Owen Lamont
Dr. Owen Lamont is a Professor of Finance at the Yale School of Management, and is regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on capital markets, short selling, and market structures. He is currently on leave from Yale while serving as Portfolio Manager, DKR Fusion Management, LP, a market-neutral equity hedge fund established by DKR Capital. Dr. Lamont received a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and began research in behavioral finance while a professor at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. Dr. Lamont has testified as an expert witness on short selling before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, as well as the House Committee on Financial Services. He has previously taught at Princeton and The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
Benn Steil
Dr. Benn Steil is senior fellow and director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He is also the editor of International Finance and a co-founder and managing member of Efficient Frontiers LLC, a markets consultancy. Until November 2006, he was also a nonexecutive director of the virt-x exchange in London. Prior to his joining the Council in 1999, he was director of the International Economics Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. He came to the Institute in 1992 from a Lloyd’s of London Tercentenary Research Fellowship at Nuffield College, Oxford, where he received his PhD in economics.
Gerry Tamburro
From 1997 until 2007 Mr. Tamburro was a Managing Director and member of the Investment Bank Board at UBS Investment Bank. Mr. Tamburro’s responsibilities included global fixed income collateral sales and trading, commercial paper issuance, guaranteed investment contracts and relative value trading. Prior to joining UBS, Mr. Tamburro served as a Managing Director at Lehman Brothers from 1989 until 1997. At Lehman Brothers he was the head of Global Equity Finance and Prime Services. Mr. Tamburro has held senior positions at Prudential Bache and Chase Manhattan. He has served on the Board of Directors of The Bond Market Association and was Vice-President of the Securities Industry Association’s committee on securities lending. Mr. Tamburro holds a B.S. in Economic and Finance from Rutgers University.