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30^th and 31^st March 2004, in The Burlington Hotel

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Alexander Schaub

Director General, Internal Market
EU Commission
Since September 2002 Alexander has been the Director General for the Internal Market at the European Commission in Brussels, serving Commissioner Frits Bolkestein. The Internal Market Directorate-General coordinates the Commission's policy on the European Single Market, and is responsible for developing a single market in several sectors including financial services. The division was tasked with implementing the Financial Services Action Plan (FSAP), and is presently establishing a strategy for the next stage in the development of the single market. Alexander is currently in discussions with the US Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), of which William McDonough is head (see below), regarding the regulation of company auditing, which has come to the fore since the collapse of Enron and Parmalat. Both parties are looking for increased co-operation on the issue. From 1995 to 2002, as Director General for Competition, Alexander was Europe's 'competition guru', holding one of the most influential jobs in the Commission. Alexander served commissioners Karel van Miert and Mario Monti, and was involved in the controversial rejection by the Commission, of General Electric's plans to buy Honeywell International, after the deal gained easy approval from the U.S. Justice Department. He has participated in numerous economic summits and meetings of the European Council. He has published a book on the European Parliament and articles on competition, trade, economic and financial topics. He is married to Nicole van der Meulen, with two daughters and a son.

David Wright

Director, Directorate - Financial Markets
Internal Market, EU Commission
As Director for Financial Markets in the Internal Market Directorate General in the Commission, David's objective is to build an integrated European capital market by 2005, in line with the Lisbon European Council. He has worked for 25 years in the Commission, starting with statistics/oil data during second oil crises and since then in the areas of Industry, Internal Market, Trade, Energy, Financial Markets, and Research. He was also an adviser in President Delors' Forward Studies Unit (1989-1992), a Member of the Cabinet of Sir Leon Brittan Q.C, and adviser to Jacques Santer, President of the European Commission (1995-1999).

Liam O\'Reilly

Chief Executive
Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority

Liam is chief executive of the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority (IFSRA), which is responsible for the regulation of the financial services industry, both from a prudential and a conduct of business viewpoint. Liam was educated in University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin. He has a Bachelor of Commerce Degree and a PhD in Econometrics and is a Fellow of the Institute of Statistics. He has served at a senior level in the Central Bank in economic research, financial control, international relations and financial markets. He served on the review group on auditing in Ireland and was a member of the interim board of the Irish auditing and accounting supervisory authority, which prepared the legislation to set up a Statutory Supervisory Body for the Accountancy profession.

Patrizio Braccioni

Head of Tax
UniCredito Italiano S.p.A. Milan
Patrizio is the deputy general manager of UniCredito Italiano SpA (Group Holding Company) since January 2004. In 1983 graduated "cum laude" in Law at the University of Urbino and published his first article on a specialized review regarding European vat taxation. In 1984 he became a judge at the Tax Court of Urbino. In 1986, after passing the preliminary exam, he started a PHD in international tax law at the University of Genoa, which he successfully completed in 1989. Meanwhile in 1987 Patrizio joined the International Fiscal Association and in 1988 started to work at the tax department of Iveco Fiat Group in Turin. In 1989 he became a senior tax executive of GFT GROUP, the largest Italian apparel industry group with large international activities. In 1990 he became vice-president of the Tax Court in Urbino. In 1991 he became a qualified lawyer. In the same year GFT Group appointed him as group senior internal auditor, and he was officially appointed auditor in many group companies. In 1995 Patrizio became the senior tax executive of the Pirelli Group, one of the largest Italian multinationals, active in the tyres and cables business. In 1996 he became a member of the tax committee of the Italian Industrial Association and was delegated to represent Italy at the Fiscal Affairs Working Group of U.N.I.C.E., the European Industrial Association. In 1998 Patrizio joined the UniCredito Italiano Banking Group as group senior tax executive and became a member of the Italian Banking Association Tax Committee. Today he represents this Association in Brussels at the European Banking Federation as regards the U.S. Qualified Intermediaries matters. Patrizio has worked in about 40 jurisdictions, especially in Western and Eastern Europe, North America, South America and the Far East. He has lectured in domestic and international tax law in Italy and abroad many times and has been an Italian government counsel for international tax aspects of financial activities in the past two years. He was appointed to the International Fiscal Association - Italy branch as the official reporter at the annual meeting held in Sydney in September 2003. He has been a Board member of UniCredito Italiano Bank Ireland plc since September 2002. Married in 1984, Patrizio has two daughters and lives with the family in Milan.

