Samuel Munzele Maimbo FCCA, Vice President for Budget, Performance Review and Strategic Planning, World Bank
Samuel Munzele Maimbo FCCA is vice president for budget, performance review and strategic planning at the World Bank. His 20+ years at the bank have been punctuated by a 10-year stint as honorary research fellow at the University of Manchester.
Michael Penn, Head of Climate Macro Strategy, Absolute Strategy Research
Michael Penn is head of climate macro strategy at Absolute Strategy Research, advising investors on how to integrate climate change factors into the drivers of views on macroeconomics, strategy and asset allocation. Prior to ASR he was chief economist and strategist at Cohen & Steers in New York, and previously spent eight years at Merrill Lynch in New York and London.
Mike Suffield, Director - Policy & Insights, ACCA
Mike Suffield is director of ACCA’s policy and insights, leading a team of technical and policy experts producing insight on the issues impacting the business. Before joining ACCA, Suffield was at the Financial Reporting Council, firstly heading up the FRC’s Audit Quality Review team, and then as executive director with responsibility for oversight of the UK audit market. Prior to that, he had career in audit and regulation at Coopers & Lybrand, becoming director at its UK national audit office.
Jonathan Ashworth, Chief Economist, ACCA
Jonathan joined ACCA following roles as a China economist at Fathom Consulting, and global and UK economist at Morgan Stanley, and has held economist/global macro strategy positions at Barclays Wealth. He has also worked as an economist in the Productivity & Structural Reform team at Her Majesty’s Treasury, where he did work on the famous ‘Five Tests’ of whether Britain should join the euro. He has a MA degree in Economics from Duke University and a First Class Honours degree in Economics from Hull University.
