Kalin Anev Janse is the Chief Financial Officer and Member of the Management Board of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF). He oversees the Funding and Investor Relations division responsible for €300 billion of outstanding debt and the Investment and Treasury division investing the €80 billion ESM capital. Additionally, he oversees ALM & Financial Structuring overseeing the ESM and EFSF balance sheet. Before taking on the CFO position, Mr Anev Janse was the Secretary General responsible for amongst others Corporate Governance, Shareholder relations, HR and Finance & Control, and IT & Operations running technology and facilities of the institution. He previously worked in strategy at the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg, corporate finance advisory at McKinsey & Company in the Netherlands and investment banking at JPMorgan in London. He held several political positions in the Netherlands. Mr Anev Janse studied MSc. Business Administration at the Rotterdam School of Management and Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania. For his undergraduate degree, he studied Business Administration in Finance, Banking and Insurance at the Vrije University Amsterdam. He is Chair of the CFO Community of the World Economic Forum and Executive in Residence at IMD business school. He was a young global leader 2016 of the World Economic Forum.

Tim Armbruster joined KfW in March 2020. He is Treasurer and Head of Financial Markets department and serves as a member of the Supervisory Board of The Currency Exchange Fund N.V. He began his professional career in 1996 followed by various positions in marketsand treasury departments in Germany, Ireland, the US and Luxemburg. Before he joined KfW, he was Treasurer of the Federal Government`s Winddown Institution (FMS-WM) and Aareal Bank AG.

Emmanuelle Assouan has been the Director General for Financial Stability and Operations – Banque de France – since January 2023. She also chairs the Banque de France Center for Climate and Nature. She was previously delegated Director General in charge of Financial Stability within the Banque de France and the Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution. Her areas of responsibility also covered activities related to prudential regulation of credit institutions and insurers. Prior to financial stability, she held several positions in relation to payments and market infrastructures, but also management of foreign exchange reserves of Banque de France and implementation of monetary policy. Emmanuelle Assouan joined the Banque de France in 1997. She is a graduate from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.

Souâd Benkredda joined the Board of Managing Directors of DZ BANK AG in September 2022, where she is responsible for Capital Markets - Institutional Clients, Trading, Retail Banking and Group-Treasury. She was previously Global Head of Strategic Investor Group Sales at Standard Chartered Bank, responsible for servicing an institutional clients segment globally. She started her career in 2001 in the Global Markets division of Deutsche Bank and held various management positions in different markets over the course of 16 years in Frankfurt, Dubai and London. Born in Frankfurt, Souâd Benkredda studied Business Administration in Frankfurt am Main and Paris, graduating with a "Diplom-Betriebswirtin" (MBA) and a "Maîtrise en Sciences de Gestion".

Jenny Bofinger-Schuster was appointed as a full-time member of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) in August 2022, effective 1 December 2022. Prior to joining the ISSB, Ms Bofinger-Schuster served as Senior Vice President for sustainability and operational excellence at Siemens. In this role she was responsible for developing the company’s sustainability strategy and for implementing new disclosure requirements. Prior to this she held senior positions at Siemens Management Consulting and Horváth & Partners Management Consultants. Ms Bofinger-Schuster holds a Diploma in Business Administration from the University of Augsburg and an MBA from the University of Dayton, Ohio.

Robert E. Bopp is´Sustainable Finance / ESG specialist at EY Financial Services Germany, focusing on geopolitical risks. Over 20 years of international consulting experience in governance, strategy, risk, and regulation. Studied in Mainz, Stuttgart, Boston, and Paris, holding an M.S. in Multinational Commerce and an M.A. in International Relations and Diplomacy. Lectures at business schools, speaks at international conferences, and publishes on sustainable finance, climate change, reputation, and carbon-sensitive economic transformation.

Klemen Boštjančič has been the Minister of Finance of the Republic of Slovenia since June 1, 2022, and in 2024 he was elected as the chairman of the EBRD Board of Governors. Before his appointment, he ran his own consulting company specializing in financial and business restructuring. He has extensive experience in leadership and supervisory roles at various companies, including Sava d.d. and Sava Turizem d.d., and played a key role in the restructuring processes at Adria Airways and Mineral d.d. Boštjančič also serves as a governor at several international financial institutions.

Vera was born on 23 October1965 and raised in Caracas/Venezuela. After finishing school in Caracas in 1984 she studied business administration in Munich and completed a post-graduate master at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. She then moved on to work for the European Commission, and had a position as expert in DG External Relations. She then continued as head of internal market at Eurelectric. Vera then worked for E.ON until 2020 in different positions and eventually as head of political Affairs of E.ON SE. On 1 November she started with TenneT. On an extracurricular base she is member of the board of the Economic Council (Wirtschaftsrat) in Brussels and member of the Supervisory Board of EQUIGY. She lives in Brussels and is married with four children.

H.-Theo Brockmann started his career at DZ BANK AG in 1995, where he held various leading positions in the Capital Markets Division. In May 2013 Theo was appointed as a Managing Director of DZ BANK AG and its Global Head of Capital Markets Business Institutional Clients. He oversees the entire Treasury and Asset-Liability-Management-Solutions to Cooperative Banks, Sales Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange, ETD and OTC Derivatives, Money-Markets-Business, Equities to Institutional and Corporate Clients, Equity (ECM) and Debt Capital Markets (DCM) and the Business, - Process - and Institutional Client Management. Theo is also member of the Advisory Committee of Union Investment Institutional GmbH.

Andrew Cross was appointed to the position of Chief Financial Officer of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) on January. 1, 2020. His primary responsibility is to provide strategic and technical leadership in financial and treasury management to ensure AIIB’s sustainable financial strength and steady growth in financial resources. He also prioritizes the safeguarding of AIIB’s Triple A credit ratings in support of the Bank’s overall mission. Cross joined AIIB in May 2019 and served as the Assistant CFO before his appointment. Prior to this, Cross was the Deputy Treasurer at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group. He supported the IFC Treasurer in providing leadership and oversight for IFC treasury hub operations in London and Singapore. He joined IFC in January 2006 as a Principal Financial Officer and was a member of the funding team. He was also involved in IFC’s market borrowing operations and its emerging market local currency issuance program. Cross was an investment banker at Merrill Lynch International from 1993 onwards, initially based in London. He worked as a Director in Debt Capital Markets with responsibilities spanning sovereign, corporate and financial institution clients in the Europe, Middle East and African regions. From 2000 to 2002, he was based in Johannesburg at Merrill Lynch International with responsibilities for Southern Africa debt capital markets. Cross has an undergraduate degree from the University of Waikato, New Zealand and an MBA from the University of Cranfield, United Kingdom.

