James Crombie
Editor, Bloomberg Brief
James Crombie has covered emerging market finance, economics and politics for the last 17 years as a journalist based in London, Mexico City, and New York. He is an editor at Bloomberg Brief responsible for a daily newsletter on leveraged finance.

Prior to joining Bloomberg, he was Editor-in-Chief at LatinFinance, where he created a daily news service and directed coverage of investment between Latin America and China, the Middle East, and Europe.

Previously, James was senior editor at International Financing Review (IFR) in New York, where he led news and analysis of LatAm capital markets, U.S. structured finance, and U.S. fixed income. He was also product manager of Thomson Financial's real-time Web-based LatAm joint venture with Dow Jones Newswires.

From 1997 to 2000, he was a correspondent with Reuters in Mexico City and London, specializing in commodities. James joined Reuters from Metal Bulletin in London, where he was senior assistant editor. He has also written for several other financial publications including Lloyd's List and Bloomberg News, and has been featured on Bloomberg TV, FT TV, Sky News and BBC Radio.

John H. Coatsworth
Dean, School of International and Public Affairs
Interim Provost, Columbia University
John H. Coatsworth is a leading scholar of Latin American economic and international history. Prior to his appointment as Dean in 2008, he served as a visiting professor at Columbia University (2006 – 2007) and Interim Dean of SIPA (2007 – 2008). He was appointed Interim Provost of the University on July 1, 2011.

Dean Coatsworth previously served as the Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs at Harvard University (1992–2007).  He was the founding director of Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and the chair of the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies. Prior to his work at Harvard, Coatsworth was a member of the faculty at the University of Chicago (1969–1992). Other academic posts have included visiting professorships at El Colegio de México, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the National University of Buenos Aires, the Instituto Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires, and the Instituto Ortega y Gassett in Madrid.

Dean Coatsworth is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Board of Directors of the Tinker Foundation and numerous professional associations. He is the former president of the American Historical Association and Latin American Studies Association. Coatsworth has served on the editorial boards of scholarly journals including the American Historical Review, the Journal of Economic History, the Hispanic American Historical Review and other social science journals published in Britain, Chile, Germany, Mexico, Peru, and Spain.

In 1986, Dean Coatsworth was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. He has served as Senior Fulbright Lecturer three times, with appointments in Argentina and Mexico, and has received numerous research and institutional grants from public agencies and private foundations. He has acted as a consultant for program design or review to numerous U.S. universities and foundations.

Dean Coatsworth received his BA in History from Wesleyan University, and his MA and PhD in Economic History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Christian Deseglise
Co-Director, BRICLab, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs ​ ​
Christian Deseglise has over twenty years of experience in Emerging Markets finance and capital markets. Prior to rejoining HSBC Global Asset Management in December 2010, he was a partner at BTG Pactual, one of the largest independent investment banks in Emerging Markets. Prior to BTG Pactual, he was Global Head of Emerging Markets and a member of the Executive Committee of HSBC Global Asset Management. In this role, Christian helped HSBC become one of the world’s largest managers of emerging markets assets. He also designed and spearheaded the launch of a series of innovative products, notably the first BRIC fund and the New Frontiers fund. 

Christian began his career in banking at Crédit Commercial de France (CCF), in Paris in 1990 within the Emerging Markets department. In 1998, he became responsible for the bank’s Emerging Markets activities and moved to the London office to set up a department dedicated to the origination, trading, sales and research of Emerging Markets debt. During this time, CCF arranged the first ever securitization of Paris Club debt and managed various Emerging Markets sovereign issues. In 2000, with the acquisition of CCF by HSBC, Christian moved to New York to head the Emerging Markets department of HSBC Securities. Under his leadership, HSBC became one of the main dealers of Latin American debt.

Christian is also an Adjunct-Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, teaching “Investing in Emerging Markets.” He is also the co-Founder and Director of Columbia University’s BRIC-Lab, a center established to study the rise of Brazil, Russia, India and China.  Deseglise has taught at Sciences Po in Paris and at the Institute for High Studies for Development in Bogotá, Colombia.

Christian received a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University in New York.  He is also a Graduate from Sciences-Po in Paris and holds a Master degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies from La Sorbonne Nouvelle. He has written numerous articles on Emerging Markets.

In 2003, Christian established Foundation Caring for Colombia, a not-for-profit organization that provides assistance to the victims of violence in Colombia.

Sérgio de Oliveira Cabral Santos Filho
Governor, Brazilian State of Rio de Janeiro
Sérgio de Oliveira Cabral Santos Filho was born in 1963 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. He is the eldest son of journalist and writer Sérgio Cabral and teacher and museologist Magali.

With a BA degree in Communications Studies, Journalism from Faculdade da Cidade, Mr. Cabral began his political career at the age of 24 as Operations Director of TurisRio (State of Rio de Janeiro´s Tourism Company). Three years later, in 1990, he was elected to his first term as State representative. During his second term, he was elected President of Rio de Janeiro´s State House of Representatives and undertook a comprehensive management reform. The results were budget cuts and an increase in the legislative agenda.

Recognized for his achievements, Mr. Cabral was reelected with 380,000 votes. During his third term at the State Parliament, he was reelected President and    succeeded in consolidating reforms, which gained national attention.

As a result of this recognition, he was elected Senator in 2002 with 5,200,000 votes.  

In 2006, he was elected Governor of the State of Rio de Janeiro in the run-off with more than 68 percent of the votes. In 2010, he was reelected in the first round with more than 66 percent of the votes for his second mandate.

Sérgio Cabral is married to lawyer Adriana Ancelmo Cabral and has five sons: João Pedro, Marco Antonio, José Eduardo, Tiago, and Mateus.

Mario Garnero
Chairman, Brasilinvest
Mario Garnero is one of Brazil´s most accomplished entrepreneurs. Throughout his career that ranges over half a century, he has led Brazil in promoting greater international cooperation, seeing to the successful completion of activities in different industries that represented important transfers of knowledge and technology to Brazil.

A lawyer by training (he obtained a law degree from the Catholic University of São Paulo, (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo), where, as a student, he chaired the Centro Académico 22 de Agosto (the University’s Law Students’ Association).

After becoming director of Volkswagen do Brasil in 1979, Garnero chaired the National Automakers Association and subsequently chaired the National Confederation of Industries (CNI). He was the top business leader of that time's recently developed Brazilian Ethanol Program.

Mario Garnero is Chairman of the Board and principal shareholder of the Brasilinvest Group, a business organization established in 1975 as a private business agency operating along the lines of a classic merchant bank.

The establishment of the Brasilinvest Group, which has already attracted investments in the range of US$ 12 billion to Brazil, gathers partners from 16 different countries, some of which are still minority shareholders. In addition, Mario Garnero chairs Jurisul ­ the Interamerican Institute for Juridical Studies on Mercosur, Forum das Américas, and the United Nations Association-Brazil.

Mario Garnero is the author of several books, including Brazil in the World - Views on Brazil's Role in the Global Market, which has become a worldwide reference. His most recent book, JK, The Courage of Ambition, is a precious tool for all those who want to learn more about the personality and legacy of Juscelino Kubistchek, who was president of Brazil in the late 1950s and with whom Mario Garnero worked when still a young student leader.

Sergei Guriev
Rector, New Economic School of Moscow
Sergei Guriev received his Dr. Sc. (habilitation degree) in Economics (2002) and Ph.D. in Applied Math from the Russian Academy of Science (1994), and M.Sc. summa cum laude from the Moscow Institute of Physics in Technology (1993). In 1997-1998, Dr. Guriev visited the Department of Economics at M.I.T. for a one-year post-doctoral placement, and in 2003-2004, the Department of Economics at Princeton University as a Visiting Assistant Professor.

Dr. Guriev has published in the leading international refereed journals including American Economic Review, Journal of European Economic Association, Journal of Economic Perspectives, and American Political Science Review.

In 2006, he was selected a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. In 2011, he was invited to join the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Europe.

He is a board member of Sberbank, Russia Venture Company, Russian Home Mortgage Lending Agency, Alfa-Strakhovanie Insurance Company, and the Dynasty Foundation. He is a member of the Scientific Council of BRUEGEL (Brussels) and of the Advisory Council of the Peterson Institute on International Economics (Washington, D.C.). Dr. Guriev is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London.

