Ranjit Ajit Singh is Managing Director of the Securities Commission of Malaysia and is responsible for overseeing the development and supervision of the Malaysian capital market. This includes direct responsibility for all regulated markets (equity and bonds), related market infrastructure for trading, clearing and settlement, the regulation and authorization of firms and representatives in investment banking, broking and asset management and for corporate and market surveillance. Ranjit is also responsible for key strategic developmental initiatives and was responsible for the formulation of the Malaysian Capital Market Masterplan, introduction of a principles based approach to supervision, the establishment of a new financial reporting framework and several key deregulation and liberalisation policies. Ranjit is the chairman of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) group on the regulation of secondary markets covering over 80 jurisdictions. He is also a member of numerous international task forces and was a member of the expert group that prepared the principles being used for international securities regulation. He serves as member of Bursa Malaysia’s capital market advisory committee and is a member of the National Payment’s Council. He has chaired an ASEAN Finance Ministers’ task force, served as a member of the IMF’s expert group on governance of public sector agencies, the Asia-Pacific Financial Reporting Advisory Group (APFRAG), and was a founding member of the Malaysian Accounting Standards Board. Ranjit has spoken extensively and given interviews on capital markets globally and has published widely in leading publications in finance and securities markets. He has also been an adviser on developmental and regulatory matters to leading emerging markets globally. Ranjit joined the SC after spending 11 years in Australia where he taught finance at the University of Melbourne and consulted for leading financial institutions. He has also worked with an international accounting firm. He holds a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) degree and a Master of Economics degree in Finance from Monash University, Melbourne where he was a graduate scholar. He is also a fellow of CPA Australia.

Mr. Bakhramov is a Portfolio Manager and Principal of Forum Asset Management a $400 million hedge fund focusing on credit, equity, agricultural commodity, and asset based lending strategies primarily in the emerging markets. Mr. Bakhramov is responsible for managing the Forum Global Opportunities Fund an emerging markets long/short equity strategy and the Forum Hard Assets Fund a physical agricultural commodity trading strategy. Mr. Bakhramov has over 13 years experience in the global debt markets. Prior to joining Forum, Mr. Bakhramov was at Columbus Advisors where he developed and implemented numerous investment and trading strategies (relative value, sovereign/corporate bonds, distressed situations, local markets, options and equities). Previously he was a sales trader at Renaissance Capital Group in Moscow responsible for trading and analysis of Russian fixed income instruments. From 1995 - 1996, Mr. Bakhramov was at Credit Suisse First Boston where he structured asset-backed securities transactions. Mr. Bakhramov holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Organization and a PhD in Economic Theory from the St. Petersburg Polytechnik Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia

Alka Banerjee is vice president of Global Equities within Standard & Poor’s index Services group. Alka is responsible for the design and methodology governing these indices. She oversees the creation and management of Standard & Poor's global indices, focusing on creating new benchmarks for international equity markets and promoting their use amongst global clients. Alka was closely involved with the transition of the premier IFC’s Emerging Market Indices to Standard and Poor’s Index Group in 2000, and in the integration of the S&P/Citigroup Indices into the Standard and Poor’s Index family in 2004. Alka is also responsible for the S&P/Citigroup Global Property/REIT Index methodology, guidelines and maintenance procedures. She works closely with S&P’s business development and the sales team. Alka’s special areas of interest are emerging and frontier markets, Islamic Finance and global REITs. Prior to joining Standard & Poor's in 2000, Alka worked for The Bank of New York where she was responsible for the creation, maintenance and marketing of The Bank of New York ADR Index. Before coming to the US, she worked for the State Bank of India for ten years in India. Alka holds a Masters in Economics from Lucknow University in India and an MBA in finance from Pace University, New York.

Harvey Black is a Managing Director at Forum Asset Management a $400 million hedge fund focusing on credit, equity, agricultural commodity, and asset based lending strategies primarily in the emerging markets. Mr. Black has over 20 yrs experience in sales and trading and the alternative investment industry. Prior to joining Forum Mr. Black was President of Black Capital Partners a firm specializing in capital raising and consulting for the hedge fund community. Mr. Black spent 7 years at Lehman Brothers in emerging market, credit derivative, and structured product sales. Mr. Black also headed emerging market sales for the Americas for Bank of America. Mr. Black began his career as a trader at Salomon Brothers in 1986. Mr. Black has a B.A. in Economics from Tufts University and an MBA in Finance from the Marshall School at the University of Southern California.

Frank is a co-founder of StoneWater Capital LLC, a fund of hedge funds firm with over $300 million in assets under management. Frank is responsible for the firm’s Asian investments, and portfolio manager of the Asia ex-Japan, Japan, India and Greater China funds. Frank was most recently a partner of Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm, where he made direct investments in companies in the United States, Europe, the Middle-East and Asia, in particular in the areas of software, technology and communications. Prior to Warburg, Frank started his career as a research engineer with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) in Tokyo, Japan, before joining Nortel Japan as the manager of its Advanced Technology group. Frank holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He currently is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the French-American School of New York, and has also served on several boards of directors of companies in the United States, Israel and Europe.

John is a Managing Director of Deutsche Bank and the Global Head of Hedge Fund Consulting. His thirty five year career in financial services has encompassed providing professional consulting services to an extensive range of financial market companies, including hedge funds, commodity pool operators and funds, private equity and venture capital funds, as well as derivative traders. John is recognized globally as one of the leading spokesmen and consultants to the Alternative Investment Management Industry. He has served as an advisor to financial institutions that are establishing trading operations, asset management businesses, prime brokerage operations or hedge fund administration companies. He frequently assists clients in understanding the various regulatory and structural frameworks and has worked with advisors in establishing domestic and offshore funds in the hedge fund and commodity fund sectors. In his tenure in public accounting, John had been the engagement partner for many of the most prestigious and largest alternative investment companies in the world. John is also a featured speaker at many industry events and has lectured throughout the world on business issues facing alternative investment funds. John is one of the three founding members of Hedge Funds Care, a worldwide charity focused on fighting child abuse. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Global Custodian for his work in the hedge fund industry in November 2005. John has written a number of articles for leading industry publications including “Hedge Funds 2000”, “The Institutionalization of Hedge Funds” and “The Art of Hedge Funds”. John began his career with Arthur Andersen in 1974 and was admitted as a partner in 1986. He joined Ernst & Young as a senior partner in June 2002. In addition, John served as the Chief Executive Officer of Olympia Capital, a leader in the hedge fund administration industry, from 2005 thru 2006. During his tenure at Olympia Capital, he was responsible for implementing the company’s growth strategy and further strengthening its service offerings. John was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cutting Hedge Consulting Company, LLC, an organization dedicated to providing professional advisory and consulting services to the hedge fund industry. John received a B.A. in Economics from Dickinson College, is a CPA in the State of New York and is also a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. John has three daughters, Laura, Christyn and Michelle. The family is active in musical theater and enjoys skiing and tennis. John is also an accomplished marathoner and triathlete and has completed the Lake Placid Ironman event in 2003, 2005, and 2007.

