years. In September 2016 Chris joined PwC in Luxembourg in a new role focused around innovation and transformation solutions for the Asset Management sector.

Jonathan Ford is the City editor of the Financial Times. He was previously the FT’s Chief Leader Writer, and before that Comment Editor of Reuters. He was one of the founders and Deputy Editor of Breakingviews, an online financial commentary website.

Prior to that he worked on the Lex column of the FT. A graduate of Oxford University, he started his career in investment banking, working for Morgan Grenfell, now a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank.

Patrick Hess currently serves as Senior Market Infrastructure Expert in the Oversight Division of the European Central Bank (ECB), which is in charge of promoting the safety and efficiency of payment, clearing and settlement systems under the oversight mandate of the ECB.

His prior positions include Senior Economist at the ECB’s China Desk, where he was responsible for monitoring and analysing Chinese economic and financial sector developments, and Senior Market Infrastructure Expert in the TARGET2-Securities and TARGET2 projects, where he worked as relationship manager, policy and communications expert. From 1996 to 2003, he worked for Deutsche Bank in its corporate and transaction banking businesses as credit analyst and product manager.

Patrick Hess holds an M.A. in Sinology and Economics from Heidelberg University, and studied also at Beijing Foreign Studies University, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden and VU Amsterdam. His publication and teaching record, inter alia at the Institute of Chinese Studies in Heidelberg, focuses on China’s economic policy, financial system and market infrastructure, and more recently also on financial and digital innovation in China.

Karine Hirn is a partner of East Capital, an independent asset manager specialised in emerging and frontier markets, which she co-founded in Sweden in 1997. East Capital started to invest in China onshore equity markets in 2013 through a QFII quota. In 2015 it became the first to be approved to invest up to 100% of its UCITS China strategy in A-shares through Stock Connect. East Capital China Environmental fund, a unique A-shares strategy benefiting from and supporting China’s war on pollution, was recently awarded the Luxflag climate finance label.

Karine is French and based in Hong Kong. She is the CEO of East Capital Asia and a French trade counsellor, vice chair of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce and member of the board of the European Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. She is also the chairperson of East Capital Asset Management, East Capital (Lux) General Partners and East Capital (Lux) SICAV.

Jane Jiang is a partner at Allen & Overy Shanghai specialising in legal and regulatory issues in the financial sector. She is a trusted adviser for many first-tier domestic and international financial institutions on how the latest legal developments would affect their product, risks and strategy. She is experienced in advising international clients regarding their investments in regulated industries, including banking, securities and asset management, insurance and derivatives trading and in advising them when they face local regulatory investigations.  She also helps Chinese financial institutions with their investment and business operations overseas including helping them to navigate through significant regulatory investigation and litigation. Jane’s clients benefit from her strong relationship with local financial regulators and insights into the financial regulatory regime in China. Jane is particularly recognised as an expert in legal and regulatory issues in respect of RMB internationalisation. She has advised on many landmark transactions of Dim Sum bonds, Panda bonds, complex cross-border investment and acquisitions with an RMB element.

Jane regularly speaks on China’s regulatory changes and financial reform at prominent fora, such as the RMB internationalisation seminar hosted by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the FT-ANZ Growth Strategy Series, the ASIFMA conference, the International Capital Conference, Thomson Reuters’ Regulatory Summit, and the A&O GC Tables for financial institutions in Hong Kong. She was quoted extensively upon the launch of the report “Generation ¥ – RMB: the new global currency”, jointly produced by Allen & Overy and the Economist Intelligence Unit on how global businesses are managing the rise of China’s currency.

Jane was voted the winner of 2016 Outstanding Individuals Award by FT Asia Pacific Innovative Lawyers.

Jane won Financial Regulation Lawyer of the Year in China from Corporate Intl Magazine Global Awards 2017.

Gast Juncker has over 20 years’ experience in the establishment of investment funds and investment companies.

Gast advises clients in relation to regulatory matters and the structuring of their Luxembourg investment fund operations. He is also in charge of leading contacts with Asian asset managers, in particular in China, Korea and Japan.

Gast is listed as one of the leading lawyers in investment funds by IFLR and recommended for his advice in relation to Chinese investments and his work with Asian clients by Chambers and Partners.

