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Head of Emerging Markets and Asia Equities

Urs Antonioli is Head of Emerging Markets and Asia Equities in UBS SA���ʴ�ı, with overall responsibility responsible for research, portfolio management and construction. He is also the Lead Portfolio Manager for the Emerging Market Equity Strategies. He is based in Zurich.

Urs began his financial career by joining the UBS Zurich graduate training program in 1994. In 1995 he moved to UBS SA���ʴ�ı to launch and manage the first UBS emerging market fund investing in Eastern European countries. He has spent more than six years as a research analyst, specializing in energy, telecommunications, basic materials and the technology sector.

From 2001 to 2021 he was Head of Emerging Markets ex Asia and Deputy Portfolio Manager for the Emerging Market Equity Strategies. He took up his present position in January 2023.

Swiss National Bank, Head of SA���ʴ�ı

Roman Baumann is Head of SA���ʴ�ı at Swiss National Bank. His division is responsible for managing Switzerland’s foreign currency reserves. He chairs the investment committee.

He joined SNB in 2003 as a Risk Analyst. In 2004, he moved to SA���ʴ�ı as a credit portfolio manager. Three years later, he was named Deputy Head of SA���ʴ�ı as well as Head of Global Rates. In 2013, he established SNB’s only foreign branch. He acted as Head of the Singapore Office and until 2016. After his return to Switzerland, he became Head of Money Market, the group responsible for monetary policy implementation in domestic markets, before he moved back to SA���ʴ�ı in 2022.

Roman Baumann holds a Master’s degree in Finance and Economics from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He is a CFA Chartholder and Member of the Swiss CFA Society. He is a Financial Risk Manager (FRM) as well as a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA).

Senior Strategist, SA���ʴ�ı, Bank for International Settlements, Basel

Pierre Cardon, CFA, is Senior Strategist within the Banking Department of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland.

Pierre has held senior management positions at the BIS for more than thirty years, mainly building global asset management services for central banks and official institutions. He also coordinates key cooperative initiatives, such as the Green Bond Fund and the Asian Bond Fund. He actively promotes environmental sustainability across BIS financial assets.

Responsible for the BIS Pension Fund, Pierre has served as Secretary to the BIS Pension Fund Committee since 1998 and as Advisory Committee member of the European Pension Fund Investment Forum since 2002.

Pierre also served as a member of the CFA Institute’s Board of Governors from 2006 to 2012 and of the Board of Directors of the Swiss CFA Society from 2004 to 2006.

Pierre holds an MA in economics from the University of Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Head of Strategy & Advice, Global Sovereign Markets, UBS SA���ʴ�ı

As Head of Global Strategy he analyzes the market trends affecting the investment behavior of central banks, sovereign wealth funds and other state-controlled investment institutions and work closely with the investment teams in providing investment advice and developing tailored investment solutions for this client segment.

Max established himself as a global thought leader on the macroeconomic, financial and political trends in sovereign wealth management. He has often been called in by leading institutions as an expert on global economic and financial matters. Max has recently published The New Economics of Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Wiley Finance Series, a book providing a thorough guide to sovereign wealth funds, covering the drivers of the industry, how it operates and grows, the interest from and in Western markets and the pivotal role that sovereign wealth funds play in the world economy.

In his sixteen year long international professional career, Max has been Head of governmental affairs for UBS in Europe, Middle East and Africa, EMEA Senior Economist and consultant advising governments and corporates in emerging markets on behalf of international institutions.

Max holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Rome where he lectured and a Msc in Economics from the University of London. He is a member of the Executive Committed of the SA���ʴ�ı Investment Council (ICMA) and a Fellow at the Centre for International Markets, Money and Regulations at Bocconi University.

Mário Centeno is the Governor of Banco de Portugal and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank since July 2020. He served as President of the Eurogroup and Chair of the Board of Governors of the European Stability Mechanism, and for over four years he was Finance Minister of Portugal. An experienced economist, Mr Centeno has held several positions in Banco de Portugal, where he started his career in 1993. He has a strong academic background with a PhD in Economics, from Harvard University, and has published several academic papers.

Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Cambridge

Professor Dasgupta is Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Cambridge. He boasts a career of over 40 years studying how best to harmonize economic growth with the biosphere and led the creation of the 2021 UK government report ‘The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review’. The report analyzed the importance of nature to economies and societies, and its conclusions helped create ‘natural capital’ as an economic concept. Professor Dasgupta is also a Forum Member of UBS’s Sustainability & Impact Institute.

Senior Portfolio Manager, Co-Head Global Multi-Asset Portfolio Management

Jonathan Davies is a Senior Portfolio Manager within the Investment Solutions team. He has spent the bulk of his time at UBS SA���ʴ�ı in the London office but has been located in Zurich since 2019. Jonathan manages balanced strategies as well as the firm's standalone currency strategies. He is a voting member of the Investment Solutions Investment Committee.

Jonathan joined UBS SA���ʴ�ı in 1992 as a bond analyst in the London, specializing in European bond markets. He joined UBS SA���ʴ�ı's fixed income team in 1996 where he had responsibility for managing global bond portfolios. In 1998, he joined the Investment Solutions team, covering currency and multi asset strategy.

Other roles held at the firm include chair of the UK Investment Committee, which had oversight of all of the AM business conducted in the UK (approx. GBP 140bn AuM), and head of the Asset Allocation team on an ad interim basis.

Prior to joining UBS, Jonathan held positions at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Financial Services Authority.

UBS Global Wealth Management, Chief Economist

I am the Chief Economist of UBS Global Wealth Management. I believe passionately that economics is something everyone can and should understand. We all make economic decisions all of the time. The problem is that economists tend to wrap economics in jargon and equations. We do not need to do that. It is my job to help people realize what they probably already know – by developing and explaining the UBS economic view in a clear way. To do this, I publish research (most of which you can find here), make short videos, and appear in various print and broadcast media.

I tend to think of myself as a political economist, not a mathematical economist. I get very excited about lots of things in economics. Diversity, inflation, education, trade, inequality, sustainability and social change are some of the topics I am very enthusiastic about (to the point of writing books about them).

I joined UBS back in 1992 as an intern economist working in our investment bank. Decades later, I am still working as an economist at UBS. That probably says something about me, being an economist, working for UBS, or all three. As Chief Economist I sit on the Global Investment Committee. I am a UBS Opinion Leader, a member of UBS Pride, and (no doubt to the astonishment of my former art teacher at school) a member of the UBS Art Board. I am also part of the UBS Nobel Perspectives program, and a supporter of the UBS Women in Economics program.

I have an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and an MSc in Financial Economics from the University of London. I am also an Honorary Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford and sit on their investment committee and development board. In my spare time, I am an amateur heavyweight boxer (prepared to defend my forecasts in the ring), a keen if very definitely amateur skier and a small scale farmer with apples, pears, and sheep.

Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

Barry Eichengreen is George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Chair and Distinguished Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. In 1997-98 he was Senior Policy Advisor at the International Monetary Fund.
Professor Eichengreen is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (class of 1997). He is a distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association (class of 2022), a corresponding fellow of the British Academy (class of 2022), and a Life Fellow of the Cliometric Society (class of 2013). He has held Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships and been a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Palo Alto) and the Institute for Advanced Study (Berlin). For 15 years from 2004 he served as convener of the Bellagio Group of academics and officials. He is a regular monthly columnist for Project Syndicate.

Professor Eichengreen has been awarded the Economic History Association's Jonathan R.T. Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching and the University of California at Berkeley Social Science Division's Distinguished Teaching Award. He is the recipient of a doctor honoris causa from the American University in Paris, and was the 2010 recipient of the Schumpeter Prize from the International Schumpeter Society and the 2022 recipient of the Nessim Habif Prize for Contributions to Science and Industry. He was named one of Foreign Policy Magazine's 100 Leading Global Thinkers in 2011. He is a past president of the Economic History Association (2010-11).

His most recent book is In Defense of Public Debt with Asmaa El-Ganainy, Rui Esteves and Kris Mitchener (Oxford University Press 2021)

Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Group of Thirty (G30) and former Governor, Bank of Israel

Prof. Jacob A. Frenkel is Chairman Emeritus of the Group of Thirty (G-30), a private nonprofit Consultative Group on International Economic and Monetary Affairs, he is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the financial firm Plus500, and of Brainstorm Cell Therapeutics.

