Hartadi A. Sarwono, Deputy Governor, BANK INDONESIA

Academic Qualifications :
1989 : PhD Degree in Monetary Economics and Policy, University of Oregon, Eugene-Oregon, U.S.A
Professional Experiences :
June 2008 – date : Deputy Governor of Bank Indonesia (reelected)
June 2003 – June 08 : Deputy Governor of Bank Indonesia
Feb 2003 – June 03 : Chief Representative, Tokyo Representative Office
2000 – Feb 2003 : Director of Economic Research and Monetary Policy
1980 - 2000 : Join as a staff and building career in Bank Indonesia

Stephane Monier, Global Head of Fixed Income and Currencies, FORTIS INVESTMENTS and Former Head of Fixed Income, ABU DHABI INVESTMENT AUTHORITY

Stéphane Monier is currently the Global Head of Fixed Income and Currencies of Fortis Investments. The Fixed Income team based in London, Chicago and Singapore comprises over 80 investment professionals and manages more than €110 billion.

With 17 years of fixed income experience, Mr Monier has specific expertise in international fixed income, credit, asset allocation and currency management. He also has extensive experience developing investment processes combining qualitative and quantitative approaches, servicing clients and managing multi – cultural teams.

Prior to joining Fortis Investments, Mr Monier was head of Fixed Income and Currencies at Abu Dhabi Investment Authority where he had spent eight years. During the first seven years of his career, he managed various euro and global fixed income portfolios for JP Morgan Investment Management in London and Paris.

Mr Monier is also a Director of AXA Property Trust Company where he offers advice on interest rate and currency policies.

He is a chartered Financial Analyst and holds a Masters Degree in International Finance from HEC, as well as an Engineering degree (statistics and economics) from Institut National Agronomique in Paris.

Business Experience
2008 - to date Fortis Investments, London – CIO Fixed Income and Currencies
2006 - 2008 Fortis Investments, London – CIO European Fixed Income
2001 - 2006 Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (UAE) – Head of Fixed Income and Currencies
1998 - 2001 Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (UAE) – Head of European Fixed Income
1996 - 1998 JP Morgan Investment Management (London) – Vice President, Head of Balanced Fixed Income
1991 - 1996 JP Morgan Investment Management (Paris) – Vice President, Fixed Income Portfolio Manager

Yosuke Tsuyuguchi, Director, Center for Asia Monetary Cooperation, BANK OF JAPAN

2006 Present position
2003-2006 Chief Representative in Beijing, China of the Bank of Japan
1999- 2003 Director for international relations, International Dept, Bank of Japan
1995-1997 Deputy Chief representative in Hong Kong of the Bank of Japan
1989-1991 Seconded to Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Secretary, Japanese Embassy in Beijing
1980 Joined Bank of Japan

Mike Rasmussen, Chief Operating Officer, Partner,
CAPRICORN FX INVESTMENTS

Mr. Mike Rasmussen is an accomplished professional with over 10 years experience in operations and marketing, and is skilled in business development and implementing procedures to maintain an efficient operational process. A graduate from the University of Greenwich in London, Mr. Rasmussen holds a BA (Hons) in Business Studies with a major in Business Economics. Prior to joining Capricorn in 2004 as COO, Mr. Rasmussen was the Creative Director for a media company he co-founded. Since the inception of Capricorn Asset Management (Schweiz) AG in 2001, Mr. Rasmussen has played a key role in the company’s marketing as a consultant. Mr. Rasmussen is responsible for all operational aspects of Capricorn including; administration and compliance. His key daily responsibilities include trade processing and reconciliation, and client/broker relations.

Vikram Murarka, Chief Currency Strategist, KSHITIJ CONSULTANCY SERVICES

Vikram Murarka is Chief Currency Strategist at Kshitij Consultancy Services, Kolkata, India. The firm's website, KSHITIJ.COM, is India's first and the world's most popular independent forex advisory website, as ranked by Alexa.com.

Mr Murarka specialises in long-term currency forecasting and advises corporates on forex risk management issues. His forecasts on the Indian Rupee are acknowledged to be among the very best.

He has developed the “KSHITIJ Hedging Method”, a complete end-to-end forex hedging methodology, based on a revolutionary concept of Dynamic Benchmarks.

Mr Murarka brings with him an experience of 17 years in the foreign exchange market.

Ashley Loh Lee Yen joined Kenanga Investment Bank Berhad in November 2007 as the Head of Forex and Fixed Income Structured Products .She holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours Degree) in Civil Engineering from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, England 1985. Also a Master Degree in Business Administration from the University of Bradford, England 1987.