David Bullock is Managing Director of the Roulac Global Group, Chief Investment Officer of Arque Advisors, the Group’s US registered investment advisor and COO of the Roulac Global Funds Group. Roulac Global operates a global real estate consulting, research and investment management business from its offices in San Francisco, Atlanta, New York, and Hyderabad India. Active in the investment business for over 25 years, Mr. Bullock is formerly partner of Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange consulting at Greenwich Associates, and Managing Director of Lehman Brothers including Head of Strategic Planning, co-head of the Lehman International Retail Branch system, and head of Central Bank Relationships. After Lehman Brothers Mr. Bullock developed a career in investment management that has included consulting with money managers while at Rogers Casey and Mercer, selling the high end research services of Medley Global Advisors, consulting to and raising capital for funds of funds and hedge funds, starting a tax lien asset management business, and advising a family office on its investments. Mr. Bullock graduated from Princeton University in 1972 with a BA in economics, and from the University of Chicago in 1974 with an MBA in international finance and statistics. Mr. Bullock serves as a Board member and past Chairman of the Board of the Biotechnology Foundation of the Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. He is a senior Board Member of the Bishop Tharp Business and Technology Institute, a post secondary business college affiliated with the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti and is a Trustee of the Episcopal Diocese of NY. David and his wife Nancy live in Rye, New York with their two bearded collies Monty, and Jones.

Samsung Securities (Europe) Ltd., 2002-2005 Covering European Institutional Investors Samsung Securities (Seoul) Ltd., 2002 Internship at the Tech team of the research centre. Co-developed Earnings and Valuation model for DRAM industry London School of Economics & Political Science PhD (candidate) in Global Business Environment

Rogerio Chequer is a Principal and Founding Partner of Atlas Capital Management with responsibility for the firm's fixed income and currency investments. From 1999 to 2006, he was a Portfolio Manager and Principal of Discovery Capital Management, LLC. Mr. Chequer has over a decade's experience managing multi-asset class investment funds. Mr. Chequer joined Deutsche Bank in 1992 where he was a Vice President in the asset management and hedge fund group in New York. He served as Portfolio Manager and Head Trader for the DB New World Fund, an emerging markets hedge fund. Prior to this, he was a Portfolio Manager at DB Capital Investment (Deutsche Bank's asset management arm in Brazil), where he managed DB Brazil's family of 15 funds, including emerging market equities, fixed income and derivatives. Mr. Chequer received his undergraduate degree in engineering from Escola Politecnica - Universidade de Sao Paulo. He is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish and German.

Chas helped found Investure in January of 2004 and manages its investments in public and alternative equity managers. Investure is widely regarded as the leading outsourced investment office for college and university endowments and charitable foundations. Investure manages approximately $7 billion for a select group of endowments and foundations. Prior to Investure, Chas was an analyst at the University of Virginia Investment Management Company (UVIMCO) where he helped select public and alternative equity managers. Before joining UVIMCO, Chas was a Senior Analyst at CIBC World Markets in their Industrials Group and an Analyst at Thomas Weisel Partners in their Mergers and Acquisitions group. Chas earned his BS with concentrations in accounting and finance from the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce.

Mr. Cunningham is President and Co-Founder of Touchstone Group, LLC, a financial services firm that raises institutional capital for hedge fund and private equity managers in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australasia. Touchstone was founded in 2002 and operates with six full-time professionals in New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Sydney, Australia. The company’s principals have helped raise over $2.5 billion in institutional capital. Previously, Mr. Cunningham co-founded and served as President of an investment management firm that advised the first life-cycle mutual funds focused on retirement investing, and advised pension fund trustees on a variety of asset-liability and governance issues. Prior to this, he served as a investment consultant to a number of major institutional investors on alternative asset allocations. Mr. Cunningham co-founded and managed a group of venture capital funds headquartered in Philadelphia. He has co-authored two books on investing. Mr Cunningham holds a Masters of International Management (with honors) from the American Graduate School of International Management and a BA (magna cum laude with highest honors) from Williams College.

Alisher Ali Djumanov is a Managing Partner of Eurasia Capital Management, the frontier markets investment management firm over USD 200 million in assets under management and advisory. Mr.Djumanov has over 13 years of investment management, investment banking and advisory experience in emerging markets of Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS countries including in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Mongolia. He has worked in major international financial centers such as New York, London and Zurich. Mr. Djumanov is Chairman of Amir Resources, a Singapore-based mining finance group with investments and partnerships in mining and energy companies and projects across Central Asia, the Caucasus and Mongolia. He leads the investment team located in Almaty, Baku, Tashkent, Tbilisi and Ulan-Bator that manages five regional and country funds: Central Asia Opportunity Fund, Eurasian Financial Institutions Fund, Central Asia Real Estate Fund, Mongolia Discovery Fund and Uzbekistan Growth Fund. He was co-founder of Ansher Group, an investment group with investments in Central Asia as well as CEO of Ansher Capital, the first Western-styled investment bank in Uzbekistan. He was Vice President of Auerbach Grayson & Co., a brokerage house in New York advising US institutional investors on portfolio investments in emerging markets in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He was Head of Corporate Finance in Central Asia and the Caucasus at Ernst & Young as well as investment banker at Renaissance Capital in Moscow and Credit Suisse First Boston in Zurich and London. Mr.Djumanov received his Master of International Affairs from Columbia University and an MBA from Oxford University.

Michael Dubin is a Senior Managing Director of the LongChamp Group/Silvercrest with over two decades of hedge fund experience. LongChamp (with $1.3 B AUM in hedge fund-of-funds) is part of the 9B AUM in wealth management at Silvercrest Asset Management. His responsibilities include strategic business development with a focus on institutional marketing and client relations, as well as serving on the Investment Committee. Previously, as a Partner in Powers & Dubin for more than 15 years, he helped develop their expertise in the management of hedge fund-of-funds. Prior to that, he served as President of both Morgan Stanley/GFTA and GFTA Services, which marketed sophisticated multi-billion dollar currency risk management systems for major institutions worldwide. Earlier, he headed up the International Financial Advisory Service at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., advising the Treasurers of the Fortune 500 companies on currency risk management systems. He is the author of the book, Foreign Acquisitions and the Growth of the Multi-National Firm, and lectures frequently on alternative investments and financial markets issues at conferences and business schools. He has a Doctorate of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School in International Finance and a BA from Yale University in Biophysics and Molecular Biochemistry. He serves as the Chairman of the Endowment Committee of the Town School, where was a Trustee and Treasurer for over a decade, and also serves as Director and Treasurer of PlaNet Finance Corp, a global non-profit sponsoring global entrepreneurship through microfinance.

Brad Durham is a co-founder and managing director of EPFR Global, a US-based firm that tracks the fund flows and allocations of more than 18,000 equity, fixed income and hedge funds domiciled globally with $11 trillion in total assets. EPFR data is used and widely cited by leading global and emerging markets analysts, strategists and portfolio managers in analyzing global fund flows, liquidity trends, and institutional investor sentiment across various regions and asset classes. Durham is also a regular commentator in the financial media on fund flows and investor sentiment in global and emerging markets. Prior to co-founding EPFR in 1995, Durham was a financial journalist with the Hearst Corporation in Washington, D.C. and was involved in the launch and editorial operations of several Russian business and financial publications, including the leading Russian business daily Kommersant. Prior to that he was the managing editor of The WorldPaper, a publication with a circulation of more than 1 million that focuses on global political and economic issues and trends. Durham has a JD degree from Suffolk University Law School in Boston, a MSc degree from Boston University and a BA from the University of Oklahoma.

