Robert Barnes,
managing director, equities
UBS Investment Bank

Robert Barnes joined the proprietary trading team at Swiss Bank Corporation in 1994. He gained experience "downstairs" on the London International Financial Futures Exchange's derivatives floor as a yellow jacket and "upstairs" trading in special situations via brokers across most western markets.

Robert is currently: managing director of equities, responsible for market structures at UBS Investment Bank; chairman of the Securities Trading Committee of the London Investment Banking Association; a member of user advisory groups for a number of stock exchanges and pro-competitive initiatives; a member of the Financial Services Authority's capital markets sector senior practitioners' committee and Euroclear's UK market advisory committee; a fellow of the Securities & Investment Institute, sitting on its membership committee; and the UBS high-level representative to the EU Commission's CESAME group.