Marcello Hallake
Partner, Jones Day
Marcello Hallake focuses his practice on representing U.S. and European companies, financial institutions, and investment funds in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, privatizations, private equity, and other financing transactions (in particular projects)  in Latin America and around the globe, as well as representing Brazilian and Latin American companies in cross border transactions. Marcello’s transactional experience comprises particularly of advising companies in the energy, telecommunications, media and technology sectors.

Prior to joining Jones Day, Marcello represented France Telecom in various transactions in Latin America, including the acquisition and subsequent divestiture of its investment in Intelig Telecomunicacoes Ltda of Brazil, the acquisition and subsequent divestiture of Compania de Telecomunicaciones de El Salvador S.A. de C. V., and the sale of Telecom Argentina. He has also represented Petrobras in various cross-border transactions in the United States, Asia, and Latin America. Other clients that Marcello has counseled on cross border matters include Eutelsat, Grupo Algar, Lagadere, Sinochem, and Globo Comunicaçoes e Participaçoes.

Marcello previously served as Chair of the Committee on Inter-American Affairs of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of various not-for-profit organizations including Brazil Foundation, CDI International, and the Inter-American Culture and Development Foundation. He has written extensively on matters related to doing business in Brazil and is frequently invited to speak at conferences related to  Latin America.

Merit E. Janow
Professor of Practice, International Economic Law & International Affairs, Director, International Finance and Economic Policy Concentration, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs
Merit E. Janow is a leading expert in international trade and investment.  She has extensive experience in academia, government and business, with life-long experience in the Asia-Pacific region. For the past 16 years, Merit E. Janow has been a Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and Columbia Law School. She teaches advanced graduate courses in international trade and antitrust law, international economic and financial policy, China in the international trading system, among others.  Currently she is Director of the Program in International Finance and Economic Policy at SIPA, a graduate program with over 200 students; the Co-Director of the APEC Study Center at Columbia Business School, and Chair of the Faculty Oversight Committee of  Columbia’s Beijing Center.  She is the author of three books and numerous articles. In December 2003, Professor Janow was elected for a four year term as one of the seven Members of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Appellate Body, which is the court of final appeal for adjudicating trade disputes between the 153 member nations of the WTO. She was the only North American Member and the first female to serve on the Appellate Body. From 1997 to 2000, Professor Janow served as the Executive Director of the first international antitrust advisory committee to the Attorney General and the Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, US Department of Justice.  Prior to joining Columbia’s faculty, Professor Janow was Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan and China (1989-93).  She was responsible for developing, coordinating and implementing U.S. trade policies and negotiating strategies towards Japan and China. She was involved in the negotiating of more than a dozen sectoral trade agreements with Japan and China. Early in her career, Professor Janow was a corporate lawyer specializing in cross-border mergers and acquisitions with the global law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York and before that she worked at a U.S. think tank. She grew up in Tokyo, Japan, and is fluent in Japanese. She has a JD, Columbia Law School and a BA, University of Michigan, Asian Studies. Professor Janow currently serves on the Board of Directors of several corporations and not for profit organizations.

 

Stephen King
Chief Economist, HSBC
Stephen King is HSBC’s Group Chief Economist and the Bank’s Global Head of Economics and Asset Allocation research.  He is directly responsible for HSBC’s global economic coverage and co-ordinates the research of HSBC economists all over the world.

Stephen joined HSBC in 1988.  From 1990 through to 1993, he was responsible for HSBC’s views on the Japanese economy.  From 1993 through to 1998, he was responsible for the bank’s views on Europe.  He became the bank’s chief economist in 1998.  He has been consistently highly ranked in the various investor surveys.

Stephen has written on a wide variety of economic topics: recent examples include a report on China’s role in the world economy, an analysis of the U.S. economy and housing market, and a study of the growing influence of the emerging economies on the developed world.

Since 2001, Stephen has been writing a weekly column for The Independent, one of the UK’s leading newspapers.  He appears regularly on both television and radio.  He has given written and oral evidence on the economic effects of globalization to the House of Commons Treasury Committee and the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee. He has also given oral evidence to the House of Lords Committee on UK monetary policy.  Between 2007 - 2009, he was a member of the European Central Bank Shadow Council, and most recently a member of The Financial Times Economist’s Forum.

Stephen’s career began at H.M.Treasury, where he was an economic adviser within the civil service. 

Stephen's first book, Losing Control, was published by Yale University Press on May 4, 2010. The book examines the impact of the emerging nations on western economic prosperity.

Stephen studied economics and philosophy at Oxford.

Ann Lee

Professor, NYU; Visiting Professor, Peking University
Ann Lee is a senior fellow at Demos.  She focuses on issues of global economics and finance, and has written a book on U.S.-China relations to be published in January 2012. A former investment banker and hedge fund partner, she is a frequent media commentator on economic issues. In addition to television and radio appearances on Bloomberg, ABC, CBS, CNN, and NPR, her op-eds have appeared in such publications as The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Businessweek, Forbes, and Worth. She has been quoted in hundreds of publications and has been an invited speaker at
numerous industry and academic conferences. She recently published a book entitled "What the U.S. Can Learn from China."

Ann is also a professor of economics and finance at New York University and
a former visiting professor at Peking University, where she taught
macroeconomics and financial derivatives. While she was teaching at Peking
University, she also acted as an economic advisor to Chinese economic
officials, as well as to several large Chinese asset management firms.

She was educated at U.C. Berkeley, Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson
School of International Affairs, and Harvard Business School.

Marcelo Bahia Odebrecht
Chairman and CEO, Odebrecht
Marcelo Bahia Odebrecht is Chief Executive Officer of Odebrecht S.A., a holding company which is present in over 20 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas and reported total revenues of US$ 32,3 billion in 2010. He is also the Chairman of the Operating Companies that comprise the group.

He joined the Odebrecht group in 1992.  In 2002, he was appointed CEO of Construtora Norberto Odebrecht, the largest engineering and construction company in Latin America. At the end of 2008, he became CEO of Odebrecht holding company, which is active in several business segments such as engineering and construction, petrochemicals, transportation and infrastructure, oil and gas, bio-energy, real estate, and environmental services.

Marcelo Bahia Odebrecht holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, and an MBA from IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Arvind Panagariya
Jagdish N. Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs
Arvind Panagariya is Professor of Economics and  Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy at Columbia University.  In the past, he has been the Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank and Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland at College Park.  He has also worked with the World Bank, IMF, WTO, and UNCTAD in various capacities.  His Ph.D. degree in Economics is from Princeton University.

Panagariya has written or edited a dozen books.  His latest book India: The Emerging Giant (2008, OUP, USA) was listed as a top pick of 2008 by the Economist magazine and described as the “definitive book on the Indian economy” by Fareed Zakaria of the CNN and Time magazine.  His scientific papers have appeared virtually all leading journals in economics such as the American Economic Review, Quarterly journal of Economics and the Review of Economic Studies.  His policy papers have appeared in the Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, World Economy and Finance and Development.

Panagariya writes a monthly column in the Economic Times, India’s top financial daily.  He has written guest columns in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Times of India, Hindustan Times, Hindu, India Today and Outlook.  He has appeared on the leading television channels in USA, India and other countries.

Michel Temer
Vice-President, Federative Republic of Brazil
Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia, widely known as Michel Temer, has been the Vice-President of the Federative Republic of Brazil since January 1st 2011, alongside Her Excellency Dilma Rousseff, the President of Brazil.

Besides assisting the President of Brazil, Vice-President Michel Temer is in charge of presiding over two high-level bilateral diplomatic committees with China and Russia, which cover a wide range of issues regarding Brazilian-Chinese and Brazilian-Russian relations. Since last June, Michel Temer has been also responsible for coordinating the implementation of the so-called “Brazilian Strategic Border Plan” (“Plano Estratégico de Fronteiras”), which aims at ensuring enhanced protection and integration along Brazil´s extensive borders with 11 countries. 

Previously, Michel Temer held the position of President of the “Chamber of Deputies” - equivalent to the Lower House of Congress or the House of Representatives in the United States – throughout three non-consecutive terms, the last of which was from February 2009 until the end of 2010. He also exerted the Presidency of the Lower House from 1997 to 2001. During his first term as head of the Brazilian parliament, he introduced innovative communication systems through which a broad public was granted access to televised congressional debates. 

