Pablo Antolin, Principal Economist and Head of the Private Pensions Unit, Deputy Head Consumer Finance, Insurance, Pensions (CFIP) Division, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Pablo Antolin is Principal Economist, Head of the Private Pensions Unit and Deputy Head of the OECD Financial Affairs Division. He manages the research and policy programme of the OECD Working Party on Private Pensions (http://www.oecd.org/daf/fin/private-pensions/), WPPP, a body that brings together policymakers, regulators and the private sector of almost 40 countries around the world. His work covers issues related to the operation and regulation of funded retirement income systems.

The WPPP work aims at providing policy makers with policy guidelines to improve retirement outcomes. It focuses on the design of funded pension systems, its contribution to retirement income adequacy, and the regulatory framework. The work includes collecting and disseminating standardised pension fund statistics, the OECD Core Principles of Private Pension Regulation, and the OECD Roadmap for the Good Design of DC Pension Plans. The main publications are the OECD Pensions Outlook, Pension Markets in Focus and Pension Reviews and monographs on specific retirement issues.

Pablo Antolin has a PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford and an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Alicante (Spain).

Chair of PensionsEurope and Chair of the Board of Centraal Beheer APF, Netherlands.

Janwillem Bouma studied Business Economics at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.

He is the Chair of PensionsEurope since 2015. He is also member of the Board of the Federation of Dutch Pension Funds since 2014, Chair of the Board of Centraal Beheer Algemeen Pensioenfonds (APF) since 2019 and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Stichting Pensioenfonds Hoogovens since 2019.

Janwillem was a member of the Occupational Pensions Stakeholder Group (OPSG) of EIOPA during the period 2015 - 2018. He also worked at Royal Dutch Shell and Montae & Partners until 2019.

Head of Economic Analysis of BBVA Research, Spain

Rafael Doménech is the Head of Economic Analysis of BBVA Research and Professor of Economics at the University of Valencia. MSc in Economics, London School of Economics. PhD in Economics, University of Valencia. Director General at the Economic Bureau of the Spanish Prime Minister (2007-8). He also has been director of the International Economic Institute and member of the Advisory Board of the University of Valencia. External researcher of the Spanish Ministry of the Economy and Finance and the Fundación Rafael del Pino. He was appointed by the Spanish Government as a member of the Expert Committee on the Sustainability Factor of the Public Pension System.

Fellow of the Spanish Economy Association. He has been member of the editorial boards of the main Spanish journals in Economics. He has published numerous articles in well-known international scientific journals on economic growth, human capital, business cycles, and fiscal and monetary policies. He is author of two books on the Spanish economy: The Spanish Economy: A General Equilibrium Perspective (Palgrave MacMillan) and En Busca de la Prosperidad and La Era de la Disrupción Digital (Deusto).

Chairperson of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA).

Petra is EIOPA Chairperson and is leading the Authority since September 2021. On 27 May 2021 the Council adopted the decision to appoint her after the confirmation by the European Parliament on 18 May 2021.

Prior to that role she was Division Director Insurance Supervision at De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB, the Dutch Central Bank). The division is responsible for the supervision of the Dutch insurance sector. Petra joined DNB in February 2007. In 2013 she became Head Insurance Policy. In 2015 she was appointed as Head of the DNB Expert Center for Fit & Proper testing, assessing (supervisory and management) board members in the financial sector. In February 2017 she started as Director of Payments and Market Infrastructures and was responsible for the payments and collateral operations of the central bank, oversight, policy and cyberintelligence. Also, the TIBER project (Threat Intelligence Based Ethical Red teaming) was part of her responsibilities. Prior to joining the Dutch Central Bank Petra had an international career in the oil and gas industry.

Petra was an Alternate Member of the EIOPA Board of Supervisors. She was also the Chair of the EIOPA Policy Committee.

Petra has a European Masters in Law & Economics and a Masters in Russian Studies.

