IMCM 3D Foreign Exchange Commitee members

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David White

David is CEO of 3D Currency Management and Chairman of the Strategic Currency Board. He has over 30 years of experience in the currency markets having developed his FX trading career through HSBC and Swiss Bank to become Global Head of Foreign Exchange for Nat West and RBS. He was responsible for all aspects of spot FX policy for the bank and the active management of all bank FX risk.

Prof. Charles AE Goodhart, CBE, FBA

Charles is a member of the Financial Markets Group at the London School of Economics, having previously been its Deputy Director (1987-2005). From 1985 - 2002, he was also the Norman Sosnow Professor of Banking and Finance at LSE, after previously working at the Bank of England for seventeen years as a monetary adviser, becoming a Chief Adviser in 1980. In 1997 he was appointed one of the outside independent (Founder) members of the Bank of England’s new Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). Earlier he taught at Cambridge University and has written many books and papers on Monetary Policy and Financial Stability, on which subject he was Adviser to the Governor of the Bank of England (2002-2004).

Neil Staines

Neil is the Chief Operating Officer at 3D Currency Management and a member of the SCB, responsible for all aspects of trading and implementation of strategic view. Neil graduated from UCL in 1998 with a degree in Statistics, Computing Operational Research and Economics and joined RBS Financial Markets specialising in Foreign Exchange. He has 9 years experience of proprietary trading, predominantly in FX but inclusive of interest rate swaps, futures and options, emerging markets, equity indices and Government Bonds. He is responsible for all areas of market risk as well as quantitative analytical trading models.

Dr. Paul Tolman

Paul is a consultant member of the SCB responsible for providing a quantitative / algorithmic view of the markets. Following a PhD in Mathematical Physics from Cambridge in 1992, Paul has specialized in building mathematical models of the financial markets, with an emphasis on market forecasting and portfolio construction. He has experience across a multitude of traded products and particular expertise in foreign exchange. In 2005 he founded Beta-Gamma Research, which as well as developing proprietary trading models, provides state of the art quantitative models to support both the discretionary and the model trading communities.