Recent MGA Client Events March 9, 2010 Luncheon with Dr. Jürgen Stark, Executive Board of the European Central Bank Bio: Jürgen Stark is a German economist who has been a Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank since June 2006. Within the Executive Board, he is responsible for Economic and Monetary Analysis. Raised in Rhineland-Palatinate, he studied economics at the Universities of Hohenheim and Tuebingen, and received a doctorate in 1975. From 1978 to 1998, Dr. Stark held economic policy positions in the German Federal Government. From September 1998 to May 2006, he served two consecutive terms as Vice President of the Deutsche Bundesbank. April 26, 2010 Hosted Clients at the American Council on Germany's Luncheon with Dr. Axel Weber Bio: Professor Dr. Axel Weber has been President of the Deutsche Bundesbank since 2004 and a Member of the Steering Committee of the Financial Stability Board since 2009. He is a leading candidate to succeed Jean-Claude Trichet as the head of the European Central Bank. Prof. Dr. Weber has also been a member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank, Governor of the International Monetary Fund, and Member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements since 2004. May 11, 2010 Luncheon with Dr. Klaus Stein, Executive Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Bio: Prior to his appointments as an Executive Director of the IMF, Dr. Stein spent six years at Germany's Federal Ministry of Finance, where he headed the Cabinet of Ministers and Parliament Liaison Division. Later, he was the Deputy Director of the Federal Budget Department. Dr. Stein, who has a JD from the University of Trier, has also served as Counselor for the Finance and Management Division at the Permanent Mission of Germany to the UN. May 26, 2010 Luncheon with Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times Bio: Mr. Wolf is the associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000. He left Nuffield College, Oxford University, with a Master of Philosophy degree in economics in 1971 to join the World Bank’s young professionals programme, becoming a senior economist in 1974. He left the World Bank in 1981, to become Director of Studies at the Trade Policy Research Centre in London. He joined the Financial Times in 1987; he has been associate editor since 1990 and chief economics commentator since 1996.