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Head of Global Sovereign Markets, Asset Management

Willem is Head of Global Sovereign Markets, with responsibility for all sovereign institutional client activity globally. This includes SWFs, Central Banks, national pension funds and other government agencies.

Willem is a Member of the Management Committees for �۶���Ƶ Asset Management in EMEA and the Institutional Business globally.

Willem joined �۶���Ƶ Asset Management in 2017 as Head of Global Sovereign Markets.

Willem began his financial career in 1990 working in Equity Sales, initially for Lehman Bros, followed by Morgan Stanley, both based in London. He spent 21 years at Morgan Stanley in a variety of roles, both as a senior coverage person and manager including co-Head of Cash Equity Sales in Europe with specific responsibility for Continental Europe. He was a member of the Operating Committee in Morgan Stanley's European Equity Division.

Senior Strategist, Asset Management, Bank for International Settlements, Basel

Pierre Cardon, CFA, is Senior Strategist within the Banking Department of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland.

Pierre has held senior management positions at the BIS for more than thirty years, mainly building global asset management services for central banks and official institutions. He also coordinates key cooperative initiatives, such as the Green Bond Fund and the Asian Bond Fund. He actively promotes environmental sustainability across BIS financial assets.

Responsible for the BIS Pension Fund, Pierre has served as Secretary to the BIS Pension Fund Committee since 1998 and as Advisory Committee member of the European Pension Fund Investment Forum since 2002.

Pierre also served as a member of the CFA Institute’s Board of Governors from 2006 to 2012 and of the Board of Directors of the Swiss CFA Society from 2004 to 2006.

Pierre holds an MA in economics from the University of Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Head of Strategy & Advice, Global Sovereign Markets, �۶���Ƶ Asset Management

As Head of Global Strategy he analyzes the market trends affecting the investment behavior of central banks, sovereign wealth funds and other state-controlled investment institutions and work closely with the investment teams in providing investment advice and developing tailored investment solutions for this client segment.

Max established himself as a global thought leader on the macroeconomic, financial and political trends in sovereign wealth management. He has often been called in by leading institutions as an expert on global economic and financial matters. Max has recently published The New Economics of Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Wiley Finance Series, a book providing a thorough guide to sovereign wealth funds, covering the drivers of the industry, how it operates and grows, the interest from and in Western markets and the pivotal role that sovereign wealth funds play in the world economy.

In his sixteen year long international professional career, Max has been Head of governmental affairs for �۶���Ƶ in Europe, Middle East and Africa, EMEA Senior Economist and consultant advising governments and corporates in emerging markets on behalf of international institutions.

Max holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Rome where he lectured and a Msc in Economics from the University of London. He is a member of the Executive Committed of the Asset Management Investment Council (ICMA) and a Fellow at the Centre for International Markets, Money and Regulations at Bocconi University.

�۶���Ƶ Asset Management Switzerland AG, Matthias acts as Head of Investments

Matthias Dettwiler is Head of Active Fixed Income where he has the overall responsibility across Fixed Income and Money Market investment strategies leading over 130 fixed income investment professionals.

In addition, he is Head of Fixed Income Switzerland for all Fixed Income investment capabilities, a position he has held since 2020.

Prior to becoming Head of Active Fixed Income, Matthias was Head of Index Fixed Income. He was appointed to this role in 2012 as part of our strategic initiative to expand our index tracking capabilities.

Matthias joined �۶���Ƶ in 1995 on a three-year banking apprenticeship. In 1998 he moved to �۶���Ƶ Investment Bank (Eurobond execution) and subsequently to �۶���Ƶ Private Banking (International Fund Distribution).

He joined fixed income portfolio management in 2000. During this time, he held various positions and headed the FX and Global Bonds team in Zurich, where he was responsible for implementing active and indexed global bond strategies across Zurich-based portfolios. In addition, he was a senior portfolio manager of USD denominated money market, short and medium term aggregate and credit mandates for more than 10 years.