Paul Eckel is the Founder of Emerging Manager which was launched in early 2004. Mr. Eckel has been involved in the hedge fund industry over the past 17 years as a hedge fund co-founder, COO, capital raiser and trader. Mr. Eckel was recently selected as one of the “20 Rising Stars of Hedge Funds” by Institutional Investor magazine. Prior to launching Emerging Manager, Mr. Eckel served as a Director in the prime brokerage department of RBC Capital. In addition to this capacity, Mr. Eckel also served as a COO consultant and capital raiser to a select group of RBC’s hedge fund clients. Prior to joining RBC, Mr. Eckel gained extensive experience in hedge fund formation, ongoing operations, trading and marketing as co-founder of three hedge funds: Cydonia Capital, Naufal Capital and MicroCapital. Paul began his career as a FX and fixed income trader at Moore Capital and before that as a trader in the options department at Caxton Corporation. Mr. Eckel holds the Series 7, 24, 63 and 65 licenses. Mr. Eckel graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Finance.

Jonathan Ende is the Founder and Managing Member of Ende Capital Group which is a leading consulting firm that specializes in structured products and capital raising. He has seventeen of experience in the securities industry with a deep background in derivatives structuring and marketing across a number of asset classes. Jonathan was previously at Lehman Brothers, where he joined in 2001 as Head of Structured Finance for Hedge Funds. While at Lehman, Jonathan built their Private Convertible Business (PIPEs) and spearheaded the U.S. Fund-Linked Structured Products Business. Prior to Lehman, Jonathan was a Managing Director at Bear Stearns where he was the senior member of the Equity Derivatives Hedge Fund Coverage Team. Jonathan also worked at Salomon Brothers in Fixed Income Capital Markets and at Bankers Trust in Equity and Fund-Linked Derivatives. Jonathan has a bachelors degree in Economics from Duke University and is a CFA charter holder.

Avi Faliks, Ph.D, Managing Director, Apex Capital Management (New York). Dr. Faliks is a co-founder of Apex Capital Management and the head of risk management for the Apex Grreater China funds. He is the former manager of a quantitative long-short equity fund and, prior to this, was a proprietary trader on a statistical arbitrage trading desk at Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. Dr. Faliks is a published expert on optimization models. Dr. Faliks received his Ph.D in Chemical Physics from Princeton University and his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College.

Mr. Fanger is a co-founder and managing director at Shoreline Capital, which manages investments in distressed assets in China. He oversees much of the firm’s sourcing and exits. In this capacity, Mr. Fanger is involved in the pricing, bidding, litigation, negotiations, liquidations and restructurings involved in acquiring and disposing distressed debt in China. Prior to Shoreline Capital, Mr. Fanger was a founding member in the start-up and exits of several firms, with the majority of his career being China-focused. He has done work on Chinese non-performing loan and private equity transactions with the field’s leading team of attorneys. Mr. Fanger has been fluent in spoken and written Chinese for over ten years. He also holds a JD and MBA from the University of Chicago and is a licensed attorney in the State of California. Shoreline Capital is a private fund manager specializing in finding and creating value in distressed assets in China. It currently manages approximately $250 million in acquired assets and committed capital. Shoreline has three offices in China and over thirty professionals.

Kathleen Faries is Vice President in charge of the Market Solutions Division of Tokio Millennium Re in Bermuda. Tokio Millennium Re leads the industry in fronting and transforming risks for Hedge Funds and Financial Institutions worldwide. Prior to joining Tokio Millennium Re, Kathleen spent the majority of her 20 years in the business broking Insurance and Reinsurance into the US, London and Bermuda markets as well as developing Captive Insurance Companies.

Louis C. Gerken, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Gerken Capital Associates (“GCA”) has been active in the alternative investment business since the mid 70’s. He started his career as an Analyst and Portfolio Manager with London-based GT Capital, one of the earliest emerging market fund managers. GCA’s primary focus is the management of alternative asset, emerging market funds. At present, aggregate AUM managed and/or advised exceeds $1.4 billion. Details can be accessed at www.gerkencapital.com. GCA currently serves as Manager to the GCA Greater China Hedge Fund established in 2005 with JV Partner, Taiwan-listed Polaris Group. It also serves as Manager to the GCA Latam Fund established in 2007 with JV Partner, BBVA. Mr.Gerken received an MBA from the Southern Methodist University Graduate School of Business, a Masters Degree in International Business from the American Graduate School, and was awarded a Bachelors Degree in Economics from the University of Redlands. He is a frequent speaker and writer on alternative asset investments.

Peter Getsinger has been involved in international business for 30 years and has 16 years experience in Latin America. Peter founded Nexstar Capital Partners in March 2004 and has primary responsibility for investing and managing the assets of the Fund as well as managing the activities and operations of Nexstar. Prior to forming Nexstar, he was head of global investment banking for Latin America at Deutsche Bank. He held the same role at Bankers Trust prior to its merger with Deutsche Bank, where his responsibilities included head of global project finance and international finance. Previously, he served as senior vice president at Lehman Brothers, where he established Lehman’s fixed income origination business in Latin America. His prior position at Lehman was head of fixed income sales in London for the UK, Europe, and the Middle East. Prior to this, Peter was with Smith Barney in London, where he managed the fixed income sales effort and the international fixed income asset management business in Europe. Peter currently serves as a board director for Electro Sur Medio (Peru) and previously served on the board of Emdersa (Argentina). He graduated from Williams College with a BA in American Civilization.

Alison Graham is a principal of Voltan Capital Management and lead portfolio manager of the Voltan Frontier Markets Fund. Ms. Graham has over fourteen years’ experience in emerging and frontier markets finance. Until 1998, she was a partner and senior analyst focusing on Latin American equities at the investment bank Caspian Securities. In 1998, she joined United Financial Group in Moscow where she was responsible for equity analysis and advisory related to the restructuring of the Russian energy system. Since 2000, Ms. Graham has worked on behalf of a variety of global firms with investments and other interests in frontier markets. She holds a Master's degree from the University of California at Berkeley, is a Chartered Financial Analyst and is fluent in six languages. Voltan Capital Management invests in the frontier markets of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, the Balkans, Central Asia and the Caucasus. The company’s flagship fund, the Voltan Frontier Markets Fund, invests in securities ranging from listed equity and sovereign debt to more exotic opportunities in countries without organized exchanges. Voltan's second product, a frontier markets real estate fund, is scheduled for launch in the second half of 2008.

Christopher joined Exotix in November 2006 as the firm’s head of African Research. Christopher has specialized in the African stock markets and corporates since 1990, and in 1996 authored “African Equities” published by Euromoney. Christopher on joining Exotix brought his extensive research data base on the African stock markets and companies. This provides our clients with in-depth fundamental alongside historical data on exchange rates, inflation, interest rates and stock market indices. Christopher qualified as a chartered accountant during the 1970’s and has worked with IFC, USAID and Standard Bank of South Africa. Christopher has worked on many African IPO’s and was also instrumental in developing the Kenyan commercial paper market during the 1990’s.

Michael P. Hennessy is a Co-founder and Managing Director at Morgan Creek Capital Management. Morgan Creek provides investment services based on the University Endowment model of investment management. It does so on behalf of families, endowments, foundations and other institutional investors through advisory relationships, proprietary discretionary products, and through commingled vehicles formed in joint venture partnerships with Tiger Management, Salient Partners, and Hatteras Partners. Total assets are roughly $10 billion. Prior to joining Morgan Creek in 2004, Mike was Vice President and Co-Founder of UNC Management Company (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). Prior to joining UNC in 1999, Mr. Hennessy was an Investment Director at Duke Management Company (Duke University). Before joining Duke in 1991, Mr. Hennessy was an Associate at Smith Breeden Associates, a quantitative investment management firm with offices in Chapel Hill, NC, and Boulder, CO. Mr. Hennessy received his M.B.A. with a concentration in Finance from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, and holds a B.S. in Philosophy, Psychology and Mathematics from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. Mr. Hennessy is Treasurer of Duke University Federal Credit Union, a member of the Carolina Friends School Business and Finance Committee and Carolina Friends School Board of Trustees, and a member of the College of William & Mary Foundation Board of Trustees and Investment Committee.

