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Speakers 
 Moaz Barakat,
Managing Director - Middle East, Turkey & Pakistan,
World Gold Council
Moaz Barakat is a graduate of the American University of Beirut where he obtained his Bachelor degree in 1984 and his Masters degree in 1986 in Business Administration.
After receiving his Masters degree, Moaz Barakat joined Gulf Eternit Industries in 1986 as the Finance and Administration Coordinator. In 1988 Moaz Barakat joined Price Waterhouse as Senior Manager, Audit & Business Advisory Services. In 1995 Moaz Barakat joined the World Gold Council as Regional Finance, Administration & Planning Manager for the Middle East & India Sub-Continent, a position he held till he was appointed to his current position in 1999 as the Managing Director of the WGC for the Middle East, Turkey and Pakistan.
Moaz Barakat is a US Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and received a Personal Acknowledgment letter from the President of California State Board of Accountancy.
Moaz Barakat is also a member of several professional bodies such as the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Oregon Society of Certified Public Accounts, Virginia Society of Certified Public Accounts, Association of MBA Executives, American University of Beirut Alumni Association and American Management Association.
He is also a visiting faculty instructor to American University of Dubai, Buffalo State University, Becker CPA Review Course, Becker CMA Review Course and Becker CIA Review Course.
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 Leonardo Bichara Rocha,
Economist,
International Sugar Organisation
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 Ms Nerina Bodasing,
Investors Relation Vice President,
Gold Fields Limited
Nerina has a BSc (Honos) post graduate diploma in Business Management from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal. She started her career at global investment bank UBS in April 2000 in equity sales and strategy research. She joined Gold Fields Limited in May 2003 as Manager, Investor Relations. She is currently Investor Relations Vice President and manages the UK, European and South African portfolios.
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Mr Albrecht Bruce,
Senior Vice President - Head Investments,
Butterfield Bank, Bermuda
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 Mr Robert Chardon,
Vice President,
Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie
Mr. Chardon graduated in Political Science from the University of Geneva in 1988, followed by Economic Sciences in 1992. He joined JP Morgan (Switzerland) Ltd., where he held various positions within the Operations Department before taking charge of the back-office for the Geneva platform of the private bank in 1995. He joined Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie in 1999 as an analyst in charge of the energy sector, and then as coordinator of the Industries Team before moving to the Fund Research & Multi-Management Section in 2006. His areas of research are sector and commodity stocks. He co-manages the LODH Multifonds Commodity and LODHI World Gold Expertise Fund. Mr. Chardon is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
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Mr Livingstone Chew,
Portfolio Manager,
Plutus Asset Management
Livingstone Chew is the Portfolio Manager of Plutus Asset Management, Ltd. He currently runs their investment allocation and risk management team. Mr. Chew joined us from Steadfast Financial where he served as a trader for their equity long short value strategy. Mr. Chew ran their firm wide due diligence of long short rebate positions and market risk for firm-wide trading positions. Previously, he worked at Exis Capital a billion dollar fund that was funded by SAC Capital. He started in the Equity, Futures and Options Operations of Exis Capital and moved on to build up their operations group including their UK branch office and mutual funds operations. Within two years he was assigned to run their Credit Derivative Swaps Middle Office operations. Mr. Chew was promoted to be their Execution Trader in their Derivative Trading team. He has also been a capital introducer within the PIPE industry.
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 Mr Edgar Chuan,
Director,
Descartes Global Asset Management
Mr. Edgar Wei-Chen Chuan, graduated from The University of British Columbia and acted as Financial Consultant for Merrill Lynch before joining eCorpServ Ltd as Special Assistant to its President in April 2000. Mr. Chuan participated in executive management discussions on corporate strategies including business decision-making in marketing strategies, corporate benchmarking and feasibility studies in various internet businesses. In April 2001, Mr. Chuan co-founded Descartes Finance Limited. Acting as the CEO of Descartes Investment Management Ltd., Mr. Chuan supervises the creation of business plans and determines the human and financial resources planning.
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 Ms Christine Coignard,
Apogee Global Advisers
Ms. Coignard is international consultant with the Apogee Gold Fund. Since 2001, she is the managing partner at Coignard & Haas, an advisory firm focusing on the mining industry, advising mining companies and investors.
