Stephen O'Grady, Taylor Wessing

Stephen is a partner in Taylor Wessing's Restructuring & Insolvency team. He advises corporates, lenders, directors, investors, insolvency practitioners and other key stakeholders in a range of domestic and cross-border restructuring and insolvency circumstances. He has a mixed contentious and non-contentious practice, specialising in the technology, financial services and real estate sectors. Stephen is also a leader of the firm's initiatives that support clients with interests in blockchain and crypto assets, with specialist expertise of many of the challenges facing businesses operating in this space. He provides both front-end structuring advice to crypto clients in respect of security and insolvency issues, as well as back-end enforcement and recovery advice.

Elliot Hentov, State Street Global Advisors

Elliot Hentov is the Head of Macro Policy Research in the Global Macro team. In this capacity, he is responsible for research and thought leadership linking policy impulses to financial markets and economics, as well as serving as the company's chief geopolitical strategist.

He joined State Street from Standard & Poor's sovereign ratings group where he was a Director and lead analyst for sovereigns and government-related entities in Central, Eastern and Mediterranean Europe. Before that, Elliot served as a political affairs officer at the United Nations headquarters in New York, advising senior officials on political and economic issues in the Middle East and Europe.

Elliot holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University as well as a Master's degree in international affairs from Georgetown University and has authored publications in the Financial Times, New York Times, Business Times, Foreign Policy, and Washington Quarterly. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum in London as well as a Non-Resident Fellow at the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC