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Head of Emerging Markets and Asia EquitiesManaging Director

PUrs Antonioli is Head of Emerging Markets and Asia Equities in UBS Asset Management, with overall responsibility responsible for research, portfolio management and construction. He is also the Lead Portfolio Manager for the Emerging Market Equity Strategies. He is based in Zurich.
Urs began his financial career by joining the UBS Zurich graduate training program in 1994. In 1995 he moved to UBS Asset Management to launch and manage the first UBS emerging market fund investing in Eastern European countries. He has spent more than six years as a research analyst, specializing in energy, telecommunications, basic materials and the technology sector.

From 2001 to 2021 he was Head of Emerging Markets ex Asia and Deputy Portfolio Manager for the Emerging Market Equity Strategies. He took up his present position in January 2023.

Head of Active Equities Managing Director

Kevin Barker is Head of Active Equities at UBS Asset Management, responsible for overseeing more than USD 160 billion in assets across actively managed equity strategies globally¹.

Kevin was promoted to the role in 2025, having worked in active equities for over 40 years in various roles, such as portfolio manager, analyst and more recently as the head of the Equity Specialist team.

Kevin initially joined UBS Asset Management as a trainee fund manager in 1983. He managed UK equity portfolios and was the Building and Engineering analyst.

Kevin left UBS Asset Management at the end of 1994, taking a position as Head of UK equities at Foreign & Colonial. He developed and implemented a value-based UK equity process, leading a team of around 20 portfolio managers and analysts.

Kevin re-joined UBS Asset Management in 1998, taking on a senior portfolio management role and acted as Client Director on a number of large funds, becoming deputy Head of UK equities.
In 2007, Kevin moved to an Equity Specialist role, initially focusing on UK equities, before being promoted in 2010 to lead the Equity Specialist team globally and subsequently to Head of Active Equities in 2025.

Note: As at end March 2026
¹ Data as of July 2025

Golan has worked for almost two decades at the Bank of Israel (BOI). After a period in the Research Department, Golan served as Head of the Strategic Management Unit of the Bank's Markets Dept. This unit is responsible for developing the Strategic Asset Allocation of the Bank's foreign currency reserves portfolio and the framework for the portfolio's management. He moved on to serve as the Chief of Staff for Prof Yaron, the Governor of the Bank of Israel, before returning to the Markets Department in 2022 as its Head. He also served as an Alternate Director on the board of the EBRD. He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and has lectured at several universities around the world. Fields of interest include capital asset pricing, asset allocation modeling, and risk management.

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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 UBS Asset Management in EMEA and the Institutional Business globally.

Willem joined UBS 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.

Evan Brown is Head of Global Multi-Asset Portfolio Management, Americas & Asia at UBS Asset Management.

He serves as Chair of the Active Multi-Asset Investment Committee, overseeing more than USD 100 billion in multi-asset portfolios, and is the Lead Portfolio Manager for global multi-asset strategies as well as SMA model portfolios and institutional mandates in the Americas. Evan also oversees the global macro strategy research leveraged across UBS AM. He advises UBS Asset Management’s global institutional and private wealth client base on the macroeconomic outlook and asset allocation.

Evan runs Asset Management's Quarterly Investment Forums, bringing together the views of the firm's senior investors. He represents Asset Management in the UBS CIO Global Investment Committee and in the UBS Chairman's monthly discussion on markets and the economy.

Prior to joining Active Multi-Asset, Evan was a strategist and portfolio manager for macro hedge fund strategies at UBS O'Connor and Millennium. Previously, Evan ran US FX Strategy at Morgan Stanley. Evan worked on the New York Fed's Open Markets Desk from 2006 to 2009, where he briefed senior policymakers on financial market developments and helped build policy responses during the Global Financial Crisis.

Evan holds and MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and BA in Economics from Brown University.

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, UBS 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 UBS 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.

UBS 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 UBS in 1995 on a three-year banking apprenticeship. In 1998 he moved to UBS Investment Bank (Eurobond execution) and subsequently to UBS 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’.

