Speaker Biographies

Confirmed speakers include:

Moderators

Jonathan Hill

European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, European Commission

2014-present

British nationality.

Leader of the House of Lords and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
2013-14

Under-secretary of State for Education
2010-13

Director, Quiller Consultants
1998-2010

Senior Consultant at Bell Pottinger Communications
1994-98

Political Secretary to Prime Minister John Major
1992-94

No. 10 Policy Unit
1991-92

Special Adviser to the Right Honourable Kenneth Clarke
1986-89

Research Department of the Conservative Party
1985-86

Masters of Arts in History from Trinity College, Cambridge
1982

Antony Jenkins

CEO, Barclays

Antony Jenkins is the Group Chief Executive of Barclays. 



Previously, he was Chief Executive of Barclays Retail and Business Banking, a position he held since November 2009.



Antony started his career at Barclays in 1983; where he completed the Barclays Management Development Programme before going on to hold various roles in retail and corporate banking. He moved to Citigroup in 1989, working in both London and New York. In January 2006, he rejoined Barclays as Chief Executive of Barclaycard.



Antony is a member of the Board of Directors for the Institute of International Finance, Cranfield School of Management and Catalyst. He is also the Chairman of the Banking Environment Initiative, International Advisory Panel member for the Money Authority of Singapore and an advisor to the Acumen Fund. 



Antony is married and a father of two children.

Xavier Rolet

CEO, London Stock Exchange Group

Xavier Rolet joined the LSE Group Board on 16 March 2009 and became CEO on 20 May 2009.

Prior to joining the London Stock Exchange, Xavier was Chief Executive Officer of Lehman Brothers in France from July 2007 to 7 January 2009. He was appointed a member of the Lehman Brothers’ European Operating Committee in 2003, having joined the firm in February 2000 in New York as deputy co-head of Global Equity Trading. In June 2000, he was promoted to co-head Global Equity Trading and in Oct 2001 transferred to London to take up the position of head of European and Asian Cash Equities, as well as becoming a member of the firm’s Global Investment Banking Operating Committee. In September 2003, Xavier was asked to lead the newly-created European Senior Client Relationship Management Group a role in which he focused on managing the firm's relationships with its most senior corporate and institutional clients across the region.

Xavier started his career working for Robert E. Rubin on the International Arbitrage desk at Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York in January 1984. In 1990, he was promoted to co-head of European Equity Sales and Trading at Goldman Sachs International Limited and moved to London. He joined Credit Suisse First Boston in 1994 as global head of European Equities before moving to Dresdner Kleinwort Benson as global head of Risk and Trading, and deputy head of Global Equities in 1997.

Xavier served as a Second Lieutenant and Instructor at the French Air Force Academy in 1981 prior to attending Columbia University Graduate School of Business, where he gained an MBA in January 1984. He is also a 2008 graduate of the post-graduate Institut des Hautes Etudes de Defense Nationale in Paris.

Personal and business awards gained during both his professional and educational life include:
- 1995 Institutional Investor Equity Research First team: Eastern Europe and Russia
- 1995 IFR European Equity House of the Year
- Rotary Foundation Scholarship for International Understanding
- Lehman Brothers’ Chairman’s Award for Extraordinary Client Service (2005, 2006, 2007)
- Lehman Brothers' President Award for Charity work (2007).

Additionally, Xavier is a member of the Board of Overseers of Columbia Business School, an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments, FSCI(Hon) and a member of the Financial Services Trade and Investment Board of HM Treasury (FSTIB). He is a former chairman of the Strategic Advisory Group of the London Stock Exchange, a former member of Deutsche Börse’s London Equity Market Advisory Committee and Frankfurt Secondary Market Advisory Committee, and a former member of the Board of Euronext Paris (Conseil d'Orientation) and Nasdaq Europe.

Xavier is also a former member of the European Securities Markets Expert Group of the European Commission, the French Government's Conseil Stratégique de l'Attractivité ("Strategic Council for Attractiveness"), a former Board Member of the American Chamber of Commerce in France and a former member of Chatham House in London.

Koos Timmermans

Vice-Chairman, ING Bank

Koos Timmermans (1960) serves as Vice-Chairman of ING Bank as of 1 October 2011.
From 1 October 2014 he has, in addition to his current tasks which include aligning ING Bank’s activities and balance sheet with new and upcoming regulation, assumed responsibilities for the Bank’s operations in the Benelux and ING’s sustainability department.

