Florin Ilie is Deputy CEO, Head of Wholesale Banking at ING Romania. Since joining ING, he had several roles, among which were Head of Financial Markets Corporate Sales for Central and Eastern Europe, CFO Retail Banking and Head of Equity Markets. He was ranked as a top 3 Central and Eastern Europe equity analyst in Thompson-Reuters’ Extel voting by institutional investors. Prior to that, Florin held various positions in banking, consulting and diplomacy. He was Romania’s Eurodiplomat before the Spanish Presidency of the EU Council in 2002. Florin has also been teaching Strategy, Finance, Microeconomics and Communication in different roles at graduate and post-graduate levels at the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Harvard University and the Maastricht School of Management. He is a founding member of Aspen Institute Romania and a moderator for its executive seminar and young leaders program. Florin has trained a large number of civil servants and NGO workers for cost-benefit analysis for projects, and delivered the assessment for EUR 1bn+ worth of EU-funded projects for Romania. In his spare time, he likes to build online tools to help people and businesses get ahead in life. Florin earned a two-year Master in Public Administration specializing in Financial Markets & Analysis from Harvard University, a Master in European Politics & Policy with Distinction from the University of Manchester, an Advanced Degree and a BA in Economics from the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, and holds a PhD in Economics from the same university. He also took courses at the University of Alcala and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.