Mr Archer is the Head of the Central Banking Studies unit at the Bank for International Settlements. He is also the Secretary to the Central Bank Governance Group, a group of Governors that meets regularly in Basel to consider issues relating to the organisation and governance of central banks.

He has been with the BIS for 12 years.

Prior to joining the BIS, Mr Archer was Assistant Governor at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. For the last 5 years of his time with the Reserve Bank he was responsible for monetary policy analysis and advice, forecasting, and research. For the 5 years before that he was responsible for the Bank’s financial market activities, including foreign reserve management. He was a member of the Bank’s Governor’s Committee (the peak executive committee), Monetary Policy Committee, Financial System Oversight Committee, and Risk Management Committee.

During his time at the Reserve Bank, the focus, governance, organisation and management of the institution was comprehensively reshaped, with a number of innovative legislative and operational features being introduced. For a number of years in the late 1980s Mr Archer was seconded to the International Monetary Fund, where he was a desk economist in the European Department.

Roc Armenter was born in Barcelona in 1976. After completing a B.A. and a M.A. in Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, he obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University. He also collaborated with several published and radio media in Spain. He started his professional career in 2004 as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York until 2008. He is currently a vice president and economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, where he leads the Monetary and Macroeconomics section.

Roc's research has spanned a variety of fields and has been published in several leading journals in economics, including the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Journal of Monetary Economics, among others.

He is perhaps best known for his contributions in international trade, public finance and monetary economics. In his work with Miklos Koren, at the Central European University, he has argued that current models are not well suited to handle trade data, and developed several methods to diagnose and address the data challenges.

His work on public finance has been focused on the theoretical foundations for the taxation of capital in a variety of environments. His more applied work has also studied how mobility across U.S. states has impacted state and local taxes.

More recently, Roc has been exploring how monetary policy operates in a context of low inflation. He has shown that inflation targeting is not immune to threat of deflation or, more generally, low inflation. In his work with his colleague Ben Lester, he has also laid the groundwork for operating monetary policy when the central bank's balance sheet is very large, typically as a result of quantitative easing programs.

Born in January 1952 in Łódź (central Poland), Marek Belka graduated from the University of Łódź with a Master’s degree in economics in 1972 and continued his academic career at the Institute of Economics at his alma mater. He received his Ph. D. in 1978, which was followed by a postdoctoral degree in economics (“habilitation”) in 1986. Associated with the Institute of Economics of the Polish Academy of Sciences since 1986, Marek Belka was a research fellow at the Columbia and Chicago Universities (1978-79, 1985-86), as well as at the London School of Economics (1990). He received the title of Professor of Economics in 1994.

Professor Belka has published over 100 scientific papers devoted primarily to the theory of money and anti-inflation policy in developing countries. He specializes in applied economics and contemporary economic thought.

From 1990 to 1996, he worked as a consultant and adviser at the Polish Ministry of Finance, and subsequently at the Polish Ministry of Ownership Transformations and at the Central Planning Office. He became a consultant to the World Bank in 1996.

From 1994 to 1996, Professor Belka was Vice-Chairman of the Council of Socio-Economic Strategy at the Council of Ministers, and then, economic adviser to the President of the Republic of Poland.

Professor Belka served twice as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance: in the government of Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz in 1997 and in the government of Leszek Miller from 2001 to 2002.

From May 2004 to October 2005, Professor Belka served as Prime Minister of Poland.

Professor Belka has also held numerous high-ranking positions within the international community. In 2003, he served as Chairman of the Council for International Coordination for Iraq and as Director of Economic Policy in the Coalition Provisional Authority (2003-2004), where he was responsible for the currency reform, the development of a new banking system and the supervision of the Iraqi economy. From 2006 to 2008, he held office in the United Nations as Executive Secretary of Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) in Geneva. In November 2008, he assumed office as Director of the European Department at the International Monetary Fund.

