Chairman: Intelligence Capital Limited
Financial and economic advisor to large financial institutions and G20 Governments

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Non-Executive Chairman: Elara Capital
Non-Executive Chairman of a young and rapidly growing emerging-market investment bank, taking emerging market firms international and international firms to emerging markets.

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Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Company Name: Errol and Nita Barrow Educational Trust

Educational charity, making several awards a year to facilitate post-graduate studies for those who would not otherwise afford to do so. Over 120 awards have been given over 21 years. Established in 1989 in honor and memory of two great Barbadians.

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Member, Council on International Monetary System
World Economic Forum

Member of a team of distinguished individuals in the field of public international finance who aim to provide policy innovations that will improve the functioning of the world economy

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RBC Barbados
Non-Exec Chairman of the Board
RBC Barbados is a subsidiary of the Royal Bank of Canada

Non-Executive Director, and Member of the Audit Cttee, Caribbean
The Latin and Caribbean subsidiary of the one of the world’s strongest, large, banks and the result of a merger of two regionally strong players RBTT and RBC Caribbean. 

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Non-Executive Director
Media InSite Ltd

A new company with a highly experienced CEO (Allison Demas) offering media monitoring and ad verification services to advertisers and broadcasters.

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Non-Resident Senior Fellow
Peterson Institute for International Economics

Research areas include financial regulation, financial market liquidity and investor behaviour

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Chairman (seconded from Intelligence Capital LImited)
Paradise Beach Limited

Paradise Beach Limited is developing the Four Seasons private residences and resort at Paradise Beach in Barbados, West Indies. Intelligence Capital was invited to restructure the company and raise international capital. During my involvement we arranged a total of USD$170m, primarily from US-based investors and lenders. I resigned in December 2013.

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Executive Fellow
London Business School

Teaching World Economics for the MBA and ExecMBA. The LBS MBA is one of the highest ranked in the world.

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Member, Audit & Risk Committee
HM Treasury

Expert Member of HMT’s Audit & Risk Committee, with a focus on the oversight of the UK Government’s stakes in the financial sector during the financial crisis.

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Governor and Member of Council (Non-Exec Director)
London School of Economics

One of the world’s leading social science institutions.

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Commissioner, UN Commission on Financial Reform
United Nations

Member of the UN Commission, chaired by Nobel Laureate, Joe Stiglitz, and chairman of the regulation sub-committee of the Commission

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President, Section F (Economics)
British Science Association

The BA, formerly known as British Association for the Advancement of Science (founded 1831) is a learned society with the object of promoting the wider understanding of science.

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Trustee (elected)
Royal Economic Society

The RES, founded in 1890, is one of the oldest and most prestigious economic associations in the world. Its objective is to promote the study of economics and publishes two leading journals: The Economic Journal and The Econometrics Journal.

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Deputy Chairman
Overseas Development Institute

The world’s largest and oldest think tank on the eradication of poverty. Over 140 researchers and an annual turnover of over USD$20m.

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Chairman
Warwick Commission

The Warwick Commission on International Financial Reform, produced the report: “In praise of unlevel playing fields” with forwards from Lord Adair Turner, Governor Mark Carney and Andrew Sheng.

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Non-Executive Director & Trustee (elected)
Global Association of Risk Professionals

The 100,000-strong professional organisation for risk managers around the world and providers of the FRM certification.

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Visiting Scholar
European Central Bank

Visiting Scholar in the Operations Department of the ECB, working with an ECB team on the role of transparency on different types of liquidity, with a special reference to credit markets. This work was written up in ECB Occasional Papers Number 50 (see below).

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Mercer Memorial Professor of Commerce (and now Emeritus Professor of Gresham College)
Gresham College

The College and seven professorships were established in 1597 by Sir Thomas Gresham to give free public lectures. The Royal Society was formed at Gresham. Former distinguished Chairs include Sir Christopher Wren, Robert Hooke, Richard Sorabji and Baroness Greenfield.