From 1997 to 2000 Ms. Coignard built up and headed the investment and financing departments of Norilsk Nickel in Moscow, Russia. Prior to her gaining industrial experience at Norilsk, she had held senior investment banking roles at Interros in Moscow, Citibank in Moscow and London and at Société Générale in Paris, working on corporate finance transactions in capital intensive industries including mining. Ms. Coignard originally entered banking at the Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto in 1988 after earning her MBA degree from the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto. Ms. Coignard holds dual French and Canadian citizenships.
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 Mr Bud Conrad,
Chief Economist,
Casey Research
Bud Conrad has been a commodities trader for 25 years, specializing in precious metals, grains and financial derivatives. Among others, he has held positions with IBM, CDC and Amdahl. Bud frequently gives talks in California and just gave the key talk “The Precious Metals Bull Market, How Long and How High?” in Vancouver Canada. He is the Chief Economist at Casey Research where his data and analysis provide the base financial direction for Doug Casey's International Speculator, which focuses on gold and silver and the Casey Energy Speculator.
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 Mr Bhagyesh Dash,
Managing Director,
Crosby Capital Partners
Mr. Dash is a Managing Director of Crosby Capital Partners in Singapore and a member of Crosby’s natural resources and energy team. Mr. Dash joined Crosby in 2002 and has worked on most of Crosby’s mining and energy related deals including the takeover bids for Novus Petroleum and Tethyan Copper Company.
Prior to Crosby, Mr. Dash was a Director with Triton Advisory, a corporate finance advisory firm based in Indonesia focused on mergers and acquisitions advisory work in the natural resources sector. Whilst at Triton, he was involved in the privatization of PT. Timah (at the time the world’s largest tin mining company), PT. Aneka Tambang (state owned nickel and gold producer) and PT. Bukit Asam (one of Indonesia’s largest coal producers). He was also involved in advising investors on the acquisition of various coal companies including Kaltim Prima Coal, Arutmin, Adaro Coal and Berau Coal all of whom are amongst the 5 largest coal producers in Indonesia.
Mr. Dash has a Bachelors degree in Economics from The London School of Economics and Political Science, U.K.
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 Mr Jerry de Leeuw,
Founder and Managing Director,
Mercurious
Jerry de Leeuw is founder and Managing Director of Mercurious. After completing his study in Economics in 1995 he became a MarketMaker on the trading-floor of the European Option Exchange (EOE)in Amsterdam. He was employed by Curvalue on EOE, AEX and Euronext. He established his own MarketMaker company (Summer Traders BV) in 1999, was licensed under the supervisory body AFM, became a Member of Euronext Liffe, and had clearing-contracts with Fortis and Goldman Sachs. Jerry is registered with Dutch Security Institute (DSI), a hallmark-institute which tests quality and integrity, and which also periodically re-tests knowledge and experience. As a writer, Jerry is columnist for IEX (Dutch) and AMEinfo (English) and wrote the book"Milkshakes & Butterflies”.
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 Frans De Wit,
Senior Investment Manager, Beta Portfolios,
PGGM
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 Mr Graham Dickson,
President and CEO,
YGC Resources Ltd.
Mr. Dickson has been working in the Mining Industry in North America for the last 20 years. He has acted as general manager of a turnkey construction company for gold milling facilities in remote locations, including the Snip Mill for Cominco Ltd., Golden Patricia Mill for Bond Gold and Seabee Mill for Claude Resources. Before joining YGC, Mr. Dickson served in various capacities with BYG Natural Resources Ltd., which had an operating gold mine in the Yukon Territory. Recently as General Manager of the General Contractor Mr. Dickson completed the surface facilities, for Bema Gold's Julietta mine in Far East Russia, ahead of schedule and under budget.
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 Dr Tilak Doshi,
Executive Director – Energy,
Dubai Multi Commodities Centre
An industry expert with over 15 years of international experience in leading oil and gas companies, Dr. Tilak Doshi joined DMCC as Executive Director for Energy. With his wealth of experience Tilak is tasked to specifically drive regional market and product development for the energy sector.
