Susumu Awanohara Susumu Awanohara is a well-known expert on U.S.-Asia relations with three decades of experience as a journalist and financial researcher. Before joining Medley Global Advisors LLC, Dr. Awanohara was the Washington correspondent for Nikkei Business Magazine and a special project consultant on global money markets for the International Monetary Fund. Dr. Awanohara began his career as an assistant editor at the Far Eastern Economic Review in the early 1970s and went on to play a key role in successive postings as bureau chief in Tokyo, Singapore, Jakarta and Washington. He has also worked as a coordinator for Japan Broadcasting Corporation, as an occasional correspondent for Tokyo Bunka Hoso in Tokyo, and until recently, as the Research Advisor for Nikko Research Center in Washington, D.C. Dr. Awanohara has a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University and a B.A. in international relations from Tokyo University. Bhushan Bahree Bhushan Bahree, Director - Oil & Energy, came to Medley Global Advisors LLC from The Wall Street Journal, where he covered the international oil and energy industry for 15 years. Educated in India, he worked for Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal for 37 years, reporting and writing about international monetary policy, world trade, and energy from New York, Paris, Geneva, and London. At one time or another, Mr. Bahree has covered institutions including the Swiss National Bank, the Bank for International Settlements, the Bank of England, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and the World Trade Organization. For more than a quarter of a century he has also closely tracked and written on the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its member countries, the International Energy Agency, and some of the largest international oil companies, including Royal Dutch Shell, BP, Total and ENI. Mr. Bahree received the 2001 Award for Excellence in Written Journalism from the International Association for Energy Economics. Erin Blanton Erin Blanton is the Director of Global Fuels who covers the oil and gas, electric utilities, and coal industries. Before joining MGA, Ms. Blanton worked for several years on Wall Street as a trader for NASDAQ. Ms. Blanton has a B.A. in economics from Cornell University and an M.A. in international energy policy from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Douglas Busvine Douglas Busvine, Director - Russia/CIS, joined MGA from global news and financial information company Reuters, where he worked for 18 years as a correspondent. In his five career postings -- Vienna, Almaty, Bonn/Berlin, Warsaw and Moscow -- Mr. Busvine's focus has been on covering Central and Eastern Europe's transition from communist central planning to the market economy. He has, over the past four years in Moscow, chronicled the break-up of oil major Yukos, gas monopoly Gazprom's rise from state ministry into global energy power, and Russia's transformation from the debacle of 1998. Mr. Busvine is a fluent speaker of Russian, German and Polish. A Briton, he holds a B.A. in history from Oxford University. Tom Champion Tom Champion brings 20 years of direct utility experience to his role as Energy Analyst at MGA. Most recently, Mr. Champion managed the Washington office of Consolidated Edison Company of New York. Prior to that, he directed federal and state government relations for the Public Service Company of New Mexico for eleven years. Additionally, he worked for two years on energy policy for the United States Senate. He was a member of a project development team to build one of the first independent power projects in the United States. He has developed expertise and contacts from working on a wide range of federal and state regulatory and legislative issues including electricity, tax, appropriations, and environmental policies. Mr. Champion has an M.B.S. from Johns Hopkins University as well as an A.B. and A.M. degree from Rutgers. Bill Farren-Price Bill Farren-Price has been writing about Middle East energy, economics, and politics for 14 years. He joined MGA after several years serving as Deputy Editor for the Middle East Economic Survey (MEES), during which time he has advised regional and international banks and international oil companies on oil policy. Prior to that, Mr. Farren-Price has made contributions on energy and the Middle East for the International Herald Tribune, UPI, Forbers, Oxford Analytica and other newspapers and journals including Petroleum Economist. He has also presented conference papers in Austria, Greece, Iran, and the UK and has made regular appearances on television and radio in Australia, Austria, France, Japan, and the UK. A native Australian, Mr. Farren-Price graduated from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London. Brendan Fitzsimmons Brendan Fitzsimmons, is responsible for integrating global market intelligence with MGA's policy intelligence. He brings more than 10 years of strategy, intelligence, and policy analysis experience from trading, banking, consulting, and government service. Mr. Fitzsimmons began his career at Manufacturers Hanover in London working on North Sea energy and policy risk issues, subsequently consulting at Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Petroleum Finance, and McKinsey & Company, before serving in the International Affairs Division of the President's National Security Program at OMB. Prior to joining MGA, Mr. Fitzsimmons was a Senior Market Specialist at Enron Global Markets, working with the Financial Trading Group covering global interest rates, FX, and commodities. Mr. Fitzsimmons was a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellow at Harvard University, pursued graduate studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in International Economics, International Relations, and Emerging Markets Studies, and graduated magna cum laude from Boston University. He has worked and studied in the UK, Italy, Ireland, Austria, Russia, and the Czech Republic. Peter Hamilton Peter Hamilton joined MGA from the Bank of England, where he held a number of high-level positions. Most recently, Mr. Hamilton served as top assistant to the Bank of England's executive director responsible for foreign exchange. Previously, as a senior member of the Policy Planning Group, he helped shape UK policy by preparing for G-7 meetings and working closely with the IMF, the World Bank and the EBRD. Mr. Hamilton worked in both the capital markets and the emerging markets groups at the Bank of England. He has an undergraduate degree from Oxford University and pursued his graduate studies at Cambridge University and the London School of Economics. Tim Jones Tim Jones joined MGA