Alexander Batchvarov, PhD, CFA

Managing Director, Head of International Structured Credit Research, Merrill Lynch

Mr. Batchvarov joined Merrill Lynch in March 1998 as Head of International Structured Credit Research. He and his team provide research coverage of the Structured Credit market developments in Europe, Latin America and Asia. The team regularly publishes The International Structured Credit Weekly to provide in-depth analysis of market developments, as well as research reports dedicated to specific transactions or sectors of the market, such as MBS in different countries, long-dated bonds, securities finance companies, etc. Mr. Batchvarov's team has consistently been ranked number One securitisation research provider in investors surveys by ISR, SFI, EuroMoney and Credit Magazine.

Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Alexander Batchvarov worked for several years as a Structured Finance Analyst in the ABS Group and a Sovereign Analyst in the Sovereign Risk Unit of Moody's Investors Service in London and New York. Prior to Moody's, Alexander was a Manager in the emerging markets Financial Institutions group in Citibank in New York.

Mr. Batchvarov holds a Ph.D. in International Economics from the National Academy of Sciences in Bulgaria and an MBA in Finance from University of Alberta in Canada. He is a CFA Charterholder and a member of AIMR and NYSSA.

Joseph Beashel

Joseph Beashel, Managing Director of INVESCO, Dublin

A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, Joe was a solicitor with Beauchamps, before joining INVESCO (then GT Global) in 1996. In 1999 he was appointed a director and headed the legal & product development department from then until September 2001.

Aidan Brady

Aidan Brady, Country Corporate Officer, Citigroup Ireland

Aidan joined Citibank in Dublin in 1985 having started his career with ICC Bank in 1980. He has a BComm from University College Dublin, spent five years with KPMG in Dublin and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1980. His career in Citibank Dublin has involved him managing its derivatives and financial engineering business, and heading its treasury and corporate bank. He was appointed chief executive in 1992 and market manager for Ireland and the UK Channel Islands in 1996. Aidan is on the executive committees of the Financial Services Industry Association and the Irish Banker's Federation and is chairman of the Federation of International Banks in Ireland. He is also on the board of the US Chamber of Commerce and vice-president of the Institute of Bankers in Ireland.

Gerry Brady

Gerry Brady, Country Head, Bank of Bermuda - Dublin

Gerry has executive management responsibility for the international funds administration, custody and banking business being conducted in Dublin and Europe for Bank of Bermuda. He is also a member of Bank of Bermuda's Executive Committee in Bermuda. Gerry joined Bank of Bermuda in 1986 as head of internal audit in the Bermuda head office, he then progressed to managing director of Bank of Bermuda in Cayman in 1990 and returned to Dublin in 1995 to set up Bank Of Bermuda operations in Ireland. Prior to working with Bank of Bermuda, Gerry spent a year with Hodgson Impey in Dublin and eight years with KPMG. He qualified as a chartered accountant 1980 and a chartered financial analyst in 1988 after obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Queen's University of Belfast.

Niamh Brennan

Niamh Brennan, Michael MacCormac Professor of Management at University College Dublin

Niamh is a chartered accountant. She is academic director of the Institute of Directors' Centre for Corporate Governance at UCD and is a non-executive director of Ulster Bank and of Co-Operation Ireland. She is co-author of Forensic Accounting recently published by Round Hall Sweet & Maxwell.

Andrew Carr

Andrew Carr, Managing Director, Marsh Management Services (Bermuda) Limited

Andrew is the president and chief executive officer of Marsh Management Services (Bermuda) Limited and is responsible for Marsh Inc.'s captive management offices worldwide. Andrew joined the company in 1980 as a senior vice president with responsibility for client services in Marsh Bermuda. Andrew has served on numerous insurance industry committees and focus groups including the Insurance Advisory Committee, and the Bermuda Insurance Managers Association, where for a period of two years he served as president. He has also served as chairman of the International Companies Division of the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce, as a director of the Bermuda Employers' Council and as a director of the International Business Forum, an advisory group to the Premier on international business issues. Andrew has a degree in Business Administration from Ryerson, Toronto, and is a member of the Society of Management Accountants of Canada.