Dr. Doshi was a Consultant for Saudi Aramco in its crude marketing and corporate planning department. He has also held senior positions as Director of Industry Analysis at the Atlantic Richfield Company in Los Angeles, and Chief Energy Economist at the Unocal Corporation’s Asia office in Singapore.
As Executive Director for the energy sector, Dr.Doshi serves to intensify links between DMCC and the energy industry. He is in charge of creating industry-specific physical and market infrastructure products whilst providing innovative concepts to facilitate the growth of the energy business in Dubai.
He also will be leading the development and launch of energy contracts for the Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange - Dubai's new electronic commodities derivatives exchange - in association with key players across the energy sector.
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 Sebastian Dovey,
Managing Partner, Head of Consulting,
Scorpio Partnership
Sebastian Dovey heads consulting services at Scorpio Partnership, an eight-year old firm that acts as a wealth management solutions consultant between financial services firms and family offices and high-net-worth individuals. The firm has worked with family offices whose combined wealth exceeds $3 billion, and with vendors including UBS Private Banking, Capital International, Credit Suisse, HSBC Republic, JP Morgan Private Bank, Citigroup Private Bank, Deutsche Bank, ABN Amro, BNP Paribas, Lloyds TSB, Barclays, SEI Investments, Merrill Lynch, Bessemer Trust, UBP and Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch. As well, he has direct input into business development of competitive intelligence surveys and business solutions. He is also actively building education-based solutions for various client initiatives.
Dovey has been an advisory board member of the Wealth Congress since 2003. He is also the creator and faculty director of the International Wealth Management Academy, developed in association with the Financial Times group. Before establishing the firm in mid-1998, Dovey was the London based managing editor of Global Private Banking.
Dovey holds a first class BA (Hons) degree in modern history from University College London, and was awarded an MSc (Econ) from the London School of Economics.
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 Mr Joseph J. Eagleeye,
Principal,
Premia Capital Management
Joseph is Co-Founder and Portfolio Manager at Premia Capital Management - a proprietary investment firm specializing in detecting pockets of predictability using statistical techniques and focusing on the natural resources markets. Joseph has also advised investment companies on hedging strategies, benchmark construction, index replication strategies, and risk management in select consulting engagements. He has been involved in the commodity markets since 1994. Prior to co-founding Premia, he developed programmed trading applications for Morgan Stanley’s Equity Division and proprietary computer models for an urban economics consulting firm. From 1994 to 1998, he was a Senior Derivatives strategist at Putnam Investments working on systematic, relative-value derivatives strategies and co-managed Putnam's institutional commodity program.
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 Mr Simon Eaves,
Senior Vice President,
GCG Energy Fund Management
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 Mr David Gibson-Moore,
Senior Vice President and General manager,
Robeco
Mr. Gibson-Moore is currently Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Robeco Group regional office based in Bahrain. Robeco is a wholly owned affiliate of Rabobank and specializes world-wide in institutional asset management in both conventional and alternative asset classes. He was previously 15 years with Chase Manhattan Bank where he was Executive Vice President with responsibility for Private Banking in Europe, Middle East and Africa for 8 years, based in Geneva, and was also responsible for business development for Global Private Banking in New York. He was Chairman of the Boards of Chase Manhattan Bank in Switzerland, Luxembourg and Jersey.
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 Mr Colin Griffith,
Executive Director - Gold,
Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange
Colin has over 35 years of experience in the international gold and commodities markets. He started his career as a ring trader on the London Metal Exchange (LME) and is today a well known figure and one of the most widely regarded professionals in the world of precious metals. Colin was a member of the management committee of the London Bullion Market Association from 1988 to 2003. He was also a member of the board & management committee of the London Metal Exchange for three years. Having joined DMCC, the joint venture partner of DGCX, in 2003 as Executive Director – Gold, Colin has pioneered the introduction of the Dubai Good Delivery standard, the Dubai Gold Receipt alongside driving the implementation of Gold Sukuk DMCC, a US $ 200 million 5 years Islamic financing that was “A” rated by Standard & Poors.
