Institutional Innovations for G-20 Summits
The New Dynamics of Summitry: Institutional Innovations for G-20 Summits Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 3:30 pm - 9:00 pm Thursday, April 22, 2010, 9:00 am – 9:00 pm The Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC, 20036 Participant Biographies Liaquat Ahamed Liaquat Ahamed has been Director of Aspen Insurance Holdings since October 31, 2007. Mr. Ahamed has a background in investment management with leadership roles that include heading the World Bank's investment division. From 2004, Mr. Ahamed has been an adviser to the Rock Creek Group, an investment firm based in Washington D.C. From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Ahamed was the Chief Executive Officer of Fischer Francis Trees & Watts, Inc., a subsidiary of BNP Paribas specializing in institutional single and multi-currency fixed income investment portfolios. He is also the author of Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World. Mr. Ahamed is a Board member of the Rohatyn Group, and a member of the Board of Trustees at the Brookings Institution. Martin Albrow Martin Albrow is senior visiting fellow at LSE Global Governance, a centre of the London School of Economics. Emeritus professor of the University of Wales he was formerly President of the British Sociological Association, Erich Voegelin visiting professor in the University of Munich and Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars, Washington, DC. An internationally recognized sociologist, he is author of The Global Age: State and Society Beyond Modernity, Stanford University Press, 1997, Max Weber's Construction of Social Theory, MacMillan, 1990, and Sociology: The Basics, Routledge, 1999, among other works.
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