Ian Ball
Ianis an Adjunct Professor at the Wellington School of Business and Government atVictoria University of Wellington,New Zealand. He served as the Director of Financial Management Policy and Central Financial Controller at theNew Zealand Treasury. He is credited with being the principal architect of the New Zealand Governments financial management reform process, leading to the passage of the Public Finance Act 1989. This made New Zealand the first government to introduce modern accrual accounting and integrate that with the budget and appropriation processes. He also initiated and lead the development of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) while Chair of the International Federation of Accountants Public Sector Committee.
Willem Buiter
Currently an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He was the Global Chief Economist at Citigroup, Chief Economist at the EBRD and an original member ofthe Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England. He was the Juan T. Trippe Professor of International Economics at Yale University. He held academic appointments at the London School of Economics, Cambridge University, the University of Bristol, and Princeton University. He is the author of 78 refereed articles in professional journals and seven books.
John Crompton
Johnbegan his career as a civil servantin HM Treasuryin the mid-1980s before joining Morgan Stanley, where he worked as aninvestment bankerin London, New York, and Hong Kong.In 2005 - 07 he was seconded back toHMTasits Senior Corporate Finance Advisor, and from 2008 - 2010was Head of MarketInvestments at UKFI, responsible for the government'sinvestmentsin Lloyds Banking Group and RBS (now NatWest). More recently, he worked for HSBC for several years and is now a non-executive director, adviser and fintech investor.
Dag Detter
Dag advises private and public sector clients across the world on the unlocking of value from public assets. He led the comprehensiverestructuringofSwedens USD70bn national portfolio of commercial assets, the first attempt by a European government to systematically address the ownership and management of government enterprises and real estate.This led to a value increase of the portfolio twice that of the local stock market and helped boost economic growth and fiscal space. He is the author ofThe Public Wealth of Nations The Economistand Financial Times best book of the year and The Public Wealth of Cities.
Jacob Soll
Jacob Sollis a University Professor and Professor of Philosophy, History, and Accounting at theUniversity of Southern California and has taught at Princeton, Rutgers, and Cambridge Universities. The winner of many prestigious prizes, including a MacArthur Genius Grant, Soll's work examines the mechanics of politics, statecraft, and economics by dissecting how modern states and political systems succeed and fail. He is the author of several books, including his best-sellingThe Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations(2014), which presents a sweeping history of accounting and politics, drawing on a wealth of examples from over a millennium of human history to reveal how accounting can used to both build kingdoms, empires and entire civilisations, but also to undermine them. It explains the origins of our financial crisis as deeply rooted in a long disconnect between human beings and their attempts to manage financial numbers.
