In a way that nowhere else does, the city of Berlin blends history and tradition with cutting-edge design. As Citywire Berlin goes all-electric for 2020, we are combining the best traditional values and skills of asset management with the very latest technology to give you a unique experience.
The fund selector community is resourceful and resilient, like the city itself, and just as Germany’s capital reinvented itself to overcome adversity, we have reinvented Citywire Berlin for 2020. The lineup of portfolio managers will be as rich and varied as ever, and by deploying the very latest in digital technology we’ll bring you virtual workshops that are as close as you can get to a face-to-face meeting. With every session moderated by Citywire’s editorial staff, you’ll be able to question the portfolio managers in exactly the same way you would if you were in the same room.
Dozens of economists, sovereign wealth fund bosses, politicians, visionary statisticians and futurists, as well as night club entrepreneurs, computer hackers and music producers have shared their ideas with us in keynote sessions over the 11 years we’ve been running Citywire Berlin.
Following in their footsteps in 2020 will be world-renowned behavioural economist Tim Harford, who has been described as 'a genius at telling stories that illuminate our world' and ‘perhaps the best popular economics writer in the world’. He will be looking at the truth behind dubious statistics and manipulated figures, while also examining the science behind – and lessons from - disasters and successes.
Kicking off proceedings, economists Thanos Papasavvas and David McWilliams will trade views on what is really shaping the current macroeconomic agenda and what key events investors need to watch out for.
Speaking on a hugely topical theme, Devi Sridhar is a professor of Global Public Health and is the founding director of the Global Health Governance Programme. She will be examining the consequences of the public health emergency we have all faced in 2020, and assessing where we go from here.
With the US election result due to be announced as the event gets underway and many commentators seeing the potential for a highly contentious outcome, we’re delighted to welcome back Dr Pippa Malmgren to give us her insider’s view on the result. A former White House advisor as well as an investor and entrepreneur, Dr Malmgren joined us in 2016 to give an instant reaction to Donald Trump’s surprise win – one of our best-received Berlin keynote sessions.
We’ll all be physically back in Berlin in the future for sure.
But in the unprecedented environment we find ourselves in, for 2020 we’re seizing the opportunities that virtual working has created to bring you a truly pioneering event. Please join us for the all-electric Citywire Berlin!
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David McWilliams is an economist, author, journalist, documentary-maker and broadcaster. He is Adjunct Professor of Global Economics at the School of Business Trinity College Dublin. David is ranked 10th most influential economist in the world.
He has devoted his entire professional life to the objective of making economics as widely available and easily understandable on as many platforms and to as many people as possible –and is having a laugh doing it.
As a result, he co-founded the world’s only economics and stand-up comedy festival Kilkenomics – described by the FT as “simply, the best economics conference in the world”. He also founded Ireland’s leading literary and ideas shindig, the Dalkey Book Festival. The WEF at Davos debased their currency profoundly by making him a Young Global Leader a few years back.
As well as writing a weekly economics column in the Irish Times, he is active on social media and was named Ireland’s “most influential Twitter user” in 2016. David uses new ways to explain our economic world for example Punk Economics and a new venture with the FT, Punk FT, deploy cartoons to make economics digestible for normal, non-nerdy, punters.
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Thanos Papasavvas CFA is Founder of ABP Invest, established in 2015 to provide strategic outlook and research on geopolitics, economics, financial markets and FX. He works with asset management and private equity companies, hedge funds and family offices as well as a number of non-financial organisations. Previously he was in asset management for 20 years with Credit Suisse Asset Management and Investec Asset Management across fixed income, emerging markets, currency management and multi-asset.
He managed assets throughout the 1997 South-East Asian crisis, 1998 Russian and LTCM crises, dotcom bubble in 2000 and the more recent Financial and Eurozone crises, all of which helped provide a broader perspective of geopolitical developments and macroeconomic impacts to financial markets.
Thanos managed portfolios for a number of FTSE, Dow and DAX pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, local authorities and family offices. His team was presented with the “Currency Manager of the Year” award twice, in 2004 and 2010. He began his career working as an Economist for the UK Government Economic Service coincidentally amidst the outset of the ERM Crisis of 1992.
A Co-Founder and CIO of Equant-Analytics and Founding Partner and strategic advisor to EMFC Loans Syndication, he is a frequent guest on BBC, CNBC and Bloomberg.
Thanos Papasavvas
Devi Sridhar is a Professor at the University of Edinburgh where she holds a Personal Chair in Global Public Health. She is Founding Director of the Global Health Governance Programme and holds a Wellcome Trust Investigator Award. Recipient of a Rhodes scholarship, Devi holds an MPhil and a DPhil from
Oxford University as well as a B.S. from the University of Miami's Honors Medical Program. Prior to her appointment at Edinburgh, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University and an Associate Professor in Global Health Politics and Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford University.
Devi is the author of two books: "Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why?" and "The Battle against Hunger: Choice, Circumstance and the World Bank" and has published her work in Nature, Science, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet and the British Medical Journal.
Prof. Devi Sridhar
Tim Harford is a world-renowned behavioural economist, an award-winning Financial Times columnist, and a BBC broadcaster.
