Curriculum vitae of speakers

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
Public Hearing
BANK STRUCTURAL REFORM
2nd December 2014 16:30-18:30 - Brussels, Room JAN 4Q2
SPEAKERS
Erkki Liikanen
Bank of Finland
Mr Erkki Liikanen, MPolSc (Econ.), has been Governor of the Bank of Finland since 2004. He is
currently serving his second 7-year term.
Mr Liikanen, a former EU Commissioner, Ambassador and Minister of Finance, is one of the longest
serving members of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank. He is Chairman of the ECB
Audit Committee, with a mandate to enhance the corporate governance of the ECB and the
Eurosystem. He is also Governor of the International Monetary Fund for Finland.
In 2012, Mr Liikanen chaired a High-level Expert Group proposing structural reforms to the EU
banking sector.
At the European Commission, Mr Liikanen was responsible for Enterprise and Information Society,
and earlier for Budget, Personnel and Administration. In all, Mr Liikanen was a member of the
European Commission for almost ten years.
In the early 1990s, Mr Liikanen was head of the Finnish Mission to the European Union. Before
commencing his international career, Mr Liikanen was Minister of Finance for Finland.
Mr Liikanen is so far the youngest person ever to become a member of the Finnish Parliament,
starting his parliamentary career in 1971 at the age of 21.
Mr Liikanen is an economist by training. He holds a master degree in Political Science (Economics)
from the University of Helsinki. He also holds honorary doctorates from the University of Technology,
Finland (2003) and Aalto University School of Economics, Finland (2011).
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Charles GOODHART
London School of Economics
Charles Goodhart, CBE, FBA is Emeritus Professor of Banking and Finance with the Financial
Markets Group at the London School of Economics, having previously, 1987-2005, been its Deputy
Director. Until his retirement in 2002, he had been the Norman Sosnow Professor of Banking and
Finance at LSE since 1985. Before then, he had worked at the Bank of England for seventeen years
as a monetary adviser, becoming a Chief Adviser in 1980. In 1997 he was appointed one of the
outside independent members of the Bank of England's new Monetary Policy Committee until May
2000. Earlier he had taught at Cambridge and LSE. Besides numerous articles, he has written a
couple of books on monetary history; a graduate monetary textbook, Money, Information and
Uncertainty (2nd Ed. 1989); two collections of papers on monetary policy, Monetary Theory and
Practice (1984) and The Central Bank and The Financial System (1995); and a number of books and
articles on Financial Stability, on which subject he was Adviser to the Governor of the Bank of
England, 2002-2004, and numerous other studies relating to financial markets and to monetary policy
and history. His latest books include The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision: A History of the
Early Years, 1974-1997, (2011), and The Regulatory Response to the Financial Crisis, (2009).
Martin HELLWIG
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective
Goods
Martin Hellwig is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods and Professor
of Economics at the University of Bonn, Germany. He has a doctorate in economics from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has held university positions at Stanford, Princeton, Bonn,
Basel (Switzerland), Harvard, and Mannheim (Germany). Martin Hellwig has published extensively in
areas as diverse as the economics of information and incentives, public economics, competition
policy and regulation, and financial economics. His 1990s publications on systemic risk and financial
regulation already exposed several of the mechanisms that were so detrimental in the crisis of 2007 –
2009. For his research, Martin Hellwig has received many honors, most recently, the 2012 Max
Planck Research Award for his work on International Financial Regulation. Martin Hellwig has also
been active in policy work, in Germany and the European Union. Currently he is Vice Chair of the
Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board in Frankfurt. With Anat Admati
from Stanford University, he has published the book The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong with
Banking and What to Do about It, Princeton University Press 2013.
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Marco PAGANO
University of Naples Federico II
Marco Pagano is Professor of Economics at University of Naples Federico II, President of the Einaudi
Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF), Director of the Centre for Studies in Economics and
Finance (CSEF), and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the
European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), the Center for Financial Studies (CFS) and the
European Economic Association (EEA). He holds a B.A. in Economics from Cambridge University
and a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT, and taught at Bocconi University, Imperial College and the
University of Salerno. In 1997 he received the BACOB European Prize for Economic and Financial
Research, jointly with Ailsa Röell. From 2004 to 2011 he was the managing editor of the Review of
Finance (the journal of the European Finance Association), together with Josef Zechner. In 2011 he
was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant, for a 5-year research project on “Finance and Labor”.
He is Chair of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB). From
2011 to 2013 he was a member of the Group of Economic Advisors to the European Securities and
Markets Authority (ESMA). He also advised the Italian Treasury on the reform of security markets
(1995-96), and was a member of the Treasury's privatisation committee (1997-2001) and of the EU
Parliament advisory panel on financial services (2002-04).
Most of his research is in the area of finance, especially in market microstructure, banking and
corporate finance. His publications have appeared in several journals, such as American Economic
Review, Review of Economic Studies, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Finance, Review of
Financial Studies, RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, and
Economic Journal. In 2013 he published the book Market Liquidity: Theory, Evidence and Policy (with
Thierry Foucault and Ailsa Roëll) with Oxford University Press.
Paulina PRZEWOSKA
Finance Watch
Paulina Przewoska, Senior Policy Analyst at Finance Watch, specializes in banking regulation and
supervision. Before joining Finance Watch she held the position of Head of Unit at Polish Financial
Supervision Authority, where she spent 5 years. Previously she was working for Deloitte both in
Poland and in Germany. Paulina holds a master’s degree in finance from the Warsaw School of
Economics and master’s degree in law from the University of Warsaw. She passed bar exam in 2012.
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Jose GARCÍA CANTERA
Banco Santander
Jose García Cantera was appointed CFO of Banco Santander in November 2014. Previously he was
a head of Global Wholesale Banking Division, reporting directly to the Group’s CEO.
Prior to his work at Banco Santander, Mr. García Cantera was CEO of Banesto since 2006, having
joined the bank in September 2003 as Senior Executive-Vice President of Wholesale Banking,
comprising Corporate Banking, Treasury, Capital Markets, Banesto Bolsa and the bank's international
operations.
Before working at Banesto, Mr. García Cantera held senior executive positions at Salomon BrothersCitigroup. He was a member of the Management Committee of Citigroup EMEA and of the Board of
Directors of Citigroup Capital Markets UK and Citigroup EMEA.
During his time as a Latin American stock analyst, he was rated as best analyst by a number of
specialised publications including Institutional Investor, Reuters, Extel and Global Investor between
1995 and 2002.
Jose García Cantera is an industrial engineer and holds an MBA from IE Business School.
Dirk WOUTERS
Bank J.Van Breda & C°
Actual mandates:

President of the Executive Committee of Bank J.Van Breda & C° NV

Member of the Board of Directors of ABK bank CVBA

Member of the Febelfin Board of Directors
Employment history:
1990 – 1992 Director of Wouters NV, family business in the food industry Bank J.Van Breda & C°
1993 – 1995 Tax Consultant
1995 – 1998 Private banker
1998 – 2002 Responsible SME segment
2003 – 2014 Member of the Executive Committee, consecutively responsible for payments,
investments, ALM, credits & reporting
Education
1989 Master in Applied Economical Sciences (UFSIA)
1993 Tax Consultant Belgische Kamer van Rekenplichtigen Antwerpen
2001 Approved Tax Consultant IDAB
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