Senior Economic Advisor at Amundi

Philippe Ithurbide joined Amundi Asset Management as Global Head of Research, Analysis and Strategy in July 2010 and is at present senior economic advisor (since November 2019). Philippe Ithurbide has worked at "Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec" (Montréal). A member of the Executive Committee and of the asset allocation committee, he was Executive Vice President in charge of fixed income, currency and credit portfolios, and then of multi-asset class overlay strategy and portfolios. He previously worked for Société Générale Corporate and Investment Bank as Head of Research in foreign exchange, fixed income and commodities. Member of the board of SG’s pension fund, he was in charge of asset allocation.

Philippe Ithurbide started his career as teacher/researcher. For more than 20 years he taught at several universities, in Bordeaux in particular, and at HEC Paris. He also gave lectures in Spain, in Colombia, in the US. He published theoretical papers on international finance and books such as "2010-2020: the end of traditional asset management" (Amundi Ed.), "The economic status of gold" (Eyrolles Ed.), or "French firms and foreign exchange risk: dollar versus EMS" (Economica Ed.). He also gives lectures at Dauphine University and CNAM.

Philippe Ithurbide holds a PhD in International Economics and Finance from the University of Bordeaux. He is, amongst other activities, member of the board of "OEE", (L’Observatoire de l’Epargne Européenne), an institution monitoring the European Savings, and in charge of the Asset Management working group at Finance Innovation, (Paris Europlace), which published (February 2015) a book entitled "L’innovation au centre des mutations de la gestion d’actifs" (Innovation at the center of asset management industry transformations). He is the chief editor of Amundi Discussion Papers and Amundi Working Papers series. He more recently published booklets such as "Inequality: - Pro-Piketty and Anti-Piketty: A review of the literature in 20 topics", (2021), "Globalization, growth, financial liberalization and inequality" (2021), "Reindustrialization, interventionism, sovereignty, de-globalization… How Covid-19 and iconomics transform the world" (2021), "Europe, US and China tomorrow: Will it be possible to avoid geopolitical and economic traps?" (2020), "How to discriminate Emerging Countries: "New Approaches for Classification and Typology" (2019), "Emerging Markets: Vulnerability and contagion risks... Fragile vs. anti-fragile countries" (2019), "Is inflation definitely dead or simply dormant - Consequences for central banks?" (2019), "Global Trade War: Where Do we Stand Now?" (2018), "Where will the next financial crisis come from? Are we ready to confront it?" (2018), "Megatrends and Disruptions: Consequences for Asset Management" (2017), "Real assets: what contribution to asset allocation, especially in times of crisis?" (2017).

CFA - Chief Investment Officer for Principal Portfolio Strategies, Principal Global Investors

Todd Jablonski is the chief investment officer and head of multi-asset investment strategies and solutions for Principal Global Investors. He is responsible for the business, research, and investment management of Principal Global Asset Allocation.

Jablonski oversees specialized multi-asset investment strategies and solutions, including target date, dynamic risk, outcome-oriented solutions, and bespoke multi-asset investments on behalf of global clients. He leads portfolio management, product development, and research capabilities, which include macro insights, manager research, and investment risk & analytics. He also serves as a Portfolio Manager on U.S. dynamic risk asset allocation strategies.

In addition, Jablonski is a member of Principal Global Investors’ Operating Committee. In this capacity, he contributes to the overall vision and management of Principal Global Investors, including strategic planning and execution. He also serves on the board of directors of AFP Cuprum S.A. in Santiago, Chile.

Jablonski joined Principal® in 2010. Previously, he was an Executive Director and Portfolio Manager at UBS, and prior to that, a Vice President and Portfolio Manager at Credit Suisse. He has an MBA with concentration in quantitative finance from New York University, a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Virginia, and has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Executive President, Dominican Association of Pension Fund Administrators, ADAFP.