As a Federal Deputy in his sixth term, Mr. Temer was the leader of the “Brazilian Democratic Movement Party” (or PMDB, in its Portuguese acronym) at the Chamber of Deputies from 1995 to 1997. Between 2001 and 2010 he was the President of PMDB, one of the largest and most influential political parties in Brazil.

In his home state of São Paulo, the economic powerhouse of Brazil, Mr. Temer twice held  the posts of State Secretary for Public Security from 1993 to 1994, as well as of State Attorney-General from 1983 to 1984 and again in 1992. During his tenure as the public security chief of the most populous state of the Brazilian federation, Mr. Temer was considered visionary for establishing the first police units specialized in dealing with violence against women. Such a noticeable initiative was then followed by similar ones in other Brazilian states. In the

1980´s, Michel Temer was likewise praised for having created police units focused on ensuring the protection of copyrights.   

The son of two Lebanese immigrants and the youngest  of eight children, Mr. Temer was born on September 23, 1940 in the city of Tietê, São Paulo. He went on to receive his Law degree from the University of São Paulo (1963) and a Ph.D. in Law from the Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC, 1974). Mr. Temer has also written several books on juridical issues, earning  him the reputation of being one of the most renowned experts in Constitutional Law in Brazil.

He is married to Mrs. Marcela Temer.

Thomas J. Trebat
Executive Director, Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University
Thomas J. Trebat is Executive Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies and of the Institute’s Center for Brazilian Studies.   He joined Columbia after a lengthy career on Wall Street dedicated to economic research on Latin America.  Prior to joining ILAS in February 2005,  Tom was Managing Director and Head of the Latin America team in the Economic and Market Analysis department of Citigroup. He joined Citicorp Securities in 1996 as the head of Emerging Market Research.  Previously, he worked at Bankers Trust, the Ford Foundation, and Chemical Bank. As a senior international economist at Bankers Trust, he was involved in many aspects of country debt negotiations in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and elsewhere in Latin America during the 1980s. At the Ford Foundation, he served for four years as the Regional Director for Latin America and Caribbean Programs. At Chemical Bank, Tom organized and directed the emerging markets research group. Mr. Trebat has a Ph.D in economics from Vanderbilt University and remains active in teaching as Adjunct Professor of International Affairs at Columbia and publishes on issues related to economic problems of Latin America with a special focus on Brazil. He is also a member of the Council of Foreign Relations. His book, Brazil's State-owned Enterprises: A Case Study of the State as Entrepreneur, was published by Cambridge University Press.  His current research interests include the role of the state in the Brazilian economy and poverty and poverty reduction programs in Latin America.

Marcos Troyjo
Co-Director, BRICLab, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs ​
Marcos Troyjo is the Co-Director of the BRICLab at Columbia University, a SIPA special forum on Brazil, Russia, India, and China. He teaches The Rise of BRIC at SIPA.

Troyjo is the founder of the Center for Business Diplomacy, an independent think-tank on global entrepreneurship. He holds a Ph.D. in the sociology of international relations from the University of São Paulo and pursued postdoctoral studies at Columbia University. An economist and political scientist, he is an alumnus of The Rio Branco Institute (Instituto Rio Branco), the graduate school of international relations and diplomatic academy of Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He undertook additional graduate studies at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

Troyjo is a lecturer in the graduate programs at IBMEC University, a Visiting Professor at the Centre d`Études sur l`Actuel et le Quotidien, Université Paris Descartes (Sorbonne), and a member of the International Schumpeter Society. He worked as a career diplomat and was Press Secretary at the Brazilian Mission to the United Nations in New York and Chief of Staff of the Science and Technology Department of Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

He is a regular op-ed contributor and commentator for print and electronic media outlets in Brazil and around the world. He serves on the Advisory Board of numerous for-profit as well as not-for-profit institutions. Troyjo has been chosen one of “The Outstanding Young Persons of the World – TOYP” by the Junior Chamber International in 2004. Troyjo was the winner of the “Latin America Fellowship-2005” awarded by the Rt. Hon Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand.