Zennon Kapron is the Founder and Director of Kapronasia, a leading financial industry research and advisory firm with offices across Asia. Zennon has been involved in the financial industry for over 20 years and is a recognised expert on the development of fintech in China and its impact on the financial industry.

Before Kapronasia, Zennon was the Global Banking Industry Director for Intel and before Intel, the CIO for Citigroup Portugal. Zennon is also the co-founder of China Fintech and the author of Chomping at the Bitcoin: The Past, Present and Future of Bitcoin in China.

He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Syracuse University and an MBA from INSEAD.

Stéphane Karolczuk is head of Arendt & Medernach’s representative office in Hong Kong, where he advises clients based in the Asia Pacific region regarding their Luxembourg legal and regulatory questions. He is admitted to practice in Hong Kong as Registered Foreign Lawyer.

As a Partner of the Investment Management practice, Stéphane also advises international clients on all issues relating to investment funds, such as the structuring, registration, marketing, public offering and listing of Luxembourg and foreign investment funds. He also advises and assists clients in relation to the selection and setting-up of investment structures, drafting of contractual and marketing documentation, and liaises with the Luxembourg financial regulator, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange in relation to such matters.

In 2008, Stéphane was seconded to Arendt & Medernach’s representative office in New York in view of developing an Investment Management Helpdesk advising US clients in relation to Luxembourg investment funds questions.

He is now heading the Hong Kong office of the firm. Stéphane has taken part in the activities of the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI), the Hong Kong Investment Funds Association (HKIFA), the Hong Kong Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (HKVCA), and he is regularly invited to speak on Luxembourg funds related topics at conferences in the region. Stéphane graduated from the University of Brussels (Belgium) and the University of Ghent (Belgium).

He is admitted to practice in Hong Kong as Registered Foreign Lawyer, as well as in Luxembourg and Brussels.

James Kynge is emerging markets editor and associate editor at the Financial Times. He is also chairman of FT Confidential Research, a premium research service on China, South East Asia and Latin America that he founded in 2009.

A recipient of several journalism awards, Kynge has been a correspondent based in Japan, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Russia, former Soviet Central Asia and Hong Kong over the past 28 years. He was China Bureau Chief for seven years until 2005 and later headed up the Pearson Group of companies’ business operations in China. He was also President of FTChinese.com, the FT’s Chinese language website.

His prize-winning book “China Shakes the World” was an international bestseller, translated into 19 languages. Outside the office, he encourages young people in the UK to engage with China as a British Council “leading light” and as President of the ChineseSpeakers Association, an NGO.

Fiona Leung is the Europe based China Ambassador for Standard Chartered’s Securities Services team and is responsible for driving the Bank’s RMB initiatives in the region.  She regularly speaks with European institutions and assists them in navigating multiple cross-border programmes such as the China Interbank Bond Market Direct programme (CIBM), Shanghai and Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect, Renminbi Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (RQFII) and Qualified Domestic Limited Partnership (QDLP), among others.

Prior to relocating to London in 2015, Fiona was part of the China Securities Services sales team at Standard Chartered Hong Kong and assisted international asset managers in accessing the onshore China market. Fiona holds a Bachelor of Science Economics degree from London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Ms Liu has been working in the head office of ICBC since 2009, and is engaged in assisting foreign institutional investors to trade in the China interbank bond market and FX market. In 2005, ICBC was awarded as the Best Foreign Institutions Agent Bank in the China interbank bond market.

Now, ICBC Agent Trading Team has offered the professional agent service to nearly 80 foreign institutional investors all over 25 countries and regions. The customers cover overseas commercial banks, insurance companies, assets management companies, securities companies and etc., and also include foreign central banks and international financial institutions, market share 1/4.

Andrew is Head of Linklaters’ Capital Markets Group in Asia and widely recognised as a market leader with almost 30 years’ qualified experience. He has been active in the development of documentation for the offshore RMB market, having acted on two of the first three Chinese bank RMB bonds offered to the retail public in Hong Kong (Bank of China and CHEXIM) in 2007. Andrew has also developed documentation for the offshore RMB securities issues of Hopewell Highway Infrastructure (Awarded Debt and Equity-linked Deal of the Year, IFLR Asia Awards 2011), Caterpillar, World Bank, IFC, Tesco and Orix Corporation.