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 Mr John Hathaway,
Senior Managing Director,
Tocqueville Asset Management
Mr. Hathaway is the Portfolio Manager of The Tocqueville Gold Fund, since its inception in June 1998. Prior to joining Tocqueville, Mr. Hathaway spent 8 years with the investment advisory firm David J. Greene, where he became a Partner, then founded and managed Hudson Capital Advisors, followed by 7 years with Oak Hall Advisors as the Chief Investment Officer.
Besides being the manager of the Gold Fund, Mr. Hathaway also manages discretionary "concentrated" portfolios for individual and institutional clients. He has 28 years of experience in the investment business, the last 7 with Tocqueville.
Mr. Hathaway has a B.A. degree from Harvard College, and an M.B.A. from the University of Virginia.
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 Mr Rod W. Husband,
President, Director,
Global Catalyst Group Ltd.
Rod Husband is a registered member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia. He obtained a B.Sc. (Geology) degree from the University of British Columbia in December 1986. His 20 years of experience is in all areas of economic geology with a particular focus in porphyry, epithermal, orogenic and skarn environments. Mr. Husband is the president of Global Catalyst Group Ltd. (GCG) a private company that combines venture, capital, and management to provide a full spectrum of services to publicly-listed exploration companies.
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 Mr Khuram Hussein,
Managing Partner,
Tabarak
After graduating with honors in Economics & Accountancy Mr. Hussain began his career as an Analyst with Guardian Investment Holdings. He then joined Ermgassen & Co. a leading European Cross Border Corporate Finance boutique in London. At Ermgassen & Co. he progressed to the post of Senior Trader and the Assistant Fund Manager for an Absolute US Equity Hedge Fund. Whilst at Ermgassen he completed his Investment Management Exams (IMC). Prior to becoming a Partner at Tabarak he was the Chief Executive Officer for iHilal Financial Services where he structured and launched some of the most innovative products in Islamic Finance.
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 Jennifer Ilkiw,
Director, Asia Pacific,
New York Mercantile Exchange
Jennifer Ilkiw is the director of the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc.’s (NYMEX) Asia Pacific operations. NYMEX is the world's largest physical commodity futures exchange and clearinghouse in the world and the third-largest futures exchange in the United States. The Exchange is a trading forum providing liquidity and price transparency for key energy, metals and agricultural markets.
Prior to joining NYMEX, Ms Ilkiw worked with the Monetary Authority of Singapore to help develop Singapore as a commodity derivatives trading center. Ms Ilkiw is a committee member of the Financial Women’s Association of Singapore and an active participant in Singapore’s financial community.
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Jennifer Ilkiw,
Director, Asia Pacific,
New York Mercantile Exchange
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 mr roland jansen,
ceo,
Mother Earth Investments AG
Mr. Jansen has been a 4 year Board Member of EMFA (European Managed Futures Association - former AIMA). and a founding Member of the Liechtenstein Fund Association. He served as a consultant to the Swiss Federal Banking Commission. He has been a featured speaker at asset management and alternative energy conferences in the USA, Europe and Asia. He has also lectured at the Warsaw University of Technology. In 2004 Mr. Jansen organised the “First Conference on Natural Resources” in Liechtenstein, attended by 150 people from 10 countries and 3 continents. He has appeared on Swiss Television and CNBC Europe. He is the author of “Profits from Natural Resources“, John Wiley & Sons, New York. (1998) where he forecasted the end of the bear markets and a new upswing in commodities.
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 Mr Andrew Jeffreys,
Editor-in-Chief,
Oxford Business Group
Andrew has extensive experience of both the economics and politics of the Middle East having worked in the region for the Oxford Business Group for over twelve years. He was posted overseas in 1994, as a Country Analyst in Damascus and Beirut. Since then, he has lived and worked across North Africa, the Levant and the Gulf. As Editor-in-Chief he now oversees the MENA region. An internationally regarded analyst, he is a regular guest on the BBC and CNN and writes often for regional and international media.