Kirsis Jáquez is an Economist with a PhD. in Financial Administration. She is a specialist in Social Security, Pension Systems and Banking Supervision. At the beginning of the system, in 2001, she was the first Consultant in Pensions of the National Council of Social Security (CNSS). She was a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), specialized in Social Security for the IDB project managed by the Executive Commission for Health Sector Reform (CERSS), under which she prepared the "First Manual of Pensions of the Dominican Republic", based on Law 87-01 that created the Dominican Social Security System.

She participates as an international speaker on the Dominican pension system and the individual capitalization model in pensions and has moderated various international seminars on the subject in Latin America and Europe. In the exercise of her functions as Executive President of ADAFP, she assumes the following representative positions:

• Member of the Technical Commission on Disability (CTD) for Old Age, Disability and Survival Insurance (SVDS) in the Superintendency of Pensions (SIPEN).

• Representative of the ADAFP before the Special Commissions designated by the National Council of Social Security (CNSS), before the SIPEN.

• Member of the Inter-Institutional Pension Committee (CIP) of the Dominican Social Security System.

• Member of the Board of Directors of the Employers' Confederation of the Dominican Republic (COPARDOM).

• Representative of the ADAFP in the National Council of Private Enterprise (CONEP).

• Delegate of the Dominican Republic for ADAFP before the International Federation of Pension Fund Administrators (FIAP).

Vice President of Liaison, Mexican Association of Retirement Fund Administrators (AMAFORE)

María de las Nieves has a degree in Economics from the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico and has a Master's degree in Comparative Public Policy from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences.

She has worked in various institutions specializing in communication and financial education, in particular for the Mexican Association of Retirement Fund Administrators (AMAFORE), where she is currently Vice President of Liaison and, previously, for the National Banking and Securities Commission of Mexico and the National Bank of Foreign Trade.

She was a consultant in communication and financial education in projects for the Stock Exchanges in Mexico, the National Entrepreneur Institute, economic development NGOs and AMAFORE itself.

Partner and Head of Investment Strategies at Compass Group

Jimena Llosa is a partner and Head of Investment Strategy at Compass Group. She has worked in this company since 1997, where in the beginning she was responsible for the development of the institutional client’s division of the Chile office. Before joining the firm, she was a Sales Trader at the Latin American stock table at Banco Santander London and previously held a similar function for Chilean stocks at Santander Investment Chile. She also worked as a Chilean equity analyst for Grupo Santander Chile and prior to that she was an economic analyst at Apoyo Publicaciones in Lima, Peru.

Jimena Llosa has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Universidad del Pacífico in Lima, Peru.

Acting Director, OECD Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs

Mathilde Mesnard is Acting Director of the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs (DAF) of the OECD since August 2021. In this capacity, Mesnard ensures that DAF’s analysis and advice remains at the forefront of policy thinking, promotes economic growth and social progress and fully reflects the multidimensional nature of the OECD, providing intellectual leadership, co-ordination and management.

Mesnard was a Deputy Director of DAF from 2016-2021, with responsibility for the policy areas of anti-corruption, corporate governance and responsible business conduct, in addition to supporting the co-ordination and management of DAF's programme of work and Committees.

From 2013 to 2016, she was Co-ordinator of the New Approaches to Economic Challenges (NAEC) Initiative where she supported the development of multiple innovative projects across the Organisation, promoting new approaches with an impact on OECD analytical work, data collection and publications. Prior to this, Mesnard was Senior Advisor to the Secretary-General and Counsellor in the Office of Sustainable Development Goals (OSG) where she supported the delivery of the Strategic Agenda of the Secretary-General, including in the preparation of the Ministerial Council Meetings, advancement of relationship with key partners, and the OECD Accession Process. She also supported the development of the CleanGovBiz Project, a strategic horizontal initiative on anti-corruption and integrity.

From 2001 to 2009, Mesnard worked in the Corporate Affairs Division of DAF where she led and contributed to a number of projects on corporate governance in South-East Europe, the Russian Federation, Asia and China, and developed the OECD Guidelines on corporate governance of SOEs.