Tammo Diemer is a member of the Executive Board at Federal Republic of Germany – Finance Agency since 2013. He is also a member of the Supervisory Board of Eurex Clearing AG and vice chairman of the Supervisory Board of FMS Wertmanagement. From 2001 to 2013, he held various positions at Aareal Bank AG, and since 2008 he has been Managing Director/Head of Treasury. He began his professional career in 1999 as asset liability manager at DePfa Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG. Tammo Diemer holds a doctorate in mathematics. He studied at the University of Bonn, Germany, and at the University of Warwick, UK.

Marjan Divjak is the Director General of the Treasury Directorate at Slovenia's Ministry of Finance. The Treasury Directorate, led by Marjan Divjak, was awarded Sovereign Risk Manager of the year 2017 by the Risk Magazine London. His responsibilities are funding, liability management, state budget liquidity management and Single Treasury Account operations. He previously worked in the middle office of the Treasury Directorate. He has also been an adviser in the Office of the Prime Minister. He is member of the Supervisory Board of the SID Bank. Marjan Divjak is an External Expert in the Monetary and Capital Markets (MCM) Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He holds a BEng in civil engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, Leeds University (UK), and an MSc in mathematical finance from the Mathematical Institute, Oxford University (UK).

Matthias Ebert is Head of DCM FIG Origination at DZ BANK AG in Frankfurt. Within the firm's debt capital markets department, he is responsible for the bond origination from financial institution groups globally. He joined DZ BANK in November 2019 from Commerzbank in London where he successfully built a debt capital market bond coverage team for financial institutions in North America and Asia-Pacific. During his career he has gathered in-depth experience in advising, structuring and executing covered, senior and subordinated notes in GBP, CHF and EUR for clients in Europe, Asia-Pacific and North America. Matthias holds a Master Degree in Economics from the University of Giessen in Germany.

Markus is Head of Multi-Asset and joined Quoniam in 2005. In addition to managing and developing multi-asset strategies, he is an expert in the use of big data in the investment process. He studied economics at the University of Heidelberg and holds a doctorate from the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich. Before joining Quoniam, Markus worked as a quantitative equity consultant at Deka Investment. His interest in quantitative research is supported by several publications in various academic journals.

Rachel Ellehuus became Director-General of RUSI on 6 January 2025. Rachel joined RUSI after serving nearly three years at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) as the United States Secretary of Defense Representative in Europe and Defense Advisor to the United States’ Mission to NATO. Prior to that, she was Deputy Director of the Europe and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC and a Senior Advisor at WestExec Advisors. Previously, she served in multiple roles in the U.S. Department of Defense to include Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy. Her time in the Pentagon also included an exchange to the UK Ministry of Defence's Strategy Unit, where she worked on the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review. Rachel has numerous publications to her name, most recently Europe’s High-End Military Challenges (2022) and The Challenge of Political Will in Europe (2022). She holds a BA from Colgate University and a MA from the College of Europe

Dr Frank Engels has been a member of the Executive Board of Union Asset Management Holding AG since July 2022. As Chief Investment Officer he is responsible for securities portfolio management. Prior to that Frank was Global Head of Fixed Income at DWS for six months. He already worked at Union Investment from 2012 to 2021, initially as Head of Fixed Income. In August 2014 he was appointed to the Management Board of Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH and also took over as Head of Multi Asset at the beginning of 2017. At the end of 2017 he became Head of Portfolio Management and Chairman of the Union Investment Committee.

Marcello Estevão is the incoming Managing Director and Chief Economist of the Institute of International Finance located in Washington, DC, USA, starting on July 1, 2024. He is also a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University, with a focus on macroeconomic crises and debt sustainability. Dr. Estevão has many years of experience as a policymaker and researcher in international and national institutions both in the public and private sectors. He has led work in a wide range of topics, going from sovereign debt crises, fiscal policy issues, climate financing, and economic forecasting to obstacles for higher emerging market and developing countries’ productivity growth, inflation risks, capital flow volatility, and macroeconomic stabilization strategies. He joins IIF from the World Bank Group, where he has been serving as Senior Advisor for Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions and Global Director of Macroeconomics, Trade, and Investment. In this role, he oversaw the World Bank’s global macroeconomic agenda and provided strategic intellectual direction for a large team of professionals, working in all regions of the world. Prior to joining the World Bank, Dr. Estevão used his policymaking skills as Deputy Minister for International Affairs at the Ministry of Finance in Brazil, serving as Brazil’s G20 Deputy and leader of numerous international negotiations and positioning at major multilateral institutions. He was also a Board member of Brazil’s third largest pension fund. Previously, he worked at Tudor Investment Corporation as its Chief Economist for North America and Oceania, when he interacted with a broad array of portfolio managers, policymakers, and researchers to distill economic and policy events and market positioning into investment strategies; roles of increasing responsibility at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which included leading negotiations of IMF programs, writing regional and global reports, and doing original academic research; and the Research and Statistics Division of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board as a researcher and member of the US forecasting team. Dr. Estevão holds a PhD in Economics from MIT, as well as master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He has an extensive body of published work in peer-reviewed academic journals, books, policy reports, and media. A native of Brazil, he is fluent in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and French.

Fiona Fleischmann is Head of Portfolio Management and General Treasury Affairs at KfW since September 2024. Within KfW’s Financial Market division, she is responsible for managing the liquidity portfolio among other things. She joined KfW in March 2008 as a trainee in Financial Markets and worked in the ALM team. During her career, she held positions in securitization, promotional loan business and credit risk management departments. Fiona holds a master degree in Business Mathematics from the University of Marburg in Germany.

Global Chief Investment Officer with 30+ years of private and public sector investor roles and global policy experience. Kristian was the inaugural CEO of the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds and worked at the IMF, ECB and Danish Central Bank with focus on sovereign asset management managing $150+ billion assets. He was the Chief Investment Officer at Jyske Invest Fund Management and headed reserve management at the Central Bank of the UAE; where his team became the 2022 Reserve Manager of the Year for its work on investment policy, SAA and work on the internal and external fund management framework. Kristian is a frequent speaker, panelist and global thought leader at major global events. He holds an MBA from Aarhus University and a BSc in Finance from Copenhagen Business School. Kristian sits on major global advisory boards, including Global SWF, Tobacco Free Portfolios and the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership.

Christian Fries is a Professor of Applied Mathematical Finance / Computational Finance and Head of Model Development at Group Risk Control at DZ BANK AG. He is the co-author of the smart contract protocols ERC-6123 (Smart Derivative Contract) and ERC-7573 (Secure and Stateless Delivery versus Payment). In addition, he actively contributes to the field of computational finance by maintaining finmath lib, an open-source library that provides algorithms and methodologies related to mathematical finance. More information about this library can be found at http://finmath.net/finmath-lib/. The source code for the library is available on GitHub at https://github.com/finmath/finmath-lib. Christian Fries is the author of the book "Mathematical Finance: Theory, Modeling, Implementation," published by Wiley in 2007.

