Amin Rajan, CEO, Create-Research, London, UK

Amin Rajan is chief executive of the Centre for Research in Employment and Technology in Europe (CREATE) – a pan-European network of prominent researchers undertaking high level advisory assignments for the UK government, city institutions, multinational companies and international bodies such as the EU and the OECD. He has also acted as a senior consultant to a huge variety of household name companies. He is a visiting professor at the Cass Business School, London Metropolitan University, Centre for Leadership Studies at Exeter University, President of the Scientific Committee at Audencia - Nantes Ecole de Management in France, and on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Asia-Pacific Business.

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Co-head of UK multi- manager funds, Aberdeen Asset Managers
Based in: London, UK

CFA, European Fund Selection Committee, Allianz Global Investors Investments Europe
Based in: Milan, Italy

Executive director and chief investment officer, C-Quadrat Kapitalanlage AG
Based in: Vienna, Austria