We are delighted to announce that Baroness Shriti Vadera will be joining us for what promises to be a fascinating discussion.

Biography

Shriti Vadera advises governments, investors and companies on strategy, finance and restructuring and is a Non-Executive Director of BHP Billiton and AstraZeneca. She has undertaken a wide range of assignments since 2009, for example, advising the Korean Government as Chair of the G20 in 2010 on setting and negotiating the agenda, on financial services regulation, global imbalances and IMF quotas; two European periphery countries on the Eurozone and banking crisis; the Government of Dubai on the restructuring of $50bn of Dubai World's debt; Temasek Holdings (Singapore) on strategy; and the African Development Bank on raising finance for pan-African infrastructure. She was a Minister in the UK government from 2007 to 2009 in the Cabinet Office, Business Department and International Development Department. She led the UK Government’s response to the financial crisis and was a key architect of its pioneering bank rescue plan in October 2008 to provide capital, medium term funding and liquidity to the UK banking system, described by Paul Krugman as “defining the character of the worldwide rescue effort, with other wealthy nations playing catch-up”. She devised and helped negotiate internationally outcomes for the April 2009 G20 London Summit, described by the IMF as “breaking the fall in the global economy”, including a $1.1 trillion package of support for emerging market liquidity and trade finance. She was Minister in the Business Department for key sectors such as manufacturing, telecoms, construction, and SMEs and in the International Development Department for relationships with India and Africa, and multilateral institutions such as the World Bank. She was on the Council of Economic Advisers at the UK Treasury from 1999 to 2007, where she led on policy for business, regulatory, productivity issues such as competition, enterprise, business tax reforms, science and innovation, corporate governance; international economic and development policy, including advising the Chancellor as Chair of the IMF shareholder committee for 8 years; and the management of the Government’s shareholdings, creating the “Shareholder Executive” to manage professionally the Government’s portfolio of about 30 businesses, asset sales and public private partnerships for infrastructure financing. Prior to that she was an investment banker for 14 years with SG Warburg / UBS, with a particular focus on emerging markets. She has been involved with a number of international commissions and high level panels, such as President Zedillo’s High Level Commission for the Modernisation of World Bank Governance, and was a trustee of Oxfam.

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