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Paul Dorey
Visiting Professor & Independent Consultant
Visiting Professor in Information Security and Consultant in Security and Risk Strategy. Previously Chief Information Security Officer at BP PLC and Group Operational Risk Director at Barclays Bank PLC. Head Of Information Security and IT Strategy at Morgan/Grenfell Deutche Bank. Experience of innovation in operational risk management and leading information security thinking including electronic commerce trust models. Has advised banks, companies and governments including expert testimony to US Congress.
Alton
United Kingdom

Visiting Professor in Information Security and Consultant in Security and Risk Strategy. Previously Chief Information Security Officer at BP PLC and Group Operational Risk Director at Barclays Bank PLC. Head Of Information Security and IT Strategy at Morgan/Grenfell Deutche Bank. Experience of innovation in operational risk management and leading information security thinking including electronic commerce trust models. Has advised banks, companies and governments including expert testimony to US Congress.
Alton
United Kingdom

Prof Nigel Driffield
Professor of international business / executive dean
Professor of international business, and currently interim dean of the school. Phd in economics / international business (employment effects of inward investment in the UK). Ex head of economics, interests in finance (capital stucture), foreign direct investment, regional policy, labour markets, technology transfer
Birmingham
United Kingdom

Professor of international business, and currently interim dean of the school. Phd in economics / international business (employment effects of inward investment in the UK). Ex head of economics, interests in finance (capital stucture), foreign direct investment, regional policy, labour markets, technology transfer
Birmingham
United Kingdom

Joanna Drugan
Senior Lecturer in Applied Translation
Experienced translator and translation/localisation trainer, including professional development (CPD) training. Expert advice on translating and adapting content for multilingual markets, including websites and software. Experienced user of all leading translation memory, terminology management and localisation tools. Practising French-English translator.
Norwich

Experienced translator and translation/localisation trainer, including professional development (CPD) training. Expert advice on translating and adapting content for multilingual markets, including websites and software. Experienced user of all leading translation memory, terminology management and localisation tools. Practising French-English translator.
Norwich

Prof Muhammed-Shahid Ebrahim
Professor of Islamic Banking and Finance
Muhammed-Shahid Ebrahim is a Professor of Islamic Banking and Finance at the Bangor Business School. His broad area of interest is in financial development with a narrow focus on: (i) Asset Pricing and (ii)Financial Contracting, as applied to Islamic Banking and Finance, Corporate Finance, and Real Estate Finance. He has taught at the University of Nottingham, National University of Singapore, University of Brunei Darussalam, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), Southern Illinois University (Carbondale), Northwestern University and University of Wisconsin (Madison). He has also worked as a financial analyst/planner with the United Bank of Kuwait and IDS-American Express. Shahid was a Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and Harvard University Islamic Finance Program. He has been a recipient of the Harwood Memorial Real Estate scholarship. He has numerous publications in internationally refereed journals such as Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting etc.
Bangor
United Kingdom

Muhammed-Shahid Ebrahim is a Professor of Islamic Banking and Finance at the Bangor Business School. His broad area of interest is in financial development with a narrow focus on: (i) Asset Pricing and (ii)Financial Contracting, as applied to Islamic Banking and Finance, Corporate Finance, and Real Estate Finance. He has taught at the University of Nottingham, National University of Singapore, University of Brunei Darussalam, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), Southern Illinois University (Carbondale), Northwestern University and University of Wisconsin (Madison). He has also worked as a financial analyst/planner with the United Bank of Kuwait and IDS-American Express. Shahid was a Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and Harvard University Islamic Finance Program. He has been a recipient of the Harwood Memorial Real Estate scholarship. He has numerous publications in internationally refereed journals such as Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting etc.
Bangor
United Kingdom

Dr David Ellis
Managing Director
David Ellis is a Managing Director in FTI’s Economic and Financial Consulting practice, and is based in the London office. Prior to this, he was a Director with Navigant Consulting and an Associate Director with NERA Economic Consulting. Previously, he was a finance professor at Babson College and Texas A&M University. His institutional experience includes working at Salomon Brothers in Institutional Fixed Income Sales and Trading. In litigation David’s experience includes margin and mark-to-market disputes between hedge funds and their prime brokers; the evaluation, valuation and risk of CDOs, asset backed securities, guaranteed securities, complex cross-border transactions, collars, swaps, and other derivatives; securities lending; assessing the impact of illiquidity on securities prices; broker compliance, including suitability and diversification issues; insurance products; leases, cross-border financings and other complex financial instruments in tax court and in bankruptcy; and market structure issues in stock, bond and derivatives markets. His work has involved both liability and damage assessments. In disputes involving fixed-income securities and derivatives, Dr. Ellis has testified on issues involving the risk assessment, valuation and suitability, the deal structure, and hedging of deals. He has testified on numerous types of such securities, including CDOs, guaranteed securities (including the role of monolines), zero-premium collars, interest rate caps and floors, principal protected notes, “death spiral” convertibles, credit default swaps, variable prepaid forwards, and structured FX products. He has also testified on credit related issues and counterparty risk.
London
United Kingdom

David Ellis is a Managing Director in FTI’s Economic and Financial Consulting practice, and is based in the London office. Prior to this, he was a Director with Navigant Consulting and an Associate Director with NERA Economic Consulting. Previously, he was a finance professor at Babson College and Texas A&M University. His institutional experience includes working at Salomon Brothers in Institutional Fixed Income Sales and Trading. In litigation David’s experience includes margin and mark-to-market disputes between hedge funds and their prime brokers; the evaluation, valuation and risk of CDOs, asset backed securities, guaranteed securities, complex cross-border transactions, collars, swaps, and other derivatives; securities lending; assessing the impact of illiquidity on securities prices; broker compliance, including suitability and diversification issues; insurance products; leases, cross-border financings and other complex financial instruments in tax court and in bankruptcy; and market structure issues in stock, bond and derivatives markets. His work has involved both liability and damage assessments. In disputes involving fixed-income securities and derivatives, Dr. Ellis has testified on issues involving the risk assessment, valuation and suitability, the deal structure, and hedging of deals. He has testified on numerous types of such securities, including CDOs, guaranteed securities (including the role of monolines), zero-premium collars, interest rate caps and floors, principal protected notes, “death spiral” convertibles, credit default swaps, variable prepaid forwards, and structured FX products. He has also testified on credit related issues and counterparty risk.
London
United Kingdom