Andrew has been the legal adviser to the Asia Capital Market Association for over 15 years, and has been appointed as a member of the Listing Committee of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. He regularly authors articles on RMB issues and market developments for the financial press and key legal journals.

Caroline Owen is the CEO and Founder of an independent renminbi (RMB) internationalisation advisory firm, RMB Global Advisors. Caroline is one of the world’s foremost experts in the field of RMB internationalisation and a regular speaker on the advancements China has made to make its currency more freely usable.

Caroline has extensive experience working with multi-national corporations, financial institutions, investors, development organizations and central banks on RMB business. She has advised a variety of investors seeking access to China’s onshore capital markets and has worked to ease access to the RQFII program for U.S. investors. Caroline has successfully helped corporates across the consumer goods, retail, pharmaceutical, technology, industrial and commodity sectors redenominate their invoicing from USD to RMB and mobilise RMB to the offshore market for international use. A pioneer in the market, Caroline has led numerous award winning RMB transactions, including bond issuances for McDonald’s, Caterpillar Financial and the International Finance Corporation.

Before launching RMB Global Advisors, Caroline led the RMB Solutions advisory team for the Americas at Standard Chartered Bank. Prior to that, she worked in a variety of capital markets roles with Credit Suisse and Barclays Capital in New York, London and Sydney, specializing in cross-border funding.

Caroline is a graduate of Cornell University, a CFA charterholder and a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts.

Margit Molnar is the Head of the China Desk at the OECD Economics Department. In 2015-16 she was seconded to China’s Ministry of Finance to support the G20 Presidency. She has held various positions at OECD working on issues ranging from globalisation, growth, productivity, macroeconomic policies to fiscal consolidation, financial sector performance, services and competition during the past 17 years. She had also been temporarily seconded to UNESCAP as Adviser leading empirical modelling projects as well as advising Bhutan, Mongolia and Brunei Darussalam on their macroeconomic and structural policies.

Prior to joining the OECD, she consulted for the Japanese government project “The Asian Financial Crisis and Response of Macro-economy” in Japan, and conducted research for the Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She is lead author of the 2017 and 2015 OECD Economic Survey of China, the Perspectives on Global Development 2014, the Multi-Dimensional Review of Myanmar and of many other reports and articles.

She received her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Economics, Keio University in Japan, M.As from Budapest Economics University and Ritsumeikan University and B.A. (Economics) from Renmin University of China.

Marc Robert-Nicoud is CEO of Clearstream Holding Frankfurt and Clearstream International Luxembourg.

Marc joined Deutsche Börse Group in 2006 as a legal counsel and has since fulfilled different roles with a focus on the post-trade services offered by Clearstream, a wholly owned company of Deutsche Börse AG. In particular, Marc acted as Eurobond market manager, head of marketing and program manager in charge of strategy execution.

Previously, Marc was a legal officer at the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) and started his career as an associate with the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton.

Marc is a member of the New York State Bar and the Quebec Bar. Marc is a common law (LL.B.) and civil law (B.C.L) graduate of McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Marc has also completed the Executive Program of the Swiss Finance Institute.

A graduate in monetary and financial economics of Bocconi University in Milan, Aldo started his professional career with a traineeship in investment banking and then a front-office position in the Zentrale Konsortialabteilung of Commerzbank AG in Frankfurt am Main. He left the bank as Abteilungsleiter for Asian markets (including PRC) in 1997 to join EIB, the largest Supranational issuer and the largest issuer of Green Bonds to date, first as assistant to the Deputy Director General of Finance and then as member of the EUR-funding team, contributing to EIB’s EUR funding strategy and implementation throughout the course of monetary union.

Aldo began to integrate social responsibility considerations into EIB’s funding strategy in 2007, shaping the first Green Bond ever in that year and overseeing the entire EUR Green Bond issuance of the EIB since. He structured the due diligence and upgrade of EIB’s Green Bond administration in 2014, coordinated the IFI- and GBP-working groups on impact reporting harmonization from May 2015 to May 2016, and managed the dedicated KPMG-audit of EIB’s Green Bond practice leading to the first Green Bond Independent Reasonable Assurance Report in September 2016. His engagement and results in this field have found market recognition in the Global Capital Award as “Overall Most Impressive Green/SRI Bond Funding Official” in both 2015 and 2016.

