People

Who we are

We are a growing institution and are always seeking people with relevant experience in the financial services industry, public policy and consulting to work with us as interns/employees or in a senior advisory capacity. We would be particularly interested to hear from you if you think you would be a good fit with us in a role as a member of our council of experts, a member of our panel of experts,  an employee or 4 an intern.

Please send us a covering note stating your interest and a detailed CV. We currently have offices in Brussels and Berlin but also have people working with us in countries as diverse as Sweden, Thailand, Norway, United States and the UK etc.

We are currently looking to bring people on board in our new Brussels office. Send an email to jobs@re-define.org

Re-Define Experts and Staff

Re-Define's Council of Experts and Panel of Experts program brings together prominent thinkers who have distinguished themselves in their field of work. This group represents the brain trust of Re-Define.

In addition to contributing to Re-Define's work and pool of ideas on a continuing basis, the experts are also responsible for guiding Re-Define's strategic direction. They provide crucial capacity and expertise on the policy issues that Re-Define works on and provide critical links for advocating Re-Define's perspectives to bring about policy change.

Many of the experts hold senior level public policy positions and hence also provide both an ideal resource and channel for targeted advocacy initiatives. Their expertise is central to Re-Define's capacity provision, policy making and advocacy role.

The Re-Define team consists of the core hub of researchers and policy analysts who are responsible for the day to day running of the Think Tank, the Advisory Board who give strategic and policy guidance and will also be active in Research work, the Council of Advisors which will work and co-operate with Re-Define on matters of Research and Policy and members of the Panel of Experts who will work with Re-Define on a more ad hoc basis on specific pieces of work. 

We have assembled a wide range of international expertise specifically for European Institutions related work. For more details on this team Click Here 

Some of our Experts are

Sony Kapoor, former Investment Banker, Derivatives trader, Adviser to governments and International organizations

Avinash Persaud, former Managing Director State Street Bank, head of Research UBS, Chairman of Intelligence Capital

John Fullerton, President Capital Institute and ex Managing Director, JP Morgan

Stephen Spratt, Research Fellow, IDS Sussex

Perry Mehling, Prof of Economics, Barnard College, Columbia University 

Amit Seru, Asst Prof of Finance, University of Chicago

Sebastian Dullien, Co-Director, Centre for Excellence on Money, HTW Berlin 

Simon Pak, Assoc Prof of Finance, Penn State University 

Thorsten Beck, Prof Economics, University of Tilburg 

Michael Hoffman, former Director General, German Development Ministry, currently Executive Director World Bank

Rob Johnson, Executive Director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, former Managing Director, Soros Fund Management, and Chief Economist Senate Banking Committee

Damon Silvers, Member, Congressional Oversight Panel on TARP and Head of Policy, AFL-CIO

Chris Rose, former Vice President Goldman Sachs, COO of several Hedge Funds, currently Risk Consultant

Jose Antonio Ocampo, former Under Secretary General of the UN, currently Professor Columbia University

Stephanie Griffiths Jones, Director Institute for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University

Meenoo Kapoor, former Director of Finance & Financial Controller at several MNCs operating in India

Patrick Diamond, Research Fellow University of Oxford 

Richard Werner, Chair Empirical Macroeconomics, Goethe University Frankfurt

Mike Masters, Managing Member Masters Capital and Founder Better Markets 

Robert Wade, Professor of Development Studies, London School of Economics, former head of Department

David Webb, Head of the Finance Department, London School of Economics, former Director Finance Markets Group

Re-Define Advisory Board Members 

Jose Antonio Ocampo, Professor in the School of International and Public Affairs and Fellow of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University.

Rob Johnson, Executive Director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking.

Avinash Persaud, chairman of Intelligence Capital Ltd

Damon Silvers, Director of Policy and Special Counsel for the AFL-CIO.

Herman Mulder, retired from ABN AMRO Bank after 27 years holding leading positions in relationship management (notably energy), defaulted loan restructuring & recovery, project finance, syndicated loans.

Michael Hofmann, Executive Director for Germany at the World Bank.  

Some of the people currently staffing the core Re-Define hub are

Sony Kapoor, Managing Director 

Sony has worked in the financial services industry for firms such as Lehman Brothers, ICICI and Aquila, with NGOs such as Christian Aid, Oxfam, Action Aid, Jubilee, Stamp Out Poverty and the Tax Justice Network, with governments including those of Norway, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK and with international organizations such as the European Parliament, the World Bank and the United Nations.