On 10 June 2010, Professor Belka was approved by the Parliament of the Republic of Poland as President of Narodowy Bank Polski and Chairman of the Monetary Policy Council.

From November 2011 to October 2015, Governor Belka chaired the World Bank/IMF Development Committee. In January 2011, he was elected a Member of the Steering Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board. Since June 2012, he has chaired the Vienna 2.0 Initiative Steering Committee. In May 2013, Professor Belka became a Member of the Central Bank Governance Group at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel.

Professor Belka is married and has two adult children.

Associate Professor of Economics at Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Holds a BA (1993) and an MA (1997) in Economics from PUC-Rio, and an MA (2005) and a Ph.D. (2008) in Economics from Princeton University. Published papers in Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Finance, and International Macroeconomics and Finance.

Worked as chief economist at Opportunity Asset Management between 1995 and 1996, director and partnet at Radix Asset Management between 1996 and 1998, chief-economist and co-manager of fixed-income and multi-strategy funds at BBA-Capital/BBA-Capital Icatu between 1998 and 2001, and partner of Kyros Investimentos from June 2011 to November 2015.

He was an economist and subsequently senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York between August 2007 and May 2011.

Since June 2015 Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.

2014 – 2015: Head of the Office for Open Market Operations and Government Securities Placement, later – Director of the Open Market Operations Department, the National Bank of Ukraine.

2010 – 2014: Head of the Office of Fixed-Income Instruments Market Transactions, Investment Department, VTB Bank PJSC.

2007 – 2010: Deputy Head of Investment Department, later - Head of Investment Business Office, Innovation Bank Ukrsibbank JSC.

1999 – 2007: Chief Dealer of the Treasury, later - Head of Treasury, Bank Austria Creditanstalt Ukraina JSC (in 2002 the title was changed into Hypovereinsbank Ukraine JSC).

1998 – 1999: Chief Specialist in the Foreign Exchange and Treasury Operations, BNP-Dresdner Bank Ukraine JSC.

1997 – 1998: Chief of the Securities Operations Division, Spivdruzhnist Foreign-Owned Investment Company.

1996 – 1997: Manager, Securities Division, All-Ukrainian Bank Va-bank JSC.

1993 – 1996: Operator, International Payments Department, later - Economist, Interbank Foreign Exchange Market Operations Division, INKO Bank JSC.

1994: Degree in Economics, Banking Management, major in Finance and Credit, Higher Bank School of International Institute for market economy and enterprises of "Market" Centre.

1993: Degree in Metallurgical Engineering, major in Composite Powder Materials and Coverage, Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.

Dr. Marek Dabrowski is a Non-Resident Scholar at Bruegel, Brussels, Professor of the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, co-founder and Fellow at CASE - Center for Social and Economic Research in Warsaw and Member of the Scientific Council of the E.T. Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy in Moscow. He was Chairman of the CASE Supervisory Council and its President of Management Board (1991-2011), Chairman of the Supervisory Board of CASE Ukraine in Kyiv (1999-2009 and 2013-2015), and Fellow under the 2014-2015 Fellowship Initiative of the European Commission – Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs. Former First Deputy Minister of Finance of Poland (1989-1990), Member of Parliament (1991-1993) and Member of the Monetary Policy Council of the National Bank of Poland (1998-2004). Since the end of 1980s he has been involved in policy advising and policy research in Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Egypt, Georgia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Syria, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Yemen, and in a number of international research projects related to monetary and fiscal policies, growth and poverty, currency crises, international financial architecture, perspectives of European integration, European Neighborhood Policy, trade policy, and political economy of transition. He has also worked as consultant in the number of EU, World Bank, IMF, UNDP, OECD and USAID projects. Author of several academic and policy papers, and editor of several book publications.

