For senior executives in lending, funding, risk management, treasury, administration. Keynote speeches and panel discussions covering the on pan-European issues, topics and trends. Each day's sessions are designed to follow the natural progress of the mortgage value chain from origination and distribution to underwriting, risk management and administration to funding, including covered bonds, emerging frameworks for structured covered bonds and mortgage-backed securities.
For senior executives in business development, investment banking, mergers and acquisitions, sales and marketing. Two- to three-hour panel sessions that cover all aspects of major European markets including:
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Karin Lissakers
advisor to the chairman / Soros Fund ManagementKarin Lissakers currently serves as chief advisor to George Soros on globalization issues. Before joining Soros, Ms. Lissakers held the post of U.S. Executive Director on the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund from 1993 to 2001, representing the Fund's largest shareholder during a period of turmoil in international financial markets and a U.S.-led effort to redesign the international financial architecture and reform the IMF. Ms. Lissakers worked closely with the Secretary of the Treasury and other high-level U.S. and international officials. The executive directorship is a presidential appointment with U.S. Senate confirmation. Ms. Lissakers has extensive policy experience at senior levels in the executive branch of the Federal Government and in the U.S. Congress. She was deputy director of the Policy Planning Staff of the U.S. Department of State, and staff director of the foreign economic policy subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Ms. Lissakers lectured on international banking issues at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and became director of the school's international business and banking studies program. Ms. Lissakers was a senior associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and worked as a researcher with the Nobel prize-winning economist Gunnar Myrdal, and as a research associate at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Ms. Lissakers has written extensively on foreign economic policy and on business-government relations in the international economic arena. Her book "Banks, Borrowers and the Establishment (Basic Books 1991)" has been called the "definitive post-mortem" of the 1980s international debt crisis. She is the author of numerous studies, articles and Congressional reports on subjects including international banking, sovereign debt restructuring, Western economic aid and commercial relations with the former Soviet Union, national policy toward foreign direct investment, NAFTA, expanding U.S.-Latin American economic relations. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, the Journal of International Affairs and other publications. back |
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