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Investment Director (Executive)
GAM

GAM London, established in 1983 by Gilbert de Botton was one of the oldest and for a time one of the largest “alternative” asset managers.

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Managing Director, Global Markets Research (Executive)
State Street Bank

State Street Bank & Trust is one of the world’s largest holders of assets under accounting, custody and management. It was a pioneer in electronic foreign exchange trading for institutional investors.

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Visiting Scholar
International Monetary Fund

Visiting Scholar in the Research Department, working with Manmohan Kumar on formalizing my earlier work and initial indices on investors shifting appetite for risk. This work was written up as an IMF Working Paper, referenced in the WEO, and published in “International Finance”.

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Global Head, Currency and Commodity Research
J.P. Morgan

One of the world’s largest banks and foreign exchange dealers. Here I developed the first Risk Appetite Index, EMU Calculator and FX Regime Machine, all of which had a wide following. We moved from 16th place in 1993 to being routinely ranked in the top 3 currency research team in the world and mostly 2nd.

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Director, Fixed Income Research (DRES)
UBS

One of the world’s largest banks and arrangers of debt financing. Here I developed the “ERM Devaluation Indicator” and helped to take UBS to Number 3 in institutional investors surveys of currency analysts.

 

 

Colleen is a communications professional who has spent 30 years developing and managing communications strategies for Government Ministers, the UK Royal Family and multilateral organisations. Colleen wasPress Secretary to HRH The Prince of Wales and a Senior Press Officer to the former PM, Baroness Thatcher. She has worked as a Communications Consultant at the WHO and the UN. Colleen was Director of Communications at the Commission for Racial Equality and Director of Strategy and Communications at the Equality Commission. Colleen works with clients ranging from Hedge Funds and corporates to charities. She also works as a Senior Independent Assessor on Government panels and regularly speaks at conferences on diversity and communications.

She serves on not-for-profit boards the YMCA (Central), Tutu Foundation UK and is a Member of Cancer Research.

Colleen is a Deputy Lieutenant for Greater London and is the executive Chair of the Greater London Lieutenancy Board. She is an Ambassador for the Desmond Tutu Foundation and Honorary Patron of the PR Fraternity at Greenwich University.

Colleen trained as a teacher and supports projects that work with young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to achieve their potential, such as Ebony Horse Club in Brixton and Chineke! a Foundation established to provide career opportunities for young BME classical musicians in the UK.

Colleen enjoys the theatre, gardening and listening to the radio.

Colleen is married with two grown up children.

Pascal Saint-Amans took on his duties as Director of the Center for Tax Policy and Administration at the OECD on 1 February 2012. Mr. Saint-Amans, a French national, joined the OECD in September 2007 as Head of the International Co-operation and Tax Competition Division in the CTPA.  He played a key role in the advancement of the OECD tax transparency agenda in the context of the G20. In October 2009 he was appointed Head of the Global Forum Division, created to service the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes, a programme with the participation of over 100 countries.

Mr. Saint-Amans graduated from the National School of Administration (ENA) in 1996, and was an official in the French Ministry for Finance for nearly a decade.  He held various positions within the Treasury, including heading the supervision of  the EU work on direct taxes and overseeing  legislation and policy on wealth tax and mergers and spin offs.  He was also the head of tax treaty negotiations and mutual agreement procedures. In this capacity, he participated in the OECD Working Party No. 1 of the Committee on Fiscal Affairs as the delegate for France before being elected Chair of WP1 in 2005. He was also a member of the UN Group of Experts on International Co-operation in Tax Matters, becoming a “rapporteur” in 2006. Before leaving government service, he was Deputy Director in charge of litigation at the Direction Générale des Impôts.

Mr. Saint-Amans also served as Financial Director of the Energy Regulation Committee between 1999 and 2002 and was responsible for the introduction of new electricity tariffs.

Having earned a degree in history, Mr. Saint-Amans also received a degree from the Institut d’études politiques of Paris.