Matthias holds the ‘Certified International Investment Analyst’ designation and the ‘Swiss Federal Diploma for Expert in Finance and Investment’.

�۶���Ƶ Global Wealth Management, Chief Economist

I am the Chief Economist of �۶���Ƶ Global Wealth Management. I believe passionately that economics is something everyone can and should understand. We all make economic decisions all of the time. The problem is that economists tend to wrap economics in jargon and equations. We do not need to do that. It is my job to help people realize what they probably already know – by developing and explaining the �۶���Ƶ economic view in a clear way. To do this, I publish research (most of which you can find here), make short videos, and appear in various print and broadcast media.

I tend to think of myself as a political economist, not a mathematical economist. I get very excited about lots of things in economics. Diversity, inflation, education, trade, inequality, sustainability and social change are some of the topics I am very enthusiastic about (to the point of writing books about them).

I joined �۶���Ƶ back in 1992 as an intern economist working in our investment bank. Decades later, I am still working as an economist at �۶���Ƶ. That probably says something about me, being an economist, working for �۶���Ƶ, or all three. As Chief Economist I sit on the Global Investment Committee. I am a �۶���Ƶ Opinion Leader, a member of �۶���Ƶ Pride, and (no doubt to the astonishment of my former art teacher at school) a member of the �۶���Ƶ Art Board. I am also part of the �۶���Ƶ Nobel Perspectives program, and a supporter of the �۶���Ƶ Women in Economics program.

I have an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and an MSc in Financial Economics from the University of London. I am also an Honorary Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford and sit on their investment committee and development board. In my spare time, I am an amateur heavyweight boxer (prepared to defend my forecasts in the ring), a keen if very definitely amateur skier and a small scale farmer with apples, pears, and sheep.

Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Group of Thirty (G30) and former Governor, Bank of Israel

Prof. Jacob A. Frenkel is Chairman Emeritus of the Group of Thirty (G-30), a private nonprofit Consultative Group on International Economic and Monetary Affairs, he is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the financial firm Plus500, and of Brainstorm Cell Therapeutics.

Prof. Frenkel served as Chairman of JPMorgan Chase International (2009-2020), as Chairman and CEO of the G-30 (2001-2011), as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the G-30 (2012-22), as Vice Chairman of American International Group, Inc. (2004-2009), and as Chairman of Merrill Lynch International (2000-2004). During (1991-2000) he served two terms as the Governor of the Bank of Israel. He is credited with reducing inflation in Israel and achieving price stability, liberalizing Israel’s financial markets, removing foreign exchange controls, and integrating the Israeli economy into the global financial system.

During (1987-1991) he was the Economic Counselor and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund, and during 1973-1987 he was on the faculty of the University of Chicago where he was the David Rockefeller Professor of International Economics and Editor of the Journal of Political Economy.

He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a life-time Fellow of the International Economic Association, a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Distinguished Fellow of the CEPR, Chairman of the Global Advisory Board of Value Base, a member of the Board of Directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research, of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and of the Aspen Institute Italia. He is also a member emeritus of Temasek International Panel (TIP), a Senior Advisor of Temasek International Advisors, a member of the Competitive Markets Advisory Council of the CME Group, a member of the G20 Eminent Persons Group on Global Financial Governance, a member of the G20 High Level Independent Panel on Financing of the Global Commons for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, a member of the International Advisory Council of China Dev. Bank, and a Global Member of the Trilateral Commission.

Prof. Frenkel is a Laureate of the 2002 Israel Prize in Economics, a recipient of the Scopus Award from the Hebrew University, the Hugo Ramniceanu Prize for Economics from the Tel-Aviv University, the Czech Republic’s Karel Englis Prize in Economics, the “Order de Mayo al Merito” (in the rank of Gran Cruz) decoration from the Government of Argentina, the “Order of Merit” (in the rank of Cavaliere di Gran Croce) decoration from the Republic of Italy, and the YIVO Lifetime Achievement Award. He is also a recipient of several Honorary Doctoral degrees and other decorations and awards, including the “1993 Economic Policy Award” by “Emerging Markets” and the “1997 Central Banker of the Year Award” by “Euromoney”.