Prof. Frenkel served as Chairman of JPMorgan Chase International (2009-2020), as Chairman and CEO of the G-30 (2001-2011), as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the G-30 (2012-22), as Vice Chairman of American International Group, Inc. (2004-2009), and as Chairman of Merrill Lynch International (2000-2004). During (1991-2000) he served two terms as the Governor of the Bank of Israel. He is credited with reducing inflation in Israel and achieving price stability, liberalizing Israel’s financial markets, removing foreign exchange controls, and integrating the Israeli economy into the global financial system.

During (1987-1991) he was the Economic Counselor and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund, and during 1973-1987 he was on the faculty of the University of Chicago where he was the David Rockefeller Professor of International Economics and Editor of the Journal of Political Economy.

He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a life-time Fellow of the International Economic Association, a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Distinguished Fellow of the CEPR, Chairman of the Global Advisory Board of Value Base, a member of the Board of Directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research, of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and of the Aspen Institute Italia. He is also a member emeritus of Temasek International Panel (TIP), a Senior Advisor of Temasek International Advisors, a member of the Competitive Markets Advisory Council of the CME Group, a member of the G20 Eminent Persons Group on Global Financial Governance, a member of the G20 High Level Independent Panel on Financing of the Global Commons for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, a member of the International Advisory Council of China Dev. Bank, and a Global Member of the Trilateral Commission.

Prof. Frenkel is a Laureate of the 2002 Israel Prize in Economics, a recipient of the Scopus Award from the Hebrew University, the Hugo Ramniceanu Prize for Economics from the Tel-Aviv University, the Czech Republic’s Karel Englis Prize in Economics, the “Order de Mayo al Merito” (in the rank of Gran Cruz) decoration from the Government of Argentina, the “Order of Merit” (in the rank of Cavaliere di Gran Croce) decoration from the Republic of Italy, and the YIVO Lifetime Achievement Award. He is also a recipient of several Honorary Doctoral degrees and other decorations and awards, including the “1993 Economic Policy Award” by “Emerging Markets” and the “1997 Central Banker of the Year Award” by “Euromoney”.

Prof. Frenkel served as Chairman of the Board of Governors of Tel Aviv University (2013-21), where he is Chairman Emeritus and also Chairman of the Frenkel-Zuckerman Institute for Global Economics. He previously served as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank (1995-1996), as Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (1999-2000), as Governor of the IMF and Alternate Governor of the World Bank for Israel (1991-2000), as a member of the Economic Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1986-2014), as a member of the Board of Trustees of the New York Economic Club (2013-2019), and as Chairman of the Cabinet of Economic Experts of the Minister of Finance, the State of Israel (2022-23).
During 2009-19 he served on the Board of Directors of Boston Properties, and of Loews Corporation.

Prof. Frenkel is the author of numerous books and articles in the fields of International Economics and Macro-Economics. He holds a B.A. in economics and political science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago

Co-Head of Strategic Asset Allocation Modeling, Investment Solutions, UBS SA���ʴ�ı, Chicago

Michele Gambera is Co-Head of Strategic Asset Allocation Modeling.

In this role he co-leads the team developing and maintaining quantitative models in asset allocation for both clients and the portfolio management teams in Investment Solutions.

Michele joined UBS SA���ʴ�ı in 2010 from Ibbotson Associates, Morningstar’s asset allocation consultancy, where he had been Senior Research Consultant and Chief Economist since 2006. In his more than nine years at Morningstar, he was also a Senior Quantitative Analyst and then Chief Economist for Morningstar Associates LLC. Prior to joining Morningstar, he worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago for two years as an Economist in the Supervision and Regulation division.

Alongside his extensive economic and quantitative analysis experience, Michele has a strong academic background and has held various teaching roles, most recently on the Master of Quantitative Finance program at University of Illinois. He is often quoted by the press including the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.

He is a member of the Chicago Quantitative Alliance and the CFA Society of Chicago.

