May 22, 2012
Washington, D.C.
By invitation only

Capital Markets

The Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets and the Georgetown University Center for Financial Markets and Policy in the McDonough School of Business co-hosted the panel discussion "Financial Market Quality: The Changing Structure of Exchanges" as part of our joint Policy Briefing Series.

Limited to Hill staff, this invitation-only panel discussion featured:

James Angel is an associate professor of finance at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. He specializes in the structure and regulation of financial markets around the world, having visited over 50 financial exchanges. Angel serves on the boards of the DirectEdge stock exchanges. Previously, he was chairman of the Nasdaq Economic Advisory Board and a member of the OTC Bulletin Board Advisory Committee. Angel earned his B.S. in engineering, applied science and economics at the California Institute of Technology, his M.B.A. at Harvard Business School, and his Ph.D. in finance at the University of California, Berkeley.

Roger Freeman is a director in the equity research division of Barclays, a leading global investment bank, covering 24 companies within the brokers, asset managers and exchanges sector. He has specialized in the market structure area since 2004 and is one of the only equity analysts covering such a broad spectrum of capital markets companies. Prior to joining Barclays, he worked in the same capacity from 1999 to 2008 at Lehman Brothers. Previously he held positions in the investment banking and equity research divisions at Salomon Brothers and Merrill Lynch, respectively. Freeman holds a B.A. in international economics from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.

Joseph Gawronski is the president and chief operating officer of Rosenblatt Securities, an agency-only institutional broker that is recognized for its global exchange and market structure expertise. Gawronski received his B.A. in public and international affairs from Princeton University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. He was a securities lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell, vice president of the equities division at Salomon Smith Barney, and chief operating officer of Linx LLC, an alternative block trading system. Currently, he serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Trading. He is a member of the National Organization of Investment Professionals and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Reena Aggarwal, the moderator, is a professor of business administration and finance at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. She also serves as the director of the university's Center for Financial Markets & Policy. Aggarwal specializes in international stock markets, initial public offerings and corporate governance. She has worked on major consulting projects sponsored by Credit Suisse, Wachovia, the World Bank, the IMF, the Nasdaq, the United Nations and USAID. Aggarwal obtained her M.M.S. from BITS, India and her Ph.D. in finance from the University of Maryland.

For more information on this briefing, please contact Dianna Dunne, Director of Government Affairs, at ddunne@milkeninstitute.org.

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