Prof. Frenkel served as Chairman of the Board of Governors of Tel Aviv University (2013-21), where he is Chairman Emeritus and also Chairman of the Frenkel-Zuckerman Institute for Global Economics. He previously served as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank (1995-1996), as Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (1999-2000), as Governor of the IMF and Alternate Governor of the World Bank for Israel (1991-2000), as a member of the Economic Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1986-2014), as a member of the Board of Trustees of the New York Economic Club (2013-2019), and as Chairman of the Cabinet of Economic Experts of the Minister of Finance, the State of Israel (2022-23).
During 2009-19 he served on the Board of Directors of Boston Properties, and of Loews Corporation.

Prof. Frenkel is the author of numerous books and articles in the fields of International Economics and Macro-Economics. He holds a B.A. in economics and political science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago

Head of InvestmentsManaging Director

Barry Gill was appointed Head of Investments in November 2019 and is a member of the �۶���Ƶ Asset Management Management Team.

He was Head of Active Equities within �۶���Ƶ Asset Management from early 2016 and, before that, joined O’Connor in 2012 as a member of the management group where he ran a concentrated long/short strategy.

Prior to joining O’Connor, Barry was head of the Fundamental Investment Group (Americas) for nearly six years within �۶���Ƶ Investment Bank, investing and trading the firm's principal capital.

Barry moved to the US in 2000 from London to rebuild the long / short principal investing effort within Equities following the creation of O’Connor as a hedge fund business.

In his five years in London at SBC and �۶���Ƶ, he was co-head of Pan-European Sector Trading, a proprietary book, and co-head of European Risk Program Trading for two years, preceded by two years as the head of the French trading book. Barry joined SBC's European derivatives desk as a graduate trainee in 1995.

Years of investment industry experience: 29
Education: B. Commerce (Intl) with German from University College Dublin

Kalin Anev Janse is the Chief Financial Officer and Member of the Management Board of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF). He is in charge of the Funding and Investor Relations division responsible for EUR 300 billion of outstanding debt and the Investment and Treasury division investing the EUR 80 billion ESM capital. Additionally, he is in charge of ALM & Financial Structuring overseeing the ESM and EFSF balance sheet.

Before taking on the CFO position, Mr Anev Janse was the Secretary General responsible for amongst others Corporate Governance, Shareholder relations, HR and Finance & Control, and IT & Operations running technology and facilities of the institution. He previously worked in strategy at the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg, corporate finance advisory at McKinsey & Company in the Netherlands and investment banking at JPMorgan in London. He held several political positions in the Netherlands.

Mr Anev Janse studied MSc. Business Administration at the Rotterdam School of Management and Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania. For his undergraduate degree, he studied Business Administration in Finance, Banking, and Insurance at the Vrije University Amsterdam. He is Chair of the CFO Community of the World Economic Forum and Executive in Residence at IMD business school. He was a young global leader 2016 of the World Economic Forum.

Global Head of Economics and Strategy Research, �۶���Ƶ Investment Bank, London

Arend is Global Head of Economics and Strategy Research, and Chief Economist of the Investment Bank. He joined �۶���Ƶ in August 2016 from Brevan Howard Asset Management where he was head of Emerging Market research & strategy (2010-2016). Prior to that (2006-2010) he ran macro research and FX strategy for the EMEA region at Deutsche Bank. He also spent 8 years (1998-2006) at the International Monetary Fund, where he was a senior economist working on many of the Fund's high profile programs and specializing in crisis resolution issues. Arend started his career at the Dutch Central Bank, where he worked as an economist in the Monetary and Economic Policy Department, and in the late 1990s was a member of the G22 Secretariat, a precursor to the current G20. He holds degrees in Economics and International Relations from Johns Hopkins University and business degree from the Netherlands School of Business.