Ashley Loh, Director & Head of Forex & Fixed Income, KENANGA INVESTMENT BANK BERHAD

Prior to joining Kenanga Investment Bank, Ashley spent 15 years at various financial institutions based in Malaysia, Singapore, London and Australia .At UOB Singapore and UOB London, she has undertaken numerous projects financing and loan syndications .Also she was actively involved in the development of the currency derivative products while she was at the Investment/Private Banking division with UOB.

She later joined Rashid Hussain Asset Management and set up the foreign fixed income desk and managed the book for asset fund managers and also hedge their ringgit exposure.

She is a member of the Australia Institute of Management AIM.

Luca Silipo, Chief Economist, Asia Pacific, NATIXIS

Luca Silipo, 39, is currently Chief Economist for Asia-Pacific at Natixis, based in Hong Kong. He began his career in 1998 as analyst and forex trader at JP Morgan Suisse. In 1999, he became monetary economist at the research department of Bank of Italy in Roma. In 2001, he moved to Banca IMI, first as a senior economist in Milan and London, then as head of macroeconomic research in New York. In 2005, he became director economist of Ixis Corporate & Investment Bank. Since 2007, he has been Head of economics, managing director at the research department of Natixis.

Michael Image, Head, FX Solutions Group, STANDARD CHARTERED BANK

Michael Image is based in Hong Kong, and since 2007 has run the FX Solutions Group - a global team of structurers that develops, supports, and distributes sophisticated FX products for both hedging and investment purposes.
Michael originally joined SCB directly from University in 1998 and worked in London for four years as an FX Options trader. In 2003 he relocated to Hong Kong and spent four years as a senior structurer covering FX and Commodity products in the North-East Asia region.

KC Lam, Director and Head of Asian FX Sales, CME GROUP

K.C. Lam was appointed Director and Head of Asian FX Sales of CME Group in November 2007. He is responsible for helping to execute CME Group's Asian FX business strategy including increasing trading volume and distribution of FX futures and options on CME Globex®, the exchange's electronic trading platform, further diversifying the company's customer base and building product awareness across the region.

Prior to joining the company, Lam served as Head of Sales for ICAP E-Broking in Singapore, where he was responsible for leading the firm's new and existing product sales efforts throughout the Asia Pacific region. He had oversight responsibility for launching several currency pairs and recruiting 48 new customers, including the seven largest banks in China. Prior to joining ICAP E-Broking, Lam held leadership positions with Siebel Systems, Inc. and Commerce One Inc. with a particular emphasis on Asian operations. He has also held marketing and consulting positions with Oracle Corporation and Booz-Allen & Hamilton.

Lam earned a bachelor's degree in engineering from National University of Singapore and a master's in business administration from the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. He is a member of ACI Singapore (The Financial Markets Association of Singapore) and TMA Hong Kong (Treasury Markets Association). He speaks Bahasa Malaysia, Indonesian and Mandarin as well as several Chinese dialects

Minor Huffman, Chief Technology Officer, FXALL

Minor is responsible for the design, implementation and operation of FXall's leading technology platforms. This includes Accelor, the foreign exchange ECN f or all professional market participants, and QuickOMS, the award-winning portfolio workflow and trading platform for all corporate treasurers and asset managers.
Prior to joining FXall, Minor was a director at Citigroup, leading the design, implementation and operation of technology for the equity options market making and order routing businesses. Before joining Citigroup, Minor held senior technology management positions at JP Morgan, where he led analytics, e-commerce and risk technology teams for the interest rate, structured finance and credit derivatives businesses and at Lehman Brothers, where he led risk and trading technology teams for the commodities and fixed income derivatives businesses.
Minor received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989, and an MBA degree in Finance and International Business from New York University Stern School of Business in 1996.

Tarun Anand, Head of Strategy and Head of Sales, Asia, FXMARKETSPACE

Mr.Anand is responsible for Strategy globally at FXMarketSpace and heads up Asia Pacific. He has been a co-founder of FXMarketSpace and inventor of “FXSettle” Settlement solution which has won the FXWeek Innovation Award-2008. He joins from Reuters where he was Global Head of Treasury, with responsibility for Revenue £1 billion and a member of the Reuters Innovation Board. At Reuters he served across Asia, Europe, USA and Global Emerging Markets and led the launch of RTFX, acquisition of Centradia, Reuters investments in China, India and launching the Thai Baht and Indian Rupee Forwards on Reuters Matching. He has 16 years experience in financial services including 4 years at Standard Chartered and HSBC.

Chris Soriano, SVP – Regional Product Management, ICAP ELECTRONIC BROKING

Chris Soriano has held various strategic roles since he joined ICAP. As Head of Product Management for Asia, Soriano is responsible for a number of our strategic initiatives as well as enhancing and improving the Product Range on ICAP's award-winning spot FX platform EBS including EBS Spot, EBS Prime, EBS Spot Ai, Market Data and other commercial initiatives.