Before 1 October 2011 he was Executive Boardmember/Chief Risk Officer (CRO) of ING Group. In that capacity he was responsible for risk worldwide (Corporate, Market, Insurance, Operational Information & Security risk, Risk Integration and Analytics, Model Validation and Corporate Compliance).

Born in 1960, he graduated (MBA) in Economics at Erasmus University in Rotterdam (1986).
He started his career with Amro Bank/ABN Amro Bank in the Financial Markets interest-rate and FX derivatives area.
Before joining ING in 1996, Koos worked for IBM’s European treasury in Ireland. His responsibilities included Money Markets, FX, Debt issuance and derivatives.

He joined ING Group in 1996 and was appointed Head of the Treasury of ING Insurance. In August 2000 he was appointed Head of Corporate Market Risk Management in ING and responsible for market risk management of the banking activities. Market Risk Management covers Trading Risk, Asset & Liabilities management and Market Risk in Retail portfolios, such as mortgages and savings. In addition Koos was responsible for Operational Risk Management. As From March 2006 until 24 April 2007 he was Deputy Chief Risk Officer (CRO) of ING Group, responsible for Risk Management including credit, insurance, market and operational risks.

Ignazio Angeloni

Member of the Supervisory Board, European Central Bank

Ignazio Angeloni was born in Milan (Italy) and graduated from Bocconi University and the University of Pennsylvania (PhD in Economics).

In the 1980s and 1990s he held several positions in the Banca d’Italia, in the areas of international economics, econometric modelling and monetary policy. In 1995 he was appointed Director of the Monetary and Financial Sector of the Research Department.

In 1998 he moved to the ECB as Head of the General Economic Research Division and Deputy Director General of Research. In that position he headed several Eurosystem-wide research initiatives, including the Monetary Transmission Network and the Inflation Persistence Network.

In 2005 he was appointed Director for International Financial Affairs in Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance. In that role he also acted as G20 Finance Deputy; Deputy Governor for Italy in the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development, the Asian Development Bank and the African Development Bank; President and chairman of the Board of SACE SpA. (Italy’s state-owned export-credit insurance company); member of the Board of Directors of the European Investment Bank; member of the Supervisory Board of MTS SpA (the screen-based bond market); member of the Working Party 3 of OECD; member of the Bellagio group.

In 2008 he moved back to the ECB as Advisor to the Executive Board, then Director General for Macro-Prudential Policy and Financial Stability. In this position he coordinated the ECB negotiation and preparation for the banking union.

In March 2014 he joined the Supervisory Board of the ECB.

A Fellow of Bruegel (the Brussels think-tank), in his career Ignazio held teaching positions at the University of Pennsylvania, Bocconi and LUISS (Rome). He published books and articles published in top US and European academic refereed journals.

Ignazio and his wife Ester Faia have four children: Ferdinando, Vittoria, Sebastiano and Giorgia.

Francisco Uria

Head of Financial Services, KPMG Spain

Francisco has extensive experience on financial regulation, particularly in those areas related to the banking sector, capital markets and insurance sector. He is also a recognized specialist in antitrust law, an area in which he has published several publications.

He is currently Head of FS in KPMG Spain, Head of legal practice and during 2014 Paco has been acting as co-leader of the KPMG AQR task force at the EMA level and a member of the steering committee of the ECB office.

Francisco manages the KPMG team focused on financial and regulatory areas related to financial institutions. He has experience in financial advising regarding integration procedures of credit entities (mergers and Institutional Protection Systems), Due Diligence procedures of financial entities, banking and insurance contractual advising and in capital markets advising.

Francisco is a State Lawyer (currently leave of absence), holding in the past relevant positions in the Secretary of State of Economy, the Spanish Tax Administration and the Legal Services of the State.

He has also held charges as Technical General Secretary of the Infrastructure Ministry (1999-2000), Technical General Secretary of the Finance Ministry (2000-2002), Deputy Minister (Subsecretario) of the Ministry of Finance (2002-2004), General Vice Secretary and Chief of the Legal Department in the Spanish Banking Association (AEB) (2004–2010).

He has also assumed charges as Deputy General Secretary and Head of Legal and Tax of the AEB and member the European Banking Federation Legal Committee (2004-2010), Chairman of the AEB Tax Committee and member of the European Banking Federation Fiscal Committee (2005-2010).