Head of Political & Country Risk, �۶���Ƶ, London

Preston Keat is a managing director and head of political and country risk at �۶���Ƶ. In this role he oversees the bank’s country risk team, which analyzes a broad range of counties, as well as macro political and economic trends and themes. He also leads the firm’s internal "economist forum" and “risk think tank.”

Head ETF & Index Fund Investment Analytics, �۶���Ƶ Asset Management

Willem joined �۶���Ƶ Asset Management in July 2020 as Head of ETF & Index Fund Investment Analytics.

The �۶���Ƶ ETF Research and Analytics team assists in developing innovative and custom indices for our high-quality ETF offering. The team advises distribution colleagues and clients on the distinguishing characteristics of our ETFs, explains the unique investment features, and positions the offering against alternative exposures.

Prior to �۶���Ƶ, Willem gained extensive quantitative portfolio management experience in Investment Banking, followed by passive solutions experience in ESG, Climate, Thematic and Factor indices at STOXX.

Willem holds a Master of Economics degree from the University of the Free State in South Africa.

Head of Fixed Income Emerging Markets and Asia Pacific

Shamaila Khan is Head of Fixed Income Emerging Markets and Asia Pacific at �۶���Ƶ Asset Management. She is also a member of the Fixed Income Management team, Fixed Income Investment Forum (FIIF), and chairs the Emerging Markets FIIF sub-committee.

Shamaila joined �۶���Ƶ Asset Management in 2023, having previously been Head of Emerging Markets Fixed Income at AllianceBernstein where she oversaw USD 33bn in Emerging Markets (EM) Assets Under Management across EM Dedicated strategies and EM exposure in multisector accounts, and led a team of 23 portfolio managers, credit and sovereign research analysts and traders in New York, London, Hong Kong and Singapore. Shamaila was also portfolio manager on several global multi-sector fixed income funds as well as EM multi-asset funds. Prior to her time at AllianceBernstein, Shamaila served as managing director of emerging-market debt for TIAA-CREF.

Shamaila has been actively managing and evaluating corporate and sovereign emerging-market debt issuance since 1998 and has participated in a number of emerging-market panels at investment conferences worldwide. She is the author of several published papers and blogs and has appeared in a wide range of global financial publications and financial television programs.

Dr Ousmène Jacques Mandeng, is Director and Founder of strategy consulting boutique Economics Advisory Ltd. He has been a Senior Advisor to Accenture since 2018 on blockchain-based financial applications with a focus on central bank digital currency (CBDC) supporting Accenture’s digital money practice globally. Prior, Ousmène worked more than 20 years and had senior positions in financial markets including as Managing Director with �۶���Ƶ and as Deputy Division Chief at the International Monetary Fund. He has commented regularly on the impact of digital money and the international monetary system and maintains an international monetary affairs blog at . He is a Visiting Fellow of the London School of Economics and Political Science, a Member of the Bretton Woods Committee, an Accenture Luminary. He holds a PhD from the LSE.

Swiss National Bank, Senior Portfolio Manager

Christoph Maron is Head of Trading (Asset Management) at the Swiss National Bank. His team of 13 traders is based in Zurich and Singapore and is responsible for the passively managed fixed-income portfolios, the equity investments, derivatives trading & repos. In the actively managed fixed-income portfolios, the team works closely with the Portfolio Management.

Christoph has a master in economics from the University of Basel and is a CFA and CAIA Charterholder. Christoph joined the SNB in 2002 and had different roles in Risk Management, Money Market & Foreign Exchange and Asset Management.

Simon has been at �۶���Ƶ since November 2000 and is a macro sales person within Knowledge Network. He covers large institutional multi-asset accounts and macro hedge funds around the world. In addition he has numerous contacts across a range of asset managers as well as in the official policy sphere. Simon delivers macro-orientated themes and trade ideas. His commentary ranges from high-frequency intra-day narrative, through to longer colour prices under the "Thoughts From The Floor" banner. Among Simon's additional functions are briefings of central bank officials on current trading themes and flows, helping central banks understand the interpretation of their communication in a wider market context.

