The G-20Y Summit is honored to have received the strong support of the world's key international economic institutions, including the IMF, the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The following institutions honor the G-20Y Summit IOC with the presence of their representatives as members of the G-20Y Summit Advisory Board:
G-20Y Summit Advisory Board:
Karla Chaman
Sr. Civil Society Officer
International Monetary Fund, Washington DC
Prof. Dr. Holger Erchinger
Partner KPMG LLP New York
The G-20Y Summit in Paris greatly benefited from the presence and the invaluable contributions of guest speakers:
Michel Barnier
Commissioner for Internal Market and Services
European Commission
Michel Barnier (born 9 January 1951) is a French politician of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) and Vice President of the European People's Party (EPP). He is the current European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services. He was named Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries on 18 June 2007 and resigned on 7 June 2009 after being elected to the European Parliament.
Together with Jean-Claude Killy he organised the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville as co-president of the COJO (Comité d'Organisation des Jeux Olympiques).
Barnier joined the cabinet for the first time after the large victory of the Right in the 1993 legislative election as Minister of the Environment. Two years later, after the election of Jacques Chirac as President of France, he became Secretary of State for European Affairs. He held this function until the defeat of the Presidential Majority in the 1997 legislative election. Barnier served as a European Commissioner for regional policy in the Prodi Commission from 1999 until 31 March 2004 having been made the Foreign Minister of France in the government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin. He served in this function until 5 June 2005 when upon the establishment of the new government under Dominique de Villepin he was replaced by Philippe Douste-Blazy. He considered he was unjustly sanctioned for the victory of the "No" in the French referendum over the European Constitution.
In March 2006, he was elected Vice President of the European People's Party (EPP) for a three-year term. Under Nicolas Sarkozy's presidency, upon the reshuffle of the French cabinet, caused by the resignation of Alain Juppé after the 2007 French legislative election, he re-joined the cabinet as Minister of Agriculture. Considered as one of the main right-wing specialists on European issues, he led the UMP list in Ile-de-France for the 2009 European Parliament election. In February 2010 he was confirmed as European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services.
He is Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (Legion of Honour).
Scott Roger
International Monetary Fund
Senior Economist
Scott Roger is a senior economist in the International Monetary Fund. Mr. Roger began his career at the Bank of Canada in 1980, working in the International Department and as Special Assistant to the Governor. Later he worked for two years at the Bank for International Settlements before joining the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Economics Department. After coming to the IMF in 1998, Mr. Roger worked in the Asia and Pacific Department and the Monetary and Capital Markets Department prior to joining the Fund’s European Office in Paris. His main areas of research have been on inflation targeting, core inflation measurement and, more recently, macro-financial issues. Mr. Roger attended Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada, and the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland.
Federico Bonaglia
Head of Policy Dialogue Division
Development Centre
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Federico Bonaglia (25/08/1972), Italian, heads the Policy Dialogue Division of the OECD Development Centre since June 2011. The Policy Dialogue Division is responsible for coordinating the Centre’s policy dialogue and targeted policy support activities. It also hosts the Development Centre’s Partnerships and Networks, including the Development Finance Network (DeFiNe) – a network of think tanks; the Emerging Markets Network (EmNet) – a network of multinational enterprises; and the Informal Network of DAC Development Communicators (DevCom) – the network of Heads of Information and Communication from development co-operation agencies. In this capacity, Mr. Bonaglia also supports the OECD G20/G8 team in coordinating the Organisation’s contribution to the G8 and G20 development processes.
Mr. Bonaglia began his career at the OECD in 1999, when he first joined Development Centre. In 2008, he was loaned to Italy’s Prime Minister’s office, where he worked for two years as Senior Advisor in the G8/G20 Sherpa Office, heading the Development Division and co‑ordinating Italy’s participation to the Heligendamm Dialogue Process (HDP). Upon his return to the OECD in January 2010, he worked as Senior Policy Analyst at the Development Co‑operation Directorate, where he co‑ordinated, in close co‑operation with the OECD G20 Sherpa, the OECD contributions to the development work streams of the G8 and G20 processes.
