Dr Philippa Malmgren

Founder of DRPM Group

Dr Philippa Malmgren is a strategist who helps companies, investors, public audiences and policymakers better understand how risk and prices will move across the economic landscape. She brings together insights about markets, politics, policy and geopolitics that signal important and investable trends.

She was an economic advisor to US President George Bush in the White House and a member of the National Economic Council. She was deputy head of Global Strategy at UBS and the chief currency strategist for Bankers Trust. She headed the Global Investment Management business for Bankers Trust in Asia.

She sits on boards at MIT, Indiana University and the Ditchley Foundation. She participates in the UK's Ministry of Defence working group on Global Strategic Trends and London's GLA Infrastructure Advisory Board. She is a guest anchor on both Bloomberg and CNBC and regularly on the BBC. Her public speaking and writing take her all over the world. She is the author of an upcoming book, Signals, which James Galbraith says is “better than Piketty”.

She has a BA from Mount Vernon College and a M.Sc. and PhD from the London School of Economics.

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Dr Amlan Roy

Head of Global Demographics and Pension Research, Credit Suisse

Dr Roy is Head of Global Demographics and Pensions Research in the Investment Banking Division of Credit Suisse, based in London. He is also a Senior Research Associate of The London School of Economics Financial Markets Group and a guest Professor of the Finance Department of the London Business School.

Prior to his current role, Dr Roy was a Global Emerging Markets Strategist at Credit Suisse. He joined Credit Suisse in 1998 from the University of London where he taught at Queen Mary and Westfield College and The London School of Economics. Prior to this he held similar positions at the University of Iowa and Boston University. He received four teaching awards from University of Iowa Business School and Boston University School of Management. He served as an expert on Financial Architecture and Crises Modelling at the Bank of England, IMF, US and UK Treasury.

Dr Roy holds an MA and PhD in Financial Economics from the University of Iowa, an MBA. (IIM Ahmedabad, India) and a BA Honours in Economics (St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, India). He was named a UK ERSC Research Fellow, Ponders Fellow, a Boston University Doctoral Scholar and a Government of India National Scholar.

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Roland Rousseau

Head: Barclays Risk Strategy Group (Institutional Portfolios & Risk Solutions)

Currently Roland Rousseau is responsible for the Barclays Risk Strategy Group which is a specialised unit within Barclays Africa Group tasked with actively monitoring and managing institutional clients’ portfolio risk.

Prior to this he was the Equity Investment Strategist for Barclays in SA (4 years). Before joining Barclays in 2011, Roland spent 14 years at Deutsche Bank, where he was part of the Investment Strategy team and headed up Quantitative Research where he published several award-winning international research reports. He was also rated as the #1 Analyst in his field seven times by the Financial Mail.

At Deutsche Bank he worked with institutional investors such as pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and asset consultants in South Africa as well as in the UK, Europe, Scandinavia and Australia on innovative portfolio construction, how to integrate active and passive investment solutions and implement more effective risk management. Roland is also currently an active committee member of the FTSE/JSE Index Advisory Committee, which is responsible for all official stock exchange indices in South Africa.

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