Speakers of the Investment Week US Investment Focus 2008

Hon. Dr. Philippa Malmgren

President

Canonbury Group

Dr. Philippa Malmgren is the President of the Canonbury Group (www.canonburygroup.com), a financial services firm based in London, which provides strategic market advisory services. Dr. Malmgren regularly visits with leading policy-makers in the US, Europe and Asia in order to discern how the global political and policy environment may influence prices in financial markets and the global economy. Her clients include the investment committees of many of the world’s largest investment banks, traditional and hedge fund managers, pension funds and corporations. She is the Founder and Publisher of the quarterly Policy & Markets (www.policyandmarkets.com), which is syndicated with Reuters, and the monthly Policy & Markets Reports. She also writes a column for Incisive Media’s Hedge Fund publications.

Dr. Malmgren has worked both in markets and in public policy roles. She served as the financial market advisor in the White House during the dot.com bubble burst and the Enron period. She had served as the Deputy Head of Global Investment Strategy at UBS and as the Chief Currency Strategist for Bankers Trust Company. She is now on the International Advisory Board of The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, and the International Advisory Board for EFG Bank, Bourne Park Capital and Old Square Capital. She a Governor of the Ditchley Foundation in the UK.

She has a B.A. from Mount Vernon College and an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. She has also completed the Harvard Program on National Security. The World Economic Forum in Davos named Dr. Malmgren a Global Leader for Tomorrow in 2000. She is a member of the Economic Club of New York, the Council on Foreign Relations, Chatham House and the Institute for International Strategic Security. She has lectured at Tsinghua University in Beijing and at various universities including Duke Fuqua Global Executive MBA program, IMD and the MIT Sloan Fellows Program, Oxford, LSE and West Point. She has been a frequent guest on financial television including CNN, CNBC and Bloomberg and a regular speaker at investor and business conferences including Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in Business, the World Economic Forum, Euromoney and Institutional Investor conferences, the Confederation of British Industries Annual Meeting, the Asia Pacific Economic Council Business Leaders Annual Meeting, Cercle des Economists and various banking, asset management and industry annual meetings. She has also written for The International Economy and International Fund Investment Magazine and Institutional Investor.

Richard Bernstein

Partner

Brown Advisory

Mr. Bernstein is a Partner of Brown Advisory and the lead manager of the U.S. Equity Value Fund. He has over twenty years of investment industry experience and has managed the fund since inception.
Prior to joining Brown Advisory, Mr. Bernstein was Director of Research at Mercantile Safe Deposit & Trust Company where he was responsible for equity fund management and research. He served as President of the Baltimore Security Analysts Society in 1990 and 1991.
Mr. Bernstein received his B.A. from Johns Hopkins University in 1979 and his M.A. from Johns Hopkins in 1983.

Peter Kaye

Partner

Dalton Strategic Partnership LLP

Peter Kaye, is a Partner of Dalton Strategic Partnership LLP and is the Fund Manager of the Melchior North American Opportunities Fund and the Melchior Selected Trust: North American Opportunities Fund. Prior to working at DSP, Peter was employed at Henderson Global Investors as Head of their North American Equity Team. Prior to this, Peter was the Manager of the Mercury Selected Trust North America Fund, which was AAA rated by S&P. Peter was educated at Cambridge University, where he obtained an MA and a PhD. He is also a CFA Charterholder.