We are a growing institution and would be particularly interested to hear from you if you think you would be a good fit with us in a role as 1) a member of our council of experts 2) a member of our panel of experts 3) an employee or 4) an intern. Please send us a covering note stating your interest and a detailed CV. We currently have offices in Brussels and Berlin but also have people working with us in countries as diverse as Sweden, Thailand, Norway, United States and the UK etc.

We have assembled a wide range of international expertise specifically for European Institutions related work. For more details on this team Click Here 

We are currently looking to bring people on board in our new Brussels office. Click here to apply

Note: We are always looking seeking people with relevant experience in the financial services industry, public policy and consulting to work with us as interns/employees or in a senior advisory capacity.

Re-Define Experts and Staff 

Re-Define's Council of Experts and Panel of Experts program brings together prominent thinkers who have distinguished themselves in their field of work. This group represents the brain trust of Re-Define.

In addition to contributing to Re-Define's work and pool of ideas on a continuing basis, the experts are also responsible for guiding Re-Define's strategic direction. They provide crucial capacity and expertise on the policy issues that Re-Define works on and provide critical links for advocating Re-Define's perspectives to bring about policy change.

Many of the experts hold senior level public policy positions and hence also provide both an ideal resource and channel for targeted advocacy initiatives. Their expertise is central to Re-Define's capacity provision, policy making and advocacy role.

The Re-Define team consists of the core hub of researchers and policy analysts who are responsible for the day to day running of the Think Tank, the Advisory Board who give strategic and policy guidance and will also be active in Research work, the Council of Advisors which will work and co-operate with Re-Define on matters of Research and Policy and members of the Panel of Experts who will work with Re-Define on a more ad hoc basis on specific pieces of work. 

Some of our Experts are

Sony Kapoor, former Investment Banker, Derivatives trader, Adviser to governments and International organizations

Avinash Persaud, former Managing Director State Street Bank, head of Research UBS, Chairman of Intelligence Capital

John Fullerton, President Capital Institute and ex Managing Director, JP Morgan

Stephen Spratt, Research Fellow, IDS Sussex

Perry Mehling, Prof of Economics, Barnard College, Columbia University 

Amit Seru, Asst Prof of Finance, University of Chicago

Sebastian Dullien, Co-Director, Centre for Excellence on Money, HTW Berlin 

Simon Pak, Assoc Prof of Finance, Penn State University 

Thorsten Beck, Prof Economics, University of Tilburg 

Michael Hoffman, former Director General, German Development Ministry, currently Executive Director World Bank

Rob Johnson, former Managing Director, Soros Fund Management, and Chief Economist Senate Banking Committee

Damon Silvers, Member, Congressional Oversight Panel on TARP and Head of Policy, AFL-CIO

Chris Rose, former Vice President Goldman Sachs, COO of several Hedge Funds, currently Risk Consultant

Jose Antonio Ocampo, former Under Secretary General of the UN, currently Professor Columbia University

Stephanie Griffiths Jones, Director Institute for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University

Meenoo Kapoor, former Director of Finance & Financial Controller at several MNCs operating in India

Patrick Diamond, Research Fellow University of Oxford 

Richard Werner, Chair Empirical Macroeconomics, Goethe University Frankfurt

Mike Masters, Managing Member Masters Capital and Founder Better Markets 

Robert Wade, Professor of Development Studies, London School of Economics, former head of Department

David Webb, Head of the Finance Department, London School of Economics, former Director Finance Markets Group

Re-Define Advisory Board Members  

Jose Antonio Ocampo

José Antonio Ocampo combines a rare mix of skills and experience in both academia and high level political responsibilities at the global, regional and national levels.

Since July 2007, he is Professor in the School of International and Public Affairs and Fellow of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. He has served as Executive Director of FEDESARROLLO, the main think tank on economic issues in Colombia, Director of the Centro de Estudios sobre Desarrollo Económico of Universidad de los Andes, Professor of Economics at Universidad de los Andes, and Professor of Economic History at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He has also been Visiting Professor at Cambridge, Oxford and Yale Universities and lectured in many universities and conferences around the world. 

Mr. Ocampo is author or editor of over 30 books and has published over 200 scholarly articles on macroeconomic theory and policy, international financial issues, economic development, international trade, and Colombian and Latin American economic history. He has also directed some 20 institutional reports. His recent books include Stability with Growth: Macroeconomics, Liberalization and Development, with Joseph E. Stiglitz and others, Regional Financial Cooperation, and International Finance and Development. His past books include Globalization and Development: A Latin American and Caribbean Perspective (2003), the three-volume Economic History of Twentieth Century Latin America (2000), edited with Enrique Cárdenas and Rosemary Thorp, and his Historia Económica de Colombia, originally published in 1977, with over ten editions and considered to be the best known text on the subject. 

