Regional Advisory Councils

The Institute of International Banking Law & Practice has begun a series of Advisory Councils. Each Advisory Council is made up of the top experts in the region in the areas of LC Banking, Corporate LC Users, and Legal Advisors. The goal of each council is to promote sound LC practice.

Banking Regional Advisory Councils:

Americas

• Buddy BAKER -- Head of Trade Services Sales, Fifth Third Bank (USA)
• Robert L. FOUTTS -- Vice President, JPMorgan Chase Bank (USA)
• Paula GREAVES -- VP & National Commercial LC Consultant, Bank of America (USA)
• Dennis L. NOAH -- Consultant (USA)
• Jorge Luis RIVA -- Partner, Raschi Y Riva (Argentina)
• Donald SMITH -- President, Global Trade Advisory, Ltd. (USA)
• Vincent MAULELLA --Consultant (USA)
• Charnell C WILLIAMS -- Senior Vice President, Citi (USA)
• John CITROLA -- Wachovia (USA)
• Gary GIRAUD -- Bank of America (USA)
• Alan BLOODGOOD -- (USA)
• Chandran PANICKER -- Royal Bank of Canada (USA)
• Manuela SUAREZ Ibarra -- Santander Serfin (Mexico)
• Normand D ARCY -- Manager, National Bank of Canada (Canada)
• David PENNYBAKER -- State Street Bank (USA)
• Patricia MONTER -- Fifth Third Bank (USA)
  

Europe

• Pavel ANDRLE -- Secretary, ICC Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
• Johan BERGAMIN -- Vice-President, ING Bank (The Netherlands)
• Kim CHRISTENSEN -- Vice President, Nordea Trade Finance (Denmark)
• Enn LEET -- UniCredit Bank (Estonia)
• René MÜLLER -- Director, Trade Finance Services, Credit Suisse (Switzerland)
• Jeremy SMITH -- Documentary Risk Advisor, Lloyds TSB Bank plc (UK)
• Hugo VERSCHOREN -- Trade Finance Services, ING Group (Netherlands)
• Marianne WABNIK -- Global Product Specialist, SEB Merchant Banking (Sweden)
• Alexander ZELENOV -- Director, Vnesheconombank (Russia)
• Karl MAYRL -- Head of Documentary Credits and Guarantees, Erste Bank (Austria)
• Lena ANDERSSON -- SEB (Sweden)
• Konstantin FEDEROV -- (Russia)
• Vincent O BRIEN -- (Ireland)
• Sergey SHASHILO -- (Ukraine)
• Anastasia ZYKOVA -- Trade Finance, Barclays Bank (Russia)
• Hans-Juergen HOLTIJ -- Director, Transaction Banking, Standard Chartered Bank (Germany)
  

Middle East

• Haitham ASHOUR -- Trade Services Manager, HSBC Bank Middle East (Kuwait)
• Abdulkader BAZARA -- Product Manager, Samba Financial Group (Saudi Arabia)
• Ali BIN SHAMLAN -- Regional Trade Finance Manager, Riyad Bank (Saudi Arabia)
• Khalil MATAR -- Chief Audit Executive
• Ramesh S RANGAN -- Head of Trade Services, National Bank of Fujairah psc (UAE)
• Lakshmanan SANKARAN -- Executive Manager, Commercial Bank of Dubai (UAE)
• Ali ATIYEH -- Arab Company for Shared Services (UAE)
• Pradeep TANEJA -- BBK (Bahrain)
• Mohamed NAGI AL-LABOUD -- Manager Financial Institutions Trade Services Banque Saudi Fransi (Saudi Arabia)
• ND GEORGE -- Head of Loan & Trade Operations, Arab Banking Corporation (Bahrain)
  

Asia

• Jack CHAN -- Vice President, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (Hong Kong)
• CHOW Shui Chung -- Fortis Bank (Hong Kong)
• JIN Saibo -- Partner, Tongshang Law Firm (China)
• SOH Chee Seng -- Technical Advisor, Association of Banks in Singapore (Singapore)
• M.P. TSIM -- President, International Institute of Finance (Hong Kong)
• Jianbao SHAN -- CEB Bank (China)
• Lawrence TAN -- (Singapore)
• Cheng JUN -- (China)
• Kenneth LEUNG -- Head of Trade Services, Bank of East Asia (Hong Kong)
• Peter MUNG -- Citigroup (Hong Kong)
• Zha ZHONGMIN -- Citic (China)
• KK YEUNG -- JP Morgan (Hong Kong)
• Joe YAP -- DBS (Singapore)
• Lionel DE SILVA -- Sr. Manager, Global Trade Operations, Standard Chartered (Singapore)
• Xiang GAO -- (China)
• Alan DAVIDSON -- University of Queensland (Australia)