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 Mr Chintan Karnani,
Proprietor and Chief Analyst,
Insignia Consultants
Chintan Karnani started writing a daily report for www.goldseek.com from June 2004 under “Asian Metals market update”. Karnani also represented Prizm financial Ltd New Zealand as their overseas referral broker from May 2003 to February 2004 and at the moment represents Man Financial as their introducing broker. Prior to May, 2003 Karnani have worked with foreign consultants in New Delhi for two years.
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 Gary King,
CEO,
Dubai Mercantile Exchange
Mr. King has more than two decades of experience across the energy and finance sector, working for leading companies such as Neste Oy (national oil and energy company of Finland), Morgan Stanley, and the Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC). In the private equity sector, he was instrumental in developing the Standard Bank/GIB GCC energy fund, one of the first products of the Dubai International Financial Centre, and most recently was seconded into the Treasury and Commodities joint venture between Macquarie Bank and Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank.
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 Mr Philip Klapwijk,
Executive Chairman,
GFMS Ltd, UK
Philip Klapwijk is the Executive Chairman of GFMS. As an analyst, he covers the official sector, investment and fabrication demand in North America, Latin America and much of Europe.
Philip holds a degree in economics from the London School of Economics and a Master’s degree in the same discipline from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. Philip was appointed Group Economist at the former mining conglomerate Consolidated Gold Fields in 1987, where he was responsible for developing the group’s economic scenarios as well as participating in the work for the annual Gold Survey. He has worked for GFMS as part of the precious metals research team since 1989.
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Mr Bernd Kreuzinger,
Director,
Superfund Financial (Middle East)
Bernd Kreuzinger joined the Superfund Group in 2001 focusing on the international expansion of operations. After the successful coordination of the registration of Quadriga Superfund, L.P. and its products Series A and Series B with the regulatory authorities in the US in 2002 he was involved in setting up expansion offices worldwide, including Hong Kong, Singapore, Amsterdam, Zurich and Frankfurt and was as well responsible for the roll out of the Superfund Investment Centers. He is currently Head of Middle East, based in Dubai, and in charge for the expansion of the Superfund Group in the Middle East region.
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Ruggiero Lomonaco,
Head of Middle East and Islamic, Private Investor Products,
Abn Amro
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Ruggiero Lomonaco,
Head of Middle East and islamic, Private Investor Products,
ABN AMRO
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 Ms Kathleen MacLaren,
Managing Partner,
MacLaren Advisors
Kathleen W. MacLaren, Managing Partner, MacLaren Advisors, LLC, has been active in the institutional investment industry for the past twenty years. She has focused on corporate and public pension funds, endowments and foundations, both in providing advice on strategy development and in providing fiduciary education with an emphasis on risk management. MacLaren Advisors, LLC, was organized in 2004 as an outgrowth of its predecessor firm, MacLaren Advisors. (1999).
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 Mr. Paul McNamara,
Managing Editor,
CPI Financial
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 Mr James Moore,
Analyst,
TheBullionDesk.com
James Moore formerly worked for The Bank of Nova Scotia – ScotiaMocatta as a precious metals trader before joining FastMarkets Ltd in 2002 as Metals Analyst for their precious metals web site, TheBullionDesk.com.
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 William Purpura,
NYMEX
William Purpura has has traded precious metals futures and options for 30 years. He is President of Great Lakes Trading, a COMEX member firm and is managing partner of GLT Group, a brokerage and consulting concern. Mr. Purpura became a member of COMEX in 1981 and has been an active participant in a wide variety of exchange functions and committees, including the past six years as a COMEX Governor. He is a registered CTA and a director of the National Introducing Brokers Association.
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 Mr Cyrus Raja,
General Manager,
Al Khaleej Sugar Co. LLC
Mr. Cyrus Raja is working for Al Khaleej Sugar Co (LLC), Dubai - UAE, as General Manager. He has been working for Al Khaleej Sugar since 1996. His functional responsibilities include: Raw Sugar Procurement/Trading, Legal, Insurance, Freight/Logistics.
