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Keynote Speakers

Tom Butler
International Finance Corporation (IFC)
Global Head of Mining
Tom leads IFC’s investment activities in mining exploration and development. His team oversees a $500 million debt and equity portfolio spanning over 37 projects in 25 countries. Tom joined IFC in 1997 and has focused on the financing of oil, gas and mining projects, mainly in Africa and Latin America. Tom spent five years in IFC’s infrastructure department, financing projects such as airports, shipping, and power companies, again with a focus on Africa, where he was based for three years between 2006 and 2009. Tom was appointed IFC’s head for Mining in March 2011. Tom has a degree in engineering from Cambridge University, England, and an MBA from INSEAD, France. He is based in Washington DC.

Dr. Barry J. Eichengreen
International Monetary Historian; Professor of Economics and Political Science; Author of Exorbitant Privilege
Barry Eichengreen is one of the world’s foremost experts on the international monetary system and global finance. His research and writing have illuminated the current financial crisis and uncovered many of its far reaching consequences. An expert on financial crises, Dr. Eichengreen has written extensively on their histories, causes and cures. Some of his recent research compared the early stages of the current financial crisis with the Great Depression, ominously finding that our 21st century crisis started off being much more severe than the previous one. Dr. Eichengreen’s writings have appeared in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, and numerous other newspapers and periodicals. He writes a regular monthly column for Project Syndicate. His credentials include:
- George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley
- Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA
- Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Senior Policy Advisor at the International Monetary Fund, 1997-98
- Convener of the Bellagio Group of academics and economic officials

Dr. David Evans
Science Speaks
Mathematician and Engineer, President
David Evans did a PhD at Stanford, in a statistical area of electrical engineering that included portfolio theory. While some of his fellow students became financial rocket scientists on Wall Street, David returned to Australia to write a maths book. No one funds you to write a maths book, so David turned to the markets for a living, and has been an investor and trader since 1990. An obvious bubble developed in the 1990s, and he switched from banks to gold. Good analytic information about gold stocks is hard to come by, so out of necessity David started goldnerds.com in 2007, a small company which sells analysis of all the gold companies on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). David is an amateur monetary historian, and his investment interests include how money is created, banks and gold, and confidence tricks. In 2009 he had some interesting conversations with a couple of central bankers. Contributed to the documentary Trading On Thin Air, with script development and some appearances. Click here to see full biography.

Robert M. Friedland
Ivanhoe Mines
Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Well-known international financier Robert Friedland is in the vanguard of leaders in the global mining and energy sectors who have pioneered business links throughout Asia and the Asia Pacific region during the past 20 years. He is Chief Executive Officer of Ivanhoe Mines, which he founded in 1994, launched through a highly successful initial public offering in 1996 and then served as Chairman of the company’s Board of Directors, and later as Executive Chairman, for 15 years. Mr. Friedland is Chairman of Ivanhoe Capital Corporation, his family’s private company based in Singapore, Beijing and London. Ivanhoe Capital specializes in venture capital and project financing for international business enterprises, predominantly in the fields of minerals, energy and technology. With his leadership, Ivanhoe executives and affiliated benefiting companies have raised several billion dollars on international capital markets since 1993. Mr. Friedland also is co-founder, Executive Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ivanhoe Energy, an established oil and gas producer that is developing heavy-oil projects in Canada and Ecuador using its advanced, proprietary, heavy-oil upgrading technology. He also is Chairman of Sunwing Holding Corporation, the parent company of Ivanhoe Energy’s Asia-focused operating subsidiary that is producing oil and developing natural gas discoveries in China. Ivanhoe Energy is listed on NASDAQ and the Toronto Stock Exchange. Mr. Friedland holds U.S. and Canadian citizenships and resides in Singapore. He graduated from Reed College, Oregon, USA, in 1974 with an undergraduate degree in political science.

David Hale
David Hale Global Economics
Founding Chairman
David Hale is a Chicago-based global economist and founding chairman of David Hale Global Economics. His clients include financial institutions in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa. Hale writes for major publications and is a member of various institutions and organizations such as the National Association of Business Economists, Academic Advisory Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Competitive Markets Advisory Council of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and many others. David Hale is currently coauthoring a book on the Chinese economy. Hale will soon publish “What’s Next?” with Yale Press, launch an EBookstore featuring major economic thinkers on his new website DavidHaleweb.com.

Kobus van der Wath
The Beijing Axis
Founder & Group Managing Director
Kobus is the Founder and Group Managing Director of The Beijing Axis (www.thebeijingaxis.com), a China-focused advisory firm operating in four principal areas: Commodities, Capital, Procurement and Strategy. Clients include global multinationals with a ‘China agenda’; and Chinese multinational firms with a ‘go-global agenda’. The firm is a leader in China-Africa investment and trade facilitation, having worked on a number of high profile projects in this sphere. Kobus is the author of ‘Doing Business in China – the System and the Strategies’. This book is the first book by a person from Africa on Business in China and was commissioned by the China International Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He has also published other books and chapters in books on economics, finance and foreign exchange markets – particularly on China and the rest of Asia. He has appeared on CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Reuters TV, SABC, TCS, CCTV and other networks. He has written for or has been quoted in the Financial Times, the Asian Wall Street Journal, South China Morning Post, the Singapore Straits Times, Singapore Business Times, China Daily and Business Day. He has done public speaking, on invitation, in more than 20 countries. Born and raised in South Africa, Kobus has been working in Asia for over 17 years and is based in Beijing and Singapore. Before founding The Beijing Axis, he was Head of Investment Strategy and Global Market Research for Asia Pacific for Standard Chartered Bank Plc and, prior to that, he was a Senior Strategy Consultant with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Asia. In his early career, he was an Emerging Market Investment Strategist in London; a Treasury Economist with Standard Merchant Bank in Johannesburg; and an Economist with the South African Reserve Bank in Pretoria.

Keynote Speakers

Tom Butler

Dr. Barry J. Eichengreen

Dr. David Evans

Robert M. Friedland

David Hale

Kobus van der Wath