Gustavo Demarco is the pensions global lead at the World Bank. As a Lead Economist he has led the World Bank’s operation and policy dialogue on pensions, Social Protection and labor across the Middle East and North Africa region for more than ten years. He was a Program Leader for Human Development for the Arab Public of Egypt the Republic of Yemen, and Djibouti. He also led the pension capacity building program at the World Bank Institute, including four editions of the World Bank’s Pension Core Course and several regional events. Before joining the World Bank he served at the Pension Supervision Authority of Argentina as Director of Operations and Planning. He was a core member of the Argentine pension reform team in the 1990s. Earlier in his career, he was Professor of Economics at the University of Córdoba, La Rioja, and Buenos Aires. He is the main author of or a contributor to seven books on Economics and Pensions. He has published several articles in specialized journals and contributed to the World Bank publications on pensions, social safety nets, and social Protection Systems. He earned an Economics degree from the University of Córdoba, in Argentina. He did his doctoral studies at the same university and his postgraduate studies on development economics and planning at ECLAC (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean) in Chile.

Arun is Founder of Mcube Investment Technologies LLC and Founder and Client CIO of AlphaEngine Global Investment Solutions. His primary focus is on dynamic (intelligent) beta and currency management and how clients can get paid to manage risk. Arun has written extensively on pension reform, asset allocation and currency management. His books include A SMART Approach to Portfolio Management (2011), Innovations in Pension Fund Management (2001), and Rethinking Pension Reform (2004), co-authored with Franco Modigliani (Nobel Prize winner).He has written many award-winning articles for trade journals, and has written a series of Op-Eds with Prof. Robert C. Merton (Nobel Prize winner) on innovations to improve retirement security.His latest book, offering a new approach to retirement reform for uncovered workers and titled, ʺFifty States of Grey: An Innovative Approach to the DC Retirement Crisis ʺ ,was published in 2018. Previously, Arun served as Managing Director at FX Concepts Inc, Managing Director/Head of Currency Research at J.P. Morgan Fleming Asset Management and Head of Research and a member of the Investment Management Committee at The World Bank.He is serving as an Expert Advisor to the World Economic Forumʹs Retirement Investment Systems Improvement Project. He has been selected to serve on the Strategic Retirement Advisory Council for the Investments ＆ Wealth Institute (formerly IMCA) for the Retirement Management Advisor (RMA) designation. He is also adjunct professor of Finance at George Washington University and was Academic Scholar at Georgetown Universityʹs Center for Retirement Initiatives. His work on retirement innovations and saving Social Security have been featured on Marketplace. He holds a PhD in Managerial Economics from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a B.S. from Wabash College.

Eduardo Rodriguez-Montemayor is a senior economist leading projects related to economic policy, labor and organizational economics and innovation ʺ technology. Eduardo has been part of the Economics Department at INSEAD Business School since 2011, based on the Europe campus. Here he has worked in the areas of work and social protection, including pensions, and has led the research of the Global Talent Competitiveness Index, an initiative that emerged from a collaboration with the development agency in Singapore (EDB). He was also a senior research fellow of INSEAD eLab, a research center specialized in the digital economy. His research has been presented at the World Economic Forum, including in the context of the annual meeting in Davos, and has been featured in leading newspapers such as the Financial Times, the Straits Times and the Wall Street Journal. Research and policy projects have involved partnerships with global companies and policy makers. Among the project partnerships feature: Adecco, ATʺT, Center for Economic Growth (Abu Dhabi), City of Barcelona, Cognizant, Google, Inter-American Development Bank, SAP, Visa Inc. Projects mix econometric and qualitative research and reach actionable recommendations. Eduardo has also collaborated with consultancy firms such as Lodde ʺ co. In the policy arena, Eduardo has consulted for the OECD, the United Nations Environment Program and the Inter-American Development Bank, also working for the latter as a research fellow based in the headquarters in Washington D.C. Eduardo has been a speaker at the European Commission’s Digital Agenda Assembly in Brussels, has been member of the steering board of the European Commission’s Digital Entrepreneurship Monitor and was invited as an expert to the workshop for the implementation of the EU Social Investment Package. Based in Paris, he volunteered for a project on south-south cooperation in the education sector as part of UNESCO’s Education for All Initiative. Eduardo has also worked in the Mexican financial sector for the Pensions Commission, CONSAR (a regulatory body), and for the Inter-American Conference of Social Security. Eduardo has also led the research of a multi-year project that aims to identify the policy priorities of the MENA region in the area of employment and skills. The results are presented in the context of the regional WEF meeting (Middle East) and he has participated as speaker in Berlin at the Arab-German Business Summit as expert on talent and labor markets. Eduardo holds a PhD in Economics from the University of York in the United Kingdom and also obtained an MSc in Economics and Management from the University Pompeu Fabra in Spain and a degree in Economics from the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon in Mexico.