U.S. Navy (Retired), Member UBS Americas Advisory Council

He attended the U.S. Naval Academy, majored in Ocean Engineering, and was graduated and commissioned an Ensign in the U.S. Navy in June 1975. Admiral Greenert completed studies in nuclear engineering and entered the nuclear submarine force. Subsequently, he was certified to operate and supervise naval nuclear reactor systems. His service in submarines culminated in command of the submarine USS HONOLULU (SSN 718) in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

His Navy career has given him the opportunity to serve as: Commander, U.S. Forces Micronesia; Deputy Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet; Deputy Comptroller, Dept. of the Navy; Chief Financial Officer, U.S. Navy; Commander, U.S. Seventh Fleet (Asia-Pacific); Commander, U.S. Atlantic Fleet; Vice Chief of Naval Operations (Deputy CEO/COO); and Chief of Naval Operations (CEO, 2011-2015).

Admiral Greenert and his family have enjoyed living in many different locations including Japan (2), Guam, Hawaii (3), Seattle, San Diego and Washington, D.C (6). He retired from military service in October 2015 and currently serves as a consultant, advisor, and member of corporate boards. He is a member of the UBS, Americas President’s Advisory Council.

Head of Fixed Income UK, Senior Portfolio Manager

Jonathan Gregory is Head of Fixed Income in the UK and a senior portfolio manager in the Fixed Income team. He is the lead portfolio manager on several credit and multi sector strategies.

Jonathan is a member of the Fixed Income Investment Forum.

Jonathan joined UBS SA���ʴ�ı in 2010, having previously been Head of Credit and Portfolio Manager at Western SA���ʴ�ı between 1998 and 2009. In that role he was responsible for managing Global, Euro and Sterling corporate bond portfolios and had significant involvement in the credit allocation for Global, Euro and UK aggregate portfolios.

Prior to his 11 years at Western, Jonathan worked for NatWest Markets as a credit rating analyst and in corporate banking. He began his career in the mortgage industry as a loan officer and underwriter.

President, UBS SA���ʴ�ı, Zurich

Aleksandar was appointed President of UBS SA���ʴ�ı and joined the UBS Group Executive Board on 1 March 2024.

Aleksandar was previously Head of Client Coverage and Head of the EMEA and Switzerland regions for UBS SA���ʴ�ı. He is a member of the UBS SA���ʴ�ı Team, the UBS EMEA Executive Committee and the UBS Switzerland Executive Committee.

Aleksander was appointed Head of Client Coverage in May 2018 and Head of EMEA in March 2019. He rejoined the firm in 2017 as Head of Institutional Client Coverage and was appointed Head of Switzerland in February 2018.

As regional Head for EMEA and Switzerland, he was responsible for developing and implementing the strategy for those regions, as well as ensuring engagement with clients, regulators, industry bodies and key stakeholders.

Aleksandar previously worked at Morgan Stanley from 2011-2016 where he was Head of EMEA Distribution, and Financial Engineering for Structured Products, Institutional Equity Derivatives and Quantitative Investment Strategies.

Prior to this he worked at Credit Suisse between 2008-2011 and he started his career in UBS from 1992-2008. 

Global Head of Economics and Strategy Research, UBS SA���ʴ�ı, London

Arend is Global Head of Economics and Strategy Research, and Chief Economist of the SA���ʴ�ı. He joined UBS in August 2016 from Brevan Howard SA���ʴ�ı where he was head of Emerging Market research & strategy (2010-2016). Prior to that (2006-2010) he ran macro research and FX strategy for the EMEA region at Deutsche Bank. He also spent 8 years (1998-2006) at the International Monetary Fund, where he was a senior economist working on many of the Fund's high profile programs and specializing in crisis resolution issues. Arend started his career at the Dutch Central Bank, where he worked as an economist in the Monetary and Economic Policy Department, and in the late 1990s was a member of the G22 Secretariat, a precursor to the current G20. He holds degrees in Economics and International Relations from Johns Hopkins University and business degree from the Netherlands School of Business.

Head of Political & Country Risk, UBS, London

Preston Keat is a managing director and head of political and country risk at UBS. In this role he oversees the bank’s country risk team, which analyzes a broad range of counties, as well as macro political and economic trends and themes. He also leads the firm’s internal "economist forum" and “risk think tank.”

