Dr Viktoria Baklanova

CFA, PRM, Chief Credit Officer at Acacia Capital. Dr Baklanova is a seasoned capital markets, risk, and credit professional, joining Acacia Capital from Fitch Ratings in New York where, since 2006, she has been a Senior Director in the Fund and Asset Manager Rating Group. Dr Baklanova’s experience prior to Fitch includes six years with Moody’s Investors Service rating money market funds, bond funds, local government pools, and senior securities issued by closed end funds. Dr Baklanova received her PhD in Finance Law from the University of Westminster Law School in London, her MS in Finance from the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College, and her Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics with a Minor in Computer Science from the Novosibirsk State University in Russia. She completed an advanced Financial Engineering programme at Columbia University in New York, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a Professional Risk Manager (PRM). She speaks widely at money market industry conferences and forums.

Joseph Tanega

BA Princeton University, MPhil Oxon, Juris Doctor, is Reader of International Financial Law, Westminster School of Law, University of Westminster; Professor of Regulation and Supervision of Retail Banking, Alma Graduate School, University of Bologna; Professor of Law and Finance, Grenoble Graduate School of Business, Grenoble Ecole de Management; and Professor of Law, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah. He is Director of the Corporate Finance Law LLM & PhD programmes at the University of Westminster.