Director, Central Banks and Public Policy, World Gold Council. She works with official sector investment managers at central banks and SWFs around the world exploring the case for gold as a reserve asset as well as working on a wide variety of policy initiatives that affect the gold market.

Before joining the Council in 2016, she worked at the Central Bank of Turkey for 25 years. She acted in a leading role in the reserve and risk management as well as structuring the acceptance of gold within the framework of Reserve Option Mechanism. She holds MA in International Economics and Finance degree from Brandeis University, USA.

UBS Global Wealth Management, Chief Economist

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

Sir Niall Ferguson, FRSE, is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard. He is the author of 16 books, including The Pity of War, The House of Rothschild, Empire, Civilization and Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist, which won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Prize. He is an award-winning filmmaker, too, having received an international Emmy for his PBS series The Ascent of Money. His 2018 book, The Square and the Tower, was a New York Times bestseller and was also adapted for television by PBS as Niall Ferguson’s Networld. Between 2020 and 2024 he was a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, before joining The Free Press. This year he became a CBS News contributor. In addition, he is the founder and managing director of Greenmantle, a New York-based advisory firm, a co-founder of the Latin American fintech company Ualá, and a founding trustee of the new University of Austin. His most recent book, Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe, was published in 2021 by Penguin and was shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize. He is currently writing Kissinger, 1969-2023: The Player and serving as a visiting professor at the London School of Economics.

Chairman Emeritus 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

Senior Investment Specialist Director

Sangram Jadhav is a Senior Investment Specialist at UBS Asset Management and is responsible for bridging the firm’s Fixed Income investment capabilities with our various distribution channels and advising on a range of solutions across the credit spectrum in developed and emerging markets.

As part of this role, Sangram is responsible for developing and servicing client relationships as well as delivering and communicating fixed income solutions to institutional, wealth management and intermediary / wholesale clients globally working closely with portfolio managers, products and client coverage teams.

Sangram joined UBS in 2023, having worked for 14 years with BlackRock / Barclays Global Investors (BGI) as a portfolio manager and credit analyst with a particular focus on corporate credit and capital structure investing for an absolute-return fund. He left Blackrock to launch his own investment management firm.His previous experience includes working with Deloitte in New York City for 5 years as a management consultant advising investment banks and financial services firms.

Global Head of Economics & Strategy

Arend Kapteyn is Global Head of Economic and Strategy Research, and Chief Economist of the Investment Bank. He joined UBS 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 Strategy 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 a business degree from the Netherlands School of Business.

Head of Political & Country Risk, UBS, London

Preston Keat is a managing director and head of political and country risk at UBS. 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.”

Klaas Knot was President of De Nederlandsche Bank from 1 July 2011 to 1 July 2025 and served as Chair of the Financial Stability Board from 2 December 2021 to 1 July 2025. He was also a member of the Governing Council and the General Council of the European Central Bank, member of the European Systemic Risk Board, member of the International Monetary Fund's Board of Governors and a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements.

Klaas currently runs his own strategic consultancy firm, KK Economic Advisory, where he advises European and Dutch public authorities on wide-ranging issues such as crisis management, central bank independence, and financing public infrastructure. He is also a frequent speaker at various national and international conferences and symposia.

Klaas holds several secondary positions. He is a member of the Group of Thirty, a global advisory body comprised of economic and financial leaders, and a member of the CFA Institute Systemic Risk Council. Since 2005, he has been (honorary) professor of economics of central banking at the University of Groningen, and since 2015 also honorary professor of monetary stability at the University of Amsterdam. Klaas has published a variety of articles in leading Dutch and international journals in the fields of monetary and financial economics.

Before assuming DNB’s presidency, Klaas Knot served as Deputy Treasurer-General and Director of Financial Markets at the Dutch Ministry of Finance (2009–2011). From 1995 to 2009, he fulfilled various roles at DNB, interrupted by positions at the International Monetary Fund (1998-1999) and the former Dutch Pensions and Insurance Supervisory Authority (2003-2004).

