MOCOMILA - Key Persons
Bernd Krauskopf has been General Counsel of the Deutsche Bundesbank from 2000 to 2015, deputy chairman of the Banks Steering Committee for European Affairs and member of the Legal Committee of the European System of Central Banks. From 2013 to 2015 he has also been Chief Compliance Officer of the Bundesbank. In these functions he has advised the Presidents of the Bundesbank also as members of the Governing Council of the ECB.
In various positions he has contributed intensively to monetary union between the former two German states in 1990 and has been largely involved in the preparation of the European Monetary Union on behalf of the Bundesbank and the German Government in various functions on the national and the European level from 1993 to 1999. In 2002 he was nominated deputy member of the Board of the Monetary Stability Foundation in Frankfurt.
He earned his law degree from Justus Liebig University in Gießen after studies of law, economics and politics and has published various articles in particular about monetary and central bank law.
Since 2015 he advises Non ESCB Central Banks within the framework of the Central Bank Cooperation Program of the Bundesbank on their tasks in case of an accession of their country to the European Union. In this context he is also a lecturer at programs organised by various organisations.
Job Titles:
- General Counsel at the Reserve Bank of Australia
- Member of the Banking & Financial Services Law Association
Catherine Parr is General Counsel at the Reserve Bank of Australia. She took up her current role in July 2010 after 22 years as a partner of law firm Allens. She joined Allens (then, Allen Allen & Hemsley) in 1982 and became a partner six years later. She practised in banking and finance for most of her 28 years with the firm, initially in corporate and wholesale transactional finance work and then in financial regulation and compliance. Among other leadership roles in the firm she was a member of the Allen Allen & Hemsley Board from 1992 to 1994 and head of the firm's Financial Regulation and Compliance Practice Group from 1994 to June 2010.
Catherine is a member of the Banking & Financial Services Law Association and serves on the Law Council of Australia's Financial Services Committee and Privacy Law Committee. She has a Bachelor of Commerce (with Merit) and an LLB from the University of New South Wales and is admitted to practise in New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia.
Charles Proctor is a Partner is the London office of Bird & Bird, an international law firm. Mr Proctor has practised in the banking and financial services field for over 25 years, both in London and the Far East.
He has published three books and numerous articles on various aspects of banking law, including the Sixth Edition of Mann on the Legal Aspect of Money, which is regarded as the leading text in its field.
He holds the degree of Doctor of Laws and is an honorary professor in the School of Law, University of Birmingham.
Christoph Ohler is professor for public law, European law, public international law and international economic law at the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena. From 1998 to 1999 he worked as an associate in the banking and finance department of Clifford Chance in Frankfurt/Main. In 2005 he received his venia legendi from the Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich. From 2008 to 2014 he was the spokesperson of the interdisciplinary graduate programme "Global Financial Markets" at the universities of Jena and Halle. In 2015 he was elected as Member of the Constitutional Court of the Free State of Thuringia. Christoph Ohler publishes extensively on German and EU constitutional law with a special focus on European Monetary Union and the regulation of financial markets in international and European law.
Job Titles:
- General Counsel of the Central Bank of Brazil
Cristiano Cozer is the General Counsel of the Central Bank of Brazil since 2016. He joined the Central Bank of Brazil as an attorney in 1998. He graduated from Rio de Janeiro State University in 1997, and holds a Master's degree in Law, State and Constitution from the University of Brasilia (2006). Mr. Cozer has an academic interest in monetary policy and banking regulation. He is a member of the Banking Committee of the Institute of Lawyers of Sao Paulo (IASP) since 2018 and of the Brazilian Bar Association since 1998.
Job Titles:
- Professor Emeritus at Boston College Law School
Cynthia Crawford Lichtenstein is Professor Emeritus at Boston College Law School. After receiving her law degree from Yale Law School magna cum laude, she spent a number of years practicing international banking with a major Wall Street law firm. During that period, she took a leave to receive her Master's of Comparative Law from the University of Chicago Law School, with her second year spent in Brussels at the then EEC. Since her retirement from Boston College Law School, she has taught (international financial law and European law) at George Washington University Law School and Brooklyn Law School. She is a member of the American Law Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations and has served in a number of positions at the American Society of International Law. She is an Honorary Editor of the American Journal of International Law. She is a former President of the American Branch of the International Law Association, a long time member of the ILA International Monetary Law Committee and a former Rapporteur and former Chairman of the ILA International Securities Law Committee. At the November 15, 2008 Meeting of the Executive Council of the ILA, she was elected a Vice-Chairman of the Association.
David Gross is the secretary of MOCOMILA and senior vice president in the legal group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He works in the Enforcement, Litigation, Police, Investigations, and Corporate Affairs Division as the head of the Law Enforcement Unit and the chief investigator of internal investigations. Mr. Gross joined the New York Fed as an attorney in September of 2000. He became an officer of the New York Fed in January 2003, when he was promoted to counsel. His most recent promotion was to senior vice president in January 2015 and he has been the head of the LEU and chief investigator since 2016.
Prior to joining the New York Fed, Mr. Gross served as an assistant district attorney at the New York County District Attorney's Office from 1995-2000, where he worked in Trial Bureau 50. While working in that office, Mr. Gross served in the Domestic Violence Unit and the Sex Crimes Unit.
Mr. Gross earned his law degree from the Columbia University Law School in 1995 after earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from Yale University in 1991. He is a member of the New York bar.