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 Mr Mahesh Rao,
Ex- Convener & Managing Director,
The Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) & Carbon Accessories Ltd. India & Peacock Jewellery Pvt. Ltd. India
Mahesh Rao began his career in 1982, manufacturing and exporting jewellery to the USA and UK. In the mid 1990s, Mahesh foresaw that the Indian consumers’ relationship with jewellery and gold would grow beyond an investment need and that there was an opportunity to create a brand of “branded” jewellery in the country. Thus was born Carbon and with Mahesh’s vision, today offers a premium range of lifestyle accessories.
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 Robert Ray,
Senior VP,
Chicago Board of Trade
Robert Ray is Senior Vice President of Business Development for the Chicago Board of Trade. Bob is responsible for Product Development, Marketing, Market Data Services, and Exchange Business Development.
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 Prof. K. Geert Rouwenhorst,
Professor of Finance, Deputy Director, International Center for Finance,
Yale School of Management
Geert K. Rouwenhorst is Professor of Finance at the Yale School of Management and Deputy Director of the Center for Finance at Yale, which he joined after receiving his PhD from the University of Rochester. He has held visiting positions at MIT and the IMF. Professor Rouwenhorst specializes in international finance and asset pricing. His research interests include business cycle theory, the empirical tradeoff between risk and return in developed and emerging stock markets, and portfolio choice. His recent work examines hedge fund strategies, mutual fund settlement, commodity investments, and the history of financial innovation.
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 Dr. David Rutledge,
CEO,
Dubai Multi Commodities Centre
Dr David Rutledge has a wealth of international experience in the commodities, financial and related derivatives markets both within Australia and the US. Rutledge who hails from Australia has most notably held positions as Managing Director, Zurich Capital Markets; Chief Executive, Sydney Futures Exchange; Chief Executive of the Queensland Sugar Corporation; Vice President and Chief Economist at the New York Comex Exchange; Senior Vice President – Market Development, New York Board of Trade. Rutledge joined DMCC in February 2003 as Executive Director, Commodities. Since December 2004 he has been the CEO, responsible for the overall management of DMCC’s activities in the commodities, precious metals and diamonds sectors.
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 Greg Smith,
CEO,
Global Commodities
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 Mr Per Tingberg,
Head of Commodities,
HSBC Halbis Partners
Per joined HSBC Halbis Partners in 2006 as Head of Commodities. Between 2004 and 2005, he was part of a team which set up and managed a commodity long/short hedge fund at MPC Investors. Prior to this he was a Senior Portfolio Manager and Principal of Derivative Products & Strategies at Barclays Global Investors (“BGI”) in London where he worked for 15 years. He has managed equity, bond and foreign exchange mandates and has researched and traded commodities since 1995. He managed BGI’s commodity-only mandates on a full-time basis since 1998, with assets under management of more than $400 million at the time of leaving BGI.
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 Ms Danièle Tohmé-Adet,
Head of Indexed Funds Business Development, Co-Head of EasyETF Platform,
BNP Paribas Asset Management
Before joining the EasyETF business development team in 2005, Danièle had built an extensive experience in the past 18 years in financial futures. She had developed the activity of currency overlay management for BNP Paribas AM in 2001 with Overlay Asset Management after creating BNP Paribas’ Central Banks and Supranationals sales desk for foreign exchange and derivative products in 1997. She had previously held several positions as a senior sales manager in Financial Futures on both regulated (MATIF, CBOT, CME, Philadelphia) and OTC markets for major US Investment Houses (Drexel BL, Painewebber, Smith Barney) since 1986 in Paris. Daniele holds a Masters in Business Administration and Marketing from the Paris University Dauphine.
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 Sudhakar Tomar,
Director,
Hakan Agri Commodity
Sudhakar Tomar holds a BSc. in Plant sciences and MBA in marketing. He is Director of Hakan Agro Commodities Trading Company (LLC) flagship of HAKAN HOLDINGS an agri commodities supply chain multinational with offices in 17 countries. In addition to his corporate responsibilities Mr. Tomar serves as a Director of Hakan Holdings , Hakan Agro DMCC, Chairperson of e-communications and convention committees for CICILS/IPTIC (World Pulses Organization).Sudhakar has over 13 years extensive experience in agri-commodities business in the Middle East and Indian subcontinent. He has made presentations on pulses trade, agri commodities, trade barriers and doing agri-commodities business in the Middle East, in various conventions in UAE, Canada, Argentina, India and Egypt.
