Clive Horwood

Deputy CEO and Managing Editor Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF)

Clive Horwood is Deputy CEO and Managing Editor of OMFIF, the research and events forum that promotes best practice and cooperation between the public and private sectors of the global financial markets. At OMFIF he is responsible for all content, including research, editorial, events and meetings, as well as setting the strategic path of the company.

Before joining OMFIF in 2020, Clive had a long and successful career as one of the most influential financial journalists of his generation. He began his career in the early 1990s as a capital markets reporter, before stints as editor of publications including International Bond Investor, Credit and Risk. In 2005 he became editor of Euromoney, the leading title for the global banking industry, where over a record 15-year tenure he established deep and long-lasting relationships with many of the leading bank CEOs, built the most prestigious accreditation programme for banks across the world, and pioneered coverage of ESG in financial markets.

Christopher Smart

Managing Partner, Arbroath Group and former Special Assistant to the United States President for International Economics

Christopher Smart is the founder and managing partner of the Arbroath Group, a geopolitical risk and investment strategy practice. His distinguished career in global financial markets and government service drives the Group’s work to distill and spotlight bespoke macroeconomic and geopolitical insights for clients. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Milken Institute and Principal at WestExec Advisors.

Dr. Smart is an accomplished investment industry leader with demonstrated success in portfolio management and investment strategy, complemented by senior economic policy roles at the U.S. Treasury and the White House. Previously, he was Chief Global Strategist at Barings, where he founded and led the Barings Investment Institute, the firm’s macroeconomic and geopolitical strategy team that highlighted short-term investment opportunities while exploring the long-term forces that should shape capital allocation decisions.

From 2013 to 2015, he served as Special Assistant to the President at the National Economic Council and the National Security Council, where he was principal advisor on trade, investment and global economic issues. Dr. Smart also spent four years as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, where he led the response to the European financial crisis and led U.S. engagement on financial policy across Europe, Russia and Central Asia.

Before his government service, he worked as the Director of International Investments at Pioneer Investments where he managed top-performing Emerging Markets and International portfolios. Early in his career, he was an advisor to the Russian Finance Ministry following the collapse of the Soviet Union and a journalist in Florida and France.

Dr. Smart has also served as a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, and at the Chatham House Royal Institute of International Affairs.

Dr. Smart writes regular columns on global markets and international relations that have appeared in Barron’s, Bloomberg Opinion and Foreign Policy, and he is also a frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg News and other major media. Leading Thoughts, his weekly column, is also published on Substack and LinkedIn.

Ravi Menon

Singapore’s Ambassador for Climate Action
and Former Managing Director, Monetary Authority of Singapore

Mr Ravi Menon is Singapore’s Ambassador for Climate Action and Senior Adviser to the National Climate Change Secretariat at the Prime Minister’s Office.

He is also Chairman of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) Asia-Pacific Advisory Board and a member of the GFANZ Principals Group.

Mr Menon was previously Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (2011-23), where he steered Singapore’s development as a green finance hub and led MAS’ efforts to develop a taxonomy for transition financing, forge an international coalition to promote transition credits, and build a blended finance platform to address climate finance gaps in Asia. On the international front, he served as Chairman of the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System.

Mr Menon was Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Trade & Industry (2007-11) where he helped to shape energy policies to achieve environmental sustainability, energy security, and cost competitiveness.

Tom Lembong

Former Minister of Trade of Indonesia and Chairman of Indonesia Investment Coordinating Board (now Ministry of Investment)

Tom Lembong served as Indonesia’s Trade Minister and then Chairman of Indonesia’s Investment Coordinating Board (recently renamed Indonesia’s Ministry of Investment) from 2015-2019. During his time as Cabinet Minister, Tom became known as one of Indonesia’s leading internationalist and economic reformists.

Prior to serving in President Jokowi’s Cabinet, Tom spent his career in finance, starting with Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank, ahead of co-founding in 2006 Quvat Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investments in Indonesia. He had a prior stint in government in 1999-2000 as a Senior Vice President at the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency, a government agency under Indonesia’s Ministry of Finance and Central Bank to recapitalize and restructure Indonesia’s banking sector after the 1998 Asian Financial Crisis.

In 2021-2023, he served as Chairman of the Board of PT Jaya Ancol, the only Provincial Government-owned enterprise in Indonesia listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange. Today, Tom serves on the International Advisory Council of the IISS (the Institute for International Strategic Studies) in London. Tom has also established the Consilience Policy Institute in Singapore as his official entity.

In 2020, the South Korean Government awarded Tom the “Gwanghwa Medal, First Order of Merit”, the highest medal category awarded to non-Korean civilians.