John Armour is Hogan Lovells Professor in Law and Finance, in association with Oriel College, at Oxford University, having previously been a University Senior Lecturer in Law and Fellow of Trinity Hall at Cambridge University. He studied law (MA, BCL) at the University of Oxford before completing his LLM at Yale Law School and taking up his first post at the University of Nottingham. He has published widely in the fields of company law, corporate finance, and corporate insolvency. His main research interest lies in the integration of legal and economic analysis, with particular emphasis on the impact on the real economy of changes in the law governing company law, corporate insolvency and financial regulation. He has been involved in policy related projects commissioned by the Department of Trade and Industry, the Financial Services Authority, the Insolvency Service, and the Jersey Economic Development Department.

Jeffrey Golden is currently a Visiting Professor in the Law Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Chairman of The P.R.I.M.E. Finance Foundation in the Hague, and a member of the Foundation’s Panel of Recognised International Market Experts in Finance, and a Director of MFX Solutions, Inc., an industry initiative providing currency hedging for microfinance. He recently retired from international law firm Allen & Overy LLP, which he joined as a partner in 1994 after 15 years with the leading Wall Street practice of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He was the founding partner of Allen & Overy’s US law practice and senior partner in the firm’s global derivatives practice and has extensive experience of a wide range of capital markets matters, including swaps and derivatives, international equity and debt offerings, US private placements and listings and mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. He acts for the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, was a principal author of ISDA’s master agreements and has appeared as an expert witness in several high profile derivatives cases.

Jeffrey Gordon is Richard Paul Richman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School in New York, Co-Director of Richman Center for Business, Law & Public Policy, and Co-Director, Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership. Professor Gordon teaches and writes extensively on corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, comparative corporate governance, and, more recently, the regulation of finance institutions. Professor Gordon graduated from Yale and Harvard Law School, clerked for a federal appeals court judge, practiced at a New York law firm, and worked in the General Counsel’s office of the U.S. Treasury. He began his academic career at NYU in 1982 and moved to Columbia in 1988.  While at Treasury, he worked on the Chrysler Corporation loan guarantee program and financial regulation.

Martin Hellwig is Director of Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, and Professor of Economics, University of Bonn. He holds a diploma in economics from the University of Heidelberg (1970) and a doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1973).  Following a postdoctoral year at Stanford University, he spent three years (1974-77) as Assistant Professor of Economics at Princeton University, ten years as Associate Professor (1977-79) and Professor of Economics at the University of Bonn (1979-87), and another nine years at the University of Basle, Switzerland, before joining the University of Mannheim in 1996. Professor Hellwig research focuses on general economic theory and he has written extensively on the economics of information, incentives, and equilibrium, public goods and taxation, financial markets and financial institutions, and the foundations of macroeconomics and monetary theory.

Cathy Kaplan is a partner in Sidley Austin’s New York office, where she is co-head of the New York Global Finance Practice. Ms. Kaplan’s practice is focused on a broad range of structured finance transactions. She has worked on structured notes, structured insurance products, CDOs, CLOs, cross border transactions and asset and mortgage backed financings. Ms. Kaplan has been at the forefront of a number of types of securitizations. She developed the first receivables program backed by healthcare receivables. In addition, Ms. Kaplan was counsel to the underwriter on the first transaction involving Japanese assets to be publicly registered with the SEC and was counsel to the underwriters for the first Australian mortgage transaction registered with the SEC. She has worked on international securitizations involving export receivables, natural resource assets and trade receivables in Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, the UK, Italy, France, Turkey and Japan.

Daniela Weber-Rey assumed her new role as Deutsche Bank AG’s Chief Governance Officer and Deputy Global Head Compliance in June 2013. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, she spent more than 20 years as a partner at the law firm Clifford Chance, where she mainly advised on corporate and capital market law, corporate governance, regulatory law in the financial sector and on compliance. She has also held various management positions that include her most recent role as a Member of the Partnership Council. Since 2005, Daniela has served repeatedly as a member of expert bodies at the European Commission. In 2008, she was selected as a Member of the Government Commission on the German Corporate Governance Code. In 2012, she was appointed to the Board of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI, Brussels) and to the Advisory Board of the International Center for Insurance Regulation (ICIR, Frankfurt). Between 2008 and 2013, she served as a Member of the Administrative Board of BNP Paribas, Paris, and between 2011 and 2013 she was a Member of the Insurance and Reinsurance Stakeholder Group of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority, EIOPA, Frankfurt.Daniela has published and lectured regularly in English, German and French on corporate law, corporate governance, M&A, capital market law, regulatory law as well as on general developments in the financial sector.