Paolo Gentiloni served as European Commissioner for Economy from 2019 to 2024. In December 2024, the United Nations Secretary-General appointed him Co-Chair of the Group of Experts to Promote Policy Solutions for Resolving the Debt Crisis. He is also a nonresident Distinguished Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Previously, he served as Prime Minister of Italy (2016–2018), Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (2014–2016), and Minister of Communications (2006–2008). From 2001 to 2019, Gentiloni was a member of the Italian Parliament, where he served as Chairman of the Broadcasting Services Watchdog Committee (2005–2006) and as a Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee (2013–2014). Earlier in his career, he worked as a professional journalist and served as a Councillor for the City of Rome (1993–2000). He was also one of the 45 founding members of the Democratic Party (Partito Democratico – PD) and led the party as its President from 2018 to 2019. Born in 1954, he graduated in Political Science from La Sapienza University in Rome. His most recent book is La sfida impopulista (The (Un)populist Challenge, Rizzoli).

Martin Gipp joined Landesbank Hessen Thüringen (Helaba) in November 2008 as Head of Funding in Frankfurt. Prior to Helaba he worked at Dresdner Bank for 20 years in various roles within risk control, treasury and capital markets, in his last role with global responsibility for the MTN and private placement business within Capital Markets. During his career he gathered great experience on various treasury aspects as well as on debt capital market business across the entire product spectrum from capital issues to covered bonds. Martin holds a diploma in Business Administration (FH) from Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

Ingo Graupe leads corporate banking in Continental Europe. In his role, he is responsible for acquiring new clients and managing existing customer relationships. Prior to joining the State Bank of India in 2016, he worked at various banks in different corporate banking roles since 1986, including as Head of Credit.

Dr Alexandra Hachmeister is currently heading the General Directorate for the Digital Euro at Deutsche Bundesbank. She joined Bundesbank in 2022 where she headed up the Directorate General for Economic Education, University and International Central Bank Dialogue. Alexandra held various top management positions at Deutsche Börse AG, including Chief Regulatory Officer and Managing Director for Market Data & Services. Alexandra Hachmeister holds a doctorate in Market Microstructure.

Michael Handl works as a Funding Advisor at Oldenburgische Landesbank AG. He is responsible for various long-term refinancing activities in the bank's treasury department. The focus is on secured financing via Pfandbriefe and RMBS transactions. He joined OLB in April 2024 from Raiffeisen Landesbank Niederösterreich-Wien in Austria. In Austria, he always worked in the Treasury department and was most recently responsible for the Group's short and long-term liquidity management. During his career, he gained extensive experience in structuring and issuing various transactions in the capital markets. Michael holds a Master's degree in Business Informatics and a Master of Business Administration.

Employed by DBSA for 12 years. Experience in various areas of expertise within banking sectors in South Africa ranging from Research and Strategy; Credit (industrial sectors and cross border activities); and currently the Group Executive for Financing Operations, which houses the following divisions: Credit, ESG, OEU, Portfolio Management and Risk Specialist experts. Previously worked at First Rand for 17. Working through WesBank I started in Research and Strategy and assumed the role of CEO’s assistant dealing with wide ranging issues from group reporting, investor presentations to special projects looking at new market opportunities. From WesBank I moved into FNB looking after strategic marketing for Niche Markets and care taking the Small Business Market before moving into RMB in a credit role. In this capacity I was initially primarily involved in the industrial sector before leading the credit for RMB’s cross border activities. I was an “independent” deployed First Rand member on WesBanks credit comm and was a member of First Rands Cross Border Credit Comm (Largest in-house committee before Board committee which sat for notifiable deals to the SARB).

Current Chair of HIFSA (Housing Impacts Fund South Africa) Committee.

Gregor (Greg) Hirt is Global Chief Investment Officer (CIO) Multi Asset and a Managing Director with Allianz Global Investors. He joined the company in 2021. In this capacity, he leads and oversees the development of the firm's Multi Asset capability and investment offering. He is a member of AllianzGl's Investment Executive Committee and International Management Group. Greg brings 25 years of experience in Multi Asset investing from both a wealth management and asset management perspective. He joined from Deutsche Bank, where he has been Global Head of Discretionary Portfolio Management for the International Private Bank since 2019. Prior to that, he was Group Chief Strategist and Head of Multi Asset Solutions at Vontobel Asset Management, having also gained strong experience at UBS Asset Management, Schroders Investment Management and Credit Suisse. Greg holds an MA in International Economics from University of Geneva and MSc in Economics from HEC Lausanne, School of Business. He is also a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst and Certified EFFAS Financial Analyst.

Christoph Hock has taken on the new role of Head of Tokenisation and Digital Assets (PM) at Union Investment on January 1, 2024. In the industry, he is a well-known advocate of blockchain technology and the tokenisation of assets. Christoph has already played a key role in shaping the development of this area within Union Investment in the past. In his role, he is driving the development and expansion of the digital asset strategy in combination with digital payment mechanisms both within the portfolio management business unit and company-wide across the entire value chain. Christoph Hock is responsible for coordinating all activities in portfolio management related to the implementation of tokenisation and digital assets. He represents the portfolio management business unit in Union Investment's Blockchain Steering Committee. Christoph reports directly to the Union Investment Executive Board member responsible for the business unit portfolio management. Christoph graduated with a bachelor’s degree in banking and obtained an MBA degree from St Galler Business School in 2022. He has more than 25 years of international investment banking, trading and management experience, having worked for companies on the buy- and sell-side. Christoph joined Union Investment in 2014 as Head of Multi-Asset Trading Desk. Before that he was head of Execution Sales at Barclays Bank. He was founder, partner and co-CEO/ Head of Portfolio Management and Trading at Tungsten Capital Management, a hedge fund company. Prior to this, Christoph was Head of Proprietary Equity Derivatives Desk at J.P. Morgan.

Felix Hofmann is a Portfolio Manager and Head of Corporate Bonds at Deka Investment GmbH. He joined Deka in 2014 and became team head in 2017. Felix previously worked as a portfolio manager at Avantium Investment Management LLP, a London based hedge fund, which he also co-founded. His experience includes various positions at Deutsche Bank London, most recently as proprietary trader and at Morgan Stanley London as head of Emerging Markets Special Opportunities. During his lengthy career Felix covered European Corporate Credit (both Investment Grade and High Yield) and previously all Emerging Markets regions (Asia, CEEMEA and Latin America). Felix studied business administration specializing in foreign trade at the University of Reutlingen.

Raul Kaltenbach joined R+V Versicherung as Senior Portfolio Manager for Fixed Income in May 2020. Prior he led a team for liquid fixed income investments as Head of Euro Aggregate Fixed Income at ODDO BHF Asset Management for 2 years. Previously, he worked for 13 years as a Portfolio Manager and Fixed Income Analyst at Frankfurt-Trust Investment GmbH, managing dedicated and mutual funds in different global liquid fixed income segments.

