Seminars

Simon joined the DFSA in 2006 as Director, Supervision covering asset management, banking and insurance and his remit includes the supervision of Islamic Financial Institutions as well as conventional Firms offering Islamic Windows. Simon has spent much of his working life in the private sector with senior roles including Baring Asset Management, New Star Asset Management and most recently, as Head of Asset Management Compliance at Barclays Wealth. He has previously worked at IMRO, a predecessor organisation of the UK FSA and on the successful BCCI investigation for the Serious Fraud Office.

Mr. Serret has had extensive experience in various regulatory roles, most recently in financial services regulation. He has held senior positions at regulatory institutions within Australia including 5 years at the Insurance and Superannuation Commission and subsequently in 1999 with the newly formed prudential regulator, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority. Mr. Serret held the position of Senior Manager predominately in the supervision branch and then within the Enforcement branch. During this time, Mr. Serret was responsible for the prudential supervision of a variety of entities including credit unions, retail superannuation funds and general insurers. He was also involved in a number of projects primarily aimed at improving the level of prudential management within the superannuation industry. Most recently, Mr. Serret spent 18 months in the enforcement branch of APRA coordinating a multi jurisdictional investigation into the abuse of financial reinsurance by general insurers operating in Australia. Prior to his role at APRA, Mr. Serret has also held the position of Manager at the Insurance and Superannuation Commission. A Fellow of the Certified Practicing Accountants Australia, Mr. Serret holds a Graduate Diploma in Finance from the Financial Services Institute of Australia (FinSIA) as well as a Bachelors degree in Business Accounting from the University of Western Sydney.

David is a partner in the firm's Doha office. He was a partner with Clyde & Co from 1990 until 2002, when he moved to Qatar. Now that Clyde & Co have obtained a licence to operate in Qatar, David has rejoined the partnership in 2007 to head Clyde's newly opened Qatari office. David advises on corporate, commercial and banking matters for public and private companies in Qatar, non-Qatari companies, banks and insurance companies. He has recently advised on the sale of Mannai Corporation QSC on the first Qatari debt for equity swap and Libano Suisse on the first insurance portfolio transfer in Qatar, and has advised many clients on establishment in the Qatar Financial Centre.