III CAF-LSE Conference "Conference Global Governance in an Era of Uncertainty"

Khalid Malik was a former Director of the UNDP Human Development Report Office (June 2011 - 31 August 2014). He has held a variety of senior management and substantive positions in the United Nations. He served as UN Resident Coordinator in China (2003-2010), Director, UNDP Evaluation Office (1997-2003) and Chair, UN Evaluation Group, and earlier he was UN Representative in Uzbekistan. In 2009, Mr Malik was one of ten "champions" - and the only foreigner - to be honored for their contributions to the protection of the environment in China.  His latest book "Why China Has Grown So Fast for So Long" was published in 2012 by Oxford University Press.  Before joining the UN, Mr Malik has studied economics and statistics at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Essex and Punjab.

Professor Chris Alden is head of the Global South Unit within the Department of International Relations, LSE. He has published widely on international politics, Asia-Africa relations and post-conflict reconstruction in Southern Africa. Professor Alden is a senior research associate of the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) and has held fellowship positions at Cambridge University, Ecole Normale Superieure and Tokyo University.

Cambridge economist, specializing in heterodox economics. He is a world-renowned observer of emerging trends in the economies of the Muslim world, particularly interested in Islamic banking and finance. Dr Dar is founder of Global Islamic Finance Awards and chairman of Edbiz Corporation, a London-based global financial advisory group. His current Shari'a advisory positions include Omarco (UK), Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (UAE) and Arabesque Asset Management (UK). He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Finance Accreditation Agency (FAA) Malaysia. He holds position of Research Professor at Markfield Institute of Higher Education, Leicester, UK, where he supervises PhD students.

Professor at the Di Tella University and at the University of Buenos Aires. He was Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, and in Argentina Minister of Economy, President of the Central Bank and Undersecretary of Economic Policy. Professor Macinea is a consultant of the UN, WB, IMF, IDB and SEGIB. He has published extensively about macroeconomics and social and economic development and has a PhD in Economics for the University of Minnesota (USA).

Enrique Iglesias has been the Ibero-American Secretary General since 2005. He was previously President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) from 1988 to 2005. His many other past positions include Board Member and President, Latin American Institute for Economic and Social Development; President, Central Bank of Uruguay; Professor of Development Economics and Director, Economics Institute, University of the Republic, Uruguay; Adviser, UN Conference on Human Environment; Founding Member, Third World Forum; Executive Secretary, UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean; Secretary-General, UN Conference on New and Renewable Sources of Energy; Chairman of the conference that launched the Uruguay Round of international trade negotiations; and Minister of Foreign Relations, Uruguay. He received his degree in Economics and Administration from the University of the Republic, Uruguay in 1953.

Director for South-East Asia for The Economist Group and prior to this - as Executive Director for Asia-Pacific Country Risk. His experience has also included working for an the Commonwealth Secretariat, as a senior economist in the International Capital Markets Department. He has also worked as an international economist for the Royal Bank of Scotland, ad as a consultant for the United Nations. Rajiv is a graduate of the London School of Economics, BSc Econ.Hons. in Economics, and received his MSc and D.I.C. from Imperial College at London University. Rajiv has published widely on a range of economic, trade and investment-related topics, with over 100 published articles. He is the author of "Future Asia" (2013) and "Asian Megatrends" (2016), published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Craig Calhoun is Director of the London School of Economics. He is a social scientist whose work connects sociology to culture, communication, politics, philosophy and economics. He took up his post on 1 September 2012, having left the United States where he was University Professor at New York University, director of the Institute for Public Knowledge, and President of the Social Science Research Council. He co-founded, with Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology at LSE, the NYLON programme which brings together graduate students from New York and London for co-operative research programmes.

Mr Camdessus is a member of the Africa Progress Panel, chaired by Mr Kofi Annan and was a member of the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation. Mr Camdessus was educated at the University of Paris (Institut d'Etudes Politiques) and the National School of Administration (ENA). He joined the Treasury in the Ministry of Finance in 1960 and became Director of the Treasury in February 1982. During the period 1978-84, Mr Camdessus also served as Chairman of the Paris Club, and was Chairman of the Monetary Committee of the European Economic Community from December 1982 to December 1984. He was appointed Governor of the Bank of France in November 1984. He served in this capacity until his election as Managing Director of the IMF (1987-2000).