Dr. Fritzi Köhler-Geib is a Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank and is responsible for the Research Centre, Data and Statistics, Information Technology and Risk Control. Before assuming this role in November 2024, she was the Chief Economist and First Vice President of the Economics Department of KfW Group. Previously she worked for over ten years at the IMF & the Word Bank in various positions and regions, last as the World Banks Lead Economist and Programme Leader for Central America. She received her PhD in Economics from Ludwig Maximilian University Munich and Pompeu Fabra University, Spain. She holds two master degrees in economics and in international management from the University of St. Gallen, HEC Paris and the University of Michigan. Her research interests focus on financial crises, their stabilization and growth-enhancing reforms. In addition, she teaches a master’s level course on economic transformation processes at Goethe University Frankfurt.

Peter Kohl-Landgraf holds a diploma degree in business mathematics. He works as Senior Business Analyst at DZ BANK’s capital markets trading department with over a decade of experience in risk management and quantitative analytics related to structured products and derivatives. Besides other digitalization projects Kohl-Landgraf is Product Owner of the Smart Derivative Contract project. This cross-institutional initiative aims risk reduced and efficient processing of OTC derivatives by the use of DLT and smart contracts.

Eila Kreivi is a former Director, Head of Capital Markets and Chief Sustainable Finance Advisor of the European Investment Bank (EIB), she left the Bank in retirement in 2024 after 29 years. Subsequently, in March 2024 she joined the Board of Directors of Finnvera, a state-owned special financing company in Finland and in July 2024, she joined the Board of Directors of the International Finance Facility for Immunisation, which raises funds for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Ms Kreivi joined EIB in 1995 as a capital markets officer. She went on to become the Head of Funding for the Americas, Asia & Pacific and headed the Capital Markets Department as its Director from April 2011 to January 2022. Between March 2018 and January 2022, and she was an alternate Board member of the European Investment Fund (EIF). She served as Chief Sustainable Finance Advisor reporting to the Secretary General from February 2022 to February 2024. Prior to joining EIB, she worked at the Union Bank of Finland and Société Générale in Helsinki and Paris. Ms Kreivi chaired the Executive Committee of the Green Bond Principles (2015-2018), represented the EIB at the High Level Expert Group on sustainable finance (2017-2018), Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (2018-2020) and the Platform on Sustainable Finance (2020-present). She was a member of the Board of Directors of the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) from July 2020 to August 2024. Additionally, she has been involved as an external expert to the High-Level Working Group on the Environmental Consequences of the War in Ukraine. She is currently an expert of the Geostrategic Europe Task Force, hosted by Jacques Delors Energy Centre. She holds a Master of Science degree in Economics from the University of Abo Akademi in Finland and is fluent in Finnish, English, French, and Swedish.

Sophie Landry joined the European Investment Bank as Head of Treasury Portfolio Management in 2021. She is responsible for the investment strategy and implementation of the Bank’s long-term liquidity buffers through effective asset management, as well as for managing the financial assets of third parties. Previously, Sophie was Head of Financial Institution Origination & Solutions, Germany, Austria & Switzerland with NatWest Markets. She has more than 20 years of experience in Investment Banking in leadership and trading roles. Sophie is a member of the Bond Market Contact Group of the European Central Bank and an Associate Fellow from Said Business School, Oxford University. Sophie earned a Bachelor from Sciences Po Lyon and a Master in Management and Finance from the University of Strasbourg with Honours and Scholarship. She qualified as Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA) in 2004 and graduated with an executive MBA with distinction from Oxford University in 2019.

Daniel Lenz is Head of Euro Rates Markets Strategy, Fixed Income Research at DZ BANK since 2021. From 2006 to 2021 he held various positions with DZ BANK Research. Before joining DZ BANK Daniel worked at Dresdner Bank AG, with assignments in Cologne, Frankfurt, and London. His academic background includes a degree in Economics (“Diplom-Volkswirt”) from the University of Cologne in Germany and Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

Bernd Loder is Head of SSA Origination at DZ Bank AG in Frankfurt. He is responsible for the bond origination from SSA issuers globally. He joined DZ Bank in August 2024. Prior to that, he held senior positions in the rates fixed income DCM/Syndicate at UniCredit in Munich and Barclays in London, where he was responsible for trading and managing bonds in the Primary Market. Bernd holds a BA degree from the Frankfurt School of Finance.

Friedrich (“Fritz“) Luithlen is Head of Debt Capital Markets & Syndication at DZ BANK. Before taking up his current role in late 2017, Fritz ran the private placement business of the bank, and acted as Head of Covered Bond Origination, promoting the Bank’s covered bond franchise with issuers across the globe. In addition to his day-to-day activities, Fritz is also at the helm of a number of DZ Bank’s digitalisation projects that aim to combine legal, financial and risk technologies in the digital realm to transform current business models in the primary markets.

Janno Luurmees is Head of the State Treasury at Estonia’s Ministry of Finance, responsible for sovereign financing, liquidity management, and the investment of central government financial assets. He assumed the role in 2022, following more than 20 years of experience in banking, capital markets, central banking, the energy sector, and technology startups. Prior to joining the Ministry, he held senior roles at the Bank of Estonia, focusing on asset management, risk management, and market operations, as well as various roles at Eesti Energia and in technology ventures.

Dmitry Mariyasin was appointed Deputy Executive Secretary (No2) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) on 1 March 2021. UNECE, as one of the five UN regional commissions, covers 56 member States, promotes regional cooperation and facilitates the development of regulation and policy in areas such as energy, environment, trade, transport, housing, forestry and statistics. Prior to joining UNECE, Mr. Mariyasin was heading the Country Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Armenia (2017-2021). He also served as the Team Leader, Partnerships in UNDP Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS region (2011-2016) and in other positions with UNDP at global, regional and country level. Since 1 May 2023, Mr. Mariyasin is Officer-in-Charge of the UNECE Transport Division, in addition to his responsibilities as Deputy Executive Secretary. In this additional role, Mr. Mariyasin oversees the team supporting the UNECE Inland Transport Committee, home to over 60 global UN legal instruments on road, rail and inland water transport. Mr. Mariyasin holds a PHD in Economics from the Moscow State University, and a MA in Public Administration from the New York University.