He has been Director, amongst others, of the National Industries Participations Corporation (SEPI), of AENA and the GIF (currently extinguished).

He has participated in the Task Force of the European Banking Federation on Financial Crisis and chaired the AEB committee on Financial Crisis.

He has also participated in the Task Force for the OECD regarding Corporate Governance (1999), in the Fiscal Compliance Expert Group (FISCO) of the European Commission and, currently belongs to the Expert Group formed by the European Commission named "CESAME 2 Sub-Group on Fiscal Issues“.

Francisco has participated in the publication of several articles and publications related to the financial sector, highlighting his role as coordinator of the book “Régimen jurídico de los mercados de valores y de las Instituciones de Inversión Colectiva (La Ley 2007)”and his last book “Anatomía de una crisis”(2013).

Elke König

Chair, EU Single Resolution Board (SRB)

Dr Elke König had been President of the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht – BaFin) since 2012. After qualifying in Business Administration and obtaining a doctorate, Dr König spent many years working for companies in the financial and insurance sector. From 1980 to 1990, she worked for KPMG Deutsche Treuhandgesellschaft in Cologne auditing and advising insurance undertakings, from 1986 as a holder of a special statutory authority (“Prokuristin”) and from 1988 as a director and partner. From 1990 to 2002, as a member of senior management of the Munich Re Group, Dr König was Head of Accounting before moving to Hannover Rückversicherung AG as Chief Financial Officer. From 2010 to end-2011, Dr König was a member of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) in London. Dr König is a representative of the Supervisory Board of the Single Supervisory Mechanism. She is Chair of the Resolution Steering Group of the Financial Stability Board.

Cyrus Ardalan

Vice Chairman, Head of Government Relations and Public Policy, Barclays

Cyrus Ardalan is a Vice Chairman of Barclays and Head of EU and UK Public Policy and Government Relations.

Previously he was a Vice Chairman of the’ Investment Bank where he has had a variety of roles, including Head of Public Sector EEMEA, Head of Investment Banking Division, Middle East, Africa and Emerging Europe, and Head of Investment Banking Division Continental Europe.

Cyrus joined Barclays in 2000 from BNP Paribas where he held a number of senior positions between 1990 and 2000 in London and New York. These included the Global Head of Bonds, Global Head of Fixed Income Marketing and President and CEO of Paribas broker dealer in the US. Prior to this he was a Managing Director at Chemical Bank. After spending 12 years at the World Bank, in a variety of roles, including Division Chief of Treasury Operations.

Cyrus is currently Chairman of the Board of the International Capital Markets Association (ICMA) and Chairman of the British Banking Association Strategy Group. He is also an Honorary Adviser to the National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors (NAFMII) in China, and a Member of the Board of the International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm).

He has previously served as a member of the board of the Dubai International Financial Centre (Dubai's onshore banking facility) and on the Federal Reserve of New York Foreign Exchange Committee.

He is a graduate of University College London and Balliol College University of Oxford. He is a member of the Campaign Committees of both institutions. He has published a number of articles including co-authoring a book on the principals of workers self management in Yugoslavia.

Luc Vansteenkiste

Chairman , EuropeanIssuers

Luc Vansteenkiste has a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Louvain in Belgium.

He spent his whole career with Recticel, a leading producer of
polyurethane foams for furniture and industrial use, where he became CEO in 1991 and Vice President in 2010.

He was also Chairman of the Employers’ Federation of Belgium from 2002 to 2005.

He is currently President of Sioen and serves as non executive director on several boards.

He is also very active in the economic reconversion plan of the Walloon Region (Marshall Plan).

His main focus is the promotion of entrepreneurship and job creation, which requires a balanced and stable regulatory framework. In order to promote such a framework, he became Chairman of EuropeanIssuers in 2014.

David Wright

Secretary General, IOSCO

After graduating from Worcester College, Oxford in 1974 in politics, economics and philosophy (PPE) David has worked for nearly 34 years in the European Commission from 1977- 2011. He held a variety of posts including at the beginning of his career responsibility for oil and gas data in the Statistical Office, Luxembourg (1977-1981) during the second oil crisis; energy policy coordination and modelling in the Directorate General for Energy, Brussels (1982-1987); and then industrial trade policy negotiations during the Uruguay multilateral trade round (1987-1989).