Yuliya Demyanyk is a senior research economist in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. She is a member of the household finance section of the Banking Policy and Analysis Group, which conducts research on regulatory policy and banking issues and provides advice on financial policy formulation. Dr. Demyanyk specializes in research related to household finance, mortgage markets, financial intermediation, and banking regulation. Before joining the Cleveland Reserve Bank in 2008, Dr. Demyanyk was an economist in the Banking Supervision and Regulation Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. She serves as an adjunct professor of finance at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Demyanyk previously taught at Washington University in St. Louis and at the University of Houston.Born in Ukraine, Dr. Demyanyk earned an MA in economics from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Economic Education and Research Consortium (EERC) in Kiev, Ukraine, and an MA in physics from the Odessa National University. She received a PhD in economics from the University of Houston.

Since June 19, 2014 Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine

2007 – 2014 Head of the Investment Board, and later - Managing Director of LLC Investment Capital Ukraine Asset Management Company.

2001 – 2007 Chief of Resource Management, Deputy Chairman of the Board, Deputy Chairman of the Board - Head of Financial Markets Office, and later - the first Deputy Chairman of the Board, ING Bank Ukraine PJSB.

1996 – 2000 Head of Resource Management Division, and later - Head of Resource Management Department, Societe Generale Ukraine JSC.

Philip Hildebrand, Vice Chairman, is a member of the firm’s Global Executive Committee. He leads and oversees the activities of the BlackRock Investment Institute, which connects BlackRock’s portfolio managers to one another, generates investment insights, and disseminates them to clients.

Mr. Hildebrand joined BlackRock in October 2012 and previously served as chairman of the firm’s Multi-Asset Strategies business. Before coming to BlackRock, he served as Chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank (SNB) until January 2012. In that capacity, he was also a Director of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the Swiss Governor of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and a member of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), of which the Leaders of the G20 appointed him Vice Chairman, in November 2011. Previously, Mr. Hildebrand served as Chief Investment Officer of a Swiss private bank and as a partner of Moore Capital Management in London. Between 2006 and 2009, he served as a member of the Strategic Committee of the French Debt Management Office.

Mr. Hildebrand is a member of the Group of Thirty and an Honorary Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, and he sits on the International Advisory Board of Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government.

Mr. Hildebrand earned a BA from the University of Toronto, an MA from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford.

Oleksandr Faryna is currently a leading specialist at the Research Unit of the Monetary Policy and Economic Analysis Department at the National Bank of Ukraine and a PhD candidate at the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla academy”. His research interests cover international economics, macroeconomics, monetary policy, econometrics, and system dynamics. His current projects focus on exchange rate pass-through issues, a linkage between monetary and exchange rate policy, with a particular interest in Ukraine and its major trading partners.

December 22, 1966 Married, two children

WORK EXPERIENCE

2012- :Appointed as Deputy Governor and member of the Executive Board of Sveriges Riksbank, Stockholm, Sweden

2010-2011:Employed as director of Monetary Policy Department, Sveriges Riksbank, Stockholm, Sweden

2006-2010:Employed as state secretary for economic and international policies, Ministry of Finance, Stockholm, Sweden

2003-2006:Employed as deputy director of Monetary Policy Department, Sveriges Riksbank, Stockholm, Sweden

2001-2003:Employed as deputy director of the Department of Macroeconomics and Forecasting, National Institute of Economic Research (KI), Stockholm, Sweden

2000-2001:Employed as deputy director of Economics Department, Sveriges Riksbank, Stockholm, Sweden

1996-2000:Employed as head of division for Macroeconomic Analysis, Sveriges Riksbank, Stockholm, Sweden

1995-96:Visiting scholar at the National Institute of Economic Research, Stockholm, Sweden

1995-96:Employed as secretary of the Economic Council of Sweden (Ekonomiska rådet), Stockholm, Sweden

1995-96:Visiting scholar at Sveriges Riksbank, Stockholm, Sweden

1995-96:Employed at the Trade Union Institute for Economic Research (FIEF), Stockholm, Sweden

