GERALD BISONG TANYI, a graduate of Yale Law School, is an attorney and counsellor at law in the New York offices of a leading Wall Street corporate law firm. Before Wall Street, Dr. Tanyi taught at the Faculty of Law and Economics, University of Yaounde, Cameroon and worked as a research fellow and intern with several financial organizations, including the Banque des d'Etats de l'Afrique Centrale (BEAC) in Yaounde and the prestigious Swiss private banking firm of Lombard, Odier & Cie in Geneva, Switzerland.