Neil has written extensively and contributed the chapters on Bermuda Insurance regulation and segregated account companies to the 2nd edition of O'Neill & Woloniecki's "The Law of Reinsurance". He has also written extensively on the convergence between the hedge funds and insurance industries. Neil joined the firm in March 2003. Prior to joining ASW he worked in leading firms in London, New York and Frankfurt. He has extensive experience working on large commercial and corporate finance transactions with particular emphasis on the (re)insurance and financial service sectors. He was heavily involved in advising investors participating in the Class of 2005 start-ups and also recently acted on the acquisition by a large US private corporation of an NYSE-listed corporation.

Mr. Humes is the President and CEO, and Portfolio Manager of Greylock Capital Management, LLC, which he founded as a joint venture with Van Eck Global in May, 1995. Mr. Humes has 20 years of experience working in emerging markets. He was a Managing Partner of Van Eck Absolute Return Advisors, Inc. where he launched the fund which became the Greylock Global Opportunity Fund in 1997. From 1991 to 1994, he was a key member of the Lehman Brothers emerging markets debt trading team, co-developing the desk and managing over $500M in investments. Prior to that he traded a proprietary debt portfolio at Banco Santander and engineered several debt/debt and debt/equity swaps in Latin America. He began his career at Manufacturer's Hanover, where he worked on the sovereign debt restructurings for the Republic of the Philippines and the Republic of Yugoslavia. Mr. Humes received his BA from Williams College. He has lived and studied in Nigeria, Morocco, Canada, Netherlands, Chile, Mexico, and Belgium and is fluent in Spanish. Mr. Humes served as the Co-Chairperson of the Global Committee of Argentina Bondholders (GCAB), which represented approximately $40 billion in holdings in the largest sovereign debt restructuring in history.

Roland A..Jansen, from The Netherlands, holds a degree in Business Administration (lic.oec.HSG) from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He worked in New York, London and Zurich, Switzerland, as a financial consultant for Merrill Lynch and Cargill Investor Services. He has also been a Senior Vice President for the British bank Coutts & Co in Zurich. He is the author of : „Profits from Natural Resources“, John Wiley & Sons, New York. (1998) where he forecasted correctly the end of the bear markets and the new supercycle in commodities. He is appearing regularly on the USA, Asian Pacific, British, French and German channels of Bloomberg Television to give his views on commodity trends. To see interviews: type “Bio Roland Jansen” in a Bloomberg terminal. He is the CIO of Mother Earth Investments AG and the CIO of Juno Mother Earth Asset Management LLC. The companies issue the “Mother Earth Index” the first “second generation” global index of natural resources. The company manages assets in natural resources for banks, private clients, pension funds and family offices in several funds and certificates. The company also engineers financial products in commodities for banks. He publishes his research monthly in the Juno Mother Earth Commodity Report. Mr. Jansen serves as the Honorary Consul for The Netherlands in Liechtenstein. Mr. Jansen is fluent in Dutch, German, French, English and Swiss German. He has a good working knowledge of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.

Steven T. Kargman is the President of Kargman Associates, a New York City-based strategic advisory firm specializing in international restructurings, cross-border insolvencies and distressed debt situations. The firm provides strategic advice to clients involved in complex and challenging international restructuring, cross-border insolvency, distressed debt and non-performing loan situations, with a special focus on the emerging markets. He was formerly the senior restructuring lawyer with the Export-Import Bank of the United States in Washington, D.C. He has worked on a number of the largest and most complex restructuring transactions throughout Asia and Latin America, including the $13.9 billion Asia Pulp & Paper restructuring involving Indonesia, China and Singapore. He has also been involved with some of the most significant project finance restructurings in Asia as well as some of the largest debt restructuring matters in Mexico, Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America. In his restructuring activities, he has interacted with senior officials in the private and public sectors throughout Latin America and Asia. He has also worked closely with senior officers of other creditor institutions, both public and private, in the US and abroad, and he has played a leadership role on creditor Steering Committees and export credit agency working groups. He previously served as General Counsel of the New York State Financial Control Board, New York State’s financial oversight agency for New York City, practiced corporate finance with the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton in New York, and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Gilbert S. Merritt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Arun R. Kelshiker is the Chairman of TARA Global Investors, ICC, a private equity fund investing into Emerging markets and unique opportunities globally, with a specific focus on Russia and the CIS, Africa and the GCC. He is also the CEO of the Group’s asset management activity, including its soon to be launched hedge fund focusing on Russia and the CIS. Mr. Kelshiker was formerly Deputy CEO and Chief Investment Officer at the Allianz Group Asset Management entity operating in Russia, (one of Russia’s largest asset managers), where he was responsible for the creation and set up of the company’s investment processes as well as the overall investment performance of the company’s investment portfolios including all mutual funds and discretionary mandates. He was also on the Board of Management for Allianz Group Asset Management entity in Russia. Mr. Kelshiker joined and was instrumental at the start up and creation of the Allianz Group’s global asset management operations in the nineties where as a senior equities portfolio manager, he successfully set up and managed several out performing funds with average volumes of several billion Euros, including European, Emerging markets and global mandates. He also worked together with PIMCO, the Group’s globally recognized leader in fixed income when managing Group balanced mandates, as well as devising the derivatives strategy for the Group portfolios. He began his investment career in the early nineties, and has worked with a number of investment firms including ING Barings, Lehman Brothers and Allianz Global Investors; he has also worked in a number of geographies including Emerging Markets in Asia, Europe and Russia. He has his first degree from UMIST, UK with honours, his Masters from Bocconi University, Milan and is currently completing his second Masters from the University of Chicago, US. He is a CFA Charterholder and also holds the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst qualification. He sits on the Boards of Russlavbank and Rossia Insurance company in Russia, as well as on the Board of the CFA Association of Russia. Arun, is a very well known and highly respected commentator on investment into Russia and Emerging Markets, having spoken and chaired events internationally on numerous occasions.

Jonathan Kim is a Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd. (NYSE:MRH), where he is responsible for overseeing all legal and compliance issues related to the company’s operations and capital markets transactions. He has been a featured speaker in the U.S. and abroad on reinsurance-linked securities and the securitization of insurance risks. Prior to joining Montpelier, Jonathan was with AXA Advisors, LLC, part of the AXA Group, in New York. He was also a senior associate at Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (n/k/a Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP), also in New York, and began his legal career in Washington, DC as a law clerk with the Department of Justice in their Criminal Tax Division. Jonathan earned his JD from Georgetown University Law Center, his MBA from the Yale School of Management and his AB from Brown University.