1989-90:Employed as economist/controller, Swedish Railways (SJ), Gävle, Sweden

Andrei Kirilenko is the Director of the Centre for Global Finance and Technology and a Professor of Finance at the Imperial College Business School. Prior to joining Imperial in August 2015, he was Professor of the Practice of Finance at MIT Sloan and Co-Director of the MIT Center for Finance and Policy. Professor Kirilenko's work focuses on the intersection of finance, technology and regulation. Before MIT Sloan, Professor Kirilenko served as chief economist of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) between December 2010 and December 2012. In his capacity as chief economist, Kirilenko has been instrumental in using modern analytical tools and methods to improve the Commission's ability to develop and enforce an effective regulatory regime in automated financial markets. He chaired two subcommittees of the CFTC Technology Advisory Committee and represented the CFTC at the Systemic Risk Committee and the Systemic Data Committee of the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC).

In 2010, Kirilenko was the recipient of the CFTC Chairman's Award for Excellence (highest honor). His scholarly work has appeared in a number of peer refereed journals and received multiple best-paper awards. Kirilenko received his PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, where he specialized in Finance.

Marcin Kolasa is Director of the Bureau of Applied Research of the Narodowy Bank Polski and Associate Professor at the Warsaw School of Economics. He worked in the European Central Bank and visited the Columbia University as a Fulbright scholar. Member of the editorial board of the Bank and Credit. His current research interest cover monetary policy, international economics, financial frictions, and forecasting. He has published i.a. in the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, International Journal of Central Banking, International Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Economic Surveys and Journal of International Money and Finance.

Mr. Iikka Korhonen received his doctoral degree from Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, majoring in economics. In July 1995, he joined the Institute for Economies in Transition, where he has followed, among other things, banking and financial systems of the Baltic states and Russia. His past duties include working as BOFIT’s research supervisor, and since October 1, 2009, he has been the Head of BOFIT. His research interests include exchange rates and inflation in transition as well as emerging market countries. In addition, he has published widely e.g. on the correlation of economic activity between different countries, as well as on the effects of oil prices on economic activities.

Oleksiy Kryvtsov is the Director in the International Economic Analysis Department. His research interests center on business cycle fluctuations, with a special focus on monetary theory and policy. Oleksiy contributed to topics including consumer price behaviour, real effects of monetary policy shocks, dynamics of markups and costs over the business cycle. Oleksiy received his PhD in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 2004.

Marianna Kudlyak is the Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of SF. Her research interests are macroeconomics, labor economics and consumer finance. Marianna has interests to such topics as the cyclicality of the user cost of labor, Intergenerational linkages in household credit and accounting of unemployment. Marianna received her PhD in Economics from the University of Rochester in 2009, earlier in 1999 she received a Red Diploma in Economics from the Lviv Polytechnic National University and in 2002 finished with High Honors Kyiv Mohyla Academy in Economics.

Andrew Levin is a professor of economics at Dartmouth College. Dr. Levin received his Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University in 1989. He was a staff member at the Federal Reserve Board for two decades and served as a special adviser to the Board on monetary policy strategy and communications from 2010 to 2012. Dr. Levin subsequently served as an adviser at the International Monetary Fund and then joined the Dartmouth faculty in 2015. Dr. Levin is currently a visiting scholar at the Bank of Canada and at the IMF, and he serves as an external adviser to the Bank of Korea. In addition, Dr. Levin has had extensive interactions with many other central banks across the globe: He has been a consultant to the European Central Bank and a visiting scholar at the Bank of Japan and the Dutch National Bank, and he has provided technical assistance to the national banks of Albania, Macedonia, and Ghana. His research has been published in leading economic journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of the European Economic Association, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Journal of Econometrics.