With a knack for finding fascinating explanations for everyday numbers, Tim’s first two books, The Logic of Life and The Undercover Economist, have been translated into 30 languages and sold well over a million copies. His Radio 4 show More or Less looks at the truth behind dubious statistics and manipulated figures. His podcast Cautionary Tales examines the science behind and the lessons from disasters and successes. He also hosts the BBC's radio series and podcast Fifty Things That Made The Modern Economy, as well as writing the accompanying book.
Whilst he’s a ‘serious’ economist with a career spanning Oxford, Shell and the World Bank, Tim’s FT columns dwell on the economics of daily life and offer tongue-in-cheek solutions to readers’ problems. His first book built on these themes and The Undercover Economist was likened to Freakonomics in its examination and explanation of the workings of everything from coffee shops to organised crime to development aid. He's since gone on to be one of the foremost writers on economics and his work has won multiple awards.
Tim Harford
As a former Presidential Advisor, Chief Currency Strategist, and Deputy Head of Global Strategy for global banks, Dr. Pippa Malmgren is now building the economy, having co-founded H Robotics, a maker of drones, autonomous vehicles and digitization tools for many industries – mining, oil and gas, construction, agribusiness and public safety all of which need to manage their remote assets from a smartphone.
Pippa Malmgren has been nominated for the National Technology Awards in 2020 and named a Most Influential Woman in Tech by AccelerateHer and WeAreTech Women. She is also a bestselling author of award-winning books including Geopolitics for Investors (2015), Signals: How Everyday Signs Help Us Navigate the World’s Turbulent Economy, a crowd-funded best-seller (2016), and The Leadership LAB: Understanding Leadership in the 21st Century (2018) a bestseller which was an FT Business Book of the Month and named Business Book of the Year and Best Book on Leadership in 2019.
Dr. Pippa Malmgren gave the commencement addresses at the London School of Economics in 2013 & 2016, and lectures at Sandhurst, INSEAD, Duke Fuqua Global Executive MBA. She has also lectured at UT Austin and Tsinghua University. Pippa makes regular guest appearances on CNBC and the BBC including The Today Program, Newsnight, Hard Talk, and on Monocle Radio. Forming a platform for her public speaking, Malmgren founded the DPRM Group which counsels worldwide investors on investment trends.
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Oliver B has taken his incredible, highly sought-after magic all over the world and left thousands of spectators amazed. Having performed for countless well-known brands & booked by a host of A-List celebrities including Simon Cowell, Roger Federer & Rihanna (to name a few), Oliver B has extended his craft to perform highly interactive online shows that will completely astound you. During the show Oliver B provides plenty of audience interaction, minds will be read, thoughts are revealed, choices
are seemingly influenced through a highly engaging performance, plus much more.
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ESG Analyst
Rosie French
Head of
European Equities
Ben Ritchie
Head of
Euro Aggregate
Isabelle
Vic Philippe
Managing Director, founding portfolio manager of the Antero Peak Group at Artisan Partners
Christopher Smith
Investment Manager
Julia Angeles
Senior Investment Specialist, Thematic Equity
Ramon Esteruelas Berlinguer
Fixed income investment director
Jeremy Cunningham
Fund Manager and Head of European Equities
Mark Denham
Co-Portfolio Manager
Karoline Rosenberg
Senior Product Specialist
Gregg Guerin
Senior Portfolio Manager for Fixed Income Lead portfolio manager
(US and Global High Yield)
Mary Bowers, CFA
Senior Portfolio Manager Thematics Asset Management
Nolan Hoffmeyer
Global Franchise Fund Portfolio Manager; Charlie Dutton, Asia Pacific Franchise Fund, Portfolio Manager, Ninety One Quality team
Clyde Rossouw
Head of Emerging Markets Debt Team
Thede Rüst
Co-Portfolio Manager – European and Global High Yield Bonds
Anthony Shackleton, FCA
Portfolio Manager, Asia Team Leader
Dr Joseph Lai, CFA, MBBS (USyd), MBA (AGSM)
Chief Portfolio Manager, Head of Equity
Yoshihisa Nakagawa
Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager, Heritage Growth Equity Team
Thomas Ognar
Co-head of EM Credit and HY
Maxim Vydrine
Client Portfolio
Manager, Green Bonds
Douglas Farquhar
Global Head of Distribution - Member of the Executive Committee
Cristian Pellis
Duncan, Global Head of ASI
Alex Hoctor
Partner & Managing Director
Andrew Marks
Client Service Director
Gavin Scott
Managing Director, Head of Sales
Rupert Haddon
Managing Director
Richard Garland
Head of International Sales and Marketing
Oliver Bilal
European Head of Sales/Marketing
Peter Preisler
Investment Specialist
Charles Brooks
Managing Director, Financial Intermediaries, Europe and Asia
Grant Leon
Lead Portfolio Manager Green Bonds
Bram Bos
Global Head of Distribution, Member of Executive Committee
Christophe Girondel
Chief Client Officer
Hester Borrie
Head of Wholesales Germany, Austria and Central Eastern and Europe
Christian Machts
Global Head of Sales
Georgio Ventura
Global Head of Wholesale Business
Thorsten Michalik
Head of International Financial Institutions
Sylvain Agar
Investment Specialist
Charles Brooks
Head of Fund Distribution Germany
Tanja Godjons