Stephen has worked on economic policy issues for most of his career having retired in 2010 from the UK Treasury where he was managing director (international and finance) with prior roles including Director for Europe, and Director for International Finance. From 1998 to 2001, Stephen was the UK’s executive director on the boards of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank.

Previous posts Stephen has undertaken include leading the team responsible for the Bank of England independence in 1997; and work in the New Zealand Treasury between 1989 and 1993 on macroeconomic policy and forecasting. Stephen studied economics at the University of Cambridge, in England and the University of British Colombia in Vancouver.
Previous posts Stephen has undertaken include leading the team responsible for the Bank of England independence in 1997; and work in the New Zealand Treasury between 1989 and 1993 on macroeconomic policy and forecasting. Stephen studied economics at the University of Cambridge, in England and the University of British Colombia in Vancouver.

An experienced practitioner and teacher on all aspects of negotiation, Tim Cullen has taught on various programmes at the Saïd Business School (where he was the founder of the Oxford Programme on Negotiation) and is Professor of Management Practice at the Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, China.

Tim served as a Commissioner on the Financial Supervision Commission of the Isle of Man and was the founder and first Executive Director for the Small Countries Financial Management Centre (SCFMC). For his pro bono work on the creation and management of the SCFMC, he was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2014 Queen’s Birthday Honours.

In 2022 Tim founded and is currently Chair of the trustees of the Isle of Man - St Vincent and the Grenadines Education Programme (ISEP), a privately funded Isle of Man charity that creates educational opportunities for students in the small Caribbean nation of St Vincent and the Grenadines including full two-year scholarships at King William’s College, the Isle of Man’s only Public (fee-paying) School.

Tim worked for 21 years for the World Bank, where, during the 1990s he was the Chief Spokesman and Senior Advisor for External and UN Affairs. Tim has an MA from Trinity College, University of Dublin and has completed negotiation courses at Harvard Kennedy School.

John Hicklin is a retired senior official of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where he directed work with member countries, including program negotiations and annual policy discussions; helped to strengthen the IMF’s own policies and its role in the international financial system and, latterly, at the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) oversaw independent evaluation of the IMF’s work.

John headed the IMF’s country teams in Bangladesh, Indonesia and the Philippines in the 1990s. In the wake of the Asian financial crises, he coordinated aspects of the IMF’s work to strengthen the international financial system. John began his career as an economist at the UK Treasury. He is a graduate of Oxford University and the London School of Economics and Political Science and attended Harvard University on a one-year scholarship

Anthony Long CHART FCSI, CHART FDIR
Anthony Long is a Chartered Director with over 30 years of experience in regulated Banking, Investment & Financial Services.
He is Executive Chairman of the Capital International Group of companies and focuses his time on driving strategy and business development for the Group’s principle business activities in the Crown Dependencies, South Africa and South America.
He started his financial services career in the late ‘80’s, spending over ten years with James Capel & Co (a part of the HSBC Group) working in the City of London and throughout the Far East from their head office in Hong Kong.
He is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) and held the office of President of the Isle of Man Branch of the CISI in 2006 / 7. In 2008 was Chair of the Isle of Man Fund Management Association and sat on the Main Committee until 2010. He sat on the Board of Junior Achievement Isle of Man for eight years through to 2016 and sat on the Finance & Professional Services Committee of the Isle of Man Chamber of Commerce and was elected to join the Chamber Council between 2016 and 2018.
He is also a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Directors and hold the IoD Diploma in Company Direction. He is happily married, with two children, and has lived on the Isle of Man for almost thirty years.

Bettina Roth was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Isle of Man Financial Services Authority in October 2021.
Bettina brings a wealth of international experience to the role having demonstrated a strong track record of professional achievement in both the regulatory and private sectors.
For the last 23 years, Bettina has held senior roles at the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, Abu Dhabi Global Market and the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions. She also completed a secondment with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) in New York as part of the Citibank supervision team.
While Bettina had broad responsibilities in her roles, her focus in the last few years has been on automation of key processes and risk-based methodology. Prior to her regulatory roles, Bettina worked for Ernst &Young in Canada and Australia.
Bettina holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Toronto and a Masters of Business Administration from Queen’s University in Canada. She is also a Chartered Accountant, Project Management Professional and Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist.

Sharda has worked with the Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines as the inaugural director charged with establishing the Financial Intelligence Unit, from 2002-2008.
She held the post of Executive Director of the International Financial Services Authority from 2008 -2012 and was involved in spear-heading the integration of the various supervisory bodies under the Financial Services Authority, as its Executive Director, from 2012-2018. She became the country’s first Supervisor of Insolvency in 2016, a post which she still holds. Her experience covers anti- money laundering and counter financing of terrorism, international and domestic financial regulation and compliance and international taxation. Sharda has collaborated with international agencies including the World Bank, FATF, CFATF, OECD and European Union COCG on matters of national interests and to meet international standards.

Prior roles to 2002 included Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions and Chief Magistrate (Ag). Sharda launched her own legal and consultancy practice in January 2019. She studied law at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Barbados and King’s College, London. Sharda is a proud alumna of the inaugural SCFMP of 2009.

Louise Wittwer was appointed Commissioner of the Cook Islands Financial Supervisory Commission in December 2015.

Prior to that, she spent several years with Audit New Zealand, and forensic accounting firms in London and Wellington, before moving to the Cooks Islands in 2002. She was General Manager of Cook Islands Trust Corporation for her initial three years in Rarotonga before joining the Cook Islands Audit Office as their Audit Advisor in 2005.

She joined the Financial Supervisory Commission as Manager Offshore Services in 2009 and was promoted to Deputy Commissioner in 2012.

Louise is a New Zealand qualified Chartered Accountant, United States qualified Certified Fraud Examiner and a member of the New Zealand Institute of Management. She plans to remain in the Cook Islands for the medium term and is looking to widen her experience, whilst expecting to continue to undertake projects for the Cook Islands Government.

She is also an alumna of the Small Countries Financial Management Programme (SCFMP), attending in 2011.

Gary Roberts was born in the Isle of Man, where he was a public servant for almost forty years. For just over ten years he was the Chief Constable of the Isle of Man Constabulary and he was awarded the Queen's Police Medal for distinguished service by Queen Elizabeth II.

He has been married to his wife, Jackie, since 1989 and he has two grown-up daughters.

He is a chartered fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Chris Brannigan is the Executive Director of Crown & External Relations for the Isle of Man Government, a role that includes responsibility for International Development. Prior to this appointment, he was a Director and senior strategist at a number of London based foreign policy and political analysis firms. He is a Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange, the UK’s leading think tank and senior associate at the Council on Geostrategy.

He was a member of the No10 Policy Unit under Prime Minister Boris Johnson, with responsibility for policy advice on Defence and Foreign Policy and established the Integrated Review Task Force, focussing on UK foreign policy out to 2030. He previously served in No10 Downing St as Director of Government Relations for PM Theresa May during a period that included the aftermath of the Brexit referendum and Article 50, as well as the 2017 General Election. He has recently completed a role as CEO of a UK wide trade body and has led a number of London based, client focused, international reach businesses.

He is a former British Army officer, with extensive combat experience of UK military operations in recent decades. He was educated at Kings College London, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and Manchester Business School.