Igor Livshits is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Western Ontario and the Academic Director of Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center. He has obtained a Masters degree in Policy Economics from the University of Illinois in 1997 and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 2002. He has received grants from the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Fund at Western in 2003 and 2004, from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada in 2005, 2008, and 2015, and from the Office of Superintendent for Bankruptcy in 2011. He has held visiting research positions at Arizona State University, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin, and Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, and taught invited short classes at the Kyiv School of Economics and the International School of Economics in Tbilisi. He was a Scholar with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research from 2005 to 2009. Dr. Livshits' most visible research is on personal bankruptcies and consumer debt. His papers with J. MacGee and M. Tertilt have been published in the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal Macroeconomics, and the Review of Economic Studies, and his paper with N. Kovrijnykh is forthcoming in the International Economic Review. He has also contributed a survey on the subject to the Journal of Economic Surveys. Dr. Livshits’ other research interests include sovereign debt and default, political economy, investment in human capital, and economic growth and development. These interests are reflected in publications in the Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, and a number of working papers.

Bartosz Maćkowiak is Senior Economist in the Monetary Policy Research Division at the European Central Bank. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University and a B.A. in Economics from Amherst College. His research on macroeconomics and monetary economics has been published in the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies and the Journal of Monetary Economics, among others.

Emma Murphy has been the head of Stakeholder Communications and Strategy Division at the Bank of England since 2014. Prior to that, she played a key role in developing the Bank’s first three-year Strategic Plan, with particular responsibility for Talent, Research, Data and Transparency. Emma joined the Bank in 2002 after a seven year career as an insurance underwriter and since joining has worked in a variety of roles including the Prudential Regulation Authority’s transition into the Bank in 2013, setting up the first Financial Policy Committee and various analytical roles across the financial stability and markets areas.

John Murray recently retired as Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada. In his more than 35-year career as a global macro-economist, Dr. Murray represented Canada at the International Monetary Fund, the G7 and G20, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. As a member of the Bank of Canada’s Governing Council, he shared responsibility for decisions on monetary policy, financial system stability, and strategic direction.

Dr. Murray holds a BComm from Queen’s University, and an MA and PhD in Economics from Princeton University. Prior to joining the Bank, he was an academic and taught at the University of British Columbia, the University of North Carolina and Princeton. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at Queen’s University and is a Senior Fellow at the C. D. Howe Institute.

Tymofiy Mylovanov is interim President of KSE.

Tymofiy Mylovanov, a native and citizen of Ukraine, received his Master degree in Economics from the Kyiv School of Economics in 1999. He earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 2004 and has taught at the University of Bonn, Penn State University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Pittsburgh. Tymofiy's research on game theory, contract theory, and institutional design has been published in major international academic journals like the Review of Economic Studies and the Journal of Economic Theory. Tymofiy is a cofounder of VoxUkraine, a group of global economists working on policy problems in Ukraine and has been a member of the academic advisory board of the Kyiv School of Economics for several years.

Extensive economic knowledge, belonging to the international academic community and familiarity with the situation in Ukraine Tymofiy Mylovanov will make a significant contribution to the development of KSE.

Anton Nakov has been a Senior Economist in the Monetary Policy Research Division of the European Central Bank since 2013. Prior to this he was an Economist at the Bank of Spain and at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He received his doctorate in economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in 2007.

Anton’s research interests are in quantitative general equilibrium models of the macroeconomy, with an emphasis on monetary policy. He has studied especially the effects of the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates for monetary policy, the nexus between oil prices and the macroeconomy, and the monetary policy transmission mechanism in models of state-dependent pricing.

Alex Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy earned his doctorate in Economics from the University of Houston and master’s degrees in Physics and Economics from Odessa National University and the Kyiv School of Economics/EERC, respectively. Alex currently holds the position of endowed Class '61 Associate Professor at Lehigh University. Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy's papers have been published in the Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Macroeconomic Dynamics, and others. He has been the recipient of several research grants and his research has been referred to at the U.S. Congress.

Maurice Obstfeld was born in New York City in 1952. Since September 2015, he has been the Economic Counsellor and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund, on leave from the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley, he is the Class of 1958 Professor of Economics and formerly Chair of the Department of Economics (1998-2001). He arrived at Berkeley in 1991 as a professor, following permanent appointments at Columbia (1979-1986) and the University of Pennsylvania (1986-1989), and a visiting appointment at Harvard (1989-90). He received his Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 1979 after attending the University of Pennsylvania (B.A., 1973) and King’s College, Cambridge University (M.A., 1975).