David Marsh is Chairman and Co-Founder of OMFIF. Before starting at OMFIF in late 2009, he worked for City merchant bank Robert Fleming, corporate finance boutique Hawkpoint, German management consultancy Droege and London investment firm London & Oxford. Marsh took over the chairmanship from John Plender in January 2018 having been Managing Director since 2014. He reverted to an executive role after John Orchard stepped down in October 2024 following five transformative years as Chief Executive Officer. Marsh is a visiting Professor at Sheffield University and King’s College London. He is former co-founder, chairman and deputy chairman of the German-British Forum. He was made Commander of the British Empire in 2000 and was awarded the German Order of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz) in 2003. He started his career at Reuters in 1973 having graduated with a BA in chemistry from The Queen’s College Oxford. Between 1978 and 1995 he worked for the Financial Times in France and Germany, latterly as European Editor in London. Marsh has written six books on politics and economics, mainly on Germany and Europe. His seventh book, Can Europe Survive? The Story of a Continent in a Fractured World, will be published by Yale University Press in autumn 2025.

Sonja Marten heads the Foreign Exchange Research at DZ BANK. After completing her Master's degree at the Warwick Business School in the UK, Ms. Marten worked as an analyst for various banks in London before joining DZ BANK in 2006. Initially, she was primarily responsible for the "Floor Research" as a Senior Analyst. Since the end of 2013, Ms. Marten has been leading the foreign exchange research at DZ BANK as a team leader. Since 2021, Sonja Marten has also been responsible for our research on monetary policy and interest rates.

Robert Musner is Head of the Treasury Department at Oberbank AG, Austria's seventh largest bank, based in Linz. In this function, he is responsible for funding, liquidity management and own investments. He is responsible for building up Oberbank's mortgage cover pool and for the regular capital market presence of his bank since 2018 - especially with long-term securities. As Oberbank is also active in the Czech Republic and Hungary, his tasks also include liquidity management in these currencies. Robert Musner has been with Oberbank for 37 years. He has a Master of Business Administration.

Elena Panomarenko is responsible for IFC's market borrowing strategy and operations out of IFC’s London office. She covers public markets, such as GBP, EUR, and CHF, as well as private placements and structured notes. She is actively involved in IFC’s SRI bond issuance such as Green and Social Bonds, and in developing investor relations in the EMEA region. Elena has worked in IFC for over 20 years and played a key role in the re-organization and decentralization of IFC treasury. Between 2017 and 2023 she represented IFC at the Executive Committee of the Green, Social, and Sustainability-linked Bond Principles. She holds an MBA from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts in English language from Magnitogorsk State University.

Ayelet Perlstein is the Head of Investor Relations at IFC, responsible for investor and stakeholder engagement. With over 12 years of experience in debt capital markets, lending operations, and sustainable development, she leads IFC’s sustainable finance initiatives and manages the green and social bonds program. Perlstein is dedicated to using finance to address global challenges, fostering collaboration with investors for sustainable development. Previously, she contributed to IFC’s Managed Co-Lending Portfolio Program, developing the Paris-aligned MCPP One Planet platform and enhancing ESG reporting. From 2016 to 2020, she represented Israel at the IDB Board of Executive Directors. Earlier, she was Head of Global Debt Capital Markets at Israel's Ministry of Finance, overseeing international sovereign debt issuances totaling over USD 7 billion. In 2019, Perlstein was recognized as one of The Marker magazine's 40 under 40 promising professionals.

Jan Pie is Secretary General of the Brussels-based Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Associa­tion of Europe (ASD). ASD represents – directly or indirectly through its National Association members – more than 4,000 companies, accounting for 98% of industry’s total turnover and 93% of its total employment in Europe. The association actively supports the competitive development of the industry at both European and global levels, providing expertise to institutions and member companies. Mr Pie is a member of several experts’ groups of the European Commission, such as the Consultative Commission on Industrial Change, and the Industrial Forum. Before joining ASD in 2013, he was the Secretary General of the Swedish Security and Defence Industry Association, SOFF.

Dedicating the past 8 years of his career to DLT across various roles, Moritz Platt is now a Capital Markets Technology Manager at Google. Advising leading global financial institutions, he designs cloud platforms for tokenized assets and guides Web3 integration. Concurrently with his industry career, he pursued blockchain research at King’s College London, focusing on identity-based consensus protocols.

Marcus Pratsch has been working in the financial industry since 1996 and has more than 18 years of experience in Sustainable Finance. Since January 2019 he is heading the Sustainable Bonds & Finance team of DZ BANK and is responsible for the global sustainable capital market business of the bank. Prior to his current position, Marcus served for more than 10 years as DZ BANK‘s Head of Sustainable Investment Research. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Principles (ICMA), a member of the advisory council of the OMFIF Sustainable Policy Institute (OMFIF SPI) as well as Co-Chairman of the Sustainability Expert Group of the British Chamber of Commerce in Germany (BCCG). Marcus has graduated from University of Mannheim, one of the leading business schools for economics and business administration in Germany.

Jozef is a seasoned investment professional focusing on global asset allocation and investment strategy at National Bank of Slovakia, where he chairs the Investment Committee and Strategic Asset Allocation group. He has direct oversight of Tactical Asset Allocation, Active Management and Execution teams. His background includes managing retail and institutional fixed income and balanced mandates at BlackRock Investments for over 10 years, prior to which he spent time as covered bond and SSA market maker at Credit Agricole CIB. He holds master degree from Comenius University and is CFA charter holder.

Rupert is an IT leader with over 20 years of experience driving large scale digital transformations in finance. Over the past eight years, he has spearheaded the launch of various AI projects. In the last two years, he has led the technical side of a programme to digitalize the grant financing operations of KfW. Since 2018, he has served as Head of IT Innovation at KfW, where he has overseen the introduction of AI methodologies and cloud services. Prior to that, he was at DekaBank, where he was responsible for modernizing order management, distribution systems and sales data warehouses. He managed M&A IT integrations in Luxembourg and Switzerland, and led the launch of a joint venture fund administration platform.

Heike Reichelt is Head of Investor Relations and Sustainable Finance at the World Bank Treasury. The World Bank Treasury manages the funding programs for the World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IBRD), the International Development Association (IDA), and the International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm) and Climate Investment Funds (CIF) Capital Markets Mechanism (CCMM). Her team is responsible for managing relationships with bond investors, rating agencies and the financial media, and developing labeled bond products. These include products to raise awareness for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and climate change mitigation and adaptation - like World Bank Green Bonds and World Bank Sustainable Development Bonds. Heike also manages outreach to the sustainable and impact investing community and works with other issuers and market participants to encourage the growth of sustainable capital markets focused on making a long-term positive social and environmental impact through integration of environmental, social and governance criteria (ESG) in investment decisions. She has 20+ years of experience in finance – including as an engagement manager for the World Bank Treasury's Reserves Advisory Management Program for central banks and in the areas of export finance and capital markets, during her career at KfW, the largest German development bank. Heike was recognized for her role in building sustainable capital markets as the 2017 recipient of the prestigious Joan Bavaria Award.

