SPEAKERS/PANELISTS

ABEDNEGO, David

Mr. Abednego is an attorney who was admitted to practice law in the BVI in 1998. He joined the British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission in 2004 on secondment from the Government of the BVI. Read more...

BOLTON, Andrew

Andrew Bolton specializes in contentious insolvency matters and commercial litigation, including fraud, asset recovery and professional negligence. Read more...

CAMPBELL, Andrew

Andrew Campbell is Reader (Associate Professor) in International Banking and Finance Law and former Director of the Centre for Business Law and Practice at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom and a Solicitor of the Supreme Court in England and Wales. Read more...

DALEY, Jenifer

Dr. Jenifer Daley is a Senior Lecturer in Law, Accounting and Finance in the Department of Management Studies of the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Read more...

HENRIQUES, R.N.A

Roald Nigel Adrian Henriques is a Senior Partner of Livingston, Alexander & Levy, Attorneys-at-Law, with over 40 years distinguished legal practice. Read more...

HIRALAL, Carl

Mr. Carl Hiralal was appointed to the position of Inspector of Financial Institutions at the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago effective January 1, 2007. Mr. Hiralal is an experienced regulator with over twenty-seven years supervisory experience. Read more...

HUPKES, Eva

Eva Hüpkes is Advisor on Regulatory Policy and Cooperation at the Financial Stability Board. Prior to assuming her position with the FSB in September 2009, she served as Head of Policy and Regulation with the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA). Read more...

KAWAKAMI, Yosuke

Yosuke Kawakami is currently Executive Director at the Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan (DICJ), where he is responsible for overall planning and coordination of the DICJ’s activities, inter alia, international and research areas. Read more...

KAWALEY, Ian

Ian R.C. Kawaley is a Judge of the Commercial Court, a division of the Supreme Court of Bermuda.Born in Bermuda, he was called to the Bar of England & Wales in 1978, and the Bermuda Bar in 1980. Read more...

LECKOW, Ross

Ross Leckow is Deputy General Counsel in the Legal Department of the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. A national of Canada, Mr. Leckow has extensive experience in the legal aspects of Fund regulatory and financial operations, and has contributed to the development of Fund policy in a number of important areas including the Fund surveillance of member countries economic policies. Read more...

LEYS, Douglas

Douglas Leys is a graduate of the University of the West Indies. He graduated from the Faculty of Law in 1982 with Lower Second Class Honours. He began his career in the Resident Magistrate’s Court in St. Catherine. He was subsequently transferred to the Attorney General’s office where he rose from the ranks of Assistant Crown Counsel to Deputy Solicitor General in 1996. Read more...

LOEB, Patrick

Patrick Loeb is Director of the Swiss Banks’ and Securities Dealers’ Depositor Protection Association. He is also responsible for consumer affairs and real estate matters at the Swiss Bankers Association. Read more...

NUNES, Noel

Noel Nunes is the Risk Assessment, Insurance and Liquidations Officer attached to the Deposit Insurance Corporation. Mr. Nunes holds a Masters of Business Administration Degree in International Finance and an Undergraduate Degree (Upper Second Class Honours) with a double major in Economics and Accounting. Read more...

OSTERMAN, Rick

Rick Osterman is the Deputy General Counsel for the Litigation and Resolutions Branch in the Legal Division of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The Branch provides litigation counsel for FDIC and comprehensive legal support for FDIC’s resolution and receivership functions. Read more...

SABOURIN, Jean Pierre

Jean Pierre (JP) Sabourin is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Malaysia Deposit Insurance Corporation (MDIC) since it's establishment in 2005. He has unparalleled expertise in all aspects of deposit insurance and is very much in demand internationally. Read more...

SAINT-PIERRE, Guy

Guy Saint-Pierre is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation (CDIC). He is an internationally renowned authority on deposit insurance and its role in supporting the stability and soundness of a nation’s financial system. Read more...

SCHICH, Sebastian

Sebastian Schich is a Principal Economist at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), working in the Financial Affairs Division of the Directorate of Corporate and Financial Affairs. He serves the OECD’s Financial Markets Committee and its Insurance and Private Pensions Committee, and has represented the organisation in various forums outside the OECD such as the Vulnerabilities Group of the Financial Stability Forum (FSF). Read more...

SIMON, Justin

Mr. Justin Lockhart Simon was born in the Commonwealth of Dominica where he received his primary and secondary school education before reading for law in 1970 at the Faculty of Law at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus in Barbados. Read more...

SINGH, Dalvinder

Dr Dalvinder Singh is the Associate Professor of Law at the University of Warwick’s School of Law. He is also Senior Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London; Managing Editor of the Journal of Banking Regulation, since 2003 and Financial Regulation International, since 2006; Editorial Advisory Board Member, Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance (Emerald). Read more...

SYKES, Robin

Mr. Robin Sykes is an Attorney-at-Law who holds the position of Senior Legal Counsel with the Bank of Jamaica. Mr. Sykes has been with the Central Bank since 1997 having been in private practice for the previous 5 years. Read more...

VENNER, Dwight

Sir Dwight Venner is currently Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, a position he has held since December 1989. Read more...

WOOD, Phillip

Philip R. Wood QC (Hon) is Special Global Counsel at Allen & Overy LLP where he works full-time. He is also Visiting Professor in International Financial Law, University of Oxford, Yorke Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Cambridge, and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science and at Queen Mary College, London University. Read more...

WORRELL, DeLisle

DeLisle Worrell is the Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados. Dr. Worrell worked at the Bank previously between 1973 and 2000, serving as Manager of the Research Department, then Divisional Director of Research, before assuming the post of Deputy Governor. He held the Deputy Governor position between 1990 and 2000, when he retired. Read more...

WYNTER, Brian

Brian Wynter, was appointed Governor of the Bank of Jamaica as of 23 November 2009. As Governor, he is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank. Read more...