An economist by training, Mr. Bonaglia studied at Bocconi University in Milano and Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He holds a degree with honours in economics and social sciences and a Master in Economics from Bocconi University.
G-20Y Summit in Paris appreciates the work of our 6 Committees Chairs:
Prof. Dr. Holger Erchinger
Partner with KPMG LLP in New York, G-20Y Summit Advisory Board Member, Shadow Banking Committee Chair
Holger Erchinger is a G-20Y Summit Advisory Board Member since 2009 and also a Member of the Strategy Committee.
Holger Erchinger is a partner with KPMG LLP in New York since 2008 and has over 17 years of experience in providing professional services to different public and non-public clients in KPMG offices in Munich, New York, and Berlin. In addition, from 2006 to 2008, Holger served as a professor for business administration at Berlin School of Economics and Law and published about 40 papers and studies regarding international accounting, corporate finance, and securities regulations.
Holger Erchinger also serves on the Board of the International Association for Accounting and Education Research (IAAER), as Vice President Practice of the International Section of the American Accounting Association, and is speaking on a regular basis at universities and conferences.
Philipp von Girsewald
Deutsche Bank Group, Global Head of Corporate M&A
G-20Y Summit Financial Stability and Regulatory Issues in Emerging Markets Committee Chair
Philipp von Girsewald is the Global Head of Corporate M&A and responsible for all of Deutsche Bank’s M&A transactions for its own account. He has successfully executed numerous transactions with a total value exceeding USD 30bn, most recently Deutsche Bank’s biggest ever acquisition of Deutsche Postbank in Germany.
For the last 13 years, Philipp has been with Deutsche Bank. Back in 1998, Philipp started his career at Deutsche Bank working on various corporate M&A transactions. From 2003 to 2005, Philipp was as Head of the Corporate Investment Americas business, based in New York, responsible for the successful wind-down of Deutsche Bank’s private equity business in North and South America and the Venture Capital and Private Equity Funds business globally. From 2005 to 2009, Philipp was the Deputy Head of Deutsche Bank’s Corporate Development (AfK) department, based in Frankfurt. Philipp is a member of Deutsche Bank’s Group Investment Committee. Before joining Deutsche Bank, Philipp worked at the Boston Consulting Group.
Philipp holds a Master of Economics from the University of Bonn, Germany.
Philipp is living in New York and spending a lot of his time in Europe. Philipp enjoys running and sailing.
Fabrice Noilhan
Head of Studies and Development Gas and Southern Europe EDF
G-20Y Summit Integration of the Perspectives of the Islamic Countries into the G20’s Mission and Governance (a) & Regional Conflicts 2011 (i.e., Countries in North Africa) – G20’s Potential Role (b) Committee Chair
Mr. Fabrice Noilhan has been Head of Studies and Development for Gas and Southern Europe within EDF since 2011. He is in charge of building EDF’s strategy for developing its gas business worldwide and for reinforcing its presence in Southern Europe. He is also coordinating implementation of this strategy.
He served as head of Gas Strategy, Regulation and Economics in EDF's Gas Division from 2009 to 2011.
Mr. Noilhan began his career in 2002 in the French Ministry of Industry as head of Poitou-Charentes industrial and technological development.
From 2005 to 2008, he served in the French Ministry in charge of Energy as head of oil & gas international supply office, when he became Deputy Head of Security of Supply Department. He was in charge of French security of supply in oil and gas and bilateral affairs related to hydrocarbons with foreign countries. During those years, he was France representative to European Union, International Energy Agency and Energy Charter official working groups and participated to the definition of G7, G8 and G20 energy-related action plans. During the French presidency of the European Union, Mr Noilhan was in charge of the energy security priority.
Mr. Noilhan is a chief engineer in the Corps des Mines. He graduated from France's École Normale Supérieure in Mathematics and Computer Science.
Nicola Melchiotti
Country Manager Mexico, Enel Green Power
G-20Y Summit Climate Change and Green Growth Committee Chair
Nicola is in charge of the Mexican operations of Enel Green Power. He manages a portfolio of hydroelectric, wind, solar and cogeneration plants, including assets in operation and under construction and he is director in the boards of several energy companies of Central America.
