Daniel C. Hardy is currently a Senior Research Associate at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Research, and a consultant on economic policy issues. He spent many years at the International Monetary Fund, leading work on macroeconomic and financial sector surveillance; Fund-supported programs; Fund policies; and technical assistance in a wide range of industrialized, emerging market, and developing countries. Most recently he was head of the Debt Capital Markets Division and led numerous FSAPs. He has also held positions at the Deutsche Bundesbank and the Austrian Financial Market Authority, and been an academic visitor at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and the Vienna University of Economics and Business. His recent research has addressed topics in public sector governance; the functioning of the European Monetary Union and the Capital Market Union; and sovereign debt management. He studied at the universities of Oxford and Princeton.

John Fell is Deputy Director General for Macroprudential Policy & Financial Stability in the ECB. He is also the chair or co-chair of several international working groups - including the Eurosystem’s Macroprudential Policy Group (MPPG), the European Systemic Risk Board’s (ESRB) Instrument Working Group (IWG), and the ESRB’s task force on stress-testing. He is a member of the ECB’s Financial Stability Committee (FSC), the ESRB’s Advisory Technical Committee (ATC), and the Financial Stability Board’s Standing Committee on Assessing Vulnerabilities (SCAV). He led the stress-testing work for the ECB’s “comprehensive assessment” in 2014 as well as EU-wide banking sector stress-tests coordinated by the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) (2009, 2010) and the European Banking Authority (EBA) (2011, 2014). His crisis management experience is extensive, including negotiating EU/IMF financial assistance programs in several euro area countries (e.g. in Ireland, Portugal and Spain). Between 2003 and 2010, he was Head of the ECB’s Financial Stability Division, spearheading the inaugural issue of the ECB’s Financial Stability Review in 2004 and directing it thereafter. Before moving to the financial stability area in 2003, he was an Adviser in the ECB’s Monetary Policy Directorate. Prior to joining the ECB in 1998, as a principal economist, he held various positions at the European Monetary Institute (EMI) and the Central Bank of Ireland. John holds postgraduate degrees in Economics (1987) and in Finance (1993) from University College Dublin and Dublin City University respectively, and is a PhD candidate at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. He has published his research in several academic and policy journals.

A central banker for more than three decades and half, he was the Executive Director in charge of Supervision & SupTech of RBI. He had earlier held the position of Principal Chief General Manager of Risk Monitoring Department of RBI, and the Head of the Reserve Bank Staff College, Training Institute of senior central banking professionals of RBI, at Chennai. He was the Head of Financial Stability Unit in RBI and had advised Central Bank of Oman in setting up of their Financial Stability Department, post-crisis. He was RBI’s Regional Director for the States of Jharkhand & Uttar Pradesh. His professional expertise hinges on Bank Regulation/Supervision, Financial Stability - Macro-Financial Surveillance and Risk Mitigating Mechanics in Banking and Central Banks. He has been RBI’s Nominee with the Analytical Group on Vulnerabilities and the Supervisory & Regulatory Co-ordination Committee at the Financial Stability Board. He was the RBI’s Nominee in NABARD’s Board of Supervision and Director in Punjab national Bank and Indian bank.

He is a Chattered Associate of Indian Institute of Banking & Finance (CAIIB) and an awardee of the Golden Jubilee Scholarship of RBI and the Diamond Jubilee Fellowship of Indian Institute of Banking and Finance (IIBF).

Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal is a Professor in Banking and Finance Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) at Queen Mary University of London. Prior to joining CCLS he was a Senior Lecturer in Financial Law and the Academic Director at the Centre for Financial and Management Studies (SOAS), University of London and the School of Law, University of Warwick. He taught in undergraduate and postgraduate courses in various Schools of Law and Business Schools in the United Kingdom, Spain, Greece, France and Argentina as well as in professional training courses in Africa, Asia and Europe. He has acted as a Sovereign Debt Expert for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Senior Insolvency Expert for the World Bank / IFC and as a consultant to several multilateral institutions in Washington DC and Europe, Central Banks and Sovereign States as well as in several international transactions with Law Firms. He specialises in international finance and insolvency law. He is the author/editor of seven books and has extensively published in peer-reviewed journals. He sits in the editorial/advisory board of several law journals in the UK and US and is a member of national and international institutions and associations specialised in comparative commercial and insolvency law.

Jérôme Henry is the principal adviser in the European Central Bank (ECB) macroprudential policy and financial stability division. His responsibilities cover financial stability assessments and the related infrastructure requirements. Henry has led ECB teams for quality assurance of the single supervisory mechanism stress tests and was involved in country crisis management. He also worked at the Bank for International Settlements as a Financial Stability Institute fellow. Prior to this, Henry was a long-standing Eurosystem forecast co-ordinator. He started his time at the ECB leading the macromodelling team. Prior to his central bank career, Henry conducted research at the French Economic Observatory and the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. He is a founding member of the Centre for Economic Policy Research Euro Area Business Cycle Network. An Ensae Paris graduate, Henry holds a PhD in Economics and a bachelors degree in History from Paris Sorbonne.