Dr. Ole Rummel joined The SEACEN Centre as Director of Macroeconomic and Monetary Policy Management in September 2016. From 1999 to 2006, he worked in the Financial Stability, Markets, and Monetary Analysis areas of the Bank of England. In 2006, Ole joined the Bank of England's Centre for Central Banking Studies and was its Adviser for econometric modelling, financial stability, and markets. Prior to the Bank of England, he worked in investment banking in Frankfurt and for the European Commission in Luxembourg. He is interested in many aspects of economics and finance, particularly econometric modelling, open-economy macroeconomics, financial stability, and financial markets. Ole holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and an AB degree in Quantitative Economics from Stanford University.

Glenn joined the SEACEN Centre in April 2017 after a long career as an international financial sector supervision and regulation advisor. Working under contract with the United States Agency for International Developmen, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank Group, Glenn has held long-term advisory positions in banking supervision and macroprudential supervision at central banks in Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Bangladesh, where his main areas of focus have been: accounting, reporting, and off-site supervision; the legal and regulatory framework for sound banking; problem bank reform, restructuring, and resolution; and macroprudential supervision. Along the way, Glenn has also acquired expertise in several aspects of financial inclusion, such as microfinance and mobile banking.

He has an extensive training background, having developed and delivered numerous courses for the National Bank of Ukraine, Da Afghanistan Bank, and Bangladesh Bank. Glenn is also a recognized trainer in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation’s Financial Regulators Training Initiative.

Prior to relocating overseas in 1995, Glenn worked in his native United States as an Economic Analyst and Economist for the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco and later as a Regulatory Policy Analyst, Financial Analyst, and Manager of Financial Analysis for the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Thrift Supervision, West Region Office.

Glenn holds a master’s degree in Economics from the University of Chicago, and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Carleton College (Northfield, Minnesota).

With more than four decades of experience with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, Gerardo S. Tison had gained experience in monetary policy, corporate affairs and communications, training, human resource development and management, currency operations, and regional monetary operations. He retired as Assistant Governor for human resource and eventually for regional monetary affairs. He also served as consultant of the Central Bank of Kenya’s Centre for Monetary Studies and as adviser to the chairperson of the Philippines’ Securities and Exchange Commission and to two members of the Monetary Board of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. He is currently connected with The SEACEN Centre where he also served in 1984 to 1988 as Research Economist. Gerry, as he is known, finished his Bachelor’s degree in Economics at the University of the Philippines. He also obtained his Master of Business Administration at the Ateneo de Manila University and his Master of Science in Human Resource Development from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom.

Dr.Victor Pontines joined the SEACEN Centre as Senior Economist on August 2016. Previous to this, he was Research Fellow at the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) in Tokyo where he led the Institute’s research programs in macroeconomics and finance, and as Senior Economist at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Manila where he served as focal point for the Bank’s work on debt sustainability and graduation issues. He was also in academia for a number of years, having taught at universities in Manila, Philippines as well as in Australia. For a time, he also worked at the Department of Economic Research of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines). He has built a portfolio of publications in reputable scholarly journals that focus on macroeconomic and monetary policy issues with particular reference to the East Asian region. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Economics degree and a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Economics from De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines, a Master of Arts (MA) degree from University of Exeter, United Kingdom and a Doctorate in Economics from University of Adelaide in Australia.

More details about Dr. Pontines can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/victorpontineshomepage/

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Özer joined the SEACEN Centre in January 2019 after 17 years in central banking. He worked as an economic adviser in research, modelling, and forecasting teams of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ). He also had a stint at the Bank of England’s International Economic Analysis Division between 2008 and 2009. In addition to his role as an adviser at the RBNZ, he served as the secretary to the Monetary Policy Committee in 2003-2004, managed the External Research Network Initiative (ERNI), and served as the editor of the RBNZ Discussion Paper Series. He also served as a council member of the New Zealand Association of Economists (NZAE), a standing committee member of the Australasian Branch of Econometrics Society (ESAM), an associate editor for the Journal of Economic Surveys, and as a board member for the Orchestra Wellington.

He organised/co-organised several conferences, workshops, courses and conference sessions, as well as policy meetings. In 2014 he co-edited the special issue of the International Journal of Central Banking with John Williams and Gunes Kamber. In 2017, he spent a semester as a visitor at Bilkent University in Ankara. He completed his studies at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Özer’s research interests are in the area of macroeconomics, monetary economics, forecasting, international linkages, housing and labour markets. His latest work includes forecast combinations for asymmetrically distributed variables, the effects of different types of forward guidance, housing supply and population growth, the role of job-to-job transitions and wage growth, and the role of different types of credit.

Outside economics Özer follows football and cricket, enjoys music, travelling, reading, and writing children’s stories.

Mr. Mark McKenzie joined the faculty of The SEACEN Centre on June 1, 2016 as a Senior Financial Sector Specialist in the Financial Stability and Supervision & Payment and Settlement Systems (FSS/PSS) division. He is an accomplished professional in the field of financial regulation and supervision with over 25 years’ experience in developing countries and emerging markets.

In 2006, he established Mark McKenzie Consulting, a boutique firm in Toronto, Canada, where he provided regulatory governance and compliance consulting services to selected financial institutions, regulatory agencies, and governments, globally. Previously, he was the Director of Policy Research and Statistics at the British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission. His experience also included working with the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority. Mr. McKenzie frequently serve as an external financial sector technical assistance adviser on missions to countries in Africa, Eastern Europe and the Caribbean on behalf of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Union and the World Bank.