From July 2014 to August 2015, Dr. Obstfeld served as a Member of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers. He was previously (2002-2014) an honorary advisor to the Bank of Japan's Institute of Monetary and Economic Studies. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among Dr. Obstfeld's honors are Tilburg University’s Tjalling Koopmans Asset Award, the John von Neumann Award of the Rajk Laszlo College of Advanced Studies (Budapest), and the Kiel Institute’s Bernhard Harms Prize. He has given a number distinguished lectures, including the American Economic Association’s annual Richard T. Ely Lecture, the L. K. Jha Memorial Lecture of the Reserve Bank of India, and the Frank Graham Memorial Lecture at Princeton. Dr. Obstfeld has served both on the Executive Committee and as Vice President of the American Economic Association. He has consulted and taught at the IMF and numerous central banks around the world. He is also the co-author of two leading textbooks on international economics, International Economics (10th edition, 2014, with Paul Krugman and Marc Melitz) and Foundations of International Macroeconomics (1996, with Kenneth Rogoff), as well as more than 100 research articles on exchange rates, international financial crises, global capital markets, and monetary policy.

Since November 2014 Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.

Since April 2014 Director, Department of Banking System Strategy and Reforming, member of the Board of the National Bank of Ukraine.

2006 – 2014: Head of Macroeconomic Research Bureau, Project Management and Business Development Director; served as a Member of the Management Board of UniCredit Bank PJSC (from 2010); in 2013, managed the process of merging UniCredit Bank PJSC with Ukrsotsbank PJSC. Following the completion of the merger, held the position of the Director of Activity Maintenance and Organization Center of UniCredit Bank PJSC.

2000-2005: Post-graduate student, Lecturer and Researcher, Banking Department, Odesa National Economic University

2000: Degree in Economics, major in Finance and Credit, Odesa National Economic University

He graduated from the Department of Foreign Trade at the Warsaw School of Planning and Statistics (now the Warsaw School of Economics - WSE). Since 1990 he has been the titular professor at WSE. He is a specialist in the field of macroeconomic policy, European integration, finance and international trade.

He founded the Institute of World Economy at WSE. From 1988-91, he was the director of the Institute of Business Cycles and Foreign Trade, and from '89-'93, he was a partner at the consultancy firm TKD - Ernst & Young Poland. He is currently a professor at WSE and at the R. Lazarski Graduate School of Business and Law n Warsaw. Between '91-'95, he was the section chief of countries of Central and Eastern Europe for the UN Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva, and from '95 to '97, he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs. From 1998-2004, he was a member of the Monetary Policy Council. He was also a Member of the European Parliament from 2004-2009.

Since 1999, he has been a member of the Committee of the Academy of Economic Sciences and the Polish Economic Society (in the latter, he has been a member since 1969). Since 2011, he has been a member of the Bruegel Institute in Brussels.

He was a Member of Polish Parliament and chairman of the Public Finance Committee since 2011 to 2014. Member of the European Parliament since 2014.

Marko Škreb is Resident Project Manager for Canada-IMF Capacity building project at the National Bank of Ukraine. He moved to Kyiv from his position as advisor at the IMF Regional Technical Assistance center in Accra, Ghana. Before that, he was Chief Economist and Strategist at a second largest commercial bank in Croatia. He started his professional career teaching at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics starting as teaching assistant and moving to associate professor. Following academic vocation he joined the Croatian central bank, first as Research and Statistics Director and later on as Governor (from 1996 to 2000). In 1997 he was awarded the Central European Annual Awards for Excellence - Best Central Bank Governor by the Banker. Since 2000 he worked as consultant for International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in numerous countries, mostly in South-East Europe. In this function he worked as resident advisor to central banks in Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina and peripatetic advisor to Kosovo, Montenegro, Georgia, etc. He worked at the Independent Evaluation Office of the IMF in Washington DC in the period 2004-2005. He used to teach part time at the private University in Zagreb, Croatia, course Money and Banking. He published a lot of articles and edited books, most of them on transition questions with the focus on financial issues.