Head ETF & Index Fund Investment Analytics, UBS SA���ʴ�ı

Willem joined UBS SA���ʴ�ı in July 2020 as Head of ETF & Index Fund Investment Analytics.

The UBS ETF Research and Analytics team assists in developing innovative and custom indices for our high-quality ETF offering. The team advises distribution colleagues and clients on the distinguishing characteristics of our ETFs, explains the unique investment features, and positions the offering against alternative exposures.

Prior to UBS, Willem gained extensive quantitative portfolio management experience in SA���ʴ�ıing, followed by passive solutions experience in ESG, Climate, Thematic and Factor indices at STOXX.

Willem holds a Master of Economics degree from the University of the Free State in South Africa.

Head of Fixed Income Emerging Markets and Asia Pacific

Shamaila Khan is Head of Fixed Income Emerging Markets and Asia Pacific at UBS SA���ʴ�ı. She is also a member of the Fixed Income Management team, Fixed Income Investment Forum (FIIF), and chairs the Emerging Markets FIIF sub-committee.

Shamaila joined UBS SA���ʴ�ı in 2023, having previously been Head of Emerging Markets Fixed Income at AllianceBernstein where she oversaw USD 33bn in Emerging Markets (EM) Assets Under Management across EM Dedicated strategies and EM exposure in multisector accounts, and led a team of 23 portfolio managers, credit and sovereign research analysts and traders in New York, London, Hong Kong and Singapore. Shamaila was also portfolio manager on several global multi-sector fixed income funds as well as EM multi-asset funds. Prior to her time at AllianceBernstein, Shamaila served as managing director of emerging-market debt for TIAA-CREF.

Shamaila has been actively managing and evaluating corporate and sovereign emerging-market debt issuance since 1998 and has participated in a number of emerging-market panels at investment conferences worldwide. She is the author of several published papers and blogs and has appeared in a wide range of global financial publications and financial television programs.

Global Rates Trader, UBS SA���ʴ�ı, London

Kamil Amin is a Director and Trader on the EUR Rates desk within UBS SA���ʴ�ı. He was previously head of EU Credit within UBS Research. Prior to UBS, Kamil was a cross-asset strategist at Charles Stanley, working as part of the CIO's office and a member of the Investment Strategy Committee, delivering asset allocation/portfolio strategy guidance to the investment network. He also spent 3 years at BlackRock, where he was an Investment Associate covering predominantly family office clients. Kamil graduated from Imperial College London with a BSc in Chemistry and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Managing Director and CEO, HDFC SA���ʴ�ı, India

Navneet Munot is the MD & CEO of HDFC SA���ʴ�ı Company Limited (HDFC AMC). He joined the firm in February 2021. HDFC AMC manages over Rs.6 lakh crore across Equity and Fixed Income Mutual Funds for over 1 crore investors across the country. Navneet is also the Chairman of the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI).

A veteran of financial markets, Navneet has 3 decades of rich experience in the industry. Prior to joining HDFC AMC, he was the Executive director and Chief Investment officer of SBI Funds management Private Limited and was responsible for overseeing AUM over USD 150 billion across mutual funds and segregated accounts. Navneet was also a Director on the board of SBI Pension Funds (P) Limited.

In prior assignments, he was the Executive Director & Head – multi-strategy boutique with Morgan Stanley Investment Management and Chief Investment Officer – Fixed Income and Hybrid Funds at Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund.

Navneet has a master’s degree in Accountancy and Business Statistics and a qualified Chartered Accountant. He is a Charter Holder of the CFA Institute and CAIA Institute. He has also done Financial Risk Management (FRM).

Dr Ousmène Jacques Mandeng, is Director and Founder of strategy consulting boutique Economics Advisory Ltd. He has been a Senior Advisor to Accenture since 2018 on blockchain-based financial applications with a focus on central bank digital currency (CBDC) supporting Accenture’s digital money practice globally. Prior, Ousmène worked more than 20 years and had senior positions in financial markets including as Managing Director with UBS and as Deputy Division Chief at the International Monetary Fund. He has commented regularly on the impact of digital money and the international monetary system and maintains an international monetary affairs blog at . He is a Visiting Fellow of the London School of Economics and Political Science, a Member of the Bretton Woods Committee, an Accenture Luminary. He holds a PhD from the LSE.