Georg Funke

CEO
Hypo Real Estate Bank International (Dublin) and of Hypo Real Estate Holding AG (Germany)
Georg has worked his way steadily through the real estate business over the past 30 years. He began his career in 1972 with Westdeutsche Wohnhauser AG, Essen (now, Thyssen Wohnstatten AG) after which, in 1984, he moved to the former Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechsel Bank. There he was made general manager for the real estate business in the state of Nordrhein Westfalia. In 1989 he became general manager for the real estate business in Great Britain. Since January 2000 he has been on the divisional board of HypoVereinsbank AG (HVB) responsible for the international real estate business. Additionally, in 2001 he joined the board of HVB Real Estate Bank AG, Germany - now, Hypo Real Estate Bank AG - and was made Chairman of the Board. Following the decision by the HVB Group to undertake a spin-off of their commercial real estate finance activities into a separate, independent company, Georg took over responsibility for the spin-off and became CEO of the spin-off entity, Hypo Real Estate Holding AG. At the same time he resigned his position with Hypo Real Estate Bank AG, Germany and took over as CEO of Hypo Real Estate Bank International in Dublin. On October 6th 2003 the new Hypo Real Estate Group was successfully listed on the Frankfurt and Vienna stock exchanges and is one of Europe's leading providers of commercial real estate finance.

Michael Ryan

Managing Director
Merrill Lynch Capital Markets Bank
Michael joined Merrill Lynch in 1996. He is currently managing director and chief executive officer of Merrill Lynch Capital Markets Bank Ltd.

Michael Buckley

Group Chief Executive
AIB Group
Michael started his career as a senior civil servant in Irish Government Services in 1967 becoming Chef de Cabinet to President, European Court of Auditors, Luxembourg between the years of 1977 and 1981. He subsequently was a senior official in charge of public expenditure in the Irish Finance Ministry. In 1986 he became a director, NCB Group in Dublin and took over as managing director in 1990. During this time he played a key role alongside Dermot Desmond in the creation of the Irish International Financial Services Centre (IFSC). He then moved to the AIB Group in 1991 as head of investment banking with AIB Capital Markets Division becoming Managing Director in 1994. He went on to become a director of AIB in 1995 and in 1999 was elected to take control of the Poland division of AIB. In 2001 he was appointed chief executive of the AIB Group. He holds a MA, LPH (National University of Ireland) - Licenciate in Philosophy and he is also a member of the Securities Institute and a Fellow of the Irish Institute of Bankers. In the past Michael has been a part-time lecturer in Politics in University College Dublin, a Member of Board of Custom House Docks Development Authority and Chairman of the Irish Government Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Sector.

Charlie McCreevy

Commissioner for the Internal Market
European Commission
A chartered accountant, Charlie McCreevy was appointed European Commissioner for the Internal Market in 2004. Prior to that he had been Minister for Finance since 1997. In this capacitiy, he was President of the ECOFIN Council from January to June 2004. He was elected to Dail Eireann (Parliament) for Kildare Constituency in 1977, and was a member of Kildare County Council from 1979 to 1985. He was Minister for Social Welfare from February 1992 - January 1993, Minister for Tourism and Trade from January 1993 - December 1994 and Frontbench Spokesperson on Finance from January l 995 - June 1997.

William Slattery

Managing Director
State Street International

William assumed the position of managing director of State Street International (Ireland) Limited in February 2003, following the acquisition by State Street Corporation of Deutsche International (Ireland) Limited. William had been managing director of Deutsche International (Ireland) Limited since January 2002. He worked for the Central Bank of Ireland for more than twenty years until 1996 and was responsible for supervising Dublin's International Financial Services Centre from its establishment in 1987 until 1995. Immediately prior to leaving the Central Bank he was deputy head of banking supervision where he was responsible for the supervision of all Irish banks and building societies.