In 1991, he graduated with honors in economics from the University of Groningen. In 1995, he obtained his PhD in economics there. In 2025 he was appointed Grand Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau.

Date of birth: 14 April 1967, Onderdendam.

Karianne is Deputy Head of Sustainable Investing for UBS Asset Management spanning active and indexed, alternative and private market strategies. 

Prior to joining UBS AM, Karianne advised Unilever’s largest pension plans on sustainable investment policies and implementation in her role as Global Sustainability Investment Manager at Univest Company; Unilever’s internal pension investment team.

Before her experience at Unilever, Karianne worked as a Risk Management Analyst at P-Solve Asset Management (now River & Mercantile). 

Karianne holds a Masters degree in Investment Management from Bayes Business School in London, a BSc in Business Administration from the Rotterdam University, the Investment Management Certificate (IMC) and a Naturopathic Nutrition Certificate from the College of Naturopathic Medicine in London. 

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 UBS 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 Economics advisory. 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

Head of Client Coverage and AM Region Head Switzerland Managing Director

André Müller-Wegner was appointed as Head of Client Coverage and Head of Switzerland for UBS Asset Management in June 2024. He is a member of the UBS AM Management team and a member of the Board of Directors of the Asset Management Association Switzerland (AMAS).

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

He started his career as an Investment Funds Analyst at UBS in 1999 and has held various roles within UBS 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.

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 macro econometric 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.

Head of Systematic & Index Investment Specialists International Executive Director

Urs Raebsamen is Head of Systematic & Index Investment Specialists International, located in Zurich.

He has primary responsibility for communicating the team's investment processes, philosophy and views to clients, prospects and consultants.

From June 2011 until December 2013, Urs was part of the Institutional Client Servicing and Business Development team in Hong Kong. Prior to that, he was responsible for Product Development in Hong Kong.

From September 2007 until July 2010, Urs was on an international assignment in Korea with UBS Hana Asset Management, UBS's Korean joint venture, where he was responsible for quantitative investments as well as a range of business and operational areas in the Equities division. He was a member of the UBS Hana Asset Management Executive Committee.

Urs joined UBS in 2001 as a portfolio manager with responsibility for the UBS Strategy Funds in CHF and the UBS Equity Fund – Gold. In March 2005, he joined the Swiss Equities / Systematic Alpha team, responsible for the Small Cap Switzerland Fund as well as quantitative research.

Urs is a member of the CFA Institute.

Ben Raynor is the Senior External Risk Analyst for the Americas, previously attaining his doctorate in Political Science from the Uni. of California at Irvine.

Global Head of ETF and Index Fund Sales, Client CoverageManaging Director

Amanda Rebello is Head of ETF and Index Fund Sales globally for UBS Asset Management. She is based in London.

Amanda is a member of the Client Coverage Management Forum.

Prior to joining UBS in 2025, Amanda was at DWS (formerly the asset management arm of Deutsche Bank) for a decade, where she built and lead the UK and US onshore Xtrackers passive sales teams as well as the UK Wholesale business across active and alternatives. She was based in both New York and London.

Amanda has also held sales roles within the iShares business at BlackRock, and within the Global Markets division of HSBC, where she was focused on multi-asset derivatives. She was based mainly in London, with additional stints in Paris, New York and Toronto.

Amanda is a Chartered Financial Analyst and an EFFAS Certified ESG Analyst.

Strategy & Advice Global Sovereign Markets, UBS Asset Management, Zürich

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

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Portfolio Manager, EMEA Money MarketsDirector

Robbie Taylor is based in Zurich and is responsible for managing the Short-Term Money Market Portfolios in EUR and GBP. He also has primary responsibility for the CHF and USD Money Market funds within the Fixed Income team.

