Laurence Kotlikoff is a professor of economics at Boston University and a columnist for Bloomberg. He has served as a consultant to the IMF, Worldbank, OECD, central banks, and finance ministries around the world.  Professor Kotlikoff publishes extensively in academic journals, newspapers, and magazines and has written 14 books on issues of financial reform, taxes, Social Security, generational accounting, pensions, insurance, and personal finance. 
Kotlikoff is a highly innovative and broadly oriented economist who integrates his knowledge about demographics, finance, tax, regulation and many other issues into compelling policy proposals. 

His most recent book, Jimmy Stewart Is Dead, has received widespread acclaim for its incisive analysis of the financial crisis and its proposed redesign of the financial system, called Limited Purpose Banking. The book has been endorsed by Mervyn King, George Shultz, Simon Johnson, Jeffrey Sachs, Niall Ferguson, Bill Bradley, Michael Boskin, Robert Lucas, Ken Rogoff, George Akerlof and many other prominent policymakers and economists. 
Kotlikoff has an insightful, humorous and provocative style of writing and speaking. Most important, he is not afraid to strongly challenge conventional wisdom and institutions on behalf of the public interest.  

Professor Theo E. Nijman is the Van Lanschot professor in Investment Theory at Tilburg University. Theo Nijman published extensively in the leading international journals on a wide variety of topics within empirical finance and econometrics. His recent work covers topics such as pension fund management, the optimal individual pension contract, measurement and management of inflation, interest and longevity risk, and performance attribution and measurement. Nijman is Scientific Director of Netspar, a Network for Studies on Pensions Aging and Retirement in which seven universities and a number of insurance companies and pension funds participate (see www.netspar.nl). Moreover is Nijman Academic Coordinator of Inquire Europe, which brings together investment professionals interested in understanding and developing quantitative solutions to investment problems. As a consultant Nijman has been involved in all kinds of projects for many different financial institutions. In 2009 he was a member of the government appointed Goudswaard committee on structural reforms in the Dutch second pillar pension provision to assure sustainability of the system.

David van As has over 22 years of experience in supervision of financial institutions, the most recent 8 years of which as head of the department ‘Supervision Pension Funds’ at the Dutch Central Bank. In this role, David is responsible for prudential supervision of the 50 largest pension funds. He was closely involved in incorporating a framework of risk-based supervision, which he applies in practice on a daily basis. David specializes in the fields of pension fund governance and evaluation of Board eligibility. After his studies in business economics and accountancy, David was employed by Ernst & Young accountants for a period of 10 years after which he worked as supervisor of insurance companies and financial conglomerates for 3 years. David furthermore holds various teaching positions in pension education (NBA, Nyenrode, SPO).

 


Dick Boeijen joined PGGM in 2002. He is currently active in the Policy Advisory Division. Dick focuses on ALM consultancy and actuarial issues, in recent years in particular in the discussions about the pension contract. Dick studied mathematics at the Technical University of Eindhoven and Actuarial Science at the University of Amsterdam.









As Head Investment Consulting, Jan Willem Siekman is responsible for the strategy, further development and innovation of Aon Hewitt Investment Consulting. Siekman has more than 17 years experience in the financial and asset management business. He started his career at ING Group where he held various management positions. Subsequently he entered the employment of Robeco as Executive Vice President of the business unit Robeco Asset Management where, among other things, he was responsible for the big institutional relations. Aon Hewitt Investment Consulting offers support in the development of investment strategies and investment processes. Investment Consulting aims at pension fund governance, derivatives advice, assesses policy choices and risk management and helps clients to clearly portray a broad range of financial risks.

Theo Kocken is founder and CEO of the Cardano Group. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Business administration and a Master's degree in Econometrics. Theo gained his PhD at the VU University (Amsterdam), where he is a professor of Risk Management for Institutional Investors. Between 1990 and 2000 Theo expanded his expertise in derivatives and risk management as head of the Market Risk departments at ING and Rabobank International. In 2000 he founded Cardano, a specialist in risk orientated investment management and risk management. Cardano is European market leader in strategic risk management and derivatives overlays. Cardano, with over 100 employees, has offices in London, Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Theo is (co-)author of numerous books and articles in the area of risk management and pension funds.

Chairman

Jeroen Tielman is the CEO of IMQ Investment Management B.V. and the founder of the IMQubator hedge seeding fund. IMQubator has €250mln under management provided by APG, and has seeded seven new hedge funds as of March 2011. During his employment at ABN AMRO between 1986 and 2000, Tielman has gained experience in the area of investment analysis (incl. RBA), institutional sales (US), and international corporate finance/M&A for the Telecom sector. As global head product development within ABN AMRO Asset Management he has acquired vast knowledge and skills in the area of the design and development of investment funds. With the founding of the investment product-engineering boutique FundPartners in 2000, Tielman has also gained experience as an entrepreneur, motivator of a team of high-level professionals, strategic advisor to pension funds and private banks, and as advisor on pension product design. Between 2006 and 2008 Tielman was Managing Director Commerce, Strategy & Innovation with Cordares. In this function he further developed experience with business development of a pension administrator, individual pension plan design and the development of a new alternative investment product. During 2008 Tielman extended his international pension fund contact network while working with among others TIAA-CREF on a pension investment collaboration initiative. In April 2008 Tielman (together with Theo Kocken of Cardano and Tarek Saber) started working on the development of IMQubator, which he founded in January 2009. Tielman organizes the PensionSummit annually as a podium for and by pension funds (www.PensionSummit.com) since 2002. In September 2008 Tielman was organizer of the 4th Longevity Risk conference (www.LongRisk.com), together with Prof. David Blake (Cass Business School, London) and Theo Nijman (Netspar).