Paul Carroll

Paul Carroll, Managing Partner, A & L Goodbody

Paul was appointed in May 2001. A corporate finance specialist, Paul has advised Irish and international clients on a wide range of significant transactions during a career spanning over 20 years with the firm. He advises particularly on mergers and acquisitions both public and private, foreign investment, shipping and general corporate matters. Educated at Blackrock College and Trinity in Dublin, Paul has been with the firm since his apprenticeship. He opened the firm's London office in 1988 and was resident partner there from 1990 to 1992, specialising in mainly banking and tax based finance transactions. He recently led the Irish legal team which advised Valentia Telecommunications Limited on its successful bid for eircom plc in 2001.

Paolo Cecchini

Paolo Cecchini, author of the 'Cecchini Report'

Paolo Cecchini, trained as a lawyer and spent the early part of his career in banking. In 1960 he moved to the Commission of the European Economic Community. In 1967 he acted as head of division to the Task Force for the first enlargement of the Community (UK, Ireland, Denmark). In 1977, as deputy director general for the Internal Market and Industrial Affairs, he was in charge of a number of industrial sectors. He took voluntary early retirement in 1986 at the request of the Commission to research the 'Cost of non Europe', results of which have been largely known as the 'Cecchini Report', published in 1988. Cecchini currently chairs the research project funded by the European Round Table of Financial Services on the liberalization of financial services in Europe, as well as being involved in various teaching and consulting assignments. He is the co-author of three books on Europe - 'The New Europe of 1992', 'Union Europea - Eficiencia y democracia' and 'Italia senza Europa?'

Ian Clancy

Ian Clancy, Managing Director, Marsh Management Services (Dublin) Limited

Ian joined Marsh in 1989 and established their Dublin captive management office. He was appointed a managing director of the parent, Marsh Inc. in 2001. Educated at University College Dublin, Ian holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and subsequently qualified as a chartered accountant. Ian started his career with Deloitte & Touche, Dublin and spent six years in the Middle East. Ian currently serves on the Board of Directors of many of his client companies. He was appointed chairman of DIMA, the Dublin International Insurance and Management Association in 2001, having previously served as treasurer for a number of years.

William B. Coen

William B. Coen, Member of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision

William was seconded from the US Federal Reserve System to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's Secretariat in September 1999, where he has since worked exclusively on matters relating to the revision of the 1988 Basel Accord. Prior to joining the Federal Reserve in 1993, had previously served as national bank examiner Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and as assistant vice president and manager of retail lending at a New York City-based organisation. Bill obtained a Master of Business Administration from Fordham University in New York in 1991 having previously got a Bachelor of Science in education from Manhattan College in 1984.

Torlach Denihan

Torlach Denihan, Director of the Financial Services Industry Association (FSIA)

The FSIA is affiliated to the Irish Business Employers Confederation (IBEC) and has a membership base of over 180 financial institutions, including all of the main players in the IFSC. In his role as Director of the FSIA Torlach Denihan has been involved in the development of the IFSC through extensive lobbying activities on behalf of FSIA members. He is a member of the Department of An Taoiseach's IFSC Banking and Treasury Working Group.

David Dillon

David Dillon, Managing Partner, Dillon Eustace

David Dillon is a graduate of University College Dublin where he read law and has an MBA from Trinity College Dublin. He was admitted as a member of the Law Society of Ireland in 1978. He has worked as a commercial lawyer and Partner with the law firm of Cawley SheerinWynne and the Japanese law firm of Hamada & Matsumoto. David Dillon is a founding partner and a senior partner of Dillon Eustace where he works principally in the areas of corporate finance, financial services and banking. He is a consultant lecturer to the Law Society of Ireland and speaks regularly at the International Bar Association. He is a member of a number of committees and sub-committees established by the Irish Law Society relating to commercial law and financial services. Of late, he has been very active in relation to structured products, including the securitisation and repackaging of international assets.

Kenth Eldebrink

Kenth Eldebrink, Chief Executive Officer, Euroben Life & Pension Ltd.

Kenth was appointed chief executive in May 2001 having previously acted as deputy chief executive in SEB Trygg Liv and as director of marketing and sales. From 1990 to 1999 Kenth was sales and marketing director for the SPP Group. Prior to this he worked with The S-E-Bank Group / Skandia Insurance Company. A keen sportsman Kenth won an Olympic bronze medal in javelin throwing 1984 (Los Angeles).