Torun Reinhammar is Head of Capital Markets, Europe at CDP, a global non-profit that runs the world’s only independent environmental disclosure system for companies, investors, cities, states and regions. Partnering with leaders in enterprise, capital, policy and science, CDP surfaces the information needed to enable Earth-positive decisions. Ms Reinhammar leads CDP's efforts to engage and enable European capital market actors to understand the environmental risks of their businesses, as well as to measure the positive and negative impacts on the environment. After many years as a financial news journalist, before joining CDP, she worked with ESG topics at the Swedish insurance company Folksam. CDP helped more than 24,800 companies and 1,100 cities, states and regions disclose their environmental impacts in 2024. Financial institutions with more than a quarter of the world’s institutional assets use CDP data to help inform investment and lending decisions

Edoardo Reviglio is an Italian economist and academic with extensive experience in public finance, economic policy, and international investment. He currently serves as President and faculty member at the International University College of Turin and is an Adjunct Professor of Economics at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome. Additionally, he is a Senior Research Visiting Scholar at Yale Law School.​ Reviglio has held several prominent roles in both public institutions and academia. He served for many years as Chief Economist at Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP), Italy’s national development bank and sovereign wealth fund, and was a longstanding member of the Council of Economic Advisers to the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance. He has also advised multiple Italian finance ministers and contributed to major European policy initiatives, including acting as Special Rapporteur for the Prodi Report on Social Infrastructure in Europe, commissioned by the European Commission. His academic background includes a BA, summa cum laude, from Yale College. He has been a Research Fellow at the Mathematical Center Vito Volterra at the University of Rome, a Reserach Fellow at Yale University's Department of Mathematics, and a Research Associate at Imperial College London.​ Reviglio has authored numerous books and scholarly articles, focusing on areas such as public finance, banking, law and economics, and economic history. He is also active in international policy circles, representing CDP Group in organizations like the UN, G20, G7, OECD, and the EU.

Anna is the Head of Geopolitics for Amundi Investment Institute. In this role, she helps Amundi and its clients make better investment decisions by understanding ongoing global geopolitical shifts. Ms Rosenberg joined Amundi from Signum Global Advisors, where she was co-founder and Senior Partner responsible for the firm’s predictive research output focused on Europe. She helped grow the business from a start-up into a rapidly growing and well-respected company. Before Signum, she helped executives at multinational companies adjust their expansion plans across emerging markets to political and economic developments. At Frontier Strategy Group (now FrontierView), Ms Rosenberg also launched and headed the Sub-Saharan Africa research practice and co-created the firm’s macroeconomic forecasting product, for which her department won various awards. Throughout her career, she has produced ‘out-of-the-box’ thinking and research helping firms perform better in volatile environments. Her commentary on politics and work on business strategy has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, the BBC and CNBC, among others. She is also a Visiting Scholar at the London Institute of Banking and Finance and a BBC Expert Woman. Ms Rosenberg is a historian by training and holds an MA with Distinction from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She speaks fluent German, Spanish and Portuguese, reads French and Italian and has studied Arabic and Latin.

Aliki Rouffiac is a Portfolio Manager and member of the Investment Solutions team. She joined Robeco in 2022. Previously, she worked at Pictet Asset Management where she was a Multi Asset Investment Manager responsible for strategy and asset selection, portfolio management and construction, and ESG research for Multi Asset portfolios. Before joining Pictet, Aliki worked for four years at Nedgroup Investments as an Investment Analyst with macroeconomic, asset valuation and fund research responsibilities. Prior to Nedgroup Investments, she worked for four years at Towers Watson as an Investment consultant and Research Analyst within the Asset research team. She holds a Bachelor’s in Economics from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and a Master’s in Finance from Imperial College Business School in London. Additionally, she is a CFA® charterholder and holds a CFA Institute Certificate in ESG Investing.

Mr. Alexander Ruf is a Director at Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) in Helsinki. Alexander is, together with the rest of the Funding and Investor Relations team, responsible for funding the Bank’s activities on the international capital markets. Before joining the NIB in 2011 he worked for more than ten years in various positions in the debt capital markets unit in UniCredit Bank AG, Germany. He holds a Master degree in Economics from the University of Tübingen.

Siegfried Ruhl is Hors Classe Adviser in the Directorate-General for Budget of the European Commission since 1 December 2021. Since October 2020, he had been seconded by the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) to the European Commission. In his role, he supported the operationalisation of the NextGenerationEU borrowing programme and continues to support its day-to-day operations, in addition to the global borrowing and lending work of the European Commission. In the ESM, Siegfried was Head of Funding & Investor Relations and responsible for the management of €300 biEEion of outstanding debt with a more than €80 biEEion funding programmes in bonds and bills for both ESM and European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF). He was also in charge of the management of related derivatives transactions. Additionally he managed the communication and relationship with more than 1,700 investors. Siegfried Ruhl officially joined the ESM in January 2013 but he was already heading the division that established the funding programme for EFSF at the Bundesrepublik Deutschland Finanzagentur, which was initially responsible for the issuance of EFSF bonds and bills. Previously, he worked in the trading and issuing business of the Bundesrepublik Deutschland Finanzagentur for 11 years. He also worked for the Deutsche Bundesbank for six years, where he started his career in financial markets as a trader at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Siegfried Ruhl graduated in Business Administration from the University of Applied Science in Hachenburg, Germany.

Jamie Rush has been Chief European Economist for Bloomberg Economics in London since 2015. He previously worked at the British Treasury, the New Zealand Treasury and the UK Office for Budget Responsibility. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Sheffield, is an occasional lecturer at University College London and co-author of “The Price of Money” a forthcoming book with Oxford University Press.

Frank Scheidig is global head of Senior Executive Banking at DZ BANK, leading DZ BANK’s high level global strategic engagement with government and official institutions. His network covers – amongst others - the German government, Bundesbank and KfW; the EU commission, EIB and ESM as well as SAFE, AIIB and Worldbank. Having previously had a 40+ years career in the capital markets, with Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank among others, covering governments, central banks, supranationals, state funds, and development banks. He is Deputy Chairman of the Advisory Board of OMFIF (The Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum), a well-connected think-tank for central banking, economic policy and public investment. He chairs the Rhein-Main regional committee of the British Chamber of Commerce in Germany, is a member of the Board of the IBF International Bankers Forum and of the German government’s committee for sustainable development.

Dr. Sabrina Schulz is an expert in energy, climate and international security policy. She works as the Germany Director of the European Initiative for Energy Security (EIES), and she is also an Associate Fellow with the German Council on Foreign Relations and an Adjunct Professor at Hertie School. At EIES, she is focusing on energy, resource and energy infrastructure security in Germany and Europe. After her doctoral research in the field of international security, she started her professional career in the climate field as a climate diplomat with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. She is also the founding director of the Berlin office of E3G Third Generation Environmentalism, an international climate think tank, where she worked on international climate diplomacy and the energy transition in Germany and Europe, including how to finance it. Sabrina served as Head of the Berlin office at KfW, Germany’s national promotional and international development bank; as the Executive Director of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network Germany; and she worked in various positions, including as a Co-CEO, for econnext AG, a holding for start-ups and scale-ups in the area of ClimateTech. She received her Master and PhD in International Politics from the University of Wales at Aberystwyth in the United Kingdom. She also holds an MA in Public Policy and Management from the University of Potsdam, for which she also studied at the University of Konstanz and the Université catholique de Louvain.

