Venue Location The Ritz-Carlton, Dubai International Financial Centre
Sheikh Zayed Road Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Event Details MEIRA and the CFA Society Emirates are organising a seminar on the 6th of March at the Ritz Carlton. During the session, delegates will have the opportunity to discuss the key findings from a survey conducted by CFA Institute regarding MiFID II regulation and the main implications one year after its implementation.
Agenda
18:00 - 18:30
Registration
Registration 18:30 - 18:45
Opening remarks Opening remarks Steve Wallace
Director of Outreach - MENA at CFA Institute
18:45 - 19:45
MiFID II presentation 19:45 - 19:50
Closing speech
Closing speech 19:50 - 20:30
Networking cocktail
Networking cocktail Speakers
John Gollifer General Manager at MEIRA
John Gollifer General Manager at MEIRA John Gollifer is the General Manager of the Middle East Investor Relations Association (MEIRA). He was the General Manager and an executive director of the Board of the UK’s Investor Relations Society from 2012 to 2018. Prior to this, John spent 11 years at the Singapore Exchange where he was Senior Vice President and responsible for investor relations, among other roles in corporate strategy and communications. He established and ran the IR Professionals Association of Singapore from 2006-2008, is a multiple IR award winner and he created and taught an IR course at the Singapore Management University from 2009 to 2012. Since 2016, John has lectured at the University of Liverpool in London on the Masters in Strategic Communications, IR module. John was trained as a banker and spent 15 years in Asia and Europe in corporate finance and equity capital markets. Since joining the IR Society, which works in partnership with other IR associations, John has led IR training, including for the International Certificate in IR (ICIR), in Chile, Indonesia, Japan, Nigeria, Singapore, Thailand and Turkey, as well as in the Middle East and UK. In 2018, John was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the IR Society in recognition of his services to IR.
Rhodri Preece, CFA Head, Industry Research at CFA Institute
Rhodri Preece, CFA Head, Industry Research at CFA Institute Rhodri Preece is Head of Industry Research for CFA Institute. He is responsible for building and maintaining the global thought leadership function at CFA Institute, including leading the planning, coordination and creation of research content across CFA Institute research platforms including the Financial Analysts Journal, the CFA Institute Research Foundation, the Future of Finance, and the Enterprising Investor blog. Rhodri formerly served as head of capital markets policy EMEA at CFA Institute, where he was responsible for leading capital markets policy activities in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, including content development and policy engagement. Mr Preece is a former member (2014-2018) of the Group of Economic Advisers of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) Committee on Economic and Markets Analysis. Prior to joining CFA Institute, Mr. Preece was a manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP where he specialized in investment funds.
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