From 1989-1992 he was a member of President Delors' "Think Tank" called the "Cellule de Prospectives" where he worked on industrial policy and wrote the first Commission document on sustainable development. In this period he co-authored a book with Professor Alexis Jacquemin on the post-1992 EU political and economic agenda called "Shaping factors, shaping actors".

From 1993-1994 he was a member of Sir Leon Brittans' Cabinet and worked on various aspects of trade and industrial policy, including completion of the Uruguay Round in 1994. In 1995 he became an Adviser to President Jacques Santer in his Cabinet – covering competitiveness, industrial and telecom policies, political relations with the UK and Ireland, financial services, risk capital and various other trade and foreign policy briefs.

From March 2000 – October 2010 he was first Director, then Deputy Director-General for securities and financial markets, then for all financial services policy in DG Internal Market and Services. He helped design and drive forward the Financial Services Action Plans to integrate the EU's capital and financial services markets. He was the rapporteur for both the Lamfalussy (2000/1) and De LaRosière Committees (2008/9), chaired the Securities and Banking Committees and represented the Commission in the Financial Services Committee and in various FSB/G20 fora. He also played a leading role in the EU-US financial markets dialogue in this period.

He was the EU Visiting Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford until July 2011 and was a Member of the European Commission's Task force on Greece until the end of January 2012.

David Wright’s appointment as Secretary General of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) commenced on 15 March 2012.

Mats Isaksson

Head of Corporate Affairs, OECD

Mr. Mats Isaksson is Head of the Corporate Affairs division at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). His responsibilities include corporate governance, state-owned enterprises, equity markets, company law, privatisation, dispute resolution and other policy areas of importance to a sound and dynamic business environment. Mats Isaksson participated in the development of the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance and was in charge of the comprehensive revision of the Principles in 2004. He also led the work to develop the OECD Guidelines for Corporate Governance of State Owned Enterprises and initiated the OECD’s work on The State in the Market Place. Mr. Isaksson has extensive experience from working with both OECD and Key Partner countries. Recently, his work has focused on corporate governance and the financial crisis and a new OECD initiative on Corporate Governance, Value Creation and Growth. The aim is to ensure that equity markets can serve the needs of the real economy and provide access to capital for innovations and growth companies. Mats Isaksson serves on the Advisory Board of the Centre for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership at Columbia University and is Senior Visiting Fellow at the Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law. He is a founding Director of the Swedish Corporate Governance Forum and a member of the European Corporate Governance Institute.

Larry Thompson

Vice Chairman and General Counsel, DTCC

Larry Thompson is Vice Chairman of DTCC, General Counsel of DTCC and Chairman of the Board of DTCC Deriv/SERV LLC. As Vice Chairman, Thompson serves as a senior advisor to the organization with responsibility for engagement with the global regulatory community and senior policymakers on relevant business issues impacting the company. As General Counsel, Thompson is responsible for all legal and regulatory activities of DTCC and its subsidiaries, with oversight of the Legal, Compliance, Government Relations and Regulatory Relations departments.

Thompson began his legal career with The Depository Trust Company (DTC) as Associate Counsel in 1981. He was elected Vice President and Deputy General Counsel in 1991, Senior Vice President in 1993, General Counsel of DTC in 1999, Managing Director and First Deputy General Counsel of DTCC in 2004, and was named to his current position in 2005. Previously, he was a partner in Lake, Bogan, Lenoir, Jones & Thompson. Thompson began his legal career at Davis Polk & Wardwell.

Thompson is a 2005 David Rockefeller Fellow and also former Chairman of the Securities Clearing Group and former Co-Chairman of the Unified Clearing Group. He also serves as an Independent Director on the Board of Directors of The Federal Home Loan Bank of New York (FHLBNY).

Nicolas Véron

Senior Fellow, Bruegel, Belgium and Visiting Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington DC

Nicolas Véron is a scholar both at Bruegel, which he cofounded in 2002-04, and at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, which he joined in 2009. His research is primarily about the economics and political economy of financial systems and financial services policy. A graduate of France’s Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines, his earlier experience was in the French government and private sector. He is also an independent board member of the global derivatives trade repository arm of DTCC, a financial infrastructure company that operates on a non-profit basis. He has been a witness at parliamentary hearings in the US Senate, European Parliament, and in several European member states; a financial policy expert for the European Commission and Court of Auditors; and a consultant to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. In September 2012, Bloomberg Markets included Véron in its annual 50 Most Influential list, with reference to his early advocacy of European banking union.

