Speakers

Mark Carney
Sheikh Hamad Al-Sayari
Donald Coxe
Iris Evans
Charles Freedman
Svein Gjedrem
Miranda S. Goeltom
David Greely
Paul Horsnell
Sheryl Kennedy
Lutz Kilian
Hal Kvisle
John Manzoni
Mário Mesquita
Laurence Meyer
Ed Morse
Stephen Poloz
Richard Portes
Hélène Rey
John Stackhouse
Peter Tertzakian
Ted Truman
Leonard Waverman

Mark Carney, Governor, Bank of Canada
Before becoming Governor, Mark Carney served as Deputy Governor. Prior to joining the Bank of Canada he was Senior Associate Deputy Minister of Finance, Government of Canada. He spent 13 years with Goldman Sachs, including positions as Co-Head of Sovereign Risk; Executive Director, Emerging Debt Capital Markets; and Managing Director, Investment Banking. He also served as Canada's Finance Deputy at the G-7, G-20 and Financial Stability Forum. His master's degree and doctorate in economics both come from Oxford University.
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Sheikh Hamad Al-Sayari, Governor, Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency
Sheikh Hamad Al-Sayari has been the Governor of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) for more than 20 years. He holds a master's degree in economics from the University of Maryland and was formerly the Director General of the Saudi Industrial Development Fund. He also serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of SAMA and is a member of the Supreme Economic Council.
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Donald Coxe, Global Portfolio Strategist, BMO Financial Group
Donald Coxe has 35 years of institutional investing and money management experience in Canada and the United States. He was CEO of a major Canadian investment counselling firm, Research Director and Strategist for Canada's leading institutional dealer, a Strategist on Wall Street and CEO and Chief Investment Officer for Harris Investment Management Inc., an investment firm managing pension and mutual funds. In 2007 he was ranked as the top portfolio strategist by Brendan Wood International. A respected business writer, he is the author of The New Reality of Wall Street.
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Iris Evans, Minister of Finance and Enterprise, Alberta Government
Iris Evans has been MLA for Sherwood Park since 1997 and has held several portfolios during her 11 years with government, including Municipal Affairs, Children’s Services, Health and Wellness and most recently Employment, Immigration and Industry. Before she was elected as an MLA, she had a successful 18-year career in municipal politics and was reeve of Strathcona County, Alberta’s third largest municipality.
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Charles Freedman, Scholar in Residence, Department of Economics, Carleton University
Charles Freedman, PhD (MIT), serves as the Scholar in Residence for
the Department of Economics at Carleton University. His publications include works on monetary policy implementation, central bank independence and the Bank of Canada's monetary policy framework over the past 30 years.
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Svein Gjedrem, Governor, Norges Bank
Svein Gjedrem was first appointed as the Governor of Norges Bank, the Central Bank of Norway, in 1999. With the Ministry of Finance, he has served as Principal Officer, Assistant Director General, Deputy Director General, Director General and Secretary General, and was briefly seconded to the EU Commission. He holds a master's degree in economics from the University of Oslo.
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Miranda S. Goeltom, Senior Deputy Governor, Bank Indonesia
Miranda S. Goeltom became Senior Deputy Governor of Bank Indonesia in 2004.
She has also served as Assistant Deputy to the Coordinating Minister of Economics,
Finance and Development Monitoring in the Division of Monetary and Fiscal Policies
for Economics, Finance and Development Monitoring of Indonesia; Deputy Governor of
Bank Indonesia; and Alternate Governor for Indonesia in World Bank. She has a master’s
and PhD in economics from the Graduate School of Economics at Boston University.
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David Greely, Senior Energy Economist, Goldman Sachs
David Greely joined Goldman Sachs in 2001. He works in the Commodities Research Group and is responsible for covering global energy commodities. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, he worked at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as a Research Economist. He has a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.
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Paul Horsnell, Managing Director and Head of Commodities Research, Barclays Capital
In addition to his role as Managing Director and Head of Commodities Research at Barclays Capital, Paul Horsnell is a Senior Research Advisor at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, where he previously served as Assistant Director. He has been Head of Energy Research at JPMorgan, a Research Fellow and Tutor in Economics at Lincoln College, Oxford University, and Vice-President of the International Association of Energy Economists. His publications include The Mediterranean Basin in the World Petroleum Market, Oil in Asia and Oil Markets and Prices.
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Sheryl Kennedy, Deputy Governor, Bank of Canada
Sheryl Kennedy is responsible for the Bank of Canada’s assessment of Canadian economic developments in support of monetary policy decisions. She is a member of the Bank’s Governing Council and Executive Management Committee. She has been Deputy Governor for financial markets and funds management, and for administration and the issuance of bank notes, and has chaired the Markets Committee at the Bank for International Settlements. Her master’s degree in public administration comes from Harvard University.
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Lutz Kilian, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
Lutz Kilian has a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA in development banking from the American University. He joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1996. He has served as an adviser to the European Central Bank in Frankfurt/M., Germany, and worked for the research department of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC. His research interests include time series econometrics, empirical macroeconomics, international finance and energy economics.
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Hal Kvisle, President and CEO, TransCanada Corporation
Before his current position, Hal Kvisle served TransCanada PipeLines Limited as Executive Vice-President, Trading and Business Development. He is on the Board of Directors for TransCanada Corporation, Bank of Montreal and Nature Conservancy Canada, and has been Chairman of the Board of Governors of Mount Royal College and Chairman of the Board of Interstate Natural Gas Association of America. He has been employed by Fletcher Challenge Energy and Dome Petroleum and holds an MBA from the University of Calgary.
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John Manzoni, President and CEO, Talisman Energy Inc.
John Manzoni is a highly experienced, well-rounded and respected international oil and gas executive. During his 24 years with BP p.l.c., he helped it grow into one of the world's largest energy companies. He has held senior strategic and operational leadership roles in different lines of business at the global, regional and local levels. He holds an MSc in petroleum engineering from London's Imperial College and an MSc in management as a Sloan Fellow from Stanford University.
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Mário Mesquita, Deputy Governor for Economic Policy, Central Bank of Brazil
Mário Mesquita has been in his current role with the Central Bank of Brazil since 2007.
Before that, he was Deputy Governor for Special Studies. Previous job titles include
Chief Economist for Latin America with ABN AMRO Bank, Chief Economist for Brazil with
ABN AMRO Real Bank and Economist with the International Monetary Fund. He holds a
PhD and MSc in economics, both from Oxford University, and an MSc in economics of
public sector from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.

