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Greg Ip is chief economics commentator and deputy economics editor of The Wall Street Journal. He helps oversee coverage of the U.S. and global economies and writes about  economic developments and policy in the weekly Capital Account column. Mr. Ip received a bachelor’s degree in economics and journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario in 1989. He has worked for The Wall Street Journal since 1996, except for six years from 2008 to 2015, when he was U.S. economics editor for The Economist. 

Kristalina Georgieva is the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). She is the first person from an emerging market economy to lead the IMF since its inception in 1944. Before joining the Fund, Ms. Georgieva was Chief Executive Officer of the World Bank and also served as Interim President for a time. Previously, she served at the European Commission as Vice President for Budget and Human Resources – and as Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response. She was named “European of the Year” and “Commissioner of the Year” by European Voice for her leadership in the European Union’s humanitarian response to crises.

On 20 December 2019, Andrew Bailey was announced as the Governor of the Bank of England. He began his term on 16 March 2020. Andrew became the Chair of the Financial Stability Board on 1 July 2025.  

Andrew Bailey served as Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) from 1 July 2016 until taking up the role of Governor. As CEO of the FCA, Andrew Bailey was also a member of the Prudential Regulation Committee, the Financial Policy Committee, and the Board of the Financial Conduct Authority.

Andrew previously held the role of Deputy Governor, Prudential Regulation and CEO of the PRA from 1 April 2013. While retaining his role as Executive Director of the Bank, Andrew joined the Financial Services Authority in April 2011 as Deputy Head of the Prudential Business Unit and Director of UK Banks and Building Societies. In July 2012, Andrew became Managing Director of the Prudential Business Unit, with responsibility for the prudential supervision of banks, investment banks and insurance companies. Andrew was appointed as a voting member of the interim Financial Policy Committee at its June 2012 meeting.

Previously, Andrew worked at the Bank in a number of areas, most recently as Executive Director for Banking Services and Chief Cashier, as well as Head of the Bank's Special Resolution Unit (SRU). Previous roles include Governor's Private Secretary, and Head of the International Economic Analysis Division in Monetary Analysis.

Kristin Forbes is the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Global Economics at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. She has regularly rotated between academia and senior policy positions, including as an External Member of the Monetary Policy Committee for the Bank of England and Member of the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers. Her academic research focuses on monetary policy, financial crises, global imbalances, contagion, exchange rates, and capital flows. In 2019, Forbes was named an Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. She is currently the Convener of the Bellagio Group, a member of the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee and external advisory groups for the IMF and BIS, and a research associate at the NBER and CEPR. She received her PhD in Economics from MIT and graduated summa cum laude with highest honors from Williams College.

Adam S. Posen is president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Under his leadership, since January 2013, the Institute has won global recognition as the leading think tank in its field. A macroeconomist, from 2009 to 2012, Posen served as an external voting member of the Bank of England's rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee, and he co-authored Inflation Targeting with Bernanke, Laubach, and Mishkin while at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1994-97). His current research addresses globalization’s future amidst China-U.S. conflict, including his widely cited recent articles, “The Post-American World Economy,” “The Price of Nostalgia,” “The End of China’s Economic Miracle,” “Trade Wars are Easy to Lose,” and “The New Economic Geography,” all in Foreign Affairs.

Hélène Rey is the Lord Raj Bagri Professor of Economics at London Business School. On September 1, she will become the Economic Adviser and Head of the Monetary and Economic Department at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). She was President of the European Economic Association in 2025.

Her research introduced the idea of a global financial cycle, studied the exorbitant privilege of the US dollar and the organization of the International Monetary System. She is a member of the Bellagio Group and of the Group of Thirty. She is in charge of the G7 expert group on global imbalances.

Hélène Rey received her PhDs from the London School of Economics and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.