William joined Deutsche Morgan Grenfell (Ireland) in 1996. Following a short period in Ireland, he moved to London where he held a number of senior compliance and risk management positions in the asset management division of Deutsche Bank. From 1999 - 2001 he was managing director and global head of risk management for the division.

Pat Wall

Partner
PricewaterhouseCoopers

Pat is a tax partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Dublin. He specialises in investment management, insurance and pensions. He is a member fo the IFSC Clearing House Group (CHG) which has overall strategic responsibility for development of Ireland's international financial services industry. In that capacity he chairs the Pan-European Pensions Task Force which has a mandate to advise the CHG on how Ireland should position itself to benefit from the emerging EU single market in pension provisions. He is also a member of the PwC Eurofirm Insurance and Pensions Group. He played a key role in the framing of the all island financial services strategy recently announced by Brian Cowen and Peter Robinson.

Michael Jackson

Partner
Matheson Ormsby Prentice

Michael is a partner in the Banking and Financial Services Department of Matheson Ormsby Prentice. He has extensive experience in advising a wide range of domestic and international clients on the structuring, establishment, marketing and sale of financing and investment vehicles and products in Ireland and other jurisdictions. In particular he specialises in advising on the legal and regulatory issues surrounding the establishment of alternative investment funds, the structuring, offer and sale of investment instruments and investment products and the provision of investment advice and other financial services.

Paul Symons

Director
Euroclear
Paul heads up the public affairs team, part of the corporate strategy division, at Euroclear in Brussels. He is responsible for Euroclear’s dealings with all third parties that may influence the context in which the organisation operates, including bodies such as the European Commission, European Parliament, European Central Bank (ECB), Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR), etc. Paul joined Euroclear in 2002, following its merger with CRESTCo, the central securities depository for Irish and UK securities. Prior to this, he had worked at CRESTCo since its launch in 1996. Paul holds a degree in History from the University of London.

James L Deeny

Former head of HSBC Ireland & Senior Advisor, Invest Northern Ireland

James Deeny was recently appointed Senior Advisor to Invest Northern Ireland. He was Chairman until September 2008 of the Financial Services Consultative Industry Panel created under the Central Bank and Financial Services Act 2004 to provide industry input to the Financial Regulator. A former chief executive of HSBC in Ireland, he has a background in international banking, insurance and mutual funds and remains active in the cross border international financial services market in Dublin. A graduate of University College Dublin and Yale University, his earlier career prior to joining HSBC in 1983 involved international commercial banking assignments with Chase Manhattan Bank and acting as financial advisor to the Industrial Development Authority of Ireland. He holds a number of directorships with prominent domestic and international companies in Ireland including Credit Agricole, PNC International Bank and Hartford Life.

Matt Coffey

General Manager
San Paolo Life
Matt is a director and general manager of Sanpaolo Life Limited and also director of EPTA Global Investments Limited both Irish based subsidiaries of Sanpaolo IMI one of Italy's largest banking groups. Sanpaolo Life operates in the cross border market and has consistently been one of the largest life assurance operations, measured by premium income, in the State since its inception in 1998. At the end of the last financial year the company wrote in excess of €1 billion of premium income and had €5.8 billion of assets under management. Prior to joining Sanpaolo Life in 1998 he was a director of J Rothschild International, an IFSC life assurance company, and prior to that he held senior management positions with a number of UK based Life companies. Matt is the current chairman of the Financial Services Ireland cross-border life committee and is also a member of the Irish Insurance Federation's EU and International Affairs committee.

Ronan Daly

Managing Director
BISYS Hedge Fund Services
Ronan is managing director of BISYS Hedge Fund Services (Ireland) Limited (formerly known as Hemisphere) with overall responsibility for BISYS' hedge fund servicing business in Europe. He also serves as a director to a number of hedge funds. Ronan qualified as a solicitor in 1991, after completing his studies at the University of Manchester and the College of Law in London. He has previously worked as a corporate finance solicitor for City of London law firm, Berwin Leighton, and as legal counsel for Bank of Bermuda Limited. Ronan is a member of the Law Society of England and Wales and is qualified as a barrister and attorney in Bermuda.