For the past 4 years, Nicola has worked in Mexico, Central and South America, supporting the senior leadership of the company in the creation of an effective organization in the region.
During this period he was in charge of the External Relations of Enel Green Power in Latin America and he gained invaluable international experience regarding energy, regulatory and institutional issues in emerging markets as well as intercultural and management skills.
Prior to joining Enel, Nicola worked for McKinsey & Co advising clients based in Italy, Switzerland and Algeria in various fields including energy, finance and operations. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Master of Engineering from Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité (France) and the Politecnico di Milano (Italy).
Alistair Rose
Tesco Plc, International Director for Telecoms, UK;
G-20Y Summit Innovation, Technology, Communication, Social Mass Media and WikiLeaks – Opportunities and Risks Committee Chair
Alistair is a Director of Tesco plc, one the world’s leading retailers. He is currently responsible for Tesco’s consumer telecoms business in the 13 countries across Asia and Europe (excluding UK) where Tesco operates. Tesco has already established a successful telecoms business in the UK operating both as a retailer of telecoms products and services and a service provider of Tesco-branded services, across the mobile and fixed line markets. Alistair is leading the expansion of this strategy internationally, including the continued rollout of Tesco Mobile MVNO, following successes in the UK, Republic of Ireland and most recently Slovakia.
Alistair joined Tesco 5 years ago into its Corporate Business Development team, where he played a pivotal role in Tesco’s biggest acquisition to date (buying Tesco Bank from its joint venture partner, Royal Bank of Scotland) and also helped define its broader Services strategy. He was then selected by Andrew Higginson, the plc Board Director responsible for Retailing Services, to work directly for him in a newly created role as his Executive Assistant, leading and supporting a number of high profile projects across Tesco’s Retailing Services division.
Prior to joining Tesco, Alistair was a Strategy Consultant at Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman). He has a degree in Mathematics from Cambridge University.
Paolo Sarcinelli
Intesa Sanpaolo SpA, Head of Credit, International Subsidiary Banks Division, Italy;
G-20Y Summit Important Financial Institutions (SIFIs) – Resolution Tools and Regimes Committee Chair
Head of Credit of Intesa SanPaolo SpA’s International Subsidiary Banks Division since February 2007. Member of the Board of Directors of Central-European International Bank (Budapest, Hungary), Banca C.R. Firenze Romania SA (Bucarest, Rumania), Intesa SanPaolo Bank Albania sh.a (Tirana, Albania), Sudameris SA (Paris, France), Atlantis SA (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Inversiones Mobiliarias SA (Lima, Peru), Gestiones y Recuperaciones de Activos SA (Lima, Peru).
After having worked for the Commissariat General for Expo'92 in Seville (Spain), in 1993 joined the London Branch of Banca Commerciale Italiana (later IntesaBCI), where he started as trainee to then reach the position of Head of Corporate Banking for Northern Europe, in charge of Benelux and Scandinavian corporate customers and of structured finance transactions' origination. As of 2002 he entered the International Subsidiary Banks Division in Milan, where he has been in charge of a number of divestment projects concerning Latin American subsidiaries and participations of the Group. He also served as Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of Banco Sudameris Colombia SA (Bogota DC, Colombia), as member of the Supervisory Board of VÚB a.s. (Bratislava, Slovak Republic) and as member of the Board of Directors of Sudameris Bank SAECA (Asunción, Paraguay), Lima Sudameris Holding SA (Lima, Peru), Scotiabank Perú (Lima, Peru), KMB Bank (Moscow, Russia), BC Intesa Sanpaolo Romania SA (Arad, Rumania).
Holds an honours degree in Economics from L.U.I.S.S. University (Rome).
The G-20Y Summit in Toronto greatly benefited from the presence and the invaluable contributions of guest speakers:
David Miller
Mayor of Toronto
Miller received a degree in economics from Harvard University and a law degree from the University
of Toronto. Before running for public office, he was a partner at the Toronto law firm Aird &
Berlis, where he specialized in employment and immigration law and shareholder rights.
