William C. Dudley served as 10th president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and as the vice chairman and a permanent member of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the group responsible for determining the nation’s monetary policy, from January 2009 until June 2018.

Previously, Dudley served as executive vice president of the Markets Group at the New York Fed and served as the System Open Market Account Manager for the FOMC. The Markets Group oversees domestic open market and foreign exchange trading operations and the provisions of account services to foreign central banks and serves as the Fed’s primary eyes and ears on financial markets.

Prior to joining the Bank in 2007, Dudley was a partner and managing director at Goldman, Sachs & Company and was the firm's chief U.S. economist for a decade. Before joining Goldman Sachs in 1986, he was a vice president at the former Morgan Guaranty Trust Company. Dudley was an economist at the Federal Reserve Board from 1981 to 1983.

Dudley received his doctorate in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1982, and a bachelor's degree from New College of Florida in 1974.

Dudley was chairman of the Committee on the Global Financial System of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) for six years from 2012 and served as chairman of the former Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems of the BIS from 2009 to 2012. He was a member of the board of directors of the BIS from 2009 to 2018.

Saito Michio was appointed in June 2022 to Director-General, Financial Bureau, Ministry of Finance, Japan.

Throughout his career, Mr.Saito accumulated extensive experience in financial markets in both the Ministry of Finance and the Financial Services Agency. He is known for implementing reforms in the Japanese government bond market from the late 1990s to the early 2010s.

Prior to his current position, Mr. Saito led the Tokai Local Finance Bureaus as Director-General, supervising financial institutions and managing government assets in central Japan. He has also served the Japan Investment Corporation (former Innovation Network Corporation of Japan) from 2016 through 2021 mainly as CFO, overseeing the fund’s venture capital and private equity investments.

Shinichi Uchida, Executive Director in charge of the Monetary Affairs Department, Payment and Settlement Systems Department (Payment and Settlement Systems Division), and Financial Markets Department, joined the Bank of Japan in 1986. In his 36 years at the Bank, he spent most of his career in the field related to monetary policy. He was the Director-General of Monetary Affairs Department from 2012 to 2017. His experiences include the zero-interest-rate policy (1999 - 2000), QE (2001 - 2006), and QQE (2013 - ). He received a B.A. in Law from the University of Tokyo and a LL.M. from the Harvard Law School. He worked as a visiting attorney at the Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System in 1994 - 95.

Anne Flori joined the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) in January 2021 as Senior Funding Officer to collaboratively define and implement the multi-currency funding strategy of the institution in the international capital markets and to also focus and further extend and deepen the relations with Investors globally.
Previously, she worked for over 19 years in the Investment Banking Industry, including 15 years as a DCM Banker at RBC.
The Council of Europe development Bank is a Multilateral Development Bank founded in 1956, the oldest international financial institution in Europe and the only one with an exclusively social mandate. Given the CEB’s longstanding experience with social finance, the institution was a pioneer in the social bond market and is still markedly involved in further developing this market.

Tom’s responsibilities include long term funding, investor relations and Green Bonds & Social Bonds.
Prior to this Tom worked at MeesPierson (now ABN Amro) where he worked in the field of Bank Treasury and Corporate Clients Advisory.
Tom Meuwissen was educated at Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam where he graduated in Business Economics.

Angela Brusas holds a position as Director at Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) in Helsinki. Angela is, together with the rest of the Funding and Investor Relations team, responsible for funding the Bank’s activities on the international capital markets and for the Bank's investor relations.

Angela represents NIB in the Executive Committee of The Principles - and is currently co-coordinating The Principles' Impact Reporting working group, and the Taskforce for Q&A Guidance Handbook.

Ms. Brusas joined the Funding & Investor Relations team in 2008 and the most recent degree is an Executive Master of Business Administration degree (EMBA) from Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki.

