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Scientific Committee

1 & 2 JULY – BUSH HOUSE, KING’S COLLEGE LONDON

David Aikman

Director of the Qatar Centre for Global Banking & Finance (King’s College London)

David joined King’s Business School in April 2020 as Professor of Finance and Director of the Qatar Centre for Global Banking & Finance. Previously, he spent 17 years working as an economist at the Bank of England – most recently in the role of Technical Head of Division in the Financial Stability Strategy and Risk Directorate where he led the Bank’s work on various macroprudential issues.

Between 2013 and 2015, David was seconded to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington DC, where he worked as an advisor in the Division of Financial Stability. In 2008, David was a Visiting Scholar at the Bank of Japan’s Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies. David has represented the Bank in various international fora, including meetings of the Financial Stability Board, the Basel Committee, and the European Systemic Risk Board.

Rhys Bidder

Deputy Director of the Qatar Centre for Global Banking & Finance

Rhys is Deputy Director of the Qatar Centre for Global Banking & Finance and a Senior Lecturer in Finance at King’s Business School. His research interests are both applied and theoretical, focusing on macroeconomic policy, banking, financial regulation and, more recently, crypto and CBDC. Rhys began his career at the San Francisco Fed, after a PhD at NYU, and has since taught at various universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, before settling at KBS.