Shifting Power: Eastern Europe's Impact on Geopolitics, Trade, and Financial Markets

Fiona Mullen has been providing in-depth and independent economic and political analysis for well over 20 years. She founded Sapienta Economics Ltd in 2006 and is the author of the flagship monthly Sapienta Country Analysis Cyprus. Clients include international institutions, oil and gas majors, big four accounting firms, institutional investors, banks and more than a dozen embassies. Mullen is a registered holder of the Advanced Exam Certificate of CySEC, Cyprus’ financial regulator.

Hannah joined Sanlam as global equity investment analyst in September 2015, providing insight and input into the research process and strategy discussions in a team covering both funds and discretionary segregated mandates totalling $1.5 billion across the Global High Quality strategy. She is a regular on Bloomberg TV, CNBC and Sky.
Hannah was awarded Investment Week’s ‘Young Investment Woman of the Year’ 2018.

Gregory is an alternative asset management specialist with 20+ years of experience crafting complex multi-strategies for international markets and venture capital funding, an avid Decentralised Finance researcher, and an E-money 2.0 directive advocate.
As an expert in liquid and digital alternatives, as well as more traditional portfolio investments, Gregory now aims to shift stakeholders' mindsets to embrace cryptocurrency technologies.

Nick Kissack is a UK and EU equity portfolio manager at Schroders. He joined Schroders in 2018 and is based in London. He was a Portfolio Manager at Janus Henderson from 2014 to 2018, involved in Pan-European long-only and long-short funds. Nick is a CFA Charterholder and has a BSc in Economics & Finance from the University of York.

David Buik was appointed as a Member of the order of the British Empire in 2016 for his services to Financial Services. He is a businessman and financial pundit for the BBC and other British, American and Australian television channels and radio stations.He has appeared as a financial pundit on the BBC, Bloomberg Television, CNN International ABC News (Australia) and LBC Radio.

Arnab joined Invesco in 2015 as Head of EM macro research for Invesco Fixed Income. He began his career in finance in 1992 and has served as Co-head of Economic Research & Strategy at Roubini Global Economics; Co-head of Global Economics & Strategy, Head of Global FX Research, and Head of EM Economics & Strategy at Dresdner Kleinwort; and Head of EEMEA Research at JP Morgan.

Bryn is the head of fixed income for Rathbones and is lead manager on the Rathbone Ethical Bond Fund and the Rathbone Strategic Bond Fund. He joined Rathbones in November 2004 from Merrill Lynch, where he managed $2 billion of fixed income assets.