Paul O’Brien is a Trustee, Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee, and member of the Investment Committee of the Wyoming Retirement System, the public pension fund supporting state and local employees in Wyoming. He is Chair of the Institutional Investor Middle East Institute and is active as an advisor to major global institutional investors and as a conference speaker. From 2009 until 2019, Paul was Head of Fixed Income Strategy and Deputy Chief Investment Officer at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. He helped lead both strategic and tactical asset allocation, benchmark selection, portfolio construction, and research, as well as advising ADIA’s Investment Committee. He managed a multi-national team of over 20 investment professionals with expertise across all asset classes as well as economics and quantitative methods. Before joining ADIA, Paul was a global fixed income portfolio manager at Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) in London and West Conshohocken, PA. He worked with institutional investors around the world with a focus on interest rate and currency strategies. Prior to that, he worked as an economist for Morgan Guaranty Trust Company in Paris and in London as Head of Morgan’s European economics team. Paul started his career as Economist and then Section Chief at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, DC. He worked in the Division of Monetary Affairs and regularly briefed the Board on monetary policy issues and developments in financial markets. While at the Federal Reserve he was seconded to the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. Paul has a PhD in Economics from the University of Minnesota. He attended the US Naval Academy and received his undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.