Mr. Kleiman is Senior Partner at Kleiman International Consultants, which he co-founded in 1987 in New York City where the company was based before relocating to Washington in 1993. The firm has the longest record of providing independent monitoring and analysis of worldwide banking and securities markets, and at its twentieth anniversary launched the “Emerging Markets Talk” blog on its website. The firm’s emphasis is on the emerging economies, and clients include international banks, securities firms, brokerages, fund managers, pension funds, corporations, private investors, and multilateral organizations worldwide. The firm’s experience with international investors is often tapped for capital market evaluation and advisory assignments for international lending organizations in all developing regions. For the private sector, Kleiman International offers in-depth evaluation of economic and financial market development for emerging markets worldwide. Kleiman provides market and instrument comparisons, and counsels clients on risk and opportunity associated with portfolio and direct investment, and trading and credit activity. Through its wide range of public and private sector sources, the firm assists investors and executives in identifying and assessing financial services and investment opportunities and vehicles, and tracking developments through regular coverage of more than 75 markets. Prior to founding the firm, Mr. Kleiman held positions with international consulting firms in New York and Washington. He is regularly consulted by government agencies and the media on global economic and financial market issues, and contributes to international publications. He was chosen to be an overall Financial Sector Reform advisor for the IMF and World Bank’s flagship First Initiative and writes a regular emerging markets column for the Financial Times. Mr. Kleiman is a magna cum laude graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and he earned advanced degrees from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Paris) and the London School of Economics, and is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. He is member of many industry and trade associations focusing on global affairs, development and investment, and initiated The Bretton Woods Committee “Private Sector Group to Assist Poor Countries.”

Harry Krensky is a Founder and the Managing Partner of Discovery Americas Capital Partners and Discovery Americas I (a Mexican private equity fund), and serves on the Boards of Volaris (an airline) and Umbral (a real estate company). He is a Principal and Founding Partner of Atlas Capital Management with responsibility for overseeing the firm’s risk management and business. He is a co-founder of Discovery Capital Management, LLC. Over the past 15 years, Mr. Krensky has managed hedge fund and private equity investments, and provided corporate finance and investment banking services in the emerging markets. Previously, Mr. Krensky was a Director and Senior Portfolio Manager at Deutsche Bank, where he founded and managed the DB New World Fund, an emerging markets hedge fund. Prior to this, he was a Director in the emerging markets group at Bear Stearns. Mr. Krensky has been an adjunct professor of international business at New York University's Business School. Mr. Krensky graduated with distinction from Colby College, holds a Master's degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and earned an MBA from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He has a working knowledge of Spanish.

Vik Mehrotra is the founder and CEO of Venus Capital. Vik has been in the investment arena, managing money and actively investing in India and Asia since 1989. Vik founded Venus Capital in 1994 as a wealth management firm and gradually transitioned its focus to Asia. Vik currently manages the award winning Venus Arbitrage Fund and the Venus Special Situations Fund. Venus Arbitrage Fund has won – 2007 HFMWeek Award for "Best Relative Value Fund". – 2005 and 2004 Asia Hedge Award for "Best Market Neutral Fund". Venus Arbitrage fund was a nominee for – 2007 HFMWeek Award for "Niche Fund". – 2007 EurekaHedge - Asian Masters of Hedge Award for "Best Relative Value Fund". – 2006 MarHedge Award for "Best Relative Value/Arbitrage Fund". – 2005 MarHedge Award for "Best Emerging Market Fund". Along with Vik's successful public market investing, he has made several successful private equity investments in India including India's largest art auction house. Due to the volatility seen in the last two bear markets, Vik focuses on strategies where volatility can be controlled.

Nilesh Mehta joined Aureos Capital in January 2005 as Managing Partner, and raised US $ 100 M India Opportunities Fund to invest in mid market opportunities in India. The Fund has already made 4 investments of expansion capital nature. The investments include Accutest(clinical research organization), Paras Pharmaceuticals ( OTC pharma and personal care business), Ordyn Technologies (telecom component business) and Hind Hivac ( Vacuum Technology). Since 2000, Nilesh has been General Partner of eIndia Venture Fund/Infinity II, where he led four IT-related investments in Skyscape Inc, MD Anywhere, Scope e-Knowledge and Bay Area Credit Services. Prior to this, Nilesh spent 16 years in investment banking, private equity and fund-related activities, occupying positions as managing director of Meghraj Financial Services (India) Ltd (MFSI) and executive director of Anagram Finance Ltd. At MFSI, Nilesh led several private equity transactions and mergers and acquisitions of mid cap Indian companies. Nilesh is a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, India, and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Mr. Mejia-Aoun joined Bladex in October 2005. Since April 2006 Mr Mejia-Aoun has successfully managed the investments for the Bladex Capital Growth Fund. Prior to Bladex, Mr. Mejia-Aoun was CEO of Maxblue by Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Bank’s first, high tech, personal financial consultancy business, targeted at the affluent investors in Latin America. Mr. Mejia-Aoun, conceived, promoted and built Maxblue, and after 14 months sold, on behalf of Deutsche Bank, 49.9% of the company at a valuation of $180 million. Prior to creating Maxblue in 2000, Mr. Mejia-Aoun was Head of the Latin American Foreign Exchange and Local Money Markets Sales and Trading Group at Deutsche Bank. He restructured and built the operation to become the most profitable region in the Emerging Markets Group. In 1995 Mr. Mejia-Aoun was the Chief Emerging Markets Strategist at Merrill Lynch covering fixed income securities in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia. From 1987 to 1995 Mr. Mejia-Aoun created and ran the Emerging Markets Trading Group at Merrill Lynch. Mr. Mejia-Aoun is also a Founding Member and former Vice-Chairman of the Emerging Markets Traders Association. Mr. Mejia-Aoun received an MBA in Finance from Thunderbird (American Graduate School of International Management) and a B.S. in Business Administration from Southeast Missouri State University (summa cum laude) with a double major in Marketing and Finance.

Sangeeta Modi is a Partner with Aureos India Advisers since 2005, investing in mid market growth capital opportunities in India. Globally, Aureos manages US$ 750 Mn Private Equity funds for mid market companies in Latin America, Africa, South Asia and South East Asia Over the past 15 years, Sangeeta has managed Private Equity, Distressed Debt and Structured Finance in India. Prior to Aureos, Sangeeta spent six years with GE Capital. She managed Business Development at GE Capital, covering GE Capital’s inorganic growth in India. Previously she set up GE Capital’s distressed debt business in India, and was earlier also instrumental in setting up GE Capital’s commercial and structured finance business in Western India, engineering some of the largest equity financing transactions in the country. Sangeeta spent six years with American Express Bank, focusing on structured finance offerings to large Indian Corporates. She is an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, and a graduate in Economics and Statistics from Mumbai University

Mr. Panzier is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Risk Officer of MayerCap, LLC . MayerCap creates and manages funds of hedge funds that focus on newer and specialized managers. Before joining MayerCap he was the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of ReachCapital Management, an international equity hedge fund. Prior to ReachCapital, Mr. Panzier was the Chief Financial Officer for an Asian Pacific equity portfolio managed for Ziff Brothers Investments. From 1991 until 1998, he served in a variety of roles at Lynch & Mayer, Inc., including Corporate Vice President and Director of Finance of the hedge fund group. Mr. Panzier began his career as an auditor with Deloitte & Touche LLP. Mr. Panzier is a CFA charterholder, a Certified Public Accountant and is certified as a Financial Risk Manager by the Global Association of Risk Professionals. He received a BBA from Emory University in 1989. He was the author of "Observations on Hedge Fund Due Diligence: Risk Management Procedures" (Focus Point Press 2007) and has co-authored “The Search for Alpha: Investing in Newer Hedge Funds.” MFA Reporter (November 2005), “The Search for Alpha in Hedge Funds: The Performance of Newer Managers.”, MFA Reporter (October 2006), and “Due Diligence Best Practices” in The Investor’s Guide to Hedge Funds, John Wiley & Sons (August 2006).