Manoj Pradhan is the founder of Talking Heads Macroeconomics, an independent research firm based in London, and co-author of the “The Great Demographic Reversal” with Charles Goodhart. Manoj was most recently Managing Director at Morgan Stanley where he led the Global Economics team, driving macroeconometric research into global economic themes and coining the term “the Fragile Five”. He joined Morgan Stanley in 2005 after serving on the faculty of George Washington University and the State University of New York. He has a PhD in economics from George Washington University and a Masters in Finance from the London Business School.

Precious Metal Specialist, �۶���Ƶ Investment Bank, London

Philipp Salman is a member of the Global Sovereign Markets team, working as a strategist and client advisor for the Head of Strategy, Max Castelli.

As part of that role, Philipp analyzes global economic and financial trends affecting the investment behavior of Central Banks, Sovereign Wealth Funds and other state-controlled investment institutions and contributes to their strategic and investment decision-making processes. He advises clients on strategic and tactical asset allocation and works with clients and portfolio managers in developing investment, advisory and training solutions tailored to the sovereign institution’s client segment.

Philipp joined �۶���Ƶ Asset Management – Global Sovereign Markets in 2015. In his previous professional career at �۶���Ƶ, Philipp was an Equity Trader for US securities at �۶���Ƶ Investment Bank and a member of the �۶���Ƶ Investor Relations team located in Zurich.

Born: 1943, Montclair, New Jersey, USA

Field: Microeconomics, later macroeconomics

Awarded: The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2001, shared with George Akerlof and Joseph Stiglitz Prize-winning work: Research on the dynamics of information flow and market development

Affiliation: Professor of Economics Emeritus and a former dean of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, Visiting Professor SDA Bocconi

Degrees: BA in Philosophy from Princeton University, BA/MA in Mathematics from Oxford University, PhD in Economics from Harvard University

Michael Spence’s work profoundly changed the paradigm of microeconomics by teaching that markets are not always equipped with perfect information. He has shown how signaling and screening, major themes of his work, are part of modern people’s daily routine. “Airbnb does two things: they create a market using a network structure and they solve an informational problem. Because I as a host of an apartment am not in the market all that much, and you as a guest may not be in the market that much, but you’re in it often enough for the central player, who keeps very big databases, to be able to evaluate you. And so the crucial part of these platforms is the two-way evaluation system, closing informational gaps.”

After receiving the Nobel Prize for his contributions in microeconomics, Spence dedicated himself to global matters. For example, he took on a project initiated by the World Bank. The challenge: to constitute a framework for growth. Spence has argued that the answer is actually pretty simple: being open to the global economy, the acquisition of knowledge, developing technology and investing. In his opinion, rising inequality, economic waste and failures of political and social cohesion pose the biggest threats to economic growth. “It’s sort of happening again now in lots of places. With polarization, young people being unemployed, and so on.”

With respect to Europe, Spence shows himself worried that countries like Spain and Greece are sailing “into oblivion”. He believes that we need to rewrite the rules of our economies, creating more unity, a centralized banking, regulatory structures under the ECB, a system-wide attempt to overcome obstacles to growth, and fiscal transfers if necessary. The only alternative: to give up the common currency.

Spence has shown how the rise of technology may have a major impact on labor markets across the globe. He points, for example, to the textiles industry as part of the Asian Growth Model, explaining how the whole market may collapse due to increasing automation. Spence is Professor of Economics Emeritus and a former dean of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He is Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, serves on the Academic Committee at Luohan Academy, and cochairs the Advisory Board of the Asia Global Institute. He was chairman of the independent Commission on Growth and Development, an international body that from 2006-10 analyzed opportunities for global economic growth,

As a Canadian-born US citizen living in the US, Asia and Europe, he is a true globetrotter. “For a lot of people, reading about life in Peru is like reading about people on Mars, and it doesn’t have to be like that,” Spence knows.