He is the author of such books as: Technology & Diplomacy, Brazil: Competitiveness in the Global Marketplace, Manifesto of Business Diplomacy, Trading Nation: Power & Prosperity in the 21st Century (chosen by Americas Quarterly as one of the best new books on policy, economics, and business in the hemisphere in 2007). He has lectured at Yale University, Harvard University, University of Washington, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), IE-Instituto de Empresa (Spain), IVA-The Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences (Sweden), Tsinghua University (China), University of Auckland (New Zealand), and Canning House (UK).

Luis Carlos Velez
Anchor, CNN International
Luis Carlos Vélez is an anchor and reporter for CNN International based in New York.

Vélez joined CNN International from sister network CNN en Español (CNNE), where he anchored various programs as well as Agenda Ejecutiva, the network’s monthly show for business travelers. He joined CNNE as Senior Business Producer.

Vélez has also been part of special assignments for the CNN News Group. In 2010, he was sent to Haiti to cover the massive earthquake and to Colombia, where he accompanied the Colombian military forces in their operations against the terrorist group Farc. He also covered the September 2010 political crisis in Ecuador.

Vélez has interviewed many Latin American President in recent years, including the President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos, former President of Colombia Álvaro Uribe Vélez, the President of Perú Alan García, the President of Panama Ricardo Martinelli, the President of Chile Sebastian Piñera, and the President of Ecuador Rafael Correa.

As anchor of Agenda Ejecutiva, Vélez traveled to Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Panama, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Venezuela, Chile, Ecuador and the United Kingdom.

Before joining CNNE, Vélez worked as anchor and producer for CityTV in Bogotá and as International Producer for Caracol TV, in Colombia.

With extensive experience covering financial news on the field, Vélez started his professional career in finance and he worked for Enron Corporation in Texas. In 2007, Vélez was named one of the 10 “Leaders of the Future” in Colombia by Jet-Set magazine.

Born in Bogotá, Vélez earned a degree in Economics from the Universidad de los Andes. He also earned undergraduate credits at the London School of Economics and a Certificate in Administration and Management from Harvard University in Massachusetts. Vélez speaks Spanish and English

 

Stefan Wagstyl
Emerging Markets Editor, Financial Times
Stefan Wagstyl was born in the UK in 1957 and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and Clare College, Cambridge, where he graduated with First Class BA Hons in History in 1979.

After working as an intern at Barclays Bank in 1975-76 in credit analysis, his first job in journalism was as a reporter for the Coventry Evening Telegraph, (1979-82).

He joined the Financial Times in 1983 as a financial reporter and has covered various positions including metals and mining correspondent, Tokyo correspondent and bureau chief (1987-92), New Delhi bureau chief (1992-95), and industrial editor (1996-98). Stefan was then appointed East Europe editor in 1998.

After twelve successful years as the East Europe editor for the Financial Times, Stefan has been promoted to the role of Emerging Markets Editor; this took effect on March 1, 2010.

He has appeared at major international conferences including: World Economic Forum in Salzburg and Tianjin, Central European Economic Forum in Poland, Russian Economic Forum, European Union-Russia business summit, European Investment Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Citigroup, London School of Economics, Eton College, Oxford University.

 Stefan is married with three children.

Mark Zeffiro
Chief Financial Officer, TriMas Corporation
Mark Zeffiro joined TriMas in June 2008 as Chief Financial Officer and is responsible for the overall leadership within the financial function of TriMas, including financial planning, external reporting, business analysis, treasury, tax, and corporate capital.  Zeffiro has more than 20 years of financial, operational, and business leadership experience with companies such as Black & Decker and General Electric. During his four-year tenure with Black and Decker, Zeffiro most recently served as Vice President of Finance for the Global Consumer Product Group, where he was responsible for financial and operational activities within the United States, Europe, Latin America, and China, including growth, profit improvement, and cost reduction initiatives. From 2003 to 2004, Zeffiro served as CFO of First Quality Enterprises, a producer of consumer products distributed through health care management and retail channels, both domestically and globally. During the previous 15 years, he held a series of operational and financial leadership positions of increasing responsibility at General Electric, concluding his service there as Chief Financial Officer of its $3 billion medical imaging manufacturing division.  Zeffiro also has leadership experience in mergers/acquisitions, business process improvement, audit, and financial planning and analysis.

Zeffiro holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Quantitative Analysis from Bentley College. He currently serves of the Board of Trustees of Walsh College.