In the political realm, he served as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs from September 2003 to June 2007. As such, he headed the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), which produces a wide range of research and analytical work on development issues, leads the follow-up to the major UN Summits and Conferences, and provides substantive and organizational support to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the Second and Third Committees of the General Assembly. He also chaired the UN Executive Committee on Economic and Social Affairs. Previously, he was Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) from January 1998 to August 2003, and held from 1989 to 1997 a number of high-level posts in the Government of Colombia, including Minister of Finance and Public Credit, Director (Minister) of the National Planning Department, and Minister of Agriculture.

Mr. Ocampo holds a B.A. in Economics and Sociology from the University of Notre Dame (1972), and a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University (1976). He has received a number of personal honors and distinctions, including the Alejandro Angel Escobar National Science Award. Born in 1952 in Cali, Colombia, he is married to Ana Lucia Lalinde and has three children (Rocio, Juan Camilo, and Maria José).

Rob Johnson

Dr. Robert A. Johnson is the Executive Director of the newly created Institute for New Economic Thinking, backed by George Soros. He serves on the United Nations Commission of Experts on International Monetary Reform under the Chairmanship of Joseph Stiglitz. He is also the Director of Economic Policy for the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (FERI) in New York. Dr. Johnson was previously a managing director at Soros Fund Management where he managed a global currency, bond and equity portfolio specializing in emerging markets.

Prior to that time, Dr. Johnson was a managing director of Bankers Trust Company managing a global currency fund. He also served as Chief Economist of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee under the leadership of Chairman William Proxmire (D. Wisconsin) and before that, he was Senior Economist of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee under the leadership of Chairman Pete Domenici (R. New Mexico). Dr. Johnson received a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Economics from Princeton University. He received a B.S. in both Electrical Engineering and Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Avinash Persaud

Avinash Persaud’s career spans finance, public policy and academia. He is one of the most influential voices in the international discussions on financial system reform having been member of the Geneva Commission and the UN Commission on Financial Reform the Chair of the Warwick Commission on Regulation.

Persaud’s financial career includes holding positions of: Investment Director, GAM London Limited, one of the largest absolute return investors (2003-2005); managing director, and head of global research, State Street Corporation, the largest institutional asset manager in the world (1999-2003); global head of currency and commodity research at J. P. Morgan, (1993-1999) and director, fixed-income and currency research at UBS (1989-1993).

At J. P. Morgan Persaud became known for developing a number of analytical tools for the foreign exchange and fixed-income markets including the “EMU Calculator” that was published in the Financial Times in the run up to EMU, the “Risk Appetite Index” that has spawned a significant literature and many imitations and the “Event Risk Indicator”. According to the FT, his work on investor risk appetite has “entered the popular lexicon of analysts”. In the ten years before he left J. P. Morgan, Persaud was frequently ranked in the top three of currency analysts in major international investor surveys: Institutional Investor, Global Investor, and Global Finance.

Professor Persaud is Co-Chair of the OECD Emerging Market Network (2006-), Member of the UK Government’s Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information, a former Visiting Scholar to both the IMF and ECB, a frequent guest of G20 central banks and a founding director of the 60,000-strong, Global Association of Risk Professionals. He developed the idea of Liquidity Black Holes that the Financial Times has described as the “Persaud Paradox of Risk Management”.

Persaud is Emeritus Professor of Gresham College, a Governor of the London School of Economics and a Member of Council of the Royal Economics Society.

He has published work in peer review journals including International Finance and Oxford Review of Economic Policy and is a regular guest contributor to for The Financial Times, Central Banking, Economic & Political Weekly and World Economics. In 2006 he co-wrote “Ethics & Finance” with John Plender. In 2000, Persaud won the Jacques de Larosiere Award in Global Finance from the Institute of International Finance, Washington and he sits on the Awards Panel of the City of London’s Farsight Award.

Damon Silvers

Damon A. Silvers is Director of Policy and Special Counsel for the AFL-CIO. He is also a member of the Congressional created to oversee the implementation of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act(TARP financial rescue package). Mr. Silvers’ responsibilities at AFL-CIO include corporate governance, pension and general business law issues. Mr. Silvers led the AFL-CIO legal team that won severance payments for laid off Enron and WorldCom workers. He has also testified before numerous Congressional committees on issues arising out of the collapse of Enron. Mr. Silvers is also Counsel to the Chairman of ULLICO Inc., where he has assisted a new management team address a business crisis arising out of serious misconduct by prior management.

Mr. Silvers is a member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Standing Advisory Group, the Financial Accounting Standards Board User Advisory Council, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Corporate Governance Task Force, the New York Stock Exchange’s Stock Options Voting Task Force and was a member of the Advisory Committee on Analyst Independence to the House Capital Markets Subcommittee. He is also a member of the American Bar Association’s Subcommittee on International Corporate Governance.

Prior to working for the AFL-CIO, Mr. Silvers was a law clerk at the Delaware Court of Chancery for Chancellor William T. Allen and Vice-Chancellor Bernard Balick. Mr. Silvers has also been the Assistant Director of the Office of Corporate and Financial Affairs for the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, and the Research Director for the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, AFSCME.

