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Bryan joined the DFSA in 2008 as Director, Supervision primarily covering banking and insurance companies. Bryan is also co-ordinating the DFSA's efforts to combat money laundering and terrorist financing within the Dubai International Financial Centre. This includes co-operation with a variety of local, regional and international counterparts.

Bryan has spent most of his working life in the financial regulatory sphere, in both public and private sector roles. Bryan spent 11 years working for the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency as a National Bank Examiner, where he specialised in policy development and implementation, problem bank rehabilitation and banking fraud initiatives. He later spent 12 years working for BearingPoint, Inc., a US-based management and technology consulting firm. During his consulting career, Bryan focused his attention on Emerging Markets, including management of large-scale and multi-faceted development projects in Poland, Ukraine, Cyprus and Kazakhstan.

Mr. Prasanna Haran is a Director in the Supervision Division of the Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority. Mr. Haran brings over 18 years of financial institutions' supervisory experience to the QFCRA. As an Assistant Vice President at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, he was responsible for the supervision of large complex banking organizations.

Over his tenure at the Federal Reserve, Mr. Haran has served as Team Leader and Relationship Manager and spearheaded many an examination of domestic and foreign banking organizations. A speaker at several of the Federal Reserve's technical assistance efforts world-wide, Mr. Haran is also a recipient of multiple Presidents Awards for Excellence for his contributions to Bank Supervision.

He holds a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance and Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the United States

Ashley is a partner in Clyde & Co's Dubai office. Trained and qualified in Australia, he moved to London in 1993 and worked in both leading financial services companies and international law firms. His experience led him to head the capital markets/wholesale banking department in one firm and also to coordinate the European finance offering of his most previous firm before moving to Clyde & Co in Dubai in November 2006.

Ashley's experience encompasses a wide range of banking and finance transactions and he has been involved in a significant number of high value and high quality transactions.