Roger Hollingsworth

Executive Vice President and Managing Director, Global Government Relations, Managed Funds Association

Roger Hollingsworth is the Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Global Government Relations for Managed Funds Association and is responsible for the development, implementation, and execution of MFA’s advocacy and outreach efforts before domestic and international policy makers.

Prior to joining MFA, Roger served as the deputy staff director and senior policy advisor for the U.S. Senate Banking Committee under then-Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D-CT) where he, among other responsibilities, helped shepherd the Committee’s policy agenda throughout the 110th Congress, including coordinating the Committee’s legislative and policy response during the earliest stages of the mortgage, credit, and financial crisis, which led to the Committee’s eventual development, and passage, of the landmark Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform legislation. In addition to his work on behalf of Chairman Dodd, Roger spent nearly a decade on Capitol Hill; including stints as deputy chief of staff, legislative director, and senior committee aide to several other United States Senators, including Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY).

A native New Yorker, Roger received his B.A. from the University at Albany, State University of New York, and did his graduate work at the University of Maryland.

Martin Merlin

Director, DG Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, European Commission

Mr. Merlin studied political science, economics and philosophy in Paris.

He has lectured on financial services at the European College of Parma (Italy) and at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Paris).

He started his career at the French Treasury, where he worked in the International Monetary and Financial affairs unit.

In 1997 he joined the European Commission, initially working on insurance and pension funds issues in DG Internal Market and Services; then progressing in 2000 to the position of Assistant to the Director General before joining the Cabinet of Commissioner Charlie McCreevy in 2004. Within Cabinet his responsibilities included banking, insurance, payments, retail financial services and coordination with DGs, including DG Economic Affairs.

In 2008, he returned to DG Internal Market and Services as the Head of Unit responsible for Financial Services Policy and Relations with the Council. This unit, in addition to working alongside the Deputy Director General and assisting in the coordination work across three Directorates (Capital & Companies, Financial Markets, Financial Institutions), has been responsible, inter alia, for defining and implementing the European Commission's policy in the area of financial supervision and the response to the global financial crisis. Notable actions have included the establishment of the European Supervisory Authorities and the Single Supervisory Mechanism.

In July 2014 Mr Merlin has been appointed Director for Financial Markets within DG Internal Market and Services, with responsibility over securities markets, post-trading infrastructures, asset management and economic analysis of financial markets.

In January 2015, following the appointment of the Juncker Commission, the Directorate General has been re-structured and renamed; DG for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union.

Yann Le Pallec

Executive Managing Director EMEA Ratings Services, Standard & Poor’s

Yann Le Pallec is Executive Managing Director, Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services in EMEA. Based in Paris, Yann is responsible for Standard & Poor’s market leading credit ratings business in EMEA, which covers more than 1,000 companies, financial institutions, insurers, public sector entities and sovereigns in the region, as well as some 8000 structured transactions. He is also a member of the Standard & Poor’s Executive Committee.

Yann leads a team of over 500 Ratings Analysts and support staff operating from 12 offices: Paris, London, Frankfurt, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Stockholm, Dubai, Johannesburg, Tel Aviv, Istanbul and Warsaw.

Before his current role, Yann was Head of EMEA Corporate and Government Ratings, after occupying various managerial and analytical positions in the Insurance and Sovereign & Public Sector groups. Before joining S&P in 1999, he was a Senior Manager with the Paris-based audit firm Salustro Reydel.

Yann holds a master’s degree in Business from Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economique et Commerciales (ESSEC) in France.

John Houston

Senior Partner, Kreab

John is a senior public affairs consultant who has been at the cutting edge of EU financial services policy issues for over two decades. He has advised many of the world’s largest companies and financial institutions on EU matters. Previously, John was a member of the Cabinet of the European Commissioner responsible for financial services, a political journalist, and a Special Adviser to the British Foreign Minister. He was the founding chairman of the European Public Affairs Consultancies Association and the author of the Code of Conduct which now underpins EU consultancy business.