Richard Burdon

Managing Director
Burdon Capital
Richard has overall responsibility for the investment management business at Burdon Capital. In July 2000 Richard was appointed C.E.O. of a London based investment manager Axis Capital Management Limited. Prior to moving into the alternative investment industry, he was an executive director and head of the equity business group at Tokyo-Mitsubishi International plc.Richard's group was responsible for all of the investment bank's equity based proprietary trading, including convertible bond arbitrage, event driven and equity derivative strategies. He was recruited to build an equity proprietary trading business from D. E. Shaw Securities International. He graduated from City University Business School majoring in corporate finance in 1989. Burdon Capital Limited was formerly known as Hanover Square Capital (Ireland) Limited.

Elizabeth Knoblock

Counsel
Dechert Washington
Elizabeth is a member of Dechert's Financial Services Group. She focuses her practice on the laws governing the investment management of registered investment companies, hedge funds, and private accounts, including institutional, retail and wrap fee clientele, and the policies, procedures, disclosure, compliance and regulatory issues arising under those laws. Before joining Dechert LLP, Elizabeth served in various capacities with Templeton Investment Counsel, Inc., Kidder Peabody & Co. Inc.; Gruntal & Co., Incorporated; Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc.; E.F. Hutton & Co. Inc.; the Division of Investment Management of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission; and the Office of the General Counsel of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Elizabeth holds a J.D. and LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC and an M.B.A. from Nova University of Florida. She is a member of the Bars of Washington, DC and New York. She is a frequent lecturer and panelist for a number of industry and private organizations and has authored outlines and articles which have appeared in a variety of publications.

Martin Jack

Director, IBM Retirement Funds EMEA
IBM
Martin is head of corporate pensions for IBM in Europe and the managing consultant of IBM's Retirement Funds EMEA (RFE) investment and pensions consultancy practice based in London. RFE provides direct investment support to IBM's European pension funds covering; asset liability modelling, investment manager selection and monitoring, managing pooled investment vehicles. Martin, who is a chartered accountant, has held this position for over 7 seven years and in total has 25 years experience with IBM in a number of senior financial management positions in Europe and in the United States and Africa.

Paul Dobbyn

Partner
A&L Goodbody
Paul Dobbyn is a senior partner in the Banking and Financial Services Group. He holds a Bachelor of Civil Law degree from University College Dublin. He joined A&L Goodbody in 1981 and was admitted as a partner to the firm in 1986. He was responsible for the opening of the firm's London office and was the partner in charge of the office in 1988/1989. Paul has been actively involved in the promotion of the IFSC and particularly in the area of mutual funds. He acts for many of the leading fund managers and has advised on various aspects of domiciling funds and management companies in Ireland. He holds various directorships of investment companies and management companies. He is a sitting member of the Irish Prime Minister's Committee on the regulation of mutual funds in Ireland and has been heavily involved in the drafting of Irish domestic legislation in this area. Recently he advised the Irish Government on the establishment of the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority. He has written various articles and given many presentations at national and international conferences on the subject of financial services, with particular emphasis on mutual funds, and is a regular contributor to financial law journals.

Rainer Boden

Chairman
Financial Industry Members European Parliamentary Financial Services Forum
Rainer W. Boden, Head of the Representative Office to the European Union, Deutsche Bank. Rainer was involved in the founding of the European Parliamentary Financial Services Forum in 2000, and now acts as chairman of the financial services industry membership of the forum. The forum 'facilitates and strengthens the exchange of information on financial services and Europe's financial markets between the financial industry and Members of the European Parliament (MEPs)', and its members include a number of MEPs including Theresa Villiers and Piia-Noora Kauppi. The main purpose of the forum is to promote integration of a Single European Market for financial services across national borders. He also holds the position of Head of the Deutsche Bank Representative Office to the European Union, to which he was appointed in 1994. He joined Deutsche Bank AG in 1971, and worked his way through the foreign department to become an assistant to a Member of the Board of Managing Directors in 1974. In 1977 he was elected to head up the corporate banking department. He then became a Director of Deutsche Bank AG, Leverkusen branch between 1981 and 1985 before moving to head office, Frankfurt in 1985 to become Director of Corporate Banking. In 1988 he moved to Deutsche Bank's Paris branch to act as General Manager where he was responsible for corporate banking and financial institutions. In 1994 He was elected as delegate of the Board of Managing Directors for European Affairs He obtained a Law Degree from the University of Bonn in 1965. He completed postgraduate studies in Paris, Brussels, Leiden and Milan and earned his Dctorate in Law from the University of Bonn in 1970.f1

