
5 things I learned at Davos 2016
The mood at Davos was the gloomiest since 2009. Dismal markets, oil, China – plus the challenges of disruptive technology, the refugee crisis and poor market liquidity – dominated debates...
Huw van Steenis is vice chair at Oliver Wyman and is also co-chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Responsive Financial Services.
He is the former Senior Adviser to the Governor of the Bank of England, where he chaired a review into what the future of finance means for the bank’s priorities.
Steenis worked at Morgan Stanley from 2002-16, latterly as Global Head, Banks and Diversified Financials research. Here he and his teams won numerous awards, including being voted number one in investor surveys 12 times and twice Starmine’s stock picker of the year for financial services.
From 2016-18, he served as Global Head of Strategy at Schroders. He has also served on various boards and committees, including the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council for Financial Services and Disruptive Innovation in Financial Services working group; the European Central Bank’s Contact Group on Macro-Prudential Policies and Financial Stability (2015-17), the IIFs Market Monitoring Group and the Board of the English National Opera.