Market Forces: Can Technology Bring Free Enterprise to Everyone?
Shelley Leibowitz, World Bank Group
Steven Rubinow, NYSE Euronext
Moderated by Matthew Bishop, The Economist
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Bio
Matthew Bishop
Matthew Bishop is the U.S. business editor and New York bureau chief of The Economist. His new book, The Road from Ruin: How to Renew Capitalism and Put America Back on Top, with Michael Green, was published by Crown in February 2010. Philanthrocapitalism, his previous book (also with Mr. Green) was on the global revolution under way in philanthropy. Mr. Bishop is also the author of Essential Economics, The Economist's official layperson's guide to economics. Mr. Bishop is the author of several of The Economist's special report supplements, most recently "A Bigger World," which examines the opportunities and challenges accompanying the rise of emerging economies and firms. Before joining The Economist, Mr. Bishop was on the faculty of London Business School.
Shelley Leibowitz
Shelley Leibowitz is Chief Information Officer of the World Bank Group and Vice President, where she's responsible for strategic leadership of the information management and information technology services that support the World Bank's work of delivering knowledge and financing products to developing countries around the world. Since her appointment in 2009, she has established technology innovation as a key part of the bank's modernization agenda and has made the bank's tech services more open and agile.
Prior to joining the World Bank, Leibowitz served as CIO at a number of financial firms, including Morgan Stanley, Greenwich Capital Markets, Barclays Capital, and Investment Risk Management. She was also a board member and technology adviser for Gain Capital. In 2002, she received the Merit Award from the Women's Bond Club of New York for career achievement and leadership in the financial industry. She is a frequent lecturer on topics relating to technology in financial services.
Steven Rubinow
Steve Rubinow is executive vice president at NYSE Euronext, an international corporation that owns and operates several leading securities exchanges, including the New York Stock Exchange
and the pan-European Euronext exchange. As chief information officer, he is responsible for most of the company's technology endeavors. Prior to taking his current position, Rubinow was chief technology officer at the electronic trading firm Archipelago Holdings, which merged with the NYSE in 2006. He also served as CIO/CTO at several successful Silicon Valley startups, including AdKnowledge and NextCard, a leading Internet provider of consumer credit. Before that, he was a vice president at Fidelity Investments, where he developed an enterprise information architecture and systems to support mutual fund operations and evaluated new companies as investment candidates for Fidelity Ventures. He taught computer science at DePaul University from 1986 to 1994.
Specialized agency of the United Nations system, established at the Bretton Woods Conference for postwar reconstruction. It is the principal international development institution. Its five divisions are the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD; its main component), the International Development Association (IDA), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). The IDA (founded 1960) makes interest-free loans to the bank's poorest member countries. The IFC (founded 1956) lends to private businesses in developing countries. The MIGA (founded 1985) supports national and private agencies that encourage foreign direct investment by offering insurance against noncommercial risks. The ICSID (founded 1966) was developed to relieve the IBRD of the burden of settling investment disputes. See alsoInternational Monetary Fund.
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