Ingrid Bonde

Director General
Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority
Ingrid took over as Director General of the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority in 2003 following on from her previous role as Deputy Director General at The Swedish National Debt Office where she had worked, in her earlier career, having been responsible for Yen funding and portfolio management. Before this Ingrid worked with Scandinavian Airlines System as head of the domestic retail department, as VP finance and head of the SAS Group finance department and initially she was responsible for funding, debt management and investor relations. She started her career in 1982 with The First National Bank of Chicago doing Credit analysis, credit administration. Ingrid holds an MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics, where she spent a year in the New York University MBA program, New York Exchange Student Program. She has also attended the London School of Economics on a leadership programme. Ingrid is a Board Member of St Erik's Eye Hospital and has held many Board Member assignments in the past including, Swedish Civil Aviation Administration, Swedcarrier, Chairman of the Board, The Premium Pension Authority, Swedish Space Corporation, Swedish Rail, VPC AB (CSD in Sweden), Handelsbanken's Mutual Fund, Scandinavian Airlines System's Pension Fund and Scandinavian Airlines System Oil AB

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Ethiopis Tafara

Director of the Office of International Affairs
SEC
Ethiopis oversees the SEC's international regulatory policy and enforcement initiatives, working with foreign regulators and international organizations, as well as the SEC's other division and office directors with respect to the international aspects of the SEC's programs. He advises the SEC on the international implications of new SEC initiatives on corporate governance, auditor oversight and the creation of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and attorney ethics. Ethiopis represents the SEC in the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and the Council of Securities Regulators of the Americas (COSRA), and has been a key player in the SEC's ongoing regulatory dialogue with the European Commission. He also worked to enhance the SEC's enforcement cooperation with its foreign counterparts, through organizations such as the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), and IOSCO's recent Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding Concerning Consultation and Cooperation and the Exchange of Information. Ethiopis joined the SEC's staff in 1999 as an assistant director in the Office of International Affairs. Prior to joining the SEC, he was counsel to the chairperson at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and also served in the CFTC's Division of Enforcement. He began his legal career in Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton's Brussels office, where he worked on trade and competition matters. He received his A.B. from Princeton University and his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center.

J. Travis Gilmer

Special Advisor, International Affairs
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
Travis's primary responsibilities include assisting in the development of the Board's policies regarding the oversight of non-U.S. accounting firms that operate within the U.S. capital markets. From 2002 to 2003, Travis served as a national office partner of Deloitte & Touche LLP in the Washington, D.C. office, with a focus on the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on non-U.S. companies, including accounting firms. From 2000 to 2002, he was a professional accounting fellow in the Office of the Chief Accountant of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. From 1997 to 2000, he was a senior manager-audit for Deloitte & Touche ANS in Oslo, Norway and served one of Norway's largest industrial companies. After graduating from the University of Florida in 1990 with a Masters in Accounting, Travis joined Deloitte & Touche LLP in Orlando, Florida and served SEC registrants in a variety of industries.

John Fitzpatrick

Executive Director
Northern Trust Ireland
John is a director of Northern Trust Ireland with responsibility for business development and regulatory affairs. John consults closely with clients regarding fund structures and domicile and in particular issues both regulatory and fiscal. He is also a board director of a number of client funds. John has worked for Northern Trust since 1989 and prior to this held management positions in the funds industry. John is a past chair of the Dublin Funds Industry Association and since May 2002 has been the vice president of FEFSI, the European Fund Industry Association which represents more than 900 management companies promoting funds with a combined net asset value of €4.5 trillion. John is a chartered secretary by training and a member of the Securities Institute.