Mark has researched and published numerous articles and papers on regulatory compliance and governance in major international journals and newsletters. He has written and blogged extensively on De-risking and the Impact on Low Income Countries, Correspondent Banking Relationships, Bitcoin and Virtual Currencies; and most recently on FinTech including Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT)/Blockchain as well as on the complexities and challenges of post-Global Financial Crisis (GFC) regulations. He is a frequent speaker and moderator at major conferences and seminars on financial sector stability, financial sector supervision and AML/CFT compliance issues.

Outside of his professional life he is actively engaged at the community level as a youth leader and mentor as well as an advocate against youth violence and poverty. He has been a member of Toastmaster International, a world leader in communication and leadership development, for more than fifteen (15) years. His hobbies are cycling and hiking.

Mark holds an MBA in Banking and Finance from the University of Wales and Manchester Business School, and a B.Sc. in Economics and Accounting from the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica.

He is married to Michelle McKenzie and has three children, Marchelle, Malcolm, and Marisa.

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Aziz has over 18 years of experience in international banking and finance, and in setting, enforcing and providing training on regulatory policies and standards. He joined the SEACEN Centre in August 2016 on a sponsored career break from the Bank of England. Aziz is responsible for providing technical assistance, capacity building and delivering training programmes to SEACEN’s 35 member and associate member Central Banks and Regulatory Authorities on issues related to Supervision, Financial Stability, Risk Management and Financial Market Infrastructures.

Before joining SEACEN, Aziz spent 7 years working as a Senior Technical Specialist at the Bank of England / Prudential Regulation Authority. He was originally recruited as the Lead Supervisor of RBS’ Non-Core Bank, following RBS’ collapse in 2009. Aziz was responsible for supervising the management, workout and sell-off of RBS’ assets and portfolios, and its eventual wind-down. Aziz then joined the Risk Specialists Directorate and over several years led the stress testing of Wholesale banking book exposures for all the major UK banks, eventually as part of the Bank of England’s Concurrent Stress Test. He also had responsibility for leading the on-site Asset Quality and Provision Adequacy reviews across Wholesale loan portfolios of major banks, both in the UK and globally. During this time, Aziz was also seconded to the Markets Division within the Bank of England, where he led a team that managed the widening of the BoE’s Funding for Lending Scheme to include a variety of new Wholesale asset classes.

Aziz began his career in the Strategy, Finance and Economics practice of Andersen Business Consulting in London, and later worked at Standard Chartered Bank UK, covering the Origination, Structuring and Syndication of Structured Trade, Infrastructure and Leveraged Finance loans across the UK, Europe, South Asia and Africa. He also worked at Lloyds Banking Group in Leveraged Finance Loan Restructuring and Workout, and in Liquidity and Funding Risk.

In her capacity as Senior Analyst in the Leadership and Governance knowledge area, Geraldine diagnoses learning needs, collaborates with subject matter experts to design comprehensive learning solutions, ensures the delivery of customised solutions, and discerns the impact of training offered. Geraldine considers herself privileged to be part of the SEACEN Centre faculty as it provides her with an opportunity to tangibly contribute to the development of leadership competencies of the SEACEN member central banks’ staff of different levels, and draw attention to institutional and policy governance matters of priority.

Leveraging her previous experience as Program Director with the Toronto Centre for Global Leadership in Financial Supervision, Geraldine brings with her an acumen for the application of relevant leadership tools and practices to grow effective leaders. Prior to her stint in Canada, she was a career central banker at Bank Negara Malaysia, with experience in the economics sector spanning over two decades. Her professional journey, particularly in the area of international relations, dealt with extensive Asian central banking community-centric initiatives and policy formulation on enhancing the region’s economic, financial and capacity development.

Geraldine graduated from the University of Warwick, UK, with an M.Sc. in Quantitative Development Economics.

Rosliza has more than 20 years high exposure international collaboration, leading and implementing people development, human resources and capability building initiatives for Government, Regional Inter-Governmental, NGOs as well as Private and Corporate Sectors. She has worked with organizations and participants from ASEAN, SAARC, Africa and Middle East Countries when she was the Project Director for Malaysian Technical Cooperation Program (MTCP), a program funded by the Prime Minister’s Department. In the last seven years saw her focusing fully on the development of Human Capital at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, Indonesia where she was the Head of Human Resources, prior to joining SEACEN in May 2019.

Rosliza has also held leadership positions in Human Capital functions among which as; Deputy Director (Government Research and Training Institute), Head of HR Division (Regional Inter-Governmental), Head of Organizational Development (Foreign Bank), and Head of Learning and Development Division (renowned automotive company), to name a few.

As one of the pioneers in Knowledge Management Facilitation in the country and a certified KM Practitioner and Facilitator, as well as a Certified Professional Trainer (CPT), Rosliza values knowledge as an integral element of one’s continuous relevance in the organization and society. She constantly shares her experience by exchanging knowledge through teaching, training, workshops and giving talks to organizations and universities on subjects relevant to their needs. Her capability building focus are Leadership Development, Strategic Human Resources Development (SHRD), Succession Planning & Talent Management, Human Resource Risk Management, Training Needs Analysis (TNA) and Training Effectiveness Evaluation (TEE), as well as Culture and Change Management.

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