Since March 2015 Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.

2007-2015:Head of Research Department, Raiffeisen Bank Aval PJSC.

2004 – 2007:Research Economist at the IMF Resident Representative Office in Ukraine.

2002 – 2004:Researcher at the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting (first in the Public Finances Division and later- in the Macroeconomic Analysis Division).

2001 – 2002:While a postgraduate student at the university, worked as a research assistant for the EERC Master’s Program in Economics at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

2002:Master's Degree in Economics (EERC), the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

2000:Degree in Economics, major in Theoretical Economics, the Belarus National University.

Oleksandr Talavera is a Reader of Finance at the Management School, University of Sheffield. He received his B.A. at Ostroh Academy (Ukraine), M.A. at EERC (Ukraine), M.A. at Boston College, and his Ph.D. at the European University Viadrina (Germany). He is broadly interested in empirical corporate finance, international finance, and emerging market economies. He has taught courses in quantitative methods, corporate finance and issues in finance. Oleksandr has published papers in the Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of International Money and Finance, Small Business Economics, and Journal of Banking and Finance.

Linda Tesar is a Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1990 and spent seven years on the faculty at the University of California in Santa Barbara. She joined the faculty at Michigan in 1997. She served as Department Chair from 2007 to 2011.

Professor Tesar is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and has been a visitor in the Research Departments of the International Monetary Fund, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis. She has also served on the Academic Advisory Council to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. During 2014-15, Professor Tesar served as a Senior Economist on the Council of Economic Advisers. She is currently on the Advisory Board of the Carnegie-NYURochester Conference on Public Policy, an Associate Editor of the European Economic Review and is a Member of the Board of Editors of the IMF Economic Review.

Professor Tesar’s research focuses on issues in international finance, with particular interests in the international transmission of business cycles and fiscal policy, the benefits of global risksharing, capital flows to emerging markets, the impact of exchange rate exposure, international tax competition and the European debt crisis. Results of her research have been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of International Economics, the Review of Economic Dynamics and the Journal of Monetary Economics.

Zdeněk Tůma (born in České Budějovice, 1960) graduated from University of Economics, Prague, later on he finished his postgraduated studies at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciencies. He worked as the chief economist in Patria Finance, investment bank, in the nineties, in 1998 he moved to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development where he became a member of the Executive Board. At beginning of 1999, Zdenek was appointed the vice-governor of the Czech National Bank, and in December 2000 the governor; in this position he represented the CNB or the Cezch Republic in European Central Bank, International Monetary Fund, and Bank for International Settlement. He held this position till 2010. He has been a partner in KPMG Czech Republic since then, focusing on consulting in the financial sector and leisure activities. He has been an external member of the Institute of Economic Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, where he lectures on monetary policy and financial regulation. He is also a member of Scientific Boards of Czech Technical University (CVUT) and University of South Bohemia, Statutory Boards of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, University of Economics in Prague, and CERGE-EI Foundation, Board of Governors of English College in Prague, Supervisory Board of Výbor dobré vůle – Foundation of Olga Havlová. He is a member of the Czech Economic Society, of which he was the president in 1999-2001.

Before founding the firm in 2009 with a small group of leading macroeconomists in Prague, David worked for the International Monetary Fund. As part of this engagement, he advised dozens of central banks on monetary policy around the globe. He also served as an advisor to the governor of the Czech National Bank during the financial crisis and implemented a model-based forecasting and analysis system for the Czech economy.

David helped a list of central banks move to flexible exchange rate regimes and implement inflation targeting frameworks. Throughout his career, he was regularly engaged with academic institutions such as the Economic Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Prague School of Economics.

David Vavra holds a Ph.D. in Economics.