Enda Faughnan

Tax Partner
PricewaterhouseCoopers

Enda Faughnan is head of Tax Financial Services in PricewaterhouseCoopers in Ireland. He is a member of the Technical Committee of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants in Ireland and is their representative on the Tax Administration Liaison Committee (TALC) and on the Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies in Ireland (CCAB-I). Enda is also a member of the Banking and Treasury Group, a Government appointed committee responsible for the promotion and development of financial services in Ireland. He is also a member of the International Financial Services Tax group, which has been set up resolve tax issues arising from the workings of the other Government committees

Enda specialises in providing tax consultancy services to the financial services sector in Ireland and abroad. His clients include domestic and international banks as well as financial services subsidiaries of major multi-national corporations.

He joined Price Waterhouse in 1985 and was made a tax partner in 1988.He was appointed head of Tax Services in Pricewaterhouse in 1995 and appointed head of Tax and Legal Services in PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1998 on the merger with Coopers & Lybrand. He stepped down from this position in July 2003 to concentrate on international financial services client work. Enda was formerly a Higher Grade Tax Inspector based in the Technical Division of the Irish Revenue.

Enda's professional qualifications include a Batchelor of Arts, Master of Arts, Higher Diploma in Education (1st place) and is a fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants. He achieved first place in the world in his final ACCA exams.

David Hanna

Head of International Financial Services
IDA Ireland
David has recently been appointed divisional manager of the new International Financial Services Division. David is responsible for all regulated and non-regulated international financial services organisations and the continued promotion of Dublin's IFSC. Prior to his new appointment, David was divisional manager of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Division. He is a member of the IDA's executive committee and the Taoiseach's committee for international financial services. Previously he served as IDA Director Europe based in London, Director West Coast US based in Los Angeles and divisional manager of the International and Financial Services Division. This included responsibility for the first five years of IDA's programme for the Dublin IFSC. In the past David was also a member of the Higher Education Authority, the Board of the Microelectronics Application Centre, Limerick and the Scientific Advisory Panel for ICT for Technology Foresight.

PJ Henehan

Tax Partner, Financial Services Group
Ernst & Young

PJ Henehan is a tax partner in Ernst & Young's Financial Services Group and has been with the firm for over 25 years. With more than two decades of experience in the taxation field, he is a leading expert in structuring financial products for banks, fund management and insurance companies, as well as for high net worth clients.

He is a member of the Ernst & Young Global Financial Services Group, consisting of professionals from such disciplines as tax, structured finance, audit and actuarial services. PJ lectures regularly on taxation for various professional organisations in Ireland and abroad. He is also the author of numerous articles and booklets for Ernst & Young and its clients. He is a member of the Taoiseachs Insurance Committee, which advises Government on the development of Ireland as an insurance domicile of choice. He is a Fellow of the Irish Taxation Institute and a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

Matt Giffen

Managing Director / European Head, Credit & Equity Derivatives
Scotia Capital
Matt has over 12 years experience in trading, structuring and sales of interest rate, credit and equity derivatives products. He began his career with Bank of America in London in 1991, and has also worked with IBJ London, and TD Securities in Singapore and Sydney. Matt joined Scotia Capital in March 2000 and moved to Dublin in 2001 to form the current European Credit and Equity Derivatives unit. He has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from McGill University in Montreal. Matt is also currently the President of the Ireland Canada Business Association.

Paul McGowan

Taxation Partner - Financial Services
KPMG

Paul is a tax partner in KPMG Ireland. He has specialised in financial services tax for the last 20 years being involved with clients establishing in the IFSC since its inception. He focuses particularly on banking, securitisation, leasing and mutual funds. He is a past chariman of IFIA and is a member of the Taoiseach's working group on Banking and Treasury issues. He has been appointed to the EU Arbitration Panel on Transfer Pricing and has recently taken over as Global Leader of KPMG Financial Services Tax Network.