Stefano Micossi

Director General, Assonime

Current positions
Director General, Assonime (since April 1999) [Assonime is a business association and private think tank active in corporate law, capital markets, company taxation, competition and regulation polices, IPR]
Professor at the College of Europe, Department of Economics (since 1991) [course on the EU Internal Market and Accompanying Policies]

Other positions
Member of the Board of Directors of CIR Group (since 2009)
Member of the Board of Directors and audit committee of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro – BNP Paribas (since 2006)
Member of the Board of Directors and Executive committee of EuropeanIssuers, the European association of listed companies (since 2009)
Member of the Board of Directors of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels (since 2005)
Member of the Corporate Governance Committee of the Milan Stock Exchange
Member and Coordinator of the scientific committee of Confindustria, the Confederation of Italian Industry (since 2008)
Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the LUISS School of European Political Economy (SEP, since 2013)
Member of the Board of Directors and Treasurer of the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation in Brussels (since 2003)
Founding member and coordinator of EuropEos, an association of leading journalists, jurists, economists and political scientists created in 2003 to foster the European construction

Former positions
Chairman of the Board, CIR Group (April 2009 – April 2013)
Director General for Industry at the European Commission (1995-1998)
Director of Economic Research of Confindustria (1988-1994)
Economist (1972-78), Head of Office (1980-85), Assistant Director and then Acting Director (1987-88) of the International Division of the Bank of Italy’s Research Department
Chairman of the Alternates of the Monetary Committee of the European Community
Assistant to the executive director for Italy, IMF (1978-80)

Publications
Has published extensively in national and international economic journals on macro-economics, international economics and European economic and policy affairs
Has written influential Policy Briefs for CEPS and Vox-Eu, editorial comments for Il Sole 24 Ore, La Stampa, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal Europe, La Voce, Project Syndicate, and at present collaborates regularly with La Repubblica – Affari e Finanza.
Co-author of two papers on the EU Budget, “A new budget for the European Union?, (with Alfonso Iozzo, Maria Teresa Salvemini and CEPS, May 2008); “A Better Budget for the European Union - More Value for Money More Money for Value” (with Daniel Gros and CEPS, February 2005).
Co-author of three widely read pamphlets on the financial crisis, “Keep it simple: Policy responses to the financial crisis” (with Carmine Di Noia, Assonime and CEPS, March 2009), “Overcoming too big to fail – A regulatory framework to limit moral hazard and free riding in the financial sector” (with Jacopo Carmassi and Elisabetta Luchetti, Assonime and CEPS, March 2010), “Time to set banking regulation right” (with Jacopo Carmassi), CEPS, March 2012

Education
Degree in Law, Università degli Studi di Milano (1971)
MA (1973) and MPhil (1974), Yale University Graduate School of Economics

Stephen Fidler

Brussels Editor, The Wall Street Journal

Stephen Fidler has been Brussels Editor of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires since October 2009. He runs a bureau of 11 journalists and leads coverage from Brussels of the European Union and the euro zone as well as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He writes a regular column and was part of a team of Journal reporters named as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for their reporting on the euro-zone debt crisis.

Before joining the Journal in London in March 2009, he spent 22 years with the Financial Times in senior roles, including international capital markets editor, Latin America Editor, defence and security editor, and U.S. diplomatic editor. In the latter role, he was based in Washington DC.

He spent almost a decade as a correspondent for Reuters in London, New York and the Middle East. His first job in journalism was with a group of English newspapers in his native Lincolnshire. He holds a degree in economics from London University, and was formerly a senior consulting fellow for the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Peter Spiegel

Brussels Bureau Chief, Financial Times

Peter Spiegel is the Brussels bureau chief for the Financial Times, overseeing the London-based newspaper’s coverage of the European economic crisis and Europe’s role in global affairs. In 2012 and 2013, Peter and his team won back-to-back Society of American Business Writers and Editors awards for their coverage of the eurozone debt crisis.

Peter returned to the FT in August 2010 after spending nearly five years in Washington, first as Pentagon correspondent of the Los Angeles Times and then as senior national security correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. In both jobs, Peter covered foreign policy and military affairs with a special focus on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, traveling frequently overseas, including multiple visits to both war zones.

While at the Los Angeles Times, he was co-winner of the newspaper’s top internal journalism award, the 2008 Editor’s Prize, for his coverage of the Bush administration’s surge in Iraq.

Peter joined the L.A. Times in March 2006 after spending four years as the FT’s defense correspondent, heading the newspaper’s coverage of military policy and the defense industry. In that position, Peter oversaw the FT’s reporting of the military build-up and initial invasion of Iraq from the newspaper's Washington bureau before moving to London, where he spent three years at the newspaper’s headquarters, traveling frequently to Iraq and Afghanistan to cover the ongoing conflicts.