Miller and his wife, lawyer Jill Arthur, are the parents of two children.
David Miller was elected Toronto's 63rd mayor in November 2003 and was re-elected in November
2006 with nearly 60% of the popular vote and a mandate to make Toronto a city of prosperity,
livability and opportunity for all.
Mayor Miller has worked to make Toronto a
world-leading city on environmental issues and on June
4, 2008 he was appointed chair of the influential C40 Group
of World Cities leading the fight against Climate Change. As chair of C40,
Mayor Miller had a key role in organizing the Copenhagen Climate Summit for
Mayors which urged national governments at the COP15 Conference in Denmark last
December to engage, empower and resource cities to meet the challenge of global warming.
Guillermo Babatz
President of the National Banking Commission, Mexico
Mr. Babatz has a PhD in Economics from Harvard University, and graduated with a degree in Economics from the
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). Mr.Babatz is currently the President
of the Bank National Commission and Securities. He supervises and regulates in the sphere of competence, to the
financial institutions, in order to ensure its stability and proper operation, as well as maintaining and promoting
the healthy and balanced development of the financial system as a whole, in protection of the interests of the public
institution.
Previously, he has served as a Director of domestic credit in the Ministry of Finance and public credit
(SHCP), with the responsibility of issuing the domestic public debt of the Federal Government and the development of
domestic debt management programs.
In the SHCP, Mr. Babatz served as Director of General insurance and securities,
with the main function of play the activities of the Secretariat in the regulation and promotion of values and insurance markets.
This responsibility was, among others, as a leader in the draft reform of the law of market values and the new law society’s
investment in 2001, as well as officer in charge of privatization of insurance Hidalgo, S.A.
Bert van Selm
Deputy Chief IMF Strategy Unit
Bert van Selm (42) is deputy chief of the International Monetary Fund’s Strategy Unit. He has been
with the IMF since 2000, working as economist and senior economist on country teams for Azerbaijan, Georgia,
and Nigeria, and he served as the Fund’s Resident Representative in FYR Macedonia from 2006 to 2009.
Prior to joining the Fund, van Selm was a lecturer in international economics at the University of Leiden, the
Netherlands (1995-1998) and coordinator for IMF affairs at the Dutch Ministry of Finance (1998-2000). He has a
PhD in economics from the University of Groningen, also in the Netherlands. He has published numerous articles
and one book: The Economics of Soviet Break-up (Routledge, 1997).
Dr. Djordjija B. Petkoski
Head of Business, Competitiveness and Development Program
World Bank, Washington DC
Dr. Petkoski is a Lead Specialist at the World Bank and the Head of the Business, Competitiveness, and Development
team at the World Bank Institute. He is a Senior Fellow at the Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research,
the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He has a work experience in Asia, Latin America, the Former Soviet Union,
Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa. Dr. Petkoski has engaged with over 100 companies worldwide, including Nestle, Unilever,
SAP, Mars Co., Pepsi Co, CEMEX, Tetra Pac, etc.
He also sits on the International Advisory Board of Instituto Ethos,
Brazil, and the International Advisory Council of the International Center for Corporate Accountability, Inc. He was a Fulbright
Visiting Scholar at Harvard University in the early 1990's and a Visiting Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in 1979-80. Dr. Petkoski teaches two courses on Corporate Responsibility and Ethics at Wharton Business School
jointly with Professor William Laufer. He is author or co-author of 15 books and over 120 articles. Dr. Petkoski received his
Master's degree in Public Administration at Kennedy School of Governance, Harvard University, Ph.D. in Economics at the
University of Zagreb, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Belgrade.
Lawrence Sherwin
Deputy Director of Communications
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Since 2002, Lawrence Sherwin has worked as Deputy Director of Communications for the European Bank
for Reconstruction and Development, a multilateral international financial institution with its
headquarters in London. Prior to this, he was a manager in international corporate communications
at Novartis AG and Syngenta AG, Swiss multinational corporations. From 1995 to 1998, he was
Managing Director of a joint venture underwritten by the US Public Broadcasting Corporation to
distribute US public radio programmes in Europe. From 1980 to 1995, he was at Radio Free
Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), an American funded radio station broadcasting to Eastern Europe and
the countries of the former Soviet Union, where he worked in broadcast administration, as Deputy
Director of RL, as well as Deputy Director of the Russian Broadcasting Department.
Mr. Sherwin speaks fluent Russian, German and French, and holds an MBA from the University of California,
Berkeley, an MA in International Relations from Harvard University, and a BA in European History from Brown
University. He also attended Leningrad State University as an exchange student in the mid-1970s.
Paul Bates
Dean, De Groote School of Business McMaster University
A Certified Management Accountant (CMA), Dean Paul Bates has been a leader and educator in the
Canadian business community for more than two decades. He is currently serving his second term as Dean
and Industry Professor in Financial Management Services at the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University
in Hamilton, Ontario; the first Dean in its 42 year history to serve a second term. Dean Bates also serves as a member
of the Board of Governors at McMaster University. As a former Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto’s
Rotman School of Management, he was awarded an Outstanding Teacher Award in 2003 and again in 2004. Dean Bates recently
completed a second edition of his best-selling book, Sales Force Management in the Financial Services. He also chairs the
Investor Education Fund. Bates has held the president’s office at four major brokerage and investment firms. In 2002,
Bates was awarded the Queen’s Jubilee Medal for community service. In January 2008 Dean Bates was appointed to a three
year term to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
Donna Messer
Owner, Connect US Canada
As President of ConnectUs Canada, Donna’s contact network extends well into the tens of thousands –
a network that she routinely and freely shares with her clients, associates and acquaintances via the extensive
speaking engagements and workshops she holds around the world. A dynamic, highly sought-after speaker, Donna has
spoken throughout North America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Europe and Iceland on a host of topics dealing with the
art of networking and the ties that bind. She has spoken before Federal, Provincial, Municipal and State
governments, even serving as an advisor to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on issues relating to women
in business.
Among Donna Messer’s several hundred clients are top tier financial institutions,
boards of trade, major accounting and law firms, and leading universities and colleges across Canada.
Donna is also a frequent featured speaker at HAPPEN, Canada’s largest executive networking organization.
A sampling of her name clients include: Bell Canada, Honeywell, Certified Management Accountants, Canadian General Accountants, RBC, TD Canada
Trust, BMO, CIBC, Scotiabank, Schulich School of Business, Rotman School of Business, Ernst & Young, Industry
Canada, HP (Hewlett Packard), and IVY School of Business. She was also Ernst and Young’s nominee for Entrepreneur
of the Year.
Prof. Dr. Lars D. Wellejus
University of Applied Sciences Business Administration - Decision Systems, Frankfurt Main
Lars holds a professorship in Business Administration and Decision Systems at the University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt Main, Germany.
He lectures in Finance, Financial Modeling and InstitutionalEconomics/Economic Analysis of Law.
His scientific interests comprise Information Economics, Project Finance and Development Aid Financing.
After his PhD Lars worked as a consultant for corporate finance and strategy consulting at PwC,
before he changed to an investment bank specializing in project and export finance,
to build up a team of analysts for financial modeling. Lars holds a PhD in Financial Economics from the University of Hagen, Germany.
Jonathan Levi
Consul for Economic Affairs & Trade Commissioner, Government of Israel, Economic Mission to Canada
Jonathan Levy is the current Consul of Economic Affairs and Trade Commissioner in Toronto.
Prior to his arrival in Canada, Jonathan held several positions in the Foreign Trade Administration including
Director of the North-America Division (trade between Israel and the US & Canada), Director of Central &
Eastern Europe (trade between Israel and European countries), Economic Attaché at the Israel Embassy
in Vienna, and Deputy Director of the European Department in Israel.
Jonathan has a BA in Economics,
LLB, and a MBA in Marketing & Finance, all completed at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Jonathan is a
member of the Israeli Bar and a Captain (Reserves) in the Israel Defense Force. As well, Jonathan is certified in
Mediation by the Israeli Center for Negotiation & Mediation.