Sustainable Investment Specialist, Fixed Income, UBS SA���ʴ�ı, London

Emily McDonald joined the Sustainable Investing Team at UBS AM as a Sustainable Investment Specialist focused on Fixed Income in February 2023. Emily works closely with the Fixed Income portfolio management teams to develop and implement best practices across all fixed income capabilities, and to articulate the sustainable investing aspects of the investment process to clients and consultants.
Emily began her career at HBOS Treasury services, on the funding and liquidity money markets desk, then trading a variety of fixed income instruments to European and UK real money managers first at Lloyds Banking Group, then at Credit Suisse.

Emily graduated from the University of Leeds with a degree in Economics and holds a Master's degree in International Public Policy from UCL.

Simon has been at UBS since November 2000 and is a macro sales person within Knowledge Network. He covers large institutional multi-asset accounts and macro hedge funds around the world. In addition he has numerous contacts across a range of asset managers as well as in the official policy sphere. Simon delivers macro-orientated themes and trade ideas. His commentary ranges from high-frequency intra-day narrative, through to longer colour prices under the "Thoughts From The Floor" banner. Among Simon's additional functions are briefings of central bank officials on current trading themes and flows, helping central banks understand the interpretation of their communication in a wider market context.

Manoj Pradhan is the founder of Talking Heads Macroeconomics, an independent research firm based in London, and co-author of the “The Great Demographic Reversal” with Charles Goodhart. Manoj was most recently Managing Director at Morgan Stanley where he led the Global Economics team, driving macroeconometric research into global economic themes and coining the term “the Fragile Five”. He joined Morgan Stanley in 2005 after serving on the faculty of George Washington University and the State University of New York. He has a PhD in economics from George Washington University and a Masters in Finance from the London Business School.

Precious Metal Specialist, UBS SA���ʴ�ı, London

Philipp Salman is a member of the Global Sovereign Markets team, working as a strategist and client advisor for the Head of Strategy, Max Castelli.

As part of that role, Philipp analyzes global economic and financial trends affecting the investment behavior of Central Banks, Sovereign Wealth Funds and other state-controlled investment institutions and contributes to their strategic and investment decision-making processes. He advises clients on strategic and tactical asset allocation and works with clients and portfolio managers in developing investment, advisory and training solutions tailored to the sovereign institution’s client segment.

Philipp joined UBS SA���ʴ�ı – Global Sovereign Markets in 2015. In his previous professional career at UBS, Philipp was an Equity Trader for US securities at UBS SA���ʴ�ı and a member of the UBS Investor Relations team located in Zurich.

Precious Metal Specialist, UBS SA���ʴ�ı, London

Joni Teves is the Precious Metals Strategist within the UBS Economics and Strategy Research team, and is based in Singapore. She covers all four precious metals and is responsible for fundamental analysis, forecasting, and writing research pieces on these markets. She has been in the industry for 16 years, initially as a gold trader for the central bank of the Philippines, subsequently joining UBS as a precious metals strategist in 2011. UBS Precious Metals Research has been consistently voted #1 by clients in the Risk Magazine Survey since 2012. Joni holds a BS Business Economics degree from the University of the Philippines.

Executive Director and founder of the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee

A non-profit organization established in 1994 that is internationally recognized for its work addressing issues related to the international financial architecture (hosting more than 100 conferences and seminars worldwide through partnerships with central banks, think tanks, MDBs, and governments).

He has edited several books on international finance including more recently “Bretton Woods: The Next 70 Years” (2015, English edition and 2016 Chinese edition) and “The Ten Years After” (2018, available on Amazon) a compilation of essays on the implications of the great financial Crisis.

Mr. Uzan has authored academic papers on the new architecture for the international financial system and has written extensively about economics and finance in the popular press.

Mr. Uzan holds a Master Degree in International Economics and Finance from the Université de Paris IX Dauphine. He has been a visiting scholar at the Department of Economics of the University of California, Berkeley and a visiting fellow at Harvard University.