Robbie was previously at Fidelity International in London, trading global short-duration credit and liquidity portfolios across a range of currencies. He has further experience gained at Citi Alternative Investments on their Treasury desk.

Robbie graduated from UNSW in Sydney with a dual degree in Commerce and Science, and is a member of the CFA Institute.

Precious Metal Specialist, UBS 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 UBS as a strategist in 2011. UBS 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.

Swiss National Bank, Senior Portfolio Manager

Christoph Theis is a Senior Portfolio Manager at Swiss National Bank. He is responsible for the management of the USD denominated fixed-income investments of the bank.

Christoph joined the SNB in 2013 as an analyst in the money market and foreign exchange department and became a Portfolio Manager in the Asset Management department in 2016, where he was first responsible for the Scandinavian rates portfolios and later assumed responsibility for managing the Euro fixed-income investments of the bank.

Christoph holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland and is a CFA Charterholder.

Dr. Diana-Cezara Toader is the Head of Digital Assets at UBS Asset Management, where she leads the digital assets agenda with a particular focus on fund tokenization. She joined UBS in 2019 and previously worked in alternatives product structuring, contributing to the expansion of the firm’s global alternatives offering. She holds a PhD in Blockchain Technology Adoption and is passionate about driving the transformation of financial markets through digital assets innovation.

Head Analytics and Quant Solutions

Matthias is the head of Analytics & Quant Solutions in Partnership Solutions at UBS Asset Management and a product owner with UBS 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 UBS Wealth Management, at UBS 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.

Senior Fellow, Center for Financial Studies, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main
Former Chairman, UBS Group AG
Former President, Deutsche Bundesbank

Axel A. Weber has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of UBS from 2012 to 2022. He was Chairman of the Institute of International Finance, Vice Chairman of the Swiss Bankers Association and is a member of the Group of Thirty as well as the Chairman of the Trilateral Commission Europe and the President of the Center for Financial Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, among others.

Mr. Weber was president of the German Bundesbank between 2004 and 2011, during which time he also served as a member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank, a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements, German governor of the International Monetary Fund and as a member of the G7 and G20 Ministers and Governors.

Mr. Weber's academic career includes professorships at the Universities of Cologne, Frankfurt / Main, Bonn and Chicago. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Siegen, where he also received his habilitation.

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Director, Partnerships and Advisory, World Bank Group Treasury

Katarzyna Zajdel-Kurowska is the Director of the World Bank Group Treasury’s Partnerships and Advisory Department. In this role, she oversees the World Bank Group’s Reserve Advisory & Management Partnership (RAMP) program, which provides asset management and advisory services to public asset management institutions worldwide.

Ms. Zajdel-Kurowska has more than 25 years of experience across the public and private sectors, including senior roles in international, domestic, and multilateral financial institutions. From 2018 to 2022, she served as Executive Director and Alternate Executive Director at the World Bank. Prior to joining the World Bank Group, she was a member of the Management Board of the National Bank of Poland, where she oversaw risk management and reserve asset management.

Earlier in her career, Ms. Zajdel-Kurowska held several senior government positions in Poland. From 2009 to 2012, she served as Alternate Executive Director and Poland’s representative on the IMF’s Executive Board. She was Deputy Minister of Finance from 2007 to 2009, with responsibility for economic and financial policy, public debt management, and financial market regulation. During this period, she also served on multiple national and European financial bodies, including the Financial Stability Committee, the State Guarantees Committee (as Chair), the Banking Supervision Commission (as Deputy Chair), the Supervisory Board of the Banking Guarantee Fund, the Economic and Financial Committee in Brussels, and the Board of Directors of the European Investment Bank.

Before entering public service, Ms. Zajdel-Kurowska was Chief Economist and Head of Treasury Research for Central and Eastern Europe at Citibank Handlowy. She has also served as an independent member of the Supervisory Board of ING Bank Slaski and as an advisor to the CEO of the Polish Development Fund.

Ms. Zajdel-Kurowska holds a degree in economics from the University of Warsaw.