Event confirmation: 7 December 2018

Agustín Carstens became General Manager of the BIS on 1 December 2017. Mr Carstens was Governor of the Bank of Mexico from 2010 to 2017. A member of the BIS Board from 2011 to 2017, he was chair of the Global Economy Meeting and the Economic Consultative Council from 2013 until 2017. He also was Deputy Managing Director of the IMF and he chaired the International Monetary and Financial Committee, the IMF's policy advisory committee from 2015 to 2017.

Hyun Song Shin was appointed Economic Adviser and Head of Research on 1 May 2014. He is a member of the Bank's Executive Committee. Before joining the BIS, Mr Shin was the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics at Princeton University. In 2010, on leave from Princeton, he served as Senior Adviser to the Korean president, taking a leading role in formulating financial stability policy in Korea and developing the agenda for the G20 during Korea's presidency. From 2000 to 2005, he was Professor of Finance at the London School of Economics.

Klaus Regling is the Managing Director of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) since 2012 and CEO of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) since 2010. He has worked as an economist in senior positions at the IMF, European Commission (as Director General for Economic and Financial Affairs), the German Ministry of Finance and in the private sector.

Rolf Strauch is Chief Economist and Management Board Member in charge of Economics, Policy Strategy, and Banking of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), which he joined in July 2010. Prior to this, Mr. Strauch worked at the European Central Bank from 2000 to 2010. Before that he worked at Deutsche Bundesbank and both the University of Mannheim and the University of Bonn.