Mr. Silvers has also worked at Credit Suisse First Boston, for the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore and as a Summer Fellow in the Enforcement Division of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

Mr. Silvers received his J.D. with honors from Harvard Law School. He received his M.B.A. with high honors from Harvard Business School and is a Baker Scholar. Mr. Silvers is a graduate of Harvard College, summa cum laude, and has studied history at Kings College, Cambridge University.

Mr. Silvers is the primary author of “Challenging Wall Street’s Conventional Wisdom: Defining a Worker-Owner View of Value,” published in Working Capital: The Power of Labor’s Pensions, Fung, et al. eds, Cornell University Press (2001), and “The Origins and Goals of the Fight for Proxy Access,” forthcoming in Lucian Bebchuck ed., Shareholder Access to the Corporate Ballot, (Harvard University Press, 2004).

Herman Mulder

HERMAN MULDER (1946) retired in July2006 from ABN AMRO Bank after 27 years holding leading positions in relationship management (notably energy), defaulted loan restructuring & recovery, project finance, syndicated loans. Since 1995 he was Global Head of Structured Finance and since 1998 Senior Executive Vice President (SEVP), Head of Group Risk Management, Co-chairman of the Group Risk Committee. Since 1998 he lead the ABN AMRO’s global initiatives in Sustainable Development (SD), in which the bank is recognized a sector leader (i.a. Winner of the WEC Gold Medal in 2006 and the FT/IFC Sustainable Bank of the Year in 2007). He was the creator and first chairman of ABN AMRO Group Foundation. In 2002 he was the initiator of the ground-breaking voluntary financial sector-initiative “the Equator Principles for project finance” (now adopted by more than 50 major financial institutions ). He was actively involved in the creation of NFX ( a joint platform between the Dutch government and Dutch banks focused on finance for development) .

In November 2005, he was made a knight in the Royal Order of Oranje-Nassau for his initiatives on sustainable development, the Equator Principles in particular.

In the period 2000-2004 he was a non-executive Board Member of the Bank of Asia (Thailand). He is a frequent speaker/panelist (i.a. at the Clinton Global Initiative, TERI-DSDS/Delhi, Taellberg Forum, universities), author and independent advisor on a broad range of issues: risk management, finance for trade & development, public-private cooperation, sustainability (including : clean energy; climate challenge & opportunity; inclusive finance for development; microfinance, notably in India; environmental , social and ethical standards; supply chains; human rights; social venture capital mobilization, etc).

In mid 2006 he chose to retire from ABN AMRO to become an independent advisor and board member to promote the role of the (large and SME) business sector in sustainable development worldwide in many different capacities, ranging from climate issues to social entrepreneurship, from advising & mediation to business development & finance.

He is a member of i.a. the Boards of: GRI (Global Reporting Initiative), Utz Certified/Good Inside, NCDO (Dutch National Committee for Development Cooperation), Steering Committee of the Worldconnectors, BiD (Business in Development, supporting start-up companies in developing countries), ABN AMRO/RBS Foundation India (Mumbai: sustainable livelihoods, biodiversity), Social MicroFinance Foundation, MicroSave (Lucknow, India: capacity-building for microfinance sector), the Consensus Building Institute (CBI, Boston), Trustee of Tomorrow’s Company (London), Eikosphere Foundation(Los Angeles), member of project team for Rework the World/YES. He is an advisor to the Council of the Earth Charter International , Steering Group member of Global Compact Netherlands, Senior Advisor to the Club de Madrid/UN Foundation on climate issues.

He is a member of the Board of NL-NCP (National Contact Point) to deal with grievance process for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Corporations, member of the Advisory Committee of the annual DSDS/TERI conference (Delhi), member of the judging panel of FT/IFC Sustainable Bank of the Year, member of the VBDO (society for sustainable investors) judging panel on supply chains, member of the Advisory Board of TEEB (“The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity”, a major EU/UNEP/IUCN/UFZ study: www.teebweb.org), member of the 2008 Business Steering Committee for UN-FfD (UN Finance for Development), member of the core-faculty of the Business Leaders Program on Poverty Reduction, organized by the Prince of Wales’ Foundation and the University of Cambridge, as well as a regular lecturer at its Business & Environmental Program.

He served as a senior advisor on climate issues to Global Compact (New York) and WBCSD(Geneva). He is a member of the World Bank Extractive Industries’ Advisory Group. He is active in numerous national and international civil society organizations, incl. with NGO’s, such as a (business-) member of the Advisory Board of OXFAM-NOVIB. In July 2007 the US magazine Treasury & Risk Management named him among the top 100 most influential people in global finance.

Michael Hofmann

Michael Hofmann was, untill recently, the Executive Director for Germany at the World Bank. Prior to this, Michael was the Director General of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Free University of Berlin and had early in his career been the assistant to the chairman of the influential Brandt Commission. He has also been a Research fellow at the German Development Institute and subsequently served as the chief of Staff to the Chairman of the Social Democratic party of Germany. He also sits on the board of the Society for international development.