Colm Fagan

Colm Fagan, Managing Director of Life Strategies

Colm is an actuary by profession. He founded Life Strategies, a firm of actuarial and strategic consultants in 1993. The firm specialises in advising on pan-European life insurance. In 2000, Life Strategies was acquired by Marlborough Stirling, a leading provider of software and services to the Financial Services Industry. Before forming Life Strategies, Colm was finance director and appointed actuary of Lifetime Assurance, the Bank of Ireland's life assurance subsidiary.

John Feely

John Feely, Manager of Strategy and Business Development, Abbey National Financial and Investment Services

John is manager of strategy and business development, Abbey National Financial and Investment Services, including the life companies, Scottish Mutual and Abbey National Asset Managers. He is chairman of the IAPF and a member of the Board of the EFRP. He is a fellow of the Institute of Actuaries.

Eddie Fogarty

Eddie Fogarty, Managing Director, FTI

Eddie Fogarty is managing director of FTI, the-IFSC based treasury outsourcing, consulting and systems company.Ê His specialist area is debt/risk management and associated systems. Over the past 15 years, he has worked with large corporate and sovereign borrowers in Ireland, UK, US, Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Latvia and Slovenia.

Jérôme Halbout

Jérôme Halbout, Managing Director, Société Générale Asset Management

Jérôme has responsibility, on a global level, for the creation and management of private equity funds invested in small and medium-sized companies in the energy and hydrocarbons sector. He is one of the founding principals of SGAM/4D Global Energy Fund. Jérôme was previously with Crédit Lyonnais since 1997, first as senior banker, head of the energy department of the world corporate division, and then managing director of the energy/utilities division. From 1992 to 1997, he was in charge of the project financing teams in the oil/gas and energy sectors at Crédit Lyonnais then at Lazard Frères & Cie in Paris. Previously, Jérôme has been a research associate at France's CNRS and a management consultant with Andersen Consulting. Jérôme is a Doctor in Science and PhD in Geochemistry (University of Paris) and an alumnus of l'Ecole Normale Supérieure. He is a former post-doc research associate of the Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago. He has served as non-executive director of banks in Ireland (Woodchester Bank), Gabon and Nigeria, and of several companies in France.

Tom Healy

Tom Healy, Chief Executive, Irish Stock Exchange

Prior to joining the Exchange in 1987, Tom held various management positions in the IDA and the Irish Export Board. He is a member of the Interim Board of the Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority, and a member of the Advisory Board of the European Capital Markets Institute.

John Hurley

John Hurley, Governor, Central Bank of Ireland

John has been secretary general of the Department of Finance. From 11 March 2002 he will become the new Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland. John has occupied three secretary general positions: he was appointed by the Government to the post of as secretary general, Department of Finance, early in 2000. Prior to that he was secretary general, Public Service Management and Development, in the Department of Finance, and secretary general, Department of Health. John is a member of the Board of the Central Bank, the Advisory Committee of the NTMA and the Council and Executive Committee of the Economic and Social Research Institute. He is a member of the Implementation Group of Secretaries General established by the Government to oversee the Strategic Management Initiative. He has also been chairman of the Top Level Appointments Committee which makes recommendations to the Government and to Ministers. He is a Board member of the European Institute of Public Administration, Maastricht, the Louvain Institute for Ireland in Europe and the National Centre for Partnership. In addition he was also a member of the Executive Board of the WHO. He has also chaired the Consultative Committee on the new Financial Management System for the Civil Service and the Human Resources Subgroup established under the Strategic Management Initiative.

Jon Little

Jon Little, Chief Executive, Mellon Global Investments

Jon is responsible for sales and distribution of Mellon's asset management services outside the US. He is also responsible for the management of Mellon's Asset Management joint ventures in Latin America, Middle East and Asia. Before joining MGI in July 2000, he was head of sales and distribution for JP Morgan Investment Management's international fund and sub-advisory businesses outside the US and Japan. Prior to that he was director of sales and business development for Fidelity Investments in the UK. He was educated at Oxford Brookes University.

Brendan Logue

Brendan Logue, Head of Financial Services Division, IDA Ireland

Brendan joined IDA Ireland 11 years ago where his main focus has been selling and marketing Ireland to overseas companies.