Robert Scharfe holds the position of CEO at the Luxembourg Stock Exchange as of 2012 and he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Federation of European Securities Exchanges.

Before that, he spent 35 years in the Banking industry, mostly in Corporate Finance and Financial Markets with BGL BNP Paribas in Luxembourg and Fortis Bank in Brussels.

During his banking career, he acquired extensive knowledge in International Capital Markets and gained solid experience in Asset Management and Investment Funds. He holds diplomas from the University of Nancy, Insead and Stanford Business School.

Felicia Stanescu has over 20 years of international experience in the financial sector, combining public experience of developing European Union financial legislation with private experience of advising on Mergers & Acquisitions and Initial Public Offerings.

She currently heads the Policy Coordination and International Affairs unit of the Directorate General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union of the European Commission. She has been with the European Commission since 2010 working previously as Policy Assistant to the Director General and prior to that on long-term financing policy aspects, coordinating the Commission’s input on financial regulation to G20 and the Financial Stability Board, and developing legislation for the post-trading sector (clearing and settlement).

Prior to the European Commission, she worked in the private sector, mainly in banking, managing and advising on Mergers & Acquisitions and Initial Public Offerings. Positions included: Head of Strategy for ALM Treasury and M&A Manager at BNP Paribas Fortis (Brussels, 2008-2010); Director, Equity Capital Markets at ABN AMRO Rothschild (London, 2003-2008); Assistant Director, Corporate Finance at ABN AMRO (London/Bucharest, 1999-2002). She started her career at KMPG Romania.

Felicia holds a first class degree in Economics from the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK (1994) and a degree in Business Administration from the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest (1996).

With 12 years of management experience in media, internet, and financial industry, Mr Su is an entrepreneurial and a thought-leadership executive with proven track record in leading Fintech businesses. He is now the vice-president of China Binary Sale Technology and General Manager of Goopal International Limited.

In 2006, he started his professional career in China Binary Sale Technology. In 2010, he joined Alcatel-Lucent and worked as Senior Manager of Business Development. After that, he worked for Samsung Electronic China in Internet Media Business Development. One year later, he began to work for Beijing Qiandaibao Payment Technology as the vice president of Business Development.

Paola Subacchi is the Director of International Economics Research at Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs) in London. She is an expert on the functioning and governance of the international financial and monetary systems, and advises governments, international organisations, non-profits, and corporations.

She is a media commentator with the BBC, Project Syndicate, the Financial Times, and writes a regular column for Foreign Policy and Huffington Post Italy. She is the author of The People’s Money. How China is building a global currency (Columbia University Press, 2017).

Paola is also a visiting professor at the University of Bologna, a non-executive director of the FTSE-listed company Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust, a governor of St Marylebone School in London and an advisory member of Wilton Park (FCO).

An Italian national, she studied at Università Bocconi in Milan and at the University of Oxford. In 2016 she was awarded the honour Cavaliere della Stella d’Italia.

Camille Thommes joined the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry back in 2007. Before ALFI, Camille Thommes was in in charge of the Investment Fund Department at the State and Savings Bank, Luxembourg (BCEE) from 2001-2006, after holding various senior positions in the Securities & Custody department since 1993. He started his professional career in 1986 at Banque Générale du Luxembourg (now

BGL-BNP Paribas), where he held positions in the Securities and Custody Division.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Luxembourg Supervisory Authority (CSSF) and a member of the Consultative Committee for Prudential Regulation.

Camille is also a member of the High-Level Committee of the Financial Centre set up by the Ministry of Finance. Furthermore, he represents ALFI at the Board of Directors of the European Fund and Asset Management association (EFAMA) and is a Board member of PROFIL SA and XBRL asbl.

Camille holds a Master’s Degree in Economics from the University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg (France), completed the Accelerated Development Program at the London Business School and accomplished traineeships in London and New York. A Luxembourg native, Camille is fluent in English, French and German.