Dr. Dirk Schumacher is the Chief Economist and Head of the KfW Research Department at the KfW Bank Group. Prior to this role, he served for seven years as the Head of European Economics at the French investment bank Natixis in Frankfurt and Paris. Before joining Natixis, he spent a year in the Economics Department of the European Central Bank and 17 years in the Economics Department of Goldman Sachs in Frankfurt and London. Schumacher earned his doctorate with Axel Weber at the Centre for Financial Studies, affiliated with the University of Frankfurt. As Chief Economist, he and his team analyze trends relevant to KfW in the economy, society, and financial markets, and contribute to the economic and financial policy debate. The core of their analysis focuses on the cyclical dynamics and the long-term growth prospects of the German economy. Particular attention is given to the situation of SMEs, the role of innovation, and digitization in enhancing competitiveness. Additionally, Dr. Schumacher addresses questions regarding the international integration of the German economy within Europe and the rest of the world.

Jens Siebert, is co-responsible for Financial Services Management Consulting and an expert in the transformation of business and operating models of banks, asset managers and market infrastructure providers. He also heads the DLT practice in the banking sector at KPMG Germany.

Christopher W. Smart is the founder and managing partner of the Arbroath Group. His distinguished career in global financial markets and government service helps drive the Group’s work to distil high-value macroeconomic and geopolitical insights, advice and strategy. Christopher is an accomplished investor, with demonstrated success in portfolio management and investment strategy, complemented by senior economic policy roles at the U.S. Treasury and the White House. Prior to founding the Arbroath Group, Christopher was the Chief Global Strategist at Barings, where he also founded, built and led the Barings Investment Institute. The Institute focused on the investment opportunities shaped by macroeconomic and political dynamics and explored the forces driving long-term capital allocation decisions. From 2013 to 2015, he served in the White House as Special Assistant to the President at the National Economic Council and the National Security Council, where he was principal advisor on trade, investment and global economic issues. Christopher also spent four years as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, where he led the response to the European financial crisis and led U.S. engagement on financial policy across Europe, Russia and Central Asia. Christopher has also served as a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, and at the Chatham House Royal Institute of International Affairs where he explored issues at the intersection of financial markets, international relations and national security.

Prior to his government service, he worked as the Director of International Investments at Pioneer Investments where he managed top-performing Emerging Markets and International portfolios. Early in his career, he was an advisor to the Russian Finance Ministry following the collapse of the Soviet Union and a journalist in Florida and France. Christopher's public profile includes regular columns on global markets and international relations that he writes for Barron’s, Bloomberg Opinion and Foreign Policy, and he is also a frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg News and other major media.

Christopher holds a B.A. in History from Yale University and a Ph.D. in International Relations from Columbia University. Fluent in French and Russian, he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Mark is a veteran US Treasury official, who was at the forefront of international financial diplomacy. He works with OMFIF in dealings with private and public sector organisations, speaks regularly on international and US policy, and provide OMFIF members with insight and analysis. Mark represented the US in the IMF between early 2015 and 2018 and was Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary for international monetary and financial policy between 2000 and early 2015. He helped lead Treasury preparations for G7 and G20 finance minister and central bank governor meetings, formulated US positions at the IMF, and coordinated Treasury and regulatory agencies’ work in the Financial Stability Board. Mark played a key role in US foreign exchange policy including coordinating the Treasury’s semi-annual foreign exchange report on China and other countries. Mark founded the US/EU Financial Market Regulatory Dialogue and chaired an international group of private and official sovereign debt experts that developed enhanced collective action clauses for sovereign debt restructuring.

Bert is currently working as a Senior Manager for KfW in Frankfurt am Main. His tasks at KfW encompass looking into new technology & new work methods and how they can be implemented into the treasury department. Since 2016 Bert is looking into the topic of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)/Blockchain. He has gained insides in several DLT projects. From 2007 to 2010 he worked as a portfolio manager in the Structured Credit unit at Deka Investment GmbH. He started his career at the credit rating agency Fitch Ratings in the field of securitisation. Bert holds a business administration degree at Universität Potsdam as well as a Master of Science in “Risk Management & Regulation” at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

Prof. Dr. Nils Stieglitz is President & CEO of Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Germany. He has held this position since April 2018, currently serving his second term. Prof. Stieglitz’s Frankfurt School journey began in 2012 when he became Professor of Strategic Management, subsequently taking on the role of Management Department Head in 2015. In 2017 he was appointed Vice President of Corporate Development and joined the Management Board. Alongside his executive positions, he continues to teach in Strategy and Strategic Management. Before joining Frankfurt School, Prof. Stieglitz was a Professor of Strategic Organisation Design at the University of Southern Denmark and Researcher at the University of Marburg. He completed his PhD in 2003 at the University of Marburg, where his dissertation covered “Strategy and Competitive Dynamics in Converging Industries” (“Strategie und Wettbewerb in konvergierenden Märkten”), being awarded the Outstanding Dissertation Award in 2004. Prof. Stieglitz's research interests include strategy and organisational design, evident through his publications in leading academic journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Organisation Science, and Journal of Management. Since becoming President & CEO, Prof. Stieglitz has embraced thought leadership and has contributed to topical discussions in media outlets such as Business Week, Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, the New York Times, The Economist, and Wall Street Journal. He has also appeared on several podcasts, including One Step Beyond, Radio Frankfurt, and Leadership Neu Gedacht.

Søren S. Christensen, CFA, is Senior Portfolio Manager for International Credit at Storebrand. He specializes in systematic bond investing, credit curve modeling, and portfolio optimization. He has over two decades of experience across trading, portfolio management, ESG investments, and quantitative development.

Mr. Stix is Managing Director of the Austrian Treasury since June 2015. His responsibilities cover all market-related activities at the Austrian Debt Management Office. This includes Capital Markets & Investor Relations, Liquidity Management, Federal Budget and the issuance of Green Bonds as well as Green Bills and Green Commercial Paper. Furthermore, his duties include EU, OECD and IMF affairs as well as press and public relations. He is Speaker of the Managing Board. Mr. Stix joined the Austrian Treasury in 1993. From 2008 he was authorized officer for the Austrian Treasury and headed the Liquidity Management and Federal Budget department. During his tenure, he developed Bundesschatz (the first green money market product for retail), implemented the SWIFT-access of Austria and was lead-managing all major capital market transactions for the Republic since 2000.

