Jeremy Wilson, Barclays and Professor Willem Buiter

We have two major meetings of the Financial Services Club in London in May:

• on 18th May Jeremy Wilson, Vice Chairman of Barclays Commercial Bank, will be discussing how the credit crisis has changed the customer relationship; and

• on 21st May Willem Buiter, Professor of European Political Economy for the European Institute of the London
  School of Economics and Political Science, and author of the maverecon
  blog on the Financial Times website, will be focusing upon the road to recovery: what next?

If you would like to attend then just register:

• 18th May (member / non-member) for Jeremy Wilson; or
• 21st May (member / non-member) for Willem Buiter.

Jeremy J. Wilson, Vice Chairman, Barclays Commercial Bank

Jeremy Wilson is Vice Chairman, Barclays Commercial Bank, responsible for engagement at Board or ExCo level with Barclays’ major corporate and institutional customers in the development of new business and maintenance of key relationships.

Prior to assuming these roles Jeremy Wilson was responsible for the operational banking needs of Barclays financial institution business and, before that, of the large corporate clients at the Group's Head Office. He also worked in the group’s credit risk unit following 10 years overseas - in the United States, as personal assistant to the Chairman of Barclays’ principal subsidiary; in Vanuatu, as manager of Barclays finance centre interests there; and in Australia, as a corporate account executive. He began his career at Barclays as a graduate of Durham University on the group’s Management Development Program.

He is a Chairman of the Barclays Group Credit Committee; Director of Barclays Pension Funds Trustees Limited; Chairman of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; on the Board of the Bankers Association for Finance and Trade based in Washington (Chairman, BAFT Global Councils), a Co-Chairman of its European Advisory Council, an association of major European banks concerned with European banking interests; Chairman of CHAPS Clearing Company Limited; and a Trustee of a number of charitable Trusts covering the banking industry and education in UK and overseas.

Willem H. Buiter, Professor of European Political Economy, European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, and author of the maverecon
blog on the Financial Times website

Willem H. Buiter is Professor of European Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and is a former chief economist of the EBRD, former external member of the Monetary Policy Committee, as well as adviser to international organisations, governments, central banks and private financial institutions worldwide.

If you would like to attend then just register:

• 18th May (member / non-member) for Jeremy Wilson; or
• 21st May (member / non-member) for Willem Buiter.