Ning Wang is cofounder and Chief Business Officer at PingPong, an innovative fintech company specialized in cross-border B2B services. He leads the expansion strategy and partner relationships in North America, Europe and APAC. Previously, he was Head of Business Development for Alipay.com US (now part of Ant Financial Group). He started his payment career with PayPal.com at various finance, analytics and market expansion roles.

Professor Yao Wang is the Director General of International Institute of Green Finance (IIGF), and the Director of the Research Center for Climate and Energy Finance (RCCEF), Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE), the Deputy Secretary General of Green Finance Committee (GFC) of China Society for Finance and Banking. She is also the Adjunct Professor of University of Southern Queensland, Australia, and University of Victoria, Australia.

She was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University. Professor Wang is interested in Low carbon Economy, Climate Finance and Green Finance.

She is the author of Carbon Finance: Global Vision and Distribution in China (China Economic Publishing House, 2010), and Climate Finance (China Economic Publishing House, 2013), and several other publications and working papers on climate finance and green finance. She had been working as a senior manager in Securities Companies (investment bank) for about 7 years, and have considerable underwriting experiences.

Ada Xiao graduated from the University of Cambridge with a B.A. degree in Economics before joining a Chinese investment bank in Hong Kong, China International Capital Corporation (CICC). After that she obtained an MBA agree from the Columbia Business School in New York, and soon after she joined ZhongAn, the very first internet insurance company in China as a product manager, and began her career in fintech. After ZhongAn, she worked at Wanxiang Blockchain Labs as the business development manager. Wanxiang Blockchain Labs was the first entity to promote Blockchain technology in China.

She is now the Chief Strategy Officer of Juzix, a fintech portfolio company of Wanxiang, focusing on Distributed Ledger Technology and its applications in financial market infrastructure.

Dr. Yanqing Yang is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of YICAI Newspaper, Managing Director of YICAI Think Tank, host and commentator of YICAI TV, invited senior fellow at National Institute of Finance and Development. Being a founder of YICAI Newspaper, she has been following China’s macro economy, financial markets and its interconnectedness with the rest of the world closely by writing a column and hosting in-depth programs for interviews with top global leaders, mainly central bank governors, finance ministers, prime ministers, economists and so on.

Being a media leader, she attends and moderates sessions in prominent global and domestic events, including World Economic Forum, IMF annual meetings, Lujiazui Forum, China Development Forum, Boao Forum and others. She published academic papers both in Chinese and English, recently engineered YICAI Research Institute transforming into a think tank, and lead research project including China Financial Risk & Stability Report, ULC report, China Financial Leasing Annual Report, G20 and China, etc. She sits on the board of China Universal asset management company.

She holds a Ph.D, a M.A. and a B.A. in economics in Fudan University, and was a visiting scholar at SAIS of Johns Hopkins University.

Mr Zhang is Managing Director at Institute of International Finance, Bank of China Head Office. He joined the Bank in 1995 and served as Assistant Director of the Executive Office, Deputy General Manager of International Settlement Department in Suzhou Branch, and Chief Credit Officer in Kunshan Branch. Mr Zhang moved to the Head Office in 2004 as a member of the Bank’s Restructuring and IPO Office. He was subsequently appointed as Senior Strategy Analyst, the Head of Strategic Partnership in Strategic Development Department and the Head of Banking Research at Institute of International Finance. His research experience covers China’s economic and banking reform, bank development strategy, M&A, SME finance and microfinance.

Mr Zhang holds an MBA Degree from the Cass Business School of City University London and is a member of the China International Finance Society.

Nasir is CEO of The LHoFT – The Luxembourg House of Financial Technology, a public/private sector initiative to drive Fintech innovation in Luxembourg.

Nasir has worked in Financial Services for nearly 20 years. He spent 13 years working within Capital Markets at RBS, ICAP, HSBC and EBS. He has been immersed in the Fintech and startup sector for the past six years. As an entrepreneur, Nasir has built multiple Fintech businesses across verticals. He has advised the boards of leading financial institutions, central banks and governments.

Nasir is included in the “Top 40 innovators shaping the future of financial services -2014” by The Wall Street Journal/Financial News.

Nasir has a BSc from the London School of Economics and is a Sloan Fellow from London Business School.