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 Mr James Turk,
Founder & Chairman,
Goldmoney.com
James Turk is the founder and chairman of GoldMoney (www.goldmoney.com), which provides a convenient and economical way to buy and sell gold online using the digital gold currency for which he was awarded three US patents. He began his business career with The Chase Manhattan Bank (now J.P. Morgan Chase), which included assignments in Thailand, the Philippines and Hong Kong. In 1980 he joined the private investment and trading company of a prominent precious metals trader. He moved to the United Arab Emirates in December 1983 to be appointed Manager of the Commodity Department of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, a position he held until resigning in 1987. James Turk has written several monographs on money and banking and is the co-author of The Coming Collapse of the Dollar.
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 Mr Cyrille E. Urfer,
Head of Fund Research and Multi Management,
Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie
Mr. Urfer began his professional career in 1993 as a private client portfolio manager with Credit Suisse in Geneva. He was responsible for defining strategy for Swiss franc mandates domiciled in Geneva, developing benchmarks for private clients and implementing investment solutions for high-net-worth individuals. He joined Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie in 1998 as a private client portfolio manager, co-managing the Swiss-franc-denominated mutual funds Global Dynamic and Global Conservative. In 2001, he assumed responsibility for portfolio management for financial intermediaries before taking over the Fund Research & Multi-Management Section in 2003. His areas of research are North American stocks and asset allocation. He co-manages the LODHI Healthcare Expertise Fund and LODH Multifonds Commodity. Mr. Urfer is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Certified Swiss Financial Analyst (CEFA).
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Mr Christaen van Lanchot,
Director,
AIG
Christiaen van Lanschot is responsible for marketing and structuring commodity-based transactions at Banque AIG. He has been working in the derivative industry for over 10 years and has been with Banque AIG since 2001. Since joining Banque AIG he has marketed and structured a broad range of derivative products with a focus on the Benelux region. Prior to joining Banque AIG Mr. van Lanschot was responsible for marketing derivative products to the Netherlands at General Re Financial Securities and subsequently at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.
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 Mr Frank Veneroso,
Founder,
Veneroso Associates
Frank Veneroso founded Veneroso Associates in 1995 to provide global investment strategy to money managers. Currently he acts as market strategist for the Global Policy Committee of RCM and is a strategy advisor to the Finance Committee of the board of Allianz. He also manages a global macro fund and a gold fund. Frank served from 1992 to 1994 as senior partner in charge of global investment policy formulation at Omega, one of the world’s largest hedge funds. In 1980, he began Newcastle Capital markets, providing investment strategy advice to money managers and economic and policy consultation and to international agencies and governments in areas of money, banking, financial instability and crisis, privatization, and the development and globalization of emerging securities markets. He was an advisor to PHIBRO on commodities, then the leading global commodity trading firm. In 1991 he initiated the Emerging Markets Gold Fund with the International Finance Corporation and Rothschild. Both before forming and then during Newcastle Partners, Frank’s clients included the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation, the U.S. State Department, and the Organization of American States: during this time, he also advised the governments of Bahrain, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Korea, Mexico, Portugal, Thailand, Venezuela, and the UAE. Frank graduated cum laude from Harvard University.
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 Colin Waugh,
Senior Portfolio Manager,
Galtere International Fund
Colin Waugh is responsible for global strategy, research and portfolio management at Galtere where he has worked since 2002. He began his financial markets career at Merrill Lynch, after which he was Vice President, Commodities Division, at Shearson Lehman Brothers. He later founded and operated C. Macdonald Futures, a Commodity Trading Advisor.
His professional specialization at the fund centers on the development of an Africa sub-portfolio and building the new Climate Volatility theme, which includes exposures in bio-energy, emissions control, water and weather-related investments.
Colin’s career has included financial publishing with Euromoney Institutional Investor and migration development work in Africa. He has also carried out research assignments both for investment funds and international organizations. Mr. Waugh holds a Masters of Science degree from the London School of Economics, is a published author and speaks French, Italian and Portuguese.
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Paul Wood,
Business Development Manager,
DMCC
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