Founding member, Board member and Secretary and Chairman for the Foreign Exchange Professionals Association FXPA, 2015-16 link www.fxpa.org Initial member for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Foreign Exchange Subcommittee 2008-14 Advisory Board Member for the new Wealth Preservation Unit (WPU), a FTSE benchmark Former Regent for CFA Institute's Financial Analyst Seminar Board Former Global Pensions 100 Panel and Awards Judge Interests include any application of currency to international investing, derivative transactions and cross currency exposures. Specialties: Published papers: • A Framework to Determine a Currency Hedge Ratio as a chapter in a Risk Waters book, " Currency Management: Overlay and Alpha Trading” • Currency Return Attribution for International Fixed Income and Equity as a chapter in a Risk Waters book “Foreign Exchange: A Practitioner’s Approach to the Market” • Establishing Benchmarks for Currency, The Disentangling of Currency Returns - The Journal of Performance Measurement, Winter 2008/2009, 50th Issue.