Evgeni Stoyanov is an experienced investment professional with a strong background in European government bond portfolio management and physical commodity trading. Proven track record across trading, risk management, and strategic advisory roles within leading financial and commodity trading institutions.

Jean-Claude Trichet was elected Chairman of the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences (2023). Jean-Claude Trichet is former European Chairman of the Trilateral Commission and honorary Chairman of the Bruegel Institute (Brussels). He is Special Advisor of the Systemic Risk Council (Washington). He is honorary Chairman of the G30 (Washington).

Dennis Van Landeghem is the Senior Relationship Manager for FIG and Debt Investor Relations at Belfius, where he brings over 25 years of experience in financial markets. Prior to his current role, he served as Head of Corporate Sales and FX trading at Belfius. His career spans key positions at Dexia and Fortis Bank, where he specialized in institutional and corporate sales and macroeconomic advisory. Dennis holds a Master’s degree in Financial Economics from Ghent University. Dennis is a regular contributor of market commentary and frequently speaks on topics such as interest rate developments, political developments and macroeconomic trends.

Tom Wagner is a Senior Manager in Capital Markets at Siemens AG, bringing over 30 years of experience in finance. For more than 20 years, he has held various positions within Siemens Treasury. As a project lead, Tom was responsible for the implementation of digital bonds at Siemens. He has played a pivotal role in driving the company's adoption of innovative financing solutions to enhance their treasury operations. With his deep expertise in capital markets and treasury management, Tom is a respected thought leader in the field of digital finance. He frequently shares his insights at industry events, contributing his knowledge and experience to advance the use of transformative financial technologies.

Thomas Weber is Head of Corporate Bond Research at DZ BANK where he and his team analyze around 120 non-financials issuers across sectors. He joined DZ BANK in 2021. Prior to this, Thomas worked as a fixed income research analyst at Metzler and Commerzbank, where his work was focused on issuers from the banking sector. Before that, Thomas was part of Commerzbank’s Debt Capital Markets team advising clients on hybrid capital issuance and liability management transactions. Since 2018 Thomas is a CFA charter-holder. He graduated from the University of Cologne in 2010.

Petra Wehlert is First Vice President and Head of Capital Markets at KfW. She is responsible for all capital market funding activities including the EUR- and USD-Benchmark programs, Green Bonds and structured private placements. Furthermore she oversees investor relations, ratings and documentation issues. Preceding her current role Petra headed the team for new issues in public markets within the Capital Market division of KfW. Since her start at KfW in 1995 she worked in diverse areas such as derivative markets or liquidity management. She took over her new role in February 2016. Before her career at KfW, she worked for the Deutsche Bundesbank in capital markets. She holds a degree in business administration/economics. Petra is married and has two children.

Craig is the founder of GreenBridge Capital Management and the former Chief Executive of New Zealand Green Investment Finance (NZGIF), New Zealand’s national green investment bank and largest direct investor in climate solutions. As the Chief Executive of NZGIF, he was a pioneer in developing a multi-mandate institution, focusing on investments that deliver both commercial returns and climate impact across multiple asset classes. His current work focuses on building understanding of the critical role private markets play in supporting climate transition and providing investors with suitable investment product to enable access to climate-positive investment opportunities in the real economy. Prior to his time at NZGIF, after a career in private markets in New Zealand and the United States, Craig held multi-faceted executive roles for the commercial directorate of the New Zealand Treasury, managing teams focused on the New Zealand government’s direct investment and managed portfolios representing over $100 billion in assets, including 3 major electricity generation-retailers, and the owner of the national grid. Accordingly, he has a deep understanding of market structure and opportunity, the role investment and markets can play in enhancing the public good, and the challenges faced in optimizing public/private approaches. Craig holds an Honours Degree in Economics from Randolph-Macon College and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Virginia. He is also a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst, a Certified Investment Fund Director and a member of the New Zealand Institute of Directors.

Prof. Dr. Isabell M. Welpe is the chair of the Strategy and Organization research group at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. She was elected among the 40 leading HR-Personalities (Award of the Journal Personalmagazin). The expertise of Professor Welpe includes digital transformation of companies, business model innovation, the impact of digital technologies on the economy and organizations and the future of leadership and work/organizational design.

Stefan Wintels has been CEO of KfW since November 2021. He joined KfW as Co-CEO in October 2021. Prior to joining KfW, Wintels worked at Citigroup for 20 Years (2001 - 2021) in various leadership roles. Most recently, he was the Global Co-Head Financial Institutions Group and a member of the Global Executive Committee of the Banking Capital Markets & Advisory Division. He was also Vice Chairman of Citigroup in Germany, Chief Country Officer for Germany as well as CEO of Citigroup Global Markets Europe AG until March 2020. Stefan Wintels began his professional career in 1994 at Deutsche Bank AG (1994-2001) and left as Managing Director at Deutsche Bank’s Corporate Development / Group Strategy Department. He received a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Technische Universität Berlin and participated in a 2nd year MBA program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Stefan Wintels is also Chairman of the Supervisory Board of KfW Capital GmbH & Co. KG and a member of the Supervisory Boards of Deutsche Telekom AG and DHL Group. Stefan Wintels lives in Frankfurt with his wife and their four children.

Linda is the Founder & CEO of International Sustainable Finance Centre, an independent and apolitical think tank. Linda is an Assistant professor at the Florence School of Banking and Finance at EUI. In 2024, Linda joined ARX Equity Partners, a private equity fund, as a Member of their ESG Committee. Linda is part of the European Investment Bank's (EIB) Women Climate Leaders Network and in 2023, she was selected as an Obama Europe Leader. Between January 2022 and March 2025 Linda was a member of EU's Platform on Sustainable Finance, advising on the usability of the EU Taxonomy and the wider sustainable finance framework. Linda is currently also serving as a Member of the Agora Energiewende Council for Europe, and until recently, she was a non-executive director at a London-based logistics startup, Pedal Me, and a Fellow at the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in London. Linda serves as an Advisory Board member at the Polish Sustainable Investment Forum (PolSIF), Romanian Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (RoSIF) and the Czech Sustainable Investing Forum (CzechSIF). Linda is an alumna of the University of Glasgow, McGill University and the London School of Economics.

Zongyuan Zoe Liu is Maurice R. Greenberg senior fellow for China studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Her work focuses on international political economy, global financial markets, sovereign wealth funds, supply chains of critical minerals, development finance, emerging markets, energy and climate change policy, and East Asia-Middle East relations. Dr. Liu’s regional expertise is in East Asia, specifically China and Japan, and the Middle East, specifically Gulf Cooperation Council countries. Dr. Liu is the author of Can BRICS De-dollarize the Global Financial System? (Cambridge University Press) and Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances its Global Ambitions (Harvard University Press).