Chris joined ICAP with the acquisition of EBS, where he had worked since April 1999. Prior to that, Chris worked for Reuters in New York, where he was a main contributor to both the devleopment and launching of the Reuters Forward Matching platform. He started his career at Natwest Bank PLC where he worked for as a Forward Currency Trader

ICAP is the world’s largest interdealer broker with a daily average transaction volume in excess of $1.5 trillion, more than 60% of which is electronic. The Group is active in the wholesale markets in interest rates, credit, commodities, foreign exchange and equity derivatives. ICAP plc was add ed to the FTSE 100 Index on 30 June 2006. The company employs 3,900 staff in 32 offices globally.

David Fernandez, Managing Director and Head, Emerging Asia Research, JP MORGAN

Mr. Fernandez serves as JPMorgan’s Head of Emerging Asia Research team.

Before joining JPMorgan in January 1998, Mr. Fernandez spent five years as a professor of economics at the Johns Hopkins University International Studies School where he taught international macroeconomics. He was named Professor of the Year in 1996.

Earlier, he served as an Economist in the Council of Economic Advisers in the administration of U.S. President George Bush. In 1987, he joined the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in its OECD economic research department and in the foreign exchange intervention group.

Mr. Fernandez has a B.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and received a Doctorate in Economics from Princeton University where, as a National Science Foundation fellow, he wrote his dissertation under Ben S. Bernanke.

In addition to his work at JPMorgan, Mr. Fernandez is on the Advisory Board of Singapore Management University’s School of Economics and Social Sciences.

Dr. Hai Xin, Managing Director , Head of Asia Pacific, Overlay Asset Management, BNP PARIBAS

Dr. Hai Xin is the Head of Asia Pacific for the currency specialist manager Overlay Asset Management since 2004. Previously Executive Director at Equity Capital Market and FX divisions of UBS. Author of Currency Overlay: A Practical Guide, published by Risk Books.

Bernard Lock, Director & Regional Manager, Asia Pacific, FX CONCEPTS

Bernard Lock runs the Singapore office of FX Concepts as Director & Regional Manager. He represents the New York based Currency Manager & Research Firm in Asia Pacific. The firm was founded in 1981 and currently manages US$14 billions of assets and provides market research to more than 240 institutional clients all over the world.

Bernard joined FX Concepts New York in 2002. Prior to this, he had been involved with FX and FX derivatives markets as a trader in leading banks for 20 years. Mr. Lock was the Chief FX Dealer of Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi from 1990-19 94 and of Banque Paribas from 1994-1997. He focused on Emerging Market & FX Option trading for HSBC between1997-2002.

Mr. Lock is a graduate in Finance & Economics of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and achieved his Executive MBA Degree from Birmingham Business School in UK. He is both a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with CFA Institute and a qualified Financial Risk Manager (FRM) with GARP.

Joseph Trevisani, Chief Market Analyst, FX SOLUTIONS, LLC

Joseph Trevisani has 18 years of experience in Forex trading and management and is a senior partner and the Chief Market Analyst at FX Solutions. Prior to joining the online trading industry Mr. Trevisani worked at Credit Suisse for 12 years in New York and Singapore as an interbank currency trader and trading desk manager. Returning from Asia he managed the Asian Trading desk and was a proprietary trader for The Bank of Bermuda in Hamilton Bermuda. He has a Bachelor Degree and Masters in International Politics and Finance from Columbia University in New York City. He has appeared on CNBC and Fox Business News in New York and CNBC in London as a currency analyst and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Bloomberg, Dow Jones Newswires, the Chicago Tribune and Futures Magazine. He has written economic and currency analysis for SFO Magazine, Active Trader, FX Street, Forex TV and the Aim Bulletin, and has spoken at many conferences and industry events.

Christopher Brandon, Managing Director, RHICON CURRENCY MANAGEMENT

Christopher Brandon is a principal and founder of Rhicon Currency Management . Mr Brandon began his career in 1995 at Swiss Bank Corporation in Geneva and thereafter
in London as a foreign exchange dealer. He relocated to UBS Warburg Singapore in late 1998 as a proprietary trader and the senior technical analyst for Asia. In mid 2000
Mr Brandon co-founded Rhicon Currency Management in Singapore. The firm subsequently opened an office in London and currently manages approximately 352mio USD across two currency-only strategies. He holds an MA (Hons) in Economics from he University of Edinburgh.

Jon Velasquez, Head of FX, SECURITY BANK COPORATION PHILLIPPINES

I have more than 13 years experience in the Philippine financial markets, under various capacities such as FX and MM trader, stock market research analyst, senior FX trader, and most recently, as Head of FX trading. I have been with various local and foreign banks, notably Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Banco de Oro, Citibank, and currently, Security Bank. As Head of FX trading in Security Bank, I oversee our FX trading activities, with daily turn-over of around $100M (one of the top levels for Philippine banks).