Precious Metal Specialist, �۶���Ƶ Investment Bank, London

Joni Teves is the Precious Metals Strategist within the Economics and Strategy Research team and is based in Singapore. She covers all four precious metals and is responsible for fundamental analysis, forecasting, and writing research pieces on these markets. She has been in the industry for nearly two decades, initially as a gold trader for the central bank of the Philippines, subsequently joining �۶���Ƶ as a strategist in 2011. �۶���Ƶ Precious Metals Research has been frequently voted #1 by clients in the Risk Magazine Survey since 2012. Joni holds a BS Business Economics degree from the University of the Philippines.

Paul Tucker writes at the intersection of political economy and political theory, authoring Global Discord(Princeton University Press, 2022) and Unelected Power(PUP, 2018). Since late-2013 he has been a fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is also a senior fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University; president of the UK’s National Institute for Economic and Social Research; and a Governor of the Ditchley Foundation.

Prior to that, he was a central banker for over thirty years. He was chair of the transatlantic Systemic Risk Council 2016-21, and a director of Swiss Re 2016-25"

Head of Analytics & Quant Solutions in Partnership Solutions at �۶���Ƶ Asset Management

Matthias is the head of Analytics & Quant Solutions in Partnership Solutions at �۶���Ƶ Asset Management and a product owner with �۶���Ƶ Advantage. In his role, Matthias is responsible for leading the analytics, alpha signals research and portfolio construction and optimization efforts.

Previously, Matthias was Chief Investment Officer at FLYNT Bank AG and has worked in various roles in the CIO Office at �۶���Ƶ Wealth Management, at �۶���Ƶ Investment Bank, at Deutsche Bank, and at the KOF Swiss Economic Institute of the ETH Zurich.

Matthias has a habilitation in finance from the University of Zurich, holds a Ph.D. in applied macroeconomics and behavioral finance from ETH Zurich, a Master of Science from Oxford University and two Bachelor of Arts degrees from the American University of Paris.

Matthias lectures on portfolio management and sentiment analytics at the University of Zurich, and he teaches executive classes at the Swiss Finance Institute. His research has been published in various leading academic journals, such as in the Journal of Portfolio Management, Finance Research Letters, and Economics Letters, among others.

Executive Director and founder of the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee

A non-profit organization established in 1994 that is internationally recognized for its work addressing issues related to the international financial architecture (hosting more than 100 conferences and seminars worldwide through partnerships with central banks, think tanks, MDBs, and governments).

He has edited several books on international finance including more recently “Bretton Woods: The Next 70 Years” (2015, English edition and 2016 Chinese edition) and “The Ten Years After” (2018, available on Amazon) a compilation of essays on the implications of the great financial Crisis.

Mr. Uzan has authored academic papers on the new architecture for the international financial system and has written extensively about economics and finance in the popular press.

Mr. Uzan holds a Master Degree in International Economics and Finance from the Université de Paris IX Dauphine. He has been a visiting scholar at the Department of Economics of the University of California, Berkeley and a visiting fellow at Harvard University.

André Müller-Wegner was appointed as Head of Client Coverage and AM Region Head Switzerland for �۶���Ƶ Asset Management in June 2024. He is a member of the �۶���Ƶ AM Management team. He is also the Chairman of �۶���Ƶ Asset Management Deutschland GmbH.

Prior to this, he was Head Global Wealth Management Client Coverage from May 2018, responsible for the distribution and the relationship management of �۶���Ƶ Asset Management's biggest client, �۶���Ƶ Global Wealth Management.

He started his career as an Investment Funds Analyst at �۶���Ƶ in 1999 and has held various roles within �۶���Ƶ since then including Investment Solutions Specialist, Real Estate Portfolio Manager, Head Real Estate Product Management, Head Fund Product Development & Management and Head Fund Management Services.

André is married with two kids and spends his free time on a mountain bike in the summer and on skis in the winter.