Mesnard is a French national and holds a degree in Philosophy, a Master’s Degree in Finance and an MBA from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris. She received her PhD in Economics from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

Professor at York University, Toronto, and Managing Director, at Pi Longevity Extension Corp., Florida

Moshe A. Milevsky is a professor of finance at the Schulich School of Business, a member of the Graduate Faculty in Mathematics and Statistics at York University in Toronto, and a Fellow of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences.

He has published 14 books, translated into 6 languages, and over sixty peer-reviewed scholarly papers. His (2017) book: King William’s Tontine: Why the Retirement Annuity of the Future Should Resemble Its Past, published by Cambridge University, was given the Kulp-Wright Award, for the most important contribution to insurance by the American Risk and Insurance Association. In addition to scholarly work, he has written hundreds of articles and blog pieces, published in outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, National Post and Globe and Mail. Other of his recent books are Retirement Income Recipes in R. (2020), and In Defense of Annuities: From Accumulation to Decumulation (2021).

Moshe is also a fin-tech entrepreneur with a number of U.S. patents and computational innovations in retirement income modeling. In 2014 he sold his FinTech start-up company to CANNEX Financial Exchanges and was named by Investment Advisor magazine as one of 35 most influential people in the U.S. financial advisory business in the last 35 years.

President of ASOFONDOS, Colombia

Economist from the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, with a master's degree in economics from the same university; MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and PhD from the University of Oxford.

President of the Colombian Association of Pension and Unemployment Fund Administrators (ASOFONDOS) and president of the Colombian Trade Union Council. He was a member of the council of ministers of the Colombian government as director of the National Planning Department.

At present, he chairs the Board of Directors of the multinational ISA, he is a member of the Superior Council of the Universidad de los Andes; of the Board of Directors of the Stock Exchange, BVC, of the Board of Directors of the Securities Market Self-Regulator (AMV).

Partner and Director of Pensumo, Spain

Social Entrepreneur and First Aragonese Prize for Social Entrepreneurship (2018). From 2000 to 2010 he worked as a Marketing Technician at El Corte Inglés, considered in that decade “The Temple of Consumption”. He is the author of 28 books on Bibliophilia and History. Artisan publisher of the Libroraro label. Buho Award from the Aragón Library in 2009.

Trained in the marketing area, he has given talks and conferences at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, at the University of Zaragoza and also in private master's degrees in Communication, Marketing and Corporate Social Responsibility. Mentor in the Spanish Association of Mentoring and Consulting.

In 2013 he founded Pensumo and surrounded himself with a group of professionals from different fields, together with whom he is currently working to implement a personal savings model for retirement, based on micropayments to the daily actions we carry out. 2014 Future Commercial Distribution Award from IE Business School-Accenture. He has traveled to Panama, Mexico and the Dominican Republic to seek formulas for financial integration and banking in emerging countries. In July 2017, the European Commission granted the Pensumo project the “Seal of Excellence” and in 2017 it financed it for its innovation on the topic: “New business models for societies, inclusive, thoughtful and innovative”. In 2021, the first call of the Ministry of Economy of Spain, to the Financial Sandbox admits the project “Pension for Consumption” in alliance with Ibercaja.

Head of Product at the Swedish pension fund Alecta

Fredrik Palm is a strong product management professional with a M.Sc. focused in Mathematical Statistics, Actuarial science, Finance from Stockholm university, Sweden. Currently he is Head of Product at the biggest Swedish pension fund, Alecta. He has a demonstrated history of working in the insurance industry, and he is skilled in financial risk, risk management, life insurance and pension funds.

Spanish-Argentine Ph.D. in Economics, member of the National Academy of Economic Sciences of Argentina and professor of History of Economic Thought at the Complutense University of Madrid

Carlos Rodríguez Braun is an expert in economic thought and liberalism with international recognition for his publications and conferences. This Spanish-Argentine Ph.D. in Economics is characterized by combining academic rigor with an outreach effort. He is a member of the National Academy of Economic Sciences of Argentina and professor of History of Economic Thought at the Complutense University of Madrid, and combines the publication of books and academic articles with collaboration with written and audiovisual media.