Neil is the Managing Director and the Head of North America for Harcourt. Neil is also the portfolio manager for Harcourt's Latin America focused fund of fund. Prior to joining Harcourt, Neil was a Managing Director at Measurisk, where he was the head of sales and marketing for four years. At Measurisk, he was credited for developing innovative risk transparency solutions for the hedge funds and funds of hedge funds. Previously, Neil worked at Bankers Trust for five years where he was a Vice President and business manager for risk management service group. Neil started his career at Bankers Trust in the area of structured derivatives. Prior to joining Bankers Trust, he spent two years as Senior Management Analyst at Cincinnati Bell and also worked as Project Engineer for five years in the field of aerodynamics. Neil received his MBA in finance from Columbia University and also holds two other Master’s degrees in aerospace engineering and systems engineering from the University Maryland, College Park. He received undergraduate degrees in mathematics and aerospace engineering.

Tushar Patel is Managing Director and Investment Manager at Hedge Fund Investment Management Ltd (‘HFIM’) a London based fund of hedge funds Investment Manager. He manages the HFIM Evolution Funds, a range of funds of hedge funds focused on investing in emerging and newly established hedge funds. HFIM’s investment approach is to capture returns from new and emerging hedge fund strategies that can come from innovation and evolution within the global hedge fund industry. Tushar has more than 12 years' experience in the management of funds of hedge funds and single-strategy hedge fund managers. Prior to HFIM, he worked at GAIM Advisors, Sabre Fund Management, Tachibana Securities and Prudential Bache. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant, a Fellow of the Securities Institute, an alumnus of the London Business School and an Associate member of the U.K. Society of Investment Professionals. He holds an honors degree in Economics and Quantitative methods.

Joanna Peters is the Founding Principal of StratConGlobal, Inc. and brings a proven track record as a global strategic thinker to build outs and turnarounds. Using her law degree and business expertise, she has originated strategic businesses with an investor focus and created an institutional standard for cross border and emerging markets transactions. Joanna has built and undertaken workarounds in the emerging markets (India, Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Latin America, Eastern Europe and the Middle East), driven rollups in Asia and the United States and has acted as advisor and interim COO on new private equity ventures in the offshore oil and gas sectors. Her other activities include strategic positioning, acquisition due diligence, development of new distribution capabilities via strategic alliances and open architecture platforms for investment firms and offshore institutional investors. Prior to StratConGlobal, Joanna built investment businesses in cross border and emerging markets and banking and capital markets activities for leading diversified financial institutions including Citi, ABN and AMEX. Joanna’s focus is origination, structuring and business management issues. Joanna is a Best Practice Industry Speaker here and abroad. Joanna sits on the Advisory Board of an established Technology provider and serves as a Co Chair of the Asia Hands Group. She is a senior member of the Arab Bankers Association (ABANA). Joanna participated in the JP Morgan Women CEO/CFO Leadership and Vision Forum 2006. Prior to that time, she served as Mentoring Chair of 100 Women in Hedge Funds for which she Co-Founded and Chaired the Peer Advisory Councils. Joanna also served four years on the Board of a New York City magnet school, Stuyvesant High School. She is admitted to the Bar in New York and Australia. Joanna is a member of the Economic Club of New York

Formerly the Director of Research and Product Development at Parametric Portfolio Associates and portfolio manager/analyst at Fred Alger Management, Mr. Quisenberry brings to bear 20 years of experience in the investment management industry ranging from fundamental and quantitative research, product design in quant-active, tax-managed equity and overlay management to portfolio management in domestic, international and emerging markets. As the former chief strategist of emerging markets at Parametric from 1995 and the Portfolio Manager of the Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Emerging Markets Fund (EITEX) since 1998, Mr. Quisenberry’s fund achieved a 5 star rating and a top decile performance track record in Morningstar’s universe of emerging market equity funds. Mr. Quisenberry is currently the Managing Director and owner of Investment Frontiers Research a consulting and investment design firm focused on frontier emerging markets, emerging technologies and other inefficient investment assets and markets. He is also in the process of launching a hedge fund focused on frontier emerging markets. Mr. Quisenberry has published several articles and is widely quoted on the emerging markets. He is particularly recognized as an early proponent of frontier emerging markets which he introduced into Parametric’s emerging market strategy in 1997. In addition, he has been a frequent speaker at industry conferences on a wide range of topics.

Dianna Raedle is in charge of Business Development for the Americas and is on the Investment Committee of the Millennium Global Special Situations Americas Fund. She has over 17 years' experience in the capital markets with both public and private securities across the capital structure. Most recently she was COO of the Mayfair Group, an international alternative asset management boutique, where she was responsible for strategy, negotiating private equity and real estate investments and general operations. Previously Dianna was a principal with Laurel Management, an investment advisory firm, where she made private equity fund investments. Dianna also has extensive experience creating highly structured credit transactions at SBC Warburg Inc, where she was a Director and Credit Suisse First Boston (London and Switzerland), where she was a vice president. In addition, she was instrumental in an effort to build a Structured Finance Business at ABN AMRO, where she was a director. Dianna has a BA from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Robert Rahbari is co-founder and Managing Director of RAS Capital Management LLC. Rob is primarily responsible for manager due diligence, operational, legal and compliance areas for RAS. He has also appeared at numerous global conferences focusing on Indian markets, spoken on CNBC and other financial news programs, co-authored several articles on Indian markets for global publications, and been widely quoted in the press for his views on Indian markets. Prior to RAS, Rob served as Director and Chief Compliance Officer of Ferro Capital LLC, a global fund-of-hedge-funds management firm based in New York. At Ferro Capital, Rob was responsible for the manager due diligence process as well as various legal and compliance matters for the firm and its underlying managers. Rob’s prior experience also includes practicing law in the investment management groups of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, where he specialized in hedge funds, funds-of-funds and other private investment vehicles and their investment managers. Rob received his JD from the University of Chicago in 1996 and his BA in Economics (Honors) from the University of Michigan in 1993.

Robert L. Rauch, 49, is a Partner and Director of Research of Gramercy Advisors LLC. Gramercy is an event-driven hedge fund with US$ 2.8 billion of funds under management specializing in opportunistic corporate and sovereign investments in global emerging markets. Mr. Rauch oversees the research activities and the corporate investment and restructuring group of Gramercy. He also manages funds invested in non-performing residential mortgage loan portfolios purchased from the failed-bank agency of the Mexican government. He has been or is currently involved as a leading creditor or advisor in the restructuring of numerous companies in Asia and Latin America including Accel, Alestra, Asia Pulp and Paper, Dina, Durango, Essar Steel, Iusacell, Mechala, Medefin, San Luis, Satmex, SIDEK, Synkro, and Transtel. Prior to joining Gramercy in January 2001, Mr. Rauch worked as a consultant to hedge funds managed by Van Eck Global and Farallon Capital Management, specializing in the analysis of emerging markets special situations. From 1994-1999, he was President of The Weston Group, where he was responsible for overseeing the firm’s securities research and corporate debt restructuring advisory business in Latin America. In the early 1990s, Mr. Rauch worked as a Vice President with Lehman Brothers and CS First Boston in their emerging market fixed income trading groups. In the second half of the 1980s, he was a Vice President and trader with First Interstate Bank’s loan syndications group, where he was responsible for structuring and syndicating loan facilities to highly-leveraged American and Asian corporations. In 1980, he began his career with Swiss Bank Corporation in several credit and corporate finance roles. Mr. Rauch received a Masters of Management degree in Finance and International Business from Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Economy from Williams College. He is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute.

