Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer, SAMBA Capital Management International; London, U.K. Richard P. Keigher is Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of SAMBA Capital Management International (SCMI). His investment responsibilities are directed toward the U.S. equity market. He commenced his investment career 30 years ago, holding senior investment positions at United States Trust Company and Mellon Bank. He formed SCMI in 1988. Keigher was educated at Syracuse University, University of Rochester Graduate School of Business, and Buffalo Law School.

John Bauer is a financial services professional with extensive experience in global markets to include Europe, the Middle East and the USA. Currently he serves as a Trustee on Samba Financial Group’s UK Pension Scheme Trust Board. Mr Bauer has held executive positions in major financial institutions around the world, including Merrill Lynch, American Express Bank, Commerce Union Bank (now Bank of America), The Gulf Bank, Kuwait, National Bank of Bahrain (NBB) and Samba Capital Management International (SCMI) in London (a subsidiary of Samba Financial Group).

Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Manchester. research and teaching interests are in the areas of international political economy, feminist political economy, finance, debt and debt-driven development. co-editor (with Nicki Smith and Juanita Elias) of the Rowman & Littlefield International book series ‘Global Political Economies of Gender and Sexuality

Charles W. Batchelor (December 25, 1845 – January 1, 1910) was an inventor and close associate of American inventor Thomas Alva Edison during much of Edison’s career. He was involved in some of the greatest inventions and technological developments in history.

M. Osman Suliman, Sudanese economics and finance educator. Member American Economic Association, Eastern Finance Association, North American Association Economic and Finance, Southern Economic Association, Missouri Valley Economic Association, Econometric Society, Optimists. Bachelor of Science with honors, University Khartoum. Postgraduate, Cairo University. Master of Arts, Indiana University, 1979. Doctor of Philosophy, Indiana University, 1984.