He is a reference and creator of opinion on the economic, political and social reality, as well as a defender of globalization and liberalism. In the journalistic side of him, his positions of director of Economic Spain and deputy director of Cambio 16 and of the television program El Valor del Dinero de La2 stand out.

He is currently a columnist for La Razón, Expansión, Libertad Digital and participates daily in Onda Cero Radio. He has published articles in prestigious journals such as History of Political Economy, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought or the Journal des Économistes et des Études Humaines, and is also an evaluator and serves on the advisory boards of scientific publications in Spain and other countries.

In addition, he is the author of about twenty books and a translator of economic science figures such as Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, John Maynard Keynes, and Friedrich A. von Hayek.

With forty years of academic and professional career, he has received different awards for his work, such as the Honor Award from the Diego de Covarrubias Center (2018), the Juan de Mariana (2013), the Exemplary Outreach Award (Red Know Square, 2013) , Libre Empresa (Fundación Rafael del Pino, 2010), 1812 (Club Liberal 1812, 2009) and the Salamanca School Award (El Club de los Fridays, 2020).

Expert in Public Communication

Rafael Rubio is a Doctor in Constitutional Law, Full Professor and Director of the Research Group on participation and new technologies at the Complutense University of Madrid and at the University of Navarra.

He has taught graduate classes at more than 20 universities around the world. From the Dogcomunicación company, he has advised international organizations, governments, parties, foundations, and social, educational and religious institutions around the world.

He has worked in more than 30 electoral campaigns of all kinds in Spain and America and has also advised different international NGOs on digital communication and social mobilization, among other activities.

Head Iberia & Latam at Pictet Asset Management, Spain

Gonzalo Rengifo has a degree in economic and business sciences from CUNEF (University College of Financial Studies) in Madrid, Spain, having taken various financial specialization courses.

With extensive experience of more than 20 years in the financial sector, Gonzalo joined Pictet in 2002 as head of Pictet Asset Management Spain and covers Iberia and Latin America. He started as an analyst and portfolio manager at Safei in 1988, later holding various positions of responsibility in the Private Banking area as Director at Banco Urquijo, and as Deputy Director General at Schroders in Spain.

Gonzalo is a frequent contributor to radio and television specializing in economics.

Global Director for Social Protection and Jobs, World Bank

Michal Rutkowski holds an M.Sc. and Ph.D from Warsaw School of Economics and finished his post-graduate studies at the London School of Economics and Harvard Business School. He also graduated from the Leadership for Collective Intelligence program run by Dialogos in 2010.

He is currently is the Global Director for Social Protection and Jobs – overseeing the World Bank Global Practice responsible for protecting poor and vulnerable from shocks through improving their job opportunities, earning capacity, and social insurance and social assistance (safety net) coverage. Until July 2016, he was the Director for Multilateral Organizations, and prior to that the Country Director for the Russian Federation and the Resident Representative in Moscow for three years.   In the period 2004-12, he was Sector Director for Human Development in the Middle East and North Africa and then South Asia regions of the World Bank.

Before 1996, after a brief period of work on Africa and China, he worked extensively on social insurance and labor market issues in transition economies and as a country economist for Russia and after taking a leave from the Bank, returned as Sector Manager for social protection between 1998-2004, where he led a team of professionals working on pensions, labor market and social assistance reforms in 28 countries of Central and Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union, as well as in Turkey.

During his leave from the World Bank in the period 1996-98 he helped design and implement the new Polish pension system while serving as the Director of the Office for Social Security Reform.  He also taught at the Institute of Economic Policy at the Warsaw School of Economics.

Rutkowski’s published work covers among others, issues on labor markets and social security. He was a core team member of the 2015 World Development Report “Workers in an Integrated World”- the World Bank’s annual flagship research publication.