David Coen is Professor of Public Policy, Director of the School of Public Policy, Head of the Department of Political Science and founding Director of the Institute of Global Governance at University College London. Prior to joining UCL he held appointments at the London Business School and Max Planck Institute in Cologne. His PhD on business lobbying in the EU was awarded a distinction at the European University Institute in Florence. His research seeks to understand Global and EU Public Policy. More specifically the research maps Business lobbying strategies, Global policy-making and Regulatory networks and multilevel venue shopping. In 2015 he conducted a major European Parliament Commissioned Survey of Lobbying of the EP and MEPs.  

Counsellor and Special Advisor to the Managing Director. Mr Boorman taught at the University of Southern California, from which he received his Ph.D. in Economics, and at the University of Maryland. He is the author of a number of books and many papers on diverse topics including development, structural adjustment, and developing country debt; emerging market country issues; international insolvency; governance; and IMF policies and country operations. Mr Boorman currently serves as member of the Board of Trustees of LeMoyne College, and continues to write on global governance, emerging markets, and other topics.  

Rajat M. Nag is concurrently a Distinguished Fellow at India's National Council of Applied Economic Research, Delhi and a Senior Fellow at the Emerging Markets Forum, a think tank based in Washington DC. He is a Visiting Professor at the Stephen Zuellig Graduate School of Development Management, Asian Institute of Management in Manila and the Emerging Markets Institute at the Beijing Normal University, China.  Mr Nag was until December 2013 the Managing Director General of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).  Through his work, Mr Nag has cultivated an interest in enhancing regional cooperation and integration in Asia and beyond and bridging the gap between the region's thriving economies and the millions of poor people being left behind.

Head of strategic and development studies at the Institute Marquês de Valle Flôr (IMVF), a Portuguese Private Foundation and NGO. He worked in Mozambique where he was Dean of the School of Economics of Eduardo Mondlane University (1978-1983), Assistant to the Minister of Planning (1977-1983) and CEO of Maragra, a sugar company (1983-1985). In Portugal he has been lecturing since 1991 in a number of universities and he was the Head of the Africa Programme at the Institute for Strategic and International Studies (1991-2012). His major fields of interest are Africa, Development and International Relations and he has designed and coordinated numerous projects, organised international conferences and seminars in various countries and has written more than eighty papers, books and chapters of books, articles, and communications. He holds a PhD and Habilitations in Economics from ISEG, the Economic School of the University of Lisbon.

Mr Ferraz is Professor at Instituto de Economia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1985-on leave), Visiting Professor, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan (1995-1997); DPhil, Economics of Innovation, University of Sussex (1984). He was an economist and journalist, Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (1997, 1978). He was Managing Director, BNDES - Brazilian Development Bank- (Research, Corporate Planning; Compliance and Risk Management (2007-2015) and Officer at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (2003-2007).

Enrique García has been the Executive President of CAF since December 1991. He was Bolivia's Minister of Planning and Coordination and Head of the Economic and Social Cabinet between 1989-1991. He has also occupied senior positions at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for 17 years, including that of Treasurer of the Institution after having performed in other directive positions. In addition, he acted as Bolivia's Governor at the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the River Plate Basin Development Fund (FONPLATA). He is tVice President of Canning House, Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the Inter-American Dialogue, member of the Advisory Board of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Harvard Kennedy School Dean´s Council, the board of the Doña Maria de las Mercedes Foundation in Seville, among others.

President and Chief Executive Officer of Centennial Group International as well as Founding Director and Chief Executive of the Emerging Markets Forum. Prior to founding the Centennial Group, Mr. Kohli spent over 25 years at the World Bank in a series of senior positions. He is the author of a number of books and also the editor of the Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies.

Professor at Nanyang Technological University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences (Singapore), where she lectures on China and Foreign Policy related courses at the Public Policy and Global Affairs Programme. Previously she worked at the South African Institute of International Affairs in Johannesburg as Senior Researcher in the Global Powers in Africa programme. She holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics. She has published widely on China-Africa relations and China's relations with Portuguese speaking countries, including a co-edited book on China in Angola (Fahamu 2012).

He received his BA in Peking University in 1979; a diploma in World Economy Department of Institute of Foreign Affairs in 1983; his MA in Economics and International Politics (MEPI) at the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE) in Mexico in 1986. He has published many academic articles on the economic issues in Latin America and the Caribbean. His recent publications include Economic Development, Inflation Theory and Latin American Practice (Co-author), Latin American Economic Tendencies in the 21st Centenary (Editor) and others. He has been visiting scholar in Department of Economics at Complutense University of Madrid (1995-1996) and Visiting Professor at Autonomous University of Madrid (2002), CISAN and CIEs of UNAM (2011).