Yoshiyuki Arima joined the Treasury of the World Bank in Tokyo, Japan in March 2000. As a Representative World Bank Treasury in Tokyo, Mr. Arima is engaging in Investor Relations and New Products for Japanese investors. Mr. Arima is responsible for the overall relationship of the World Bank with Japanese investors.
Prior to joining the World Bank, he worked for Bank of Tokyo and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi (MUFG Bank) for 11 years in the corporate finance business, including export and import finances for trading companies, banking loan businesses, M&A business for Japanese corporates, and guarantee / fiscal agent business for corporate borrowers, including Samurai bond issuers. He also worked for the securities arm of Bank of Tokyo in New York to engage in Trading/Sales for US Treasury Bonds, Repo / Reverse Repo Transactions, and CME / CBoT Financial Futures.
He graduated Hitotsubashi University in 1989. He was a Nordic combined ski player (jump and cross country) when he was in the university. He won total of three prizes at Intercollegiate Ski Championship in 1988 and 1989.
Publication: “Forty years of World Bank bonds in Japan” (Euromoney magazine, co-authored in 2012), “Postwar Reconstruction Secrets-World Bank’s Financing to Japan” (Nihon Keizai Shimbun Publishing Co., Ltd., co-authored in 2012), "The First Ever Blockchain Bond" (The financial economist magazine, 2018), "The Age of Sustainable Finance-ESG / SDGs and Bond Market" (Nomura Capital Markets Research Institute, co-authored in 2019). “The First Ever Wildlife Conservation Bond” (The financial economist magazine, 2022)

Robert is the Head of Capital Markets unit which covers EUROFIMA’s funding and investor relations activities as well as the relationship with 26 railway clients across Europe. He is also the Head of Treasury & Asset Management which is responsible for EUROFIMA's liquidity and investment management. He joined the organization in 2019. Prior to that, Robert held various position in the Treasury department of the Swiss Federal Railways and was in his last role member of EUROFIMA’s Board of Directors.

Robert has an international educational background from the universities HEC Paris, Stanford University and University of St.Gallen (HSG). He holds the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) designation and the CFA certificate in ESG investing. In addition, he is lecturer in sustainable finance at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.

Antonio Juambeltz is a Senior Financial Advisor of the Debt Management Unit Office of the Ministry of Economy and Finance in Uruguay. He joined the Ministry in 2007 and he has worked in developing financial strategies for the Republic, including global issuances, liability management operations, developing local market securities. He leaded the last Samurai transaction of Uruguay in December 2021, which implied the reopening of the Japanese sovereign debt market for Uruguay. He has vast experience in Investor Relations activities on behalf of the Republic of Uruguay.

Antonio holds an MA in Economics Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo and a
MSc in Economic Analysis and Finance, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Ms Maja Praprotnik Zupan is Head of Front Office in the Treasury Directorate at the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Slovenia. She joined the Ministry in December 2002. Her main responsibilities involve state debt management transactions execution, i.e. financing the state budget via issues of Government Bonds and Treasury Bills, liability management transactions execution and monitoring government securities' secondary market. She covers state budget liquidity management and single treasury account management. She is engaged in communication with the rating agencies.

Maja Praprotnik Zupan holds a Bachelor degree from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Ljubljana, and completed her master's degree at the University of Primorska in Koper. She is a chair of the Liquidity Commission of the Ministry of Finance and a member of the EFC Sub-Committee on EU Sovereign Debt Markets of the European Commission. She was engaged in the discussions related to the proposal Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on European green bonds as part of the EU sustainable finance agenda during the Slovenia's Presidency of the Council of the EU in 2021.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2020 - Present
Director for Government Debt Securities, Directorate General of Budget Financing and Risk Management
2018 - 2020
Director for Risk Management and Legal, Secretariat of Financial System Stability Committee
2016 - 2018
Deputy Director for Financial System Stability, Center for Financial Sector Policy, Fiscal Policy Agency

EDUCATION BACKGROUND
2010 - 2014
PhD in Accounting and Finance, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia.
Thesis: “Empirical analysis of market discipline imposed by stakeholders in the Indonesian banking industry”
2005 - 2006
Master of Business and Information Technology (MBIT) majoring in Business Analyst, University of Melbourne, Australia.
1997 - 2000
Bachelor Degree in Accounting with Cum Laude predicate, Faculty of Economic, University of Indonesia, Jakarta
1993 - 1996
Diploma in Accounting, State College of Accountancy (STAN), Jakarta

William Hahn leads the credit research on EMEA based FIGs and SSAs and regularly publishes research on European ESG bond markets and regulatory developments in the field. Prior to joining DCME, William was senior credit analyst at Standard Chartered Bank where he led the analytical coverage of European financial institutions and their international subsidiaries as well as conducting sector research. William also worked at Fitch Ratings where he focused on ABS and RMBS securitisations. He holds a MSc in Finance from the International University of Monaco.