Job Titles:
- General Counsel of the Bank for International Settlements
Diego Devos is General Counsel of the Bank for International Settlements since October 2009.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Committee Officers Team
- Greece ) Secretary
- Member of Committee
Dr. Adesegun A. Akin-Olugbade is the Founder and Principal Partner of Luwaji Nominees, a corporate management, consulting, and advisory services firm.
He is a graduate of King's College London and Harvard Law School, in addition to being the Best Overall Student at the Nigerian Law School in 1984. He has served for over 30 years in the legal profession and financial services sector, having worked at both the technical and executive management level, in the public and private sector for leading commercial law firms and multilateral financial institutions. He was previously General Counsel and senior Director at the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the first Chief Legal Officer and Head of the Legal Services Department of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank). He retired as Executive Director (Chief Operating Officer), General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) in December 2018. He currently consults for Clifford Chance Worldwide and AELEX Partners in Nigeria.
Dr Adesegun Akin-Olugbade has extensive corporate management experience. He is the Chairman or Vice Chairman of several companies in Nigeria, including NSIA Insurance Limited, Utica Capital Limited, Mouka Limited, O.B.A. International Limited, Southern Marine Petroleum Limited, and Axion Realty & Development Company Limited. He is member of the Board of Directors of NG Clearing Limited, a financial market infrastructure driving the clearing and settlement of Exchange Traded Derivatives Instruments in the Nigerian Capital Markets. He was a non-Executive Director and Chairman of the Governance Committee of Ecobank Transnational Limited (ETI) and a former Managing Partner of AFC Equity Investments Limited, Mauritius. He is a founding shareholder and former Non-Executive Director of Asset & Resources Management Company Limited (ARM), Nigeria.
He is an Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON), Nigeria.
Dr. Eva Hüpkes is Head Regulatory and Supervisory Policies at Secretariat of the Financial Stability Board (FSB). Since she joined the FSB in 2009 she has contributed substantially to the development of the G20 post-crisis policy reforms. She played a pivotal role in promoting effective resolution of financial institutions as secretary to the FSB's working groups that developed global standards for resolution, Co-Chair of the Basel Committee Working Group on Cross-Border Bank Resolution, and as a member of the Advisory Panel of the International Association of Deposit Insurers
Prior to joining the FSB, she served as Head of Regulation at the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) where she, for over a decade, helped design and draft a broad range of legislative and regulatory reforms. During 1997-1999 she worked at the International Monetary Fund where she supported the Fund's response to the Asian financial crisis. Eva Hüpkes has studied law and international relations at the University of Geneva and its Graduate Institute of International Studies, Georgetown University and the University of Passau, Germany. She holds a PhD in law and is a member of the New York Bar.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Law at the University
Hideki Kanda is Professor of Law at the University of Tokyo. His main areas of specialization include commercial law, corporate law, banking regulation and securities regulation. Mr. Kanda served as Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School in 1989, 1991 and 1993, and Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School in 1996. He is a member of the Financial Council at the Financial Services Agency of Japan, and also serves as Chairman of the Self-Regulatory Board at the Japan Securities Dealers Association. Mr. Kanda's recent publications include Reinier Kraakman et al, "The Anatomy of Corporate Law" (2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 2009). He also wrote many articles in English in the areas of commercial law, corporate law, banking regulation and securities regulation.
Mr. Bo Li assumed the role of Deputy Managing Director at the IMF on August 23, 2021. He is responsible for the IMF's work on about 90 countries as well as on a wide range of policy issues.
Before joining the IMF, Mr. Li worked for many years at the People's Bank of China, most recently as Deputy Governor. He earlier headed the Monetary Policy, Monetary Policy II, and Legal and Regulation Departments, where he played an important role in the reform of state-owned banks, the drafting of China's anti-money-laundering law, the internationalization of the renminbi, and the establishment of China's macroprudential policy framework.
Outside of the PBoC, Mr. Li served as Vice Mayor of Chongqing-China's largest municipality, with a population of over 30 million-where he oversaw the city's financial-sector development, international trade, and foreign direct investment. Mr. Li was also Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese. He started his career at the New York law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell, where he was a practicing attorney for five years.
Mr. Li holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and an M.A. from Boston University, both in economics, as well as a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He received his undergraduate education from Renmin University of China in Beijing.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Committee Officers Team
- Chairman of Committee
- Italy ) Chair
Professor Chiara Zilioli has dedicated her entire working life to Europe. In 1989 she joined the Legal Service of the Council of Ministers in Brussels and in 1998 she joined the European Central Bank (ECB) as Head of Division in the Legal Services, where she has been Director General of the Legal Services since 2013, leading a team of 130 lawyers.
Chiara Zilioli holds an LL.M. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the European University Institute. In 2016 she was appointed honorary professor of law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität in Frankfurt. She lectures at the Institute for Law and Finance of that University and at the College européen de Parme of Parma University, Italy. She has published numerous articles and 4 books.
Chiara Zilioli has been married to Dr. Andreas Fabritius for 32 years, and they have 4 children.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Committee Officers Team
- Academic Coordinator
- Member of Committee
Job Titles:
- Member of the Committee Officers Team
- Chairman of Committee
- Spain ) Vice - Chair
Job Titles:
- Member of the Committee Officers Team
- Chairman of Committee
- Honorary Chair