later Reuters Breakingviews, where she covered investment banking. Margaret has commented on finance and current affairs for a variety of news organisations, including BBC radio and television, America’s NBC and NPR networks, Japan's NHK, Ireland's RTE and Newstalk, Sky News and CNN. She has guest-presented several flagship current affairs programmes for the BBC. Margaret has addressed and chaired conferences on economic and financial subjects hosted by Economist Conferences, the European Commission, the Financial Services Authority, the Insurance Institute of Ireland, Commonfund, Trinity College, Dublin, Holland Financial Centre, Enterprise Ireland, ING and Procter & Gamble. Margaret read economics at Trinity College, Dublin. She earned a Masters in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School. She has served on the HBS European Leadership Council since its creation in 2003.
Martin Gilbert, Chief Executive Officer, Aberdeen Asset Management Martin Gilbert is a co-founder and Chief Executive of Aberdeen Asset Management PLC, the holding company of the fund management group that was established in 1983. Martin was appointed Chairman of the Prudential Regulation Authority's Practitioner Panel in December 2013. He sits on the UK Treasury’s Financial Services Trade and Investment Board and the Scottish Government’s Financial Services Advisory Board. He is also a member of the International Advisory Panel of the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the International Advisory Board of British American Business. Martin is also a non-executive director of British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC. Martin, who was born in Malaysia, was educated in Aberdeen and has an MA in Accountancy and an LLB. He divides his time between Aberdeen, where the business has always been headquartered, and London, as well as overseeing the international operations of the Group.
John Griffith-Jones, Chairman, Financial Conduct Authority John Griffith-Jones became Chairman of the new Financial Conduct Authority in April 2013. He previously joined the FSA Board as a Non-executive Director and Deputy Chairman on 1 September 2012. John worked at KPMG from 1975 to 2012. He spent eleven years in Audit and fifteen years in Corporate Finance before becoming CEO of KPMG’s UK firm and subsequently Chairman and Senior Partner of the UK in 2006. In 2007 John became Joint Chairman of KPMG Europe. John is currently Vice Chairman of the National Numeracy Trust, whose role is to promote numeracy across all parts of society. He is a Council Member of Heart of the City. He sits on the Advisory Board of the Cambridge Judge Business School. He studied Economics at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was the Chairman of the Every Child a Chance Trust, a special purpose charity which completed a major project, in collaboration with the Government, on numeracy in primary schools.
Huw Jones, European Regulation Correspondent, Thomson Reuters Huw is based in London and covers European and UK regulatory issues and global rulemaking bodies such as the G20, Financial Stability Board, IOSCO, IASB and the Basel Committee. He has covered EU regulation in Brussels, the emergence panEuropean stock markets, and has also been a Wall Street reporter in New York.
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