Laurence Meyer, Chairman and Director, Macroeconomic Advisers
Laurence Meyer (PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is recognized as one of the United States' leading economic forecasters. Apart from working with Macroeconomic Advisers, which he co-founded, he is a Distinguished Scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, serves on the Board of the National Bureau of Economic Research, is a Senior Adviser to the G-7 Group and is a Fellow of the National Association of Business Economists. He has received a Butler Award from the New York Association of Business Economists and is a member of the Board of Scholars of the American Council for Capital Formation.
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Ed Morse, Chief Energy Economist, Lehman Brothers
Ed Morse (MA, international relations, and PhD, politics) has been a leading analyst and commentator on the international oil and gas sector for nearly 30 years. He has provided strategic advice on oil and gas sector trends with Lehman Brothers, was publisher of Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, taught at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, was a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for international energy policy. He has received an award from the International Association for Energy Economics for distinguished writings on energy.
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Stephen Poloz, Senior Vice-President Corporate Affairs and Chief Economist, Export Development Canada
Stephen Poloz heads up Export Development Corporation's Corporate Affairs Group, responsible for strategic planning, corporate communications, public affairs, government and stakeholder relations, international relations, environmental risk, engineering, political risk, the information centre and economics. He has been Managing Editor of The International Bank Credit Analyst and spent 14 years with the Bank of Canada, where his last position was Chief of the Research Department. He holds an MA and PhD in economics from the University of Western Ontario.
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Richard Portes, Professor of Economics, London Business School
Richard Portes is an expert on sovereign debt and default, cross-border capital flows, European bond markets and European integration. As Founder and President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and Senior Editor and Co-Chairman of the Board of Economic Policy, he deals with a wide range of applications of frontier economic research to policy issues. He is also Directeur d'Études at l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales and Secretary-General of the Royal Economic Society.
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Hélène Rey, Professor of Economics, London Business School
Hélène Rey is an expert on issues related to global imbalances, exchange rates and international capital flows and has developed innovative models to forecast the dollar exchange rate. She is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow and Associate Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association and Economic Journal. She holds an MSc from Stanford and PhDs from the London School of Economics and l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales.
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John Stackhouse, Editor, Globe & Mail’s Report on Business
John Stackhouse, a Canadian journalist and author, joined the Globe & Mail in 1992. He is the winner of five National Newspaper Awards—for business reporting, feature writing and international reporting—as well as a national magazine award and an Amnesty International award. He is the author of Out of Poverty and Into Something More Comfortable and Timbit Nation: A Hitchhiker’s View of Canada.
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Peter Tertzakian, Chief Energy Economist and Managing Director, ARC Financial
Peter Tertzakian is responsible for ARC Financial's strategic investment research and oversees publication of ARC Energy Charts, a weekly journal of energy trends. He has been ranked as the number one analyst in the oilfield service and energy technology sectors by Brendan Wood International and is the bestselling author of A Thousand Barrels a Second. He holds an MSc in management of technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has done postgraduate studies in econometrics at the University of Southampton.
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Ted Truman, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Edwin (Ted) Truman, a Senior Fellow since 2001, formerly served as Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury for International Affairs. He directed the Division of International Finance of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and was one of three economists on staff with the Federal Open Market Committee. He has been a member of numerous international groups working on economic and financial issues and has published on international monetary economics, international debt problems, economic development and European economic integration.
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Leonard Waverman, Dean, Haskayne School of Business
Leonard Waverman is a world-renowned expert in international telecommunications and resource management. He came to the Haskayne School of Business from the London Business School, where he was Chair of Economics. Before that, he was a Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto. He holds an MA from the University of Toronto and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his research and industry work has focused on information and communications technology and natural resources management. He is a recipient of the medal of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Government of France).
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