after a twelve year career in financial journalism, specializing in European monetary and business affairs. He helped found the Economist Group’s groundbreaking weekly newspaper, European Voice, and became the journal’s deputy editor. As deputy editor, he covered Brussels regulatory affairs, antitrust, trade policy, the creation of the eurozone and EU enlargement. Mr. Jones has also written extensively for the business pages of British weeklies. Prior to this, he was a correspondent for Knight-Ridder Financial News in Brussels and London reporting on monetary policy and currency markets, and an equities reporter for Financial Times Business Information. He has a degree in history from the University of Sheffield. Josh May Josh May is Deputy Head of Content for Emerging Markets. Before joining MGA he traded Emerging Market and Sovereign Eurobond Debt for Dresdner Bank and spent three years in Frankfurt as a key member of the top-ranked DM-Eurobond desk. Mr. May has proprietary trading experience in German, French and Italian government bond markets, and has also worked in the U.S. dollar Eurobond and money markets and trained as a commercial banking industry analyst. He has an undergraduate degree from Haverford College and an M.B.A. from New York University. Kenichi Nagura Kenichi Nagura, MGA's Tokyo representative responsible for the coverage of Japanese macro-political developments, joined the firm after serving as a journalist and economist for more than a decade. Mr. Nagura wrote for the Kyodo News Agency in Tokyo covering monetary and fiscal policies, financial markets and Japan's foreign economic relations. During this time, Mr. Nagura received Kyodo's highest award for outstanding reporting for his work on GATT Uruguay Round negotiations and Japan's industrial policy. After studying economics in the US for two years, Mr. Nagura became a senior economist at Norinchukin Research Institute in Tokyo, monitoring financial markets and macro- and micro-economic policies, as well as making economic forecasts. Mr. Nagura has a B.A. from Waseda University in Tokyo and an M.P.A from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. H. Kaan Nazli H. Kaan Nazli covers Turkey, Eastern Europe, and the Caspian region for MGA. Formerly a research analyst for the Eurasia Group, Mr. Nazli has written for the Nations in Transit Project by Freedom House, the Washington DC-based NGO advocating democratic development worldwide, as well as for the Financial Times, National Interest, Turkish Policy Quarterly, Insight Turkey, Caspian Investor, Russia/Eurasia Executive Guide and Open Society Institute sponsored website EurasiaNet. Mr. Nazli holds an M.A. in Political Economy from New York University, where he has worked as a researcher on Egypt, Czech Republic, Hungary and Turkey at the Department of Economics, and a B.A. in International Relations from the School of Political Sciences at the University of Ankara, Turkey. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Government/Russian and Eurasian Studies at Georgetown University. Luisa Palacios Luisa Palacios, Managing Director - Emerging Markets, joins MGA with almost 10-years of experience at international financial institutions. Most recently, Ms. Palacios worked for Barclays Capital as a Macro Strategist for the Andean Region, with share coverage of Argentina. Prior to this, Ms. Palacios was a Senior Economist for the Japan Bank of International Cooperation, where she focused on Latin America energy and debt issues. Ms. Palacios has also worked for Societe Generale in both Paris and New York, where she started out following Middle East/North Africa and Turkey and, later, as an economist for Latin America. Additionally, Ms. Palacios has served as a consultant for the World Bank in the office of the Chief Economist for Latin America. Ms. Palacios has a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University and holds a PhD from The John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies where she concentrated on international economics and Latin American energy policy. She has published papers in international journals on economic policy and debt issues in Latin America and on regional energy policy issues, and is a frequent commentator on economic and political developments in Latin America for the international media. Gustavo Rangel Gustavo Rangel, Director - Emerging Markets, Latin America, joined MGA after five years with Barclays Capital, where he provided research and analysis on central banks, fiscal policy, and domestic politics in the region, including Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, and Panama. He has also analysed Brazilian equity markets for Banco Boreal in Brazil. Mr. Rangel holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois, where he taught Macroeconomics and statistics before resuming his career in the financial industry, and a B.A. in Economics from the Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Daniel Sternoff Daniel Sternoff heads MGA's Emerging Markets and Energy research, with a primary research focus on oil markets, geopolitics and China. Prior to joining MGA in 2002, Mr. Sternoff covered Middle East politics as a Jerusalem-based correspondent with Reuters, and subsequently led coverage of global macroeconomics and international capital markets as director of Reuters' Foreign Exchange Group in New York. Mr. Sternoff contributes to policy roundtables with groups including the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Aspen Institute, the Carnegie Center for Ethics in International Affairs and the Council on Foreign relations, and has also worked as a researcher for CFR's senior fellow for Muslim politics. Mr. Sternoff received a Fulbright Scholarship after completing his M.A. in international relations and economics from the John Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He also holds an undergraduate degree from Duke University. Jessica Zufolo Jessica Zufolo is MGA's Senior Policy Director for Telecommunications, Media and Technology. Ms. Zufolo advises clients on all telecom policy matters pending before state regulatory commissions, the courts, Congress, the FCC and state legislatures. Prior to joining MGA, Ms. Zufolo was the legislative director for the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) for five years where she coordinated and directed NARUC’s advocacy and strategy for all fifty state Commissions on Capitol Hill. Prior to joining NARUC, Ms. Zufolo worked on Capitol Hill for seven years handling telecommunications and technology issues for the late-New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then New York Representative Charles E. Schumer, and Representative Peter A. Dafazio of Oregon.