Professor Nouriel Roubini is an internationally known expert in the field of international macroeconomics. He is a Professor of Economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business and is also the co-founder and Chairman of RGE Monitor (www.rgemonitor.com), an innovative economic and financial information service named one of the best economics websites by BusinessWeek, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal and The Economist. Professor Roubini served as a senior adviser to the White House Council of Economic Advisors and the U.S. Treasury Department; has published numerous policy papers and books on key international macroeconomic issues; and is regularly cited as an authority in the media. He received an undergraduate degree at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy and a Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University, and was previously a faculty member at Yale University.

Anu Sahai has over 15 years of investment experience spanning convertibles, high yield and equities. She started Anew Capital Management in October 2006 to capitalize on the India opportunity in the global marketplace. She is the Portfolio Manager of the Anew India Opportunity Fund, an opportunistic long /short India focused fund that invests primarily in equity and convertible securities. Prior to that she was a Vice President and Portfolio Manager of the Convertible portfolios at ING for almost five years with an excellent track record. Having joined ING in 1997, she served various analytical and portfolio management roles in equities, high yield and convertibles. Prior to that she was Head of Indian Research Sales in Hong Kong with Marlin Partners, a London based institutional stockbroker. She started with them as an Indian Equity Analyst and helped develop the research product and methodology for analyzing Indian companies. Prior to Marlin, she researched potential investment ideas as part of corporate planning for Larsen & Toubro, India’s largest public engineering firm. Ms. Sahai has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Statistics from Bombay University. She is a director on the board of the Arizona Foundation for Women, a member of the CFA Institute and a member of the American Mensa. Ms. Sahai has spoken at a number of conferences and has been featured in various hedge fund publications. She has been named as one of the Top 20 Rising Stars of Hedge Fund 2008 by Institutional Investor.

Sonny Saksena is a Managing Director with Finles Capital Management. His responsibilities include corporate development, principal investing, manager selection and due diligence. Mr. Saksena started his career with Larsen and Toubro Limited in India where he was responsible for performing corporate development activities and managing infrastructure projects. In 1994 he joined PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Management Consulting Services in New York and he subsequently became a Partner with IBM Business Consulting Services following their acquisition of PwC’s consulting business. Mr. Saksena has over 15 years of international experience covering a broad spectrum of strategic and financial issues for senior executives at Fortune 100 companies.

DATO’ OOI SANG KUANG is the Deputy Governor of Bank Negara Malaysia (Central Bank of Malaysia) and a member of its board of directors. He received his Bachelor of Economics (Hons) degree from the University of Malaya and Masters of Arts (Development Finance) from Boston University, USA. Dato’ Ooi started his career in Bank Negara Malaysia in 1971 and held various responsibilities in the Economics Department. He moved to the private sector in 1984 and assumed numerous senior appointments across the financial services sector. He was Chief Executive Officer of a Malaysian finance company; Chief Economist – Asia Pacific of Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore, and a member of the bank’s South-East Asia ALCO (1989); Managing Director of Warburg Asset Management Pte. Ltd., Singapore (1994); where he led a team managing funds investing in Asian equities ex-Japan. Prior to joining BNM as the Deputy Governor in 2002, Dato’ Ooi was with the RHB Group covering ASEAN regional equities as Managing Director and Regional Research Director of RHB Research Institute. He was also a Member of the Board of Directors of Rashid Hussain Berhad and RHB Sakura Merchant Bankers Berhad. Dato’ Ooi is concurrently Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cagamas, the National Mortgage Corporation with total assets of RM23.04 billion as at end 2006; Chairman of Cagamas’ Board Executive Committee and a Board Member of the SEACEN Research and Training Centre.

Mr. Schleinkofer is Managing Director and Portfolio Manager of Marketable Alternatives for Verdis Investment Management, a provider of funds-of-funds modeled after the strategies of the world’s leading endowments. He has over 10 years experience as an equity securities analyst, having worked at Thomas Weisel Partners, SG Cowen and Natwest Securities before joining Verdis Investment Management in 2005. He is responsible for portfolio construction, manager research and monitoring and risk management. Mr. Schleinkofer holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics, with a concentration in Finance from The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania.

Laurence B. Siegel is director of research in the Investment Division of the Ford Foundation in New York, where he has worked since 1994. Before that, he was a managing director of Ibbotson Associates, an investment consulting firm that he helped to establish in 1979. In 2005 Larry was named Research Director of the CFA Institute’s Research Foundation. He holds this position concurrently with his responsibilities at the Ford Foundation. Mr. Siegel currently chairs the investment committee of the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe. He serves on the investment committee of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and advises the boards of many other nonprofit organizations. He was a trustee of the Oberweis Emerging Growth Fund. Larry is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Portfolio Management and the Journal of Investing, and is a member of the program committee of the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (the Q Group). His first book, Benchmarks and Investment Management, was published by the CFA Institute in 2003. Larry received his BA in urban studies from the University of Chicago in 1975, and his MBA in finance from the same institution in 1977.

Mr Sonenshine is the investment principal primarily responsible for generating equity and credit investment opportunities. Mr. Sonenshine also is CEO of MT Thaler. Mr Sonenshine spent four years as a senior analyst covering European High Yield markets, most recently for CSFB leaving in 2002 and before that with ING Barings. He was ranked among the top analysts in Institutional Investor, EuroMoney and Credit Magazine. Prior to his work as a high yield analyst Mr. Sonenshine was General Manager of ING Investment Management, Czech Republic. Under Mr. Sonenshine’s leadership, ING Investment Management managed approximately US$250 mn and launched three Luxembourg domiciled, Czech Koruna denominated investment funds. These funds were the first of their kind in the Czech market and outperformed their benchmarks. Prior to working for ING investment management, Mr. Sonenshine was senior Equity analyst at ING Barings focused on Russia and Central Europe. Mr Sonenshine earned his CFA designation in 1999. He holds an MBA from the William E. Simon school at the University of Rochester, where he specialized in Finance and Public Policy. He also holds a B.A. in History from Tufts University.

Gabriel Stein is our Chief International economist and has been a Director of the company since 1995.His research follows all global trends and his current areas of specialisation are the US, Eurozone, Germany, and Australia. He also comments on the GCC economies and is spearheading company expansion in the Gulf region.Gabriel Stein has produced authoritative work on matters as diverse as demographics and pensions issues; broad money and credit flows and sectoral financial balances. In addition to his work with Lombard Street Research, he regularly contributes to the international and Swedish press. He calculates Tax Freedom Day for Britain on behalf of the Adam Smith Institute, and for Israel on behalf of the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies.

Daniel Sternoff directs Emerging Markets and Energy analysis for Medley Global Advisors, the leading policy intelligence advisor to the world's top investment banks, asset managers and hedge funds, with a primary research focus on oil markets, geopolitics and China. Prior to joining MGA in 2002, Mr. Sternoff covered Middle East politics as a Jerusalem-based correspondent with Reuters, and subsequently led coverage of global macroeconomics and international capital markets as director of Reuters' Foreign Exchange Group in New York. Mr. Sternoff contributes to policy roundtables with groups including the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Aspen Institute, the Carnegie Center for Ethics in International Affairs and the Council on Foreign Relations, and has also worked as a researcher for CFR's senior fellow for Muslim politics. Mr. Sternoff received a Fulbright Scholarship after completing his M.A. in international relations and economics from the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He holds an undergraduate degree from Duke University.

