Policy Events & Public Speaking Engagements | City | Date | ||
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- FX Europe 2019, European Policy Focus | London | November 2019 | ||
The Annual IMF/ World Bank meetings | Washington | October 2019 | ||
- FX Buy-Side Europe, Inaugural event |
Amsterdam | June 2019 | ||
- Bank of England Monetary Policy Roundtable | London | November 2018 | ||
- MMF Monetary and Financial Policy Conference | London | November 2018 | ||
- Danske Bank Asset Management’s 2018 European Summit | Copenhagen | May 2018 | ||
- London Volatility Investing and Tail Risk | London | April 2018 | ||
- ECB Watchers | Frankfurt | March 2018 | ||
- Bank of England Future Forum |
London | November 2017 | ||
- CFA Institute, European Investment Conference, Key economic address: The Future of Finance |
Berlin | November 2017 | ||
- CFA Society Luxembourg keynote speaker, "The Future of Finance" | Luxembourg | May 2017 | ||
- CFA Society Finland presentation on "The Future of Finance" | Helsinki | May 2017 | ||
- CFA Society Denmark presentation on "The Future of Finance" | Copenhagen | May 2017 | ||
- IFRS Foundation and the CFA Institute: Helena Morrissey, Investment Association chair; Russ Houlden, United Utilities chief financial officer; Gary Baker, managing director of CFA Institute in EMEA; Hans Hoogervorst, chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board; and economist Lena Komileva | London | April 2017 | ||
- Key economics address at UK Broker CEO Summit 2017, “Prepare for change” | Pennyhill Park | March 2017 | ||
- Chair, Chief Economist panel at the FX Invest Europe Conference 2017 | Zurich | February 2017 | ||
- Chair, Chief Economist Panel at the annual FX Week Europe Conference 2016 | London | November 2016 | ||
- Chair, Fund Managers’ Emerging Markets panel at FX Week Europe Conference |
London | November 2016 | ||
- Global economist address at Cash and Liquidity Optimisation Europe Conference |
London | November 2016 | ||
- Special economic address “Global Imbalances in a Strong USD World” at Bloomberg Commodities Conference 2016 |
London | October 2016 | ||
- Speaking at the annual CEO Summit, IAIR Awards: "From cybercrime to political instability: Challenges and solutions" |
London | October 2016 | ||
- MIFID II and The City after Brexit: What Next? A special report for MIFID Industry Conference | London | September 2016 | ||
- Keynote cross-asset strategy address to Citywire Fund Management conference, Germany |
Munich | April 2016 | ||
- Keynote global macro address to Citywire Fund Allocators summit, Spain | Madrid |
March 2016 |
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- UK economy and policy outlook address to the annual UK General Government and Public Pension Funds Summit | London | March 2016 | ||
- Keynote economic address at Swiss fund manager and family offices conferences, Switzerland | Geneva | February 2016 | ||
- Keynote economic address to Swiss fund managers and family offices | Zurich | February 2016 | ||
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Speaker and Chair of the CFA Institute European Investment Conference, London 2015 and Berlin 2017:
Chair, CFA Institute European Investment Conference, 2016
Chaired seminars with Anne Richards, CIO at Aberdeen Asset Management, and Tim Harford, economist and columnist at the Financial Times
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London |
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Presented keynote address at the Citywire Fixed Income Forum, Italy
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Milan | ||
BoE conference on UK economy and monetary policy
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London | ||
Presented the keynote economic address for the CFA Institute conferences in Spain, Portugal, Cyprus and Greece: “Volatility is back: A macro perspective”
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Nicosia, Athens, Madrid, Lisbon |
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Speaker at Prospect Magazine's first General Election 2015 debate titled “Austerity: who's right?” on a panel with Paul Johnson, Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and George Magnus, economist and author
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London | ||
Speaker at the CSFI "Global Currency Wars" round table
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London | ||
Speaker at the Bloomberg FX12 Summit
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London | ||
GLG seminar on money markets and new UK regulation
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international | ||
ECB economists summit
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Frankfurt | ||
Speaker at the 51st ACI Financial Markets World Congress
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Dubai | ||
Speaker at Bloomberg Link Sovereign Debt Conference
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Frankfurt | ||
Delivered keynote address on the global economic outlook 2012 alongside Kristin Forbes, MIT at GAIM USA Hedge Funds Conference, 2012
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Boca Raton, Florida | ||
Organised a Davos-style economics panel for fund managers commisioned by the Securities Association of China, joined by colleagues from the IMF, the FSB and Bloomberg/Oxford University
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London | ||
CSFI think tank round table discussion on the ECB and the sovereign debt crisis
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London | ||
ECB watchers summit
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Frankfurt | ||
Speaker at the Bloomberg FX11 Summit
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London | ||
Speaker on Eurozone crisis at Luxembourg Financial Forum
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Luxembourg | ||
Speaker at Bloomberg Link conference on sovereign debt crisis
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New York | ||
Meetings with senior policy officials from the US Fed, ECB, CB Malaysia, Qatar, Oman, South Africa, Zambia, Nigeria, Egypt, Turkey, Latvia, Iceland, Czech Republic
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BoE conference on UK economy and monetary policy
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London | ||
Speaker at CIPFA Central Government Finance conference
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London | ||
Speaker at Marcus Evans Sovereign Risk Management Crisis Conference
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London | ||
ECB economists summit
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Frankfurt | ||
Speaker at UK National Treasury Risk Study Summit
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Manchester | ||
Speaker at Bloomberg Link conference on sovereign debt crisis
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Frankfurt | ||
Speaker at an evening seminar organised by 100W Hedge Funds and Moody's
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London | ||
Speaker at CIPFA Treasury Management conference
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London | ||
Speaker at a CSFI panel discussion on securitisation alongside Rick Watson, ESF, and Peter Thal-Larsen, Reuters Breakingviews
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London | ||
Speaker at Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) conference on money and credit markets | London | ||
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— Lena Komileva (@komileva) June 17, 2019
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The war b/n reflationary fiscal deficits & contractionary econ wars will determine the growth outlook pic.twitter.com/rgoN4C0Pff
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