Head of Global Sovereign Markets, SA���ʴ�ı

Willem is Head of Global Sovereign Markets, with responsibility for all sovereign institutional client activity globally. This includes SWFs, Central Banks, national pension funds and other government agencies.

Willem is a Member of the Management Committees for UBS SA���ʴ�ı in EMEA and the Institutional Business globally.

Willem joined UBS SA���ʴ�ı in 2017 as Head of Global Sovereign Markets.

Willem began his financial career in 1990 working in Equity Sales, initially for Lehman Bros, followed by Morgan Stanley, both based in London. He spent 21 years at Morgan Stanley in a variety of roles, both as a senior coverage person and manager including co-Head of Cash Equity Sales in Europe with specific responsibility for Continental Europe. He was a member of the Operating Committee in Morgan Stanley's European Equity Division.

Chief China Economist and Head of Asian Research, UBS IB, Hong Kong

Dr. Tao Wang is the author of “Making Sense of China’s Economy” and currently Head of Asia Economic Research at UBS SA���ʴ�ı. She is an invited fellow of the China Finance (CF) 40 Forum and a member of the China Global Economic Governance 50 Forum.

Dr. Wang’s research on China covers a wide range of topics including monetary policy, the debt problem, shadow banking, local government finance, US-China trade disputes, supply chain shifts, RMB internationalization, the property bubble, the demographic challenge, the urban-rural divide, and the long-term growth potential. Dr. Wang has been consistently ranked as one of the top China economists by institutional investors. She writes a column for Caixin, and her views have been widely quoted by international and Chinese media.

Prior to joining UBS, Dr. Wang worked as Head of Asian Economics at BP plc. Before joining the private sector, Dr. Wang worked at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for over eight years, including on the China desk. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from New York University and her bachelor’s degree from Renmin University in Beijing.

Former Bundesbank President and ex-Chairman UBS

Axel A. Weber has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of UBS from 2012 to 2022. He was Chairman of the Institute of International Finance, Vice Chairman of the Swiss Bankers Association and is a member of the Group of Thirty as well as the Chairman of the Trilateral Commission Europe and the President of the Center for Financial Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, among others.

Mr. Weber was president of the German Bundesbank between 2004 and 2011, during which time he also served as a member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank, a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements, German governor of the International Monetary Fund and as a member of the G7 and G20 Ministers and Governors.

Mr. Weber's academic career includes professorships at the Universities of Cologne, Frankfurt / Main, Bonn and Chicago. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Siegen, where he also received his habilitation.

ESG advisor and Senior Fixed Income Portfolio Manager, Zurich

Martine Wehlen-Bodé is Subject Matter Expert within Fixed Income for all Sustainability related items ranging from fixed income methodology over implementation of regulation to team enablement. In addition, she leads the management of our Green, Social and Sustainable Bond products.

Previously, Martine was head of the EUR corporate strategy team, where she was responsible for the strategy and management of EUR investment grade credit portfolios, as well as for the corporate allocation of EUR aggregate mandates.
Martine is a member of the Global Investment Grade Fixed Income Investment Forum (FIIF) and leads the weekly portfolio management – credit research call.

After graduating from university in 1994, Martine completed an 18-month trainee program in the area of fixed income investments at UBS Luxembourg SA. From there she went on to become a fixed income Portfolio Manager. She has since gained experience in portfolio management for all major currencies in the European single currency and multi-currency area.

Additionally, she has managed various fixed income risk classes, from government to high yield; been responsible for EUR High Yield strategy and portfolio management (1999 to 2002); and was a driving force in setting up the EUR Corporate capability.

Swiss National Bank, Senior Portfolio Manager

Christoph Theis is a Senior Portfolio Manager at Swiss National Bank. He is responsible for the management of the USD fixed-income investments within the global rates team.

Christoph joined the SNB in 2013 as an analyst in the money market and foreign exchange department and became a Portfolio Manager in the SA���ʴ�ı department in 2016, where he was first responsible for the Scandinavian rates portfolios and later assumed responsibility for managing the EUR fixed-income investments of the bank.

Christoph holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland and is a CFA Charterholder.