Mr. Tumolo has over 14 years of institutional investment management experience, including manager due diligence, risk management and asset allocation for multi-manager products. For the last five years, Mr. Tumolo has been the Chief Investment Strategist at TAG Associates, LLC., a multi-family client office based in New York with over $5B in client assets under management. He is also currently Portfolio Manager for two of TAG's proprietary hedge fund of funds. He is responsible for overall portfolio strategy, asset allocation, and manager selection both in TAG’s commingled fund products and in many individual client portfolios. Prior to joining TAG in 2000, Mr. Tumolo managed two multi-manager hedge fund portfolios for a small group of private investors. Mr. Tumolo first developed his expertise in building and managing multi-manager portfolios during his 5 year employment at Charles Schwab & Co. For the three years following his graduate studies, he was the sole buy-side analyst at Charles Schwab Investment Management conducting manager research for four proprietary mutual fund of funds.

Nilesh Vasani founded Empyrean Re in 2006, and developed the company’s niche market focus based upon his extensive experience within the reinsurance industry and credit markets. Mr. Vasani was formerly Head of the Credit & Financial Products Reinsurance business at RBC Insurance's Reinsurance division, a provider of trade credit reinsurance and retrocession to global insurance and reinsurance companies. Previously, Mr. Vasani was a corporate credit and exotic derivatives portfolio manager at Semper Capital, a private-closed hedge fund. Mr. Vasani has an Honors Bachelor of Science Degree in Statistics and Actuarial Science from the University of Western Ontario, and has done extensive research in the field of mathematical finance.

Qui Vuong currently serves as Chairman of the National Association of Investment Fiduciaries (NAIF), a private, not-for-profit, “buy side” peer association and advocacy group that focuses on supporting advanced investor education, and promoting best practices in institutional investment management for fiduciaries. In 1998, Mr. Vuong was appointed by Houston mayor Lee P. Brown to serve on the Board of Trustees of the Houston Police Officers' Pension System (HPOPS), a $2.5 Billion public pension fund with a diversified, global investment portfolio. Mr. Vuong has also served as a founding advisory board member of the CAIA association in 2001, the sponsoring body for the “Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst” designation. As a private investor and independent consultant for investing early in new ideas and emerging trends, Mr. Vuong learned to invest from working in commercial hedging, portfolio risk management, derivatives trading, and building high performance portfolios while at Procter & Gamble, Thomson McKinnon Securities, and Legg Mason, before founding his own company. Mr. Vuong received his BSE in Civil Engineering from Princeton University in 1984. He is also a graduate of the Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) program at Princeton.

Mr. Mark Weiss, is the Senior Managing Director and Founding Member of Bengal Asset Management LLC, an asset management company focusing on investments in Bangladesh. Prior to his formation of Bengal Asset Management LLC, from 2003 to 2007, Mr. Weiss was the Director of Marketing at LW Asset Management LLC, New York, New York, a United States registered investment adviser and investment manager to three private alternative investment funds focusing on Emerging Markets, and was responsible for business development, client servicing, sales and marketing. In 2003, Mr. Weiss helped establish the Institutional Sales and Trading desk of Jesup & Lamont Inc., New York, New York, a United States broker dealer, where he sold and traded emerging market fixed income securities and high yield and distressed U.S. fixed income securities. From 1999 to 2002, Mr. Weiss was employed by H. Rivkin & Co., Pennington, New Jersey, a United States broker dealer, where he worked on the Institutional Sales and Trading desk, dealing in various equity and fixed income products. Among the markets he covered were Russia, India, Indonesia and Thailand. From 1996 to 1998, Mr. Weiss was employed by First Albany Corporation, New York, New York, a United States broker dealer, where he worked on the Institutional Sales desk, selling fixed income securities, including mortgage backed securities, municipal bonds and whole loans. Prior to his entrance into the securities industry, Mr. Weiss was a commercial and securities litigation attorney for 13 years from 1983 to 1996 for Kaye Scholer Fierman Hays & Handler, and Phillips Nizer Benjamin Krim & Ballon, two large New York City based law firms. Before entering private law practice, Mr. Weiss was a Law Clerk to the Honorable Richard J. Cardamone of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Mr. Weiss received his Juris Doctor degree, cum laude in 1981 from Albany Law School of Union University, where he was a member and editor of the Albany Law Review, and his Bachelor of Science degree in 1978, with distinction, from Cornell University, with a major in Civil Engineering. Mr. Weiss is a holder of the right to use the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designation.

Founder, and President New Standards (2007) a research firm serving clients in the socially responsible investment community, pension funds, and global companies to better understand social and environmental risk in developing economies, particularly China. Heather is the founder and former President of Verite, a non-profit organization working with companies on global labor monitoring issues. During her tenure there Ms. White was the labor and human rights consultant to the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), Emerging Markets Macro Indicators Project, performing social screening of their investment portfolio, covering 27 developing countries. The project established Ms. White and her team in 12 countries as a resource in the assessment of country performance and compliance with international labor conventions. Scientific American magazine named Ms. White as one of the "Scientific American 50" in 2003. The award, for Policy Leadership in Manufacturing, recognized Ms. White's work advocating on behalf of migrant workers in factories in Asia. In 2005 Ms. White received the "Social Capitalist Award" from Fast Company magazine for developing an innovative non-profit organization performing lead-edge research and other services using a collaborative non-profit/private sector model. Verite was a 2007 Skoll Foundation award recipient. In her fifteen years working on labor standards, Heather has advised over 300 U.S. and European companies on labor rights and social issues in 60 countries.

Dominic Wilson is a Director of Global Macro and Markets Research and a Managing Director in the Global Economics Group, based in New York. He is primarily responsible for the group's research on global thematic issues and the world economy and for global macro trading views. He is also a senior member of the Equity Trading Strategies Group, which analyses and recommends macro trading views in equities. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs in 2000, he completed a Ph.D. in Economics at the Australian National University in Canberra. In addition to his Ph.D., Dominic holds a Masters in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a first-class honors degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Merton College, Oxford.

Until last week, Thierry was senior managing director at Bear Stearns, where he served as Deputy Director of Research for the Emerging Markets and as Global Emerging Markets Strategist. He was recognized in the 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 and 2003 Institutional Investor Latin America Research poll for equity strategy. Immediately prior to joining Bear, Thierry was a principal and co-founder of two global hedge funds, first for Caspian Securities and then for Credit Suisse First Boston, both in New York. In both instances he had responsibility for strategy and trading in emerging market currencies, bonds and equities. Thierry began his career in 1991 an an economist with the Federal Reserve bank of New York, where he conducted research in support of the Fed's monetary and financial market policies. Between 1994 and 1996, he was investment officer and senior economist at Strategic Investment Partners in Washington, D.C., an institutional investment advisory company. He holds a B.A. in economics from Vassar College, and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, where he also served as teaching fellow from 1987 to 1991.

Mr Yusli bin Mohamed Yusoff, aged 49, a Malaysian, graduated with a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Essex (United Kingdom) in 1981, and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, England & Wales, the Malaysian Institute of Accountants, the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants as well as an Honorary Member of the Institute of Internal Auditors Malaysia. Mr Yusli began his career in London with Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co from 1982 to 1986. He had also held various key positions in a number of public listed and private companies in Malaysia, whose activities spanned over property and infrastructure development, telecommunications, engineering and merchant banking, before he was appointed the Chief Executive Officer/Director of CIMB Securities Sdn Bhd from January 2000 to January 2004. He also served as the Chairman of the Association of Stockbroking Companies in Malaysia from 2003 to 2004. Presently, Mr Yusli is the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Bursa Malaysia Berhad and a Board Member of its group of companies. He also sits on the Malaysian Capital Market Development Fund Board and is an executive committee member of the Financial Reporting Foundation/Malaysian Accounting Standards Board.