Steffen Matthias

Steffen Matthias, Secretary General, FEFSI

Steffen trained as a lawyer and was responsible in the autumn of 1990 for setting up and organising the office of the European Federation of Investment Funds and Companies (FEFSI) in Brussels. In 1991 he was appointed first permanent secretary general of the Federation. From 1976 to 1983 he was executive secretary for the most important German shareholder Association (DSW), where he particularly worked on issues relating to company law and securities markets. In 1983 he moved to Paris to join the 'Comité Européen des Fabricants de Sucre'.

Dermot McCarthy

Dermot McCarthy, Secretary General, Department of the Taoiseach and Secretary General to the Government

Previously Dermot served as assistant secretary in the Department of the Taoiseach with responsibility for the Economic and Social Policy Division, following service in the Department of Industry and Commerce and the Department of Health. Dermot is chairperson of the National Economic and Social Council. He is also chairperson of the IFSC Clearing House Group, which identifies issues of major concern to the future development of the centre.

Charlie McCreevy

Charlie McCreevy, T.D. Minister for Finance

A chartered accountant, Charlie McCreevy was elected to Dail Eireann for Kildare Constituency in 1977, and was a member of Kildare County Council from 1979 to 1985. He was Minister for Social Welfare from February 1992 - January 1993, Minister for Tourism and Trade from January 1993 - December 1994 and Frontbench Spokesperson on Finance from January l 995 - June 1997. He has been the Minister for Finance from 1997.

Willie McGee

Willie McGee, Detective Superintendent, Deputy Director of the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation

Willie joined An Garda Siochana in November 1966 and served in Pearse Street, the Crime Task Force, Ballyfermot, the Anti-Racketeering Unit, Garda Headquarters as well as the fraud squad in the ranks of Detective Garda, Sergeant, Inspector and Superintendent where he is presently the deputy director of the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation. He was in charge of the first Anti-Racketeering Unit set up by the Commissioner in 1990. Detective Superintendent McGee holds a BA in police management from the Garda College, Templemore and a certificate in computer science and information technology from UCD.

Paul McGowan

Paul McGowan, Partner, KPMG

Paul is a business studies graduate from Trinity College Dublin a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and a Member of the Institute of Taxation in Ireland. He has lectured extensively in Ireland and overseas on international taxation matters and has contributed to numerous taxation publications. He is chairman of KPMG Ireland's Tax Practice. Paul is a member of a working group established by the Irish Prime Minister to advise on the development of the mutual funds industry in Ireland and is a council member of the Dublin Funds Industry Association having been a past chairman of the Association. Paul is a specialist in cross border taxation issues particularly in the area of financial services and backing. He has been involved with Dublin's Financial Centre since its inception in 1987 and works closely with the Government and Revenue Authorities in ensuring that tax legislation keeps pace with the requirements of the Industry.

Frank Mullen

Frank Mullen, Assistant Secretary, Irish Revenue Commissioners

Frank is in charge of Direct Taxes International and Administration Division. He is head of International Branch which negotiates and administers Ireland's tax treaties and is also head of the Irish delegation to the Committee of Fiscal Affairs of the OECD, of which he is a Vice-Chair. He is a graduate in economics and politics from University College in Dublin and he holds a Master of Management Science from the University of Dublin (Trinity College).

Gabriele Müller

Gabriele Müller, Director, Head of Pfandbrief and Covered Bond Origination, Merrill Lynch

Gabriele joined Merrill Lynch in January 2001, heading a new specialised pfandbrief and covered bond origination unit. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Gabriele worked on the capital markets side for WestLB, DePfa and HypoVereinsbank from 1988 to 2000. Gabriele holds a degree in political economics from the University of Hamburg.

Aengus Murphy

Aengus Murphy, Chairman, FTI

Aengus Murphy is a leading treasury management specialist, with 20 years experience as practitioner, consultant and services firm management. He has built up a successful treasury management services business in FTI, first as MD, 1988 to 2000, and now as Chairman. He led a successful MBO of the business in 1998. His firm's business is treasury outsourced services, consulting support and systems solutions for corporate and sovereign clients. As a senior treasury specialist, Aengus advises his firm's main clients on complex policy, governance and value-adding strategies. He pioneered the outsourced model for treasury functions from his firm's 'Dublin Docks' base. Aengus holds university degrees in Commerce and Public Administration. He is a Fellow of ACT (UK) and a founding father and early Chairman of IACT (Ireland).

Cormac Murphy

Cormac Murphy, Partner, Head of Andersen' s Assurance and Risk Consulting Practice

Cormac is a chartered accountant with a bachelor of commerce degree and a diploma in professional accounting from University College Dublin and is a qualified member of the UK Association of Corporate Treasurers. Cormac is responsible for providing assurance and risk management services to a wide variety of indigenous and multinational financial services organisations' across the banking, broking and asset management areas. He is a member of Andersen' s global asset management and European financial risk management groups.

Harley Murphy

Harley Murphy, managing director, Mellon Fund administration (Dublin) Ltd.

Harley is the country representative for Mellon in Ireland. Before joining Mellon in August 2000 Harley spent 12 years as an expatriate with ABN AMRO Bank, working in both the Far East and Continental Europe. He held a number of senior management positions in operations & administration and prior to leaving the bank he had been senior vice president, information management in the European regional office, based in Amsterdam. He holds a Masters in Business Studies from Michael Smurfit Business School and is a qualified accountant.

Anthony Myers

Anthony Myers, Chief Operating Officer, INVESCO Global

Anthony was managing director of AIM Global Advisors Limited at the time of the merger between INVESCO and AIM and transferred to his present role in January 1998. Anthony was previously over 11 years with Gartmore Investment Management plc. He joined Gartmore in 1985 as group management accountant and was appointed managing director of the group's offshore funds office in Jersey at the end of 1985 for two and a half years. On return to the UK in 1988, Anthony was appointed managing director of the Gartmore group banking subsidiary whose principle activities were global custody and cash management. Prior to joining Gartmore, Anthony was 10 years with a London firm of chartered accountants.

Maria O' Connell

Maria O' Connell, Managing Director, NetWorth Consulting Limited

Maria received a law degree from UCD and graduated from Kings Inns in July of 1987. She became a fellow of the Institute of Arbitrators in London in 1998. In 1990 she joined Eagle Star as their legal adviser and moved to a similar position in Standard Life in 1996. While with Standard Life she became executive in charge of the pensions administration area and remained with the company until 2000 when the opportunity to establish a life assurance company from conceptual stage presented itself. This work on behalf of Anglo Irish Bank was completed at the end of 2001 when she and the former managing director of Anglo Irish Assurance Company, Anton Davies, formed their own consultancy firm NetWorth Consulting Limited which specialises in offering consultancy services to financial services companies both in Ireland and in Europe.

Ronan O'Connor

Ronan O'Connor, Head of Risk Management and Asset Allocation, National Pension Reserve Fund of Ireland

Ronan was principal external consultant to the Irish ICB project. Previously he has been Lecturer in the Department of Banking and Finance at University College Dublin, founding director of Gandon Securities plc, managing director at Citicorp Scrimgeour Vickers, vice president at Citibank, associate director at Ulster Investment Bank plc, and head of investment research at Irish Life plc.

Michael O'Grady

Michael O'Grady, Assistant Secretary, Irish Revenue Commissioners

Michael has responsibility for direct taxes policy and legislation. In relation to EU matters, he is a member of the Primarolo Group (which reviews the operation of the Code of Conduct for Business Taxation) and the Council's High Level Working Group looking at implemention of the 'tax package' which includes the Taxation of Savings Directive and the Interest & Royalties Directive. He is an accountant and a barrister and previously worked as a tax inspector.

Gary Palmer

Gary Palmer, Chief Executive, Dublin Funds Industry Association

The DFIA is the representative association for the international funds industry in Ireland. Gary is a graduate of University College Dublin where he was awarded both undergraduate and post-graduate degrees, he has held a number of academic and executive positions in the financial services industry. Prior to his current position Gary was the director of development with the Institute of Bankers in Ireland. A member of An Taoiseach's Asset Management Task Force and the IFSC funds Committee; Gary is also a committee member of FEFSI and the European Funds Industry Association.

Alan Pickering

Alan Pickering, chairman of the European Federation for Retirement Provision

Alan is a partner with Watson Wyatt, having joined in 1992. He spent the previous twenty years with the EETPU. He was a member of the Occupational Pensions Board from April 1991 until April 1997 serving as its deputy chairman in 1993. He was elected to the NAPF Council (UK) in 1986, having served as the Association's treasurer on two occasions and acted as vice-chairman between 1997-1999. He was chairman between May 1999 and May 2001.

In October 2000, he became vice chairman of the European Federation for Retirement Provision (EFRP) and assumed the role of chairman in October 2001. In September 2001, he was asked by Alistair Darling, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in the UK to lead a review into the possible simplification of the rules governing the operation of all forms of private pension provision. His group is due to report back to the Secretary of State in July 2002.

William Slattery

William Slattery, Chief Executive, Deutsche International (Ireland) Limited

William assumed the position of chief executive of Deutsche International (Ireland) Limited in January 2002. Prior to this William worked for the Central Bank of Ireland for more than twenty years until 1996. From 1985 he held senior positions in the supervision function of the Bank including responsibility for the supervision of the Dublin International Financial Services Centre. William joined Deutsche Morgan Grenfell (Ireland) in 1996. Following a short period in Ireland he moved to London where he has held a number of senior positions in the asset management division of Deutsche Bank, one of the largest global fund managers. From 1999 - 2001 he was managing director and global head of risk management for the division covering a business with assets of E600 billion and significant presences in the UK, Germany, Italy, US, Japan, Singapore and Sydney. He holds a Batchelor of Commerce degree from University College Dublin.

Alain Smeraldi

Alain Smeraldi, General Manager, Société Générale, Dublin Branch.

Alain joined the Société Générale group in 1987 and has over 15 years experience in fund industry and capital markets activities. Alain came to Dublin in 1999 to set up the Irish branch of Société Générale. Since then he has been responsible for all activities within the branch, which include client services, business development and operations in global assets services and custody/trustee services. Prior to assuming his current role, Alain was head of operations of BAREP S.A. (part of the Société Générale group), where he was responsible for the management and organisation of the administration departments.

Jeffrey Spencer

Jeffrey Spencer, Merrill Lynch

Jeffrey is responsible for coverage of covered bonds and high-grade sovereign, quasi-sovereign and supranational issuers with an emphasis on local and regional governments and state-owned financial institutions in Europe. As a member of Merrill Lynch's high grade research team, Jeffrey has been ranked among the top 5 Public Sector analysts in both Euromoney and Credit Magazine annual European Credit Research polls, and was named as a first teamer for sovereigns in Institutional Investor's Global Research poll. Before joining Fixed Income Research, Jeff worked for two years with Merrill Lynch's debt origination group. In addition to a BA in Political Science and French from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont, Jeff holds an MA in Political Science from Columbia University. He studied for a year at France's Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris.

Pat Wall

Pat Wall, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Pat is a member of the Irish Leadership Board of PwC. He is the financial services leader specialising in investment funds and insurance and a member of PwC's Global Investment Management Board where he is responsible for 'Gateways' (international offshore financial services centres). In this role he is responsible for strategy and oversight of PricewaterhouseCoopers' preeminent market position in the Gateway countries.

Donald S. Watson

Donald S. Watson, Head of Standard & Poor's Insurance Analytic unit

Donald has rating responsibility for more than 200 insurers in North America and Bermuda. He is known for his work with start-up and financial-guaranty insurance companies and for his widespread coverage of the reinsurance industry, for which he publishes industry guides Global Re Highlights and the Top 150 Global Reinsurers. Prior to joining Standard & Poor's in 1990, Donald worked as a commercial lender with New York City banks Irving Trust and Marine Midland. He received his M.B.A. from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and his B.A. from Illinois State University.

Philip Woolfson

Philip Woolfson, partner, Avocat (Paris), Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly

After university studies in Arts and Law at the University of Glasgow and training as a Scottish Solicitor, Philip completed post-graduate studies at the College of Europe in Belgium and a traineeship with the Legal Service of the Council of the Communities. He then worked in the Paris office of a City firm, from 1983 to 1992. He is admitted as an avocat at the Paris Bar. He returned to Brussels in 1992 and joined Oppenheimer as a partner in the spring of 1998. Philip has particular expertise in relation to the European Union's financial services